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Guardian Opinion cartoon Martin Rowson on John Swinney formally entering the SNP leadership contest – cartoon

03.05.2024 50

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We know there are many benefits to writing by hand – in a digital world we risk losing them

Recently, I found a letter my mum had written me years ago when she was on holidays in Vietnam. The paper is thin and ratty on the edges, but the...

02.05.2024 10

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Being back in the beach house that witnessed much of my 20s feels strange and wondrous – like a sort of time travel

Many years ago, a friend from university invited some of us to his mum’s beach house at Walkerville South. His mum had bought the house super cheap...

22.04.2024 20

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Since my husband’s death, the intimacy of apartment living has brought more than just shared walls

Not long after my mum died, I talked to a friend’s mother about grief, and I compared what I was feeling to the loss she was experiencing after her...

30.03.2024 6

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I was sweating before I even opened my mouth: could I overcome my fear of public speaking?

When I was younger I was so terrified of public speaking that I went out of my way to avoid it. If I was forced to address a crowd, I didn’t sleep...

13.03.2024 20

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The longer we rented, the longer we wanted to stay – but being a renter does not guarantee you choice

Throughout my 20s I never thought about owning property, because I was too busy enjoying living with friends in a string of share houses. Some of the...

17.02.2024 5

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A kitten was a perfect Covid distraction but I got more than I bargained for

After years of indoctrination from my native-animal loving parents, I arrived at adulthood wary of domestic pets. We didn’t have any when I was...

05.02.2024 7

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How a spontaneous overseas trip made me see my son in a whole new light

When my daughter went overseas on her gap-year adventure, my son and I found ourselves alone at home with the cat. Except for the odd Sunday morning...

11.01.2024 20

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I used to hunt for the perfect discarded magazine at my Gran’s as a child – and the joy of rescuing rubbish has never left me

When I was a child, the highlight of visiting my grandmother was being allowed to take her rubbish to the communal refuse room. The room had a chute...

05.01.2024 10

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Summer essentials The simple pleasures of piecing a summer holiday together at home

As a kid our long summer holidays were mostly spent at the Croydon pool, with plastic containers of white-bread sandwiches, wedges of watermelon, and...

25.12.2023 7

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The punk, pant-less fairy perched on top of the pine tree is our link to Christmases past

One year when I was very little, my mum hand-sewed a beaded cream dress with a taffeta skirt for a plastic doll I owned, to turn her from my toy into...

15.12.2023 9

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The warmth of my doctor during a nervous visit about hair loss almost brought me to tears

Since a dear friend died of melanoma at the age of 33, I have semi-religiously visited a dermatologist to have my skin checked. Over the years I’ve...

26.11.2023 10

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I miss the dreamy lost time of chaperoning young children – though they didn’t seem so memorable at the time

On the final day of the last school holidays, my friend and I went to the Royal Melbourne Show. Neither of us has young children any more, but a while...

26.10.2023 5

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School libraries are an ally to students needing an escape. We can’t let them vanish

A s a children’s author I spend much of my time in schools talking to young people about writing and explaining my love of reading and why that...

11.09.2023 9

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