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Nell FrizzellThe Guardian |
While on my way to look at an iguanodon skeleton the other day, at the Museum of Natural History in Oxford, I bumped into three people I knew. Each...
Most of us in Britain don’t know quite what to do with grief. You don’t hear funerals announced on local radio, as I did in the west of Ireland,...
Please excuse the state of my leggings, but I have an idea. What all major cities need – other than better social housing, affordable childcare,...
It’s quite something to be sitting on a lime-green, wipe-clean chair, your tongue pinned to the roof of your mouth by fear, strangers in scrubs...
Few things bring me greater joy than someone taking two weeks to reply to a WhatsApp message. I mean it. This week, my friend and former teacher...
Some days I would rather get my bikini line waxed in the window of Dunelm than walk into another bookshop. Not that bookshops aren’t wonderful...
The Tory party is carrying out a postmortem on Rishi Sunak’s leadership before it has expired. It is a gruesome spectacle. Simon Clarke, a former...
There is a particular queasy disquiet that comes from looking at blossom in January. Or daffodils just weeks after Christmas. At seeing catkins...
What I understand about money could be scratched on the edge of a 2p piece. With a stick. As the self-assessment deadline rolls towards me like a...
My dad lives on a boat. Despite the earrings, tattoos, missing teeth and bare feet, he is not a pirate – just a man with an expensive divorce and a...
Being able to sew is radical, liberating and canny, which is why I’ve taught my six-year-old to fix his own socks. This may sound like the...
I am currently having my 10th unwanted period in a row. There are all sorts of reasons a period might be unwanted: you are on a long train journey;...
What price would you put on a wee? After three months of having such a debilitating urinary infection that she couldn’t leave the house, my...
This autumn, I have taken to a life of larceny. I have started cycling around Oxford with a stepladder in my trailer and litter picker in my front...