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Oh no, grumpy grandparents are coming!

IT is a truth universally acknowledged that when one turns 70, one also turns into a sweet, kindly, lovely grandparent a la Miss Marple who’s not only as smart as a whip, but always quick with a comforting Werther’s Original or three when out for a...

Mink Elliott

The time has come for all good(ish) mums to move on…

SO I just took the dog — CuCullain, aka Cookie, aka Cooks, aka The Cookstar (only to me and the kids that last one) — out for a lengthy walk to a) stop him pawing at me and whining away like a Boeing 747’s engine slowing down, b) obliterate the risk...

Mink Elliott

From party pooper to... party super!

SO it was the Sunshiney Seven-Year-Old’s birthday party last weekend — a joint venture organised with the Loveliest Neighbour In The World, whose son has also just turned eight. Of course, when I say “organised with”, I obviously mean organised by...

Silent but smelly protest or a cry for help?

Couldn't organise a p**s-up in a brewery

No tedious gym or exercise required!

Yep, completely surrounded by the brown stuff

It's not half term already, is it?!

Is smugness the zenith of the recovery process?

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Not the usual Febreze/Air Wick cover-up combo

SOMETHING’S going on. I don’t know what and I don’t know why, I’m not even sure who is involved or in what capacity. But the one thing I am certain of is that big changes — nay, seismic shifts — are afoot chez Elliott. Just this morning the...

Mink Elliott

It's a (lengthy) rite of passage we all go through, isn't it?

IN Sainsbury’s the other day, on one of those rare trips where both kids had agreed to come along and help, I was searching through the spice racks looking for smoked paprika, when the Eleventeen- Year-Old spied some jerk seasoning. She plucked the...

Families left “heartbroken” as Environment Agency puts Shiplake Lock Island on rental market

FAMILIES who spent generations camping on an island in Shiplake are “heartbroken” now that the site has gone on the rental market. Former plot-holders at Shiplake Lock Island say that the Environment Agency, which owns it, have allowed it to...

Charlie Anderson-Jeffs, from Harpsden

WHEN I was 13, I worked at Bix Manor and met Katie, who worked in the kitchen. Our friendship blossomed and I used every excuse to go to the kitchen. We even used to pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend to get each other out of sticky situations. I...

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Oh no, grumpy grandparents are coming!

The time has come for all good(ish) mums to move on…

From party pooper to... party super!

Silent but smelly protest or a cry for help?

Couldn't organise a p**s-up in a brewery

No tedious gym or exercise required!

Yep, completely surrounded by the brown stuff

It's not half term already, is it?!

Is smugness the zenith of the recovery process?

Not the usual Febreze/Air Wick cover-up combo

It's a (lengthy) rite of passage we all go through, isn't it?

Families left “heartbroken” as Environment Agency puts Shiplake Lock Island on rental market

Charlie Anderson-Jeffs, from Harpsden

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