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When I was 17, I got a job in a supermarket. I often say it was my favourite or second-favourite...

On 17 July 2019, I lost one of my closest friends. Instead of writing more about grief, I’d rather remember...

How is it for you? The lockdown? Yeah, I know. One thing I've been enjoying is reading numerous celebrity profiles...

I went looking for something. Perhaps that was a mistake. On top of my wardrobe there are three white boxes,...

It's Valentine's Day soon – February 14th, as always – and as I have, in the past, written stuff about...

I am trying something new. It is not a fad diet, although I could do with one – after twenty...

I went to Bath. I hadn’t been there in twenty years. Last time I visited, I was working at a...

In 2011, two weeks before Christmas, my last surviving grandparent died, my paternal grandmother. It is an odd feeling to...

What do spoons mean to you? Nothing, perhaps. Maybe beyond their primary functions of stirring tea, shovelling yoghurt into your...

I will never forget that red-letter day back in the dying days of the 20th century when my then-flatmate asked if...