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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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?

Murder investigation after the death of a woman in Henley

Tributes to Henley pub landlord who ‘made customers feel valued’

Man, 54, charged with multiple rapes over attacks on women in Henley and West Berkshire

Former rowing coach's mental health suffered after wrongful ban

Newly refurbished tearoom at a National Trust site in Henley re-opened

Car park pothole which exposed mains wires deemed safe by council

Father and daughter duo close popular Watlington bakery

Jail for Waitrose Twyford shoplifter who returned to thieving 'within hours' of court hearing

Biker hits crater and cracks rib on road in Henley

Henley butcher stranded in Dubai amid air strikes

'It's like driving on roads in a third world country'

Henley demonstrator "vindicated" after Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful

Henley Mayor's message of peace for revellers at club night

Breast screening van moved due to parking issues at Townlands Memorial Hospital