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SHONA

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3 months ago

Along with more than 100,000 other Brits, I have witnessed my much-needed break become a living nightmare. One week on from the start of this terrible conflict, I am still trapped here.

4 months ago

Last Friday I shut my laptop, closed my eyes and thought: 'Thank God for the weekend'. But as I pulled up to my house, my heart sank at the sight of my eldest daughter's Fiat in the drive.
Last Friday I shut my laptop, closed my eyes and thought: 'Thank God for the weekend'. But as I pulled up to my house, my heart sank at the sight of my eldest daughter's Fiat in the drive.

8 months ago

The first term of the new school year is surely a time for hope and new beginnings. There's hope that the blazer will survive three days without getting lost.

10 months ago

So relieved was I to be at the end of my own 'holiday' that when our ship finally docked in Portsmouth, I seriously considered leaping out of the car to kiss the ground in gratitude.

11 months ago

Who wants to throw up at all, let alone in a public toilet? How on earth did it come to this? Why, at 54, having never done this before, am I suddenly purging myself like a self-loathing teenager?

14 months ago

With four children under 11, I used to view impending school holidays with the kind of dread normally reserved for a trip to the dentist or an upcoming smear test.

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