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  My eldest daughter turns 16 this week. I find it hard to believe that the baby I proudly pushed around in a pram can now legally leave home, marry and have a child of her own.
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  My eldest daughter is a thrill-seeker. On a visit to Flamingoland she couldn’t get enough of the most terrifying rides, confessing after she’d ridden each about three times that she wanted more. “I
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           <title>COLUMN: There's something enjoyable about spring cleaning</title>
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  Cleaning is seen as a chore. We moan like mad about it. We complain about vacuuming, dusting, wiping, and whatever else it takes to rid our homes of grime. And spring, when those rays of sunlight
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  I recently I did something that I really resented doing. I bought several bottles of water.
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           <title>COLUMN: Being bad at maths is like a badge of honour</title>
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  I was surprised to learn that almost half of adults have the mathematical ability of an 11-year-old.
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  How many people have been stopped in their tracks by unidentified objects?
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           <title>Hard to prove I have archers at home</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: They make it sound so easy in the adverts. Simply dial a few numbers and hey presto, you’re sorted.]]></description>
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           <title>Easter’s the worst thing in January!</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column:I have always been a bit sceptical about Blue Monday – which is today, in case you didn’t know.
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           <title>It’s a new year, but the same old me</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: A new year, a new you – I’m sick of seeing those words, repeated a billion times by every newspaper and magazine.]]></description>
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           <title>Everybody needs good neighbours</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: When we arrived at our new home in a village there was a carrier bag hanging on the door.]]></description>
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           <title>I like mutual appreciation society ...</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: You don’t appreciate me. I must utter these words at least a dozen times a day, directing them at both my husband and children who are by and large an ungrateful bunch. 
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           <title>Only time will rid you of the beast &#40;a cold)</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: If you say you’ve got flu, you’ve got a cold, and if you think you’re dying, you’ve got flu. ]]></description>
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           <title>Let’s enjoy food because we like it</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: I’ve been reading about super broccoli, the new vegetable that recently went on sale. ]]></description>
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           <title>It’s curtains for those little pests</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: Help! We’ve been hit by a plague. Not ‘the plague’ — our house may be a tip, but we haven’t got flea-infested rats in it just yet. ]]></description>
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           <title>Dredging up the long forgotten</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: What is the closest country to the North Pole? In which river did Amy Johnson die?]]></description>
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           <title>I’m not going to be spooked by Hallowe’en</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: The challenge is to make it even more gruesome than the last time. ]]></description>
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           <title>Why I don’t really feel the knead to bake</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: Forget putting cafetieres on the hob. There is nothing more homely and welcoming than the aroma of freshly baked cakes. ]]></description>
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           <title>Confession of a former chocoholic</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: Sometimes I can’t believe it myself – it is more than a year since I ate chocolate.]]></description>
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           <title>Junk mail is making me feel my age</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: Since the beginning of the  year there has been a bit of a – I think people call it a seachange – in the type of mail arriving at our door. ]]></description>
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           <title>Sorry can be a cover for deep shame</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: Commenting on the fact that British people say ‘sorry’ 2,290 times a year, a woman at my weekly tennis session said: “We must say it more times than that in an hour.” ]]></description>
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           <title>Roles reverse  and fashion stores beckon</title>
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           <title>Why have our garden birds got so picky?</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: I’ve finally triumphed in my search for a school skirt.]]></description>
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           <title>Patience is a virtue we all need to learn</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: Ask my children which parent has more patience and they would unite in giving my husband pole position.
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: It is said that barbecues bring out the alpha male in men, as they vie for pole position at the griddle, brandishing kebab skewers like swords, and behaving as if they’re running a small country. 
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           <title>Beware the comedown you escapists</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: At the end of term I took my friend to see Guys and Dolls, being performed by pupils at my daughters’ school. 
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: For a long time I didn’t appreciate the county in which I was born and raised and which is today celebrated through the annual Yorkshire Day activities across the region. ]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: How’s Nick?” “I don’t know, I haven’t seen him for three days.”]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[Helen Mead column: Decades ago, when I was in my early twenties, I remember going to a nightclub with some colleagues from work. 
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