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XX Notes: Golden Roadmap to Guildford Vaccination

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… There’s a definite warmth in the air: the sun is higher, the sky is bluer, there is blossom on the trees…

XX Notes: Time the Great Healer

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… “Studied and deliberate cruelty.” This is how  Conservative MP, Sir Charles Walker, described the ongoing government response to the pandemic on…

XX Notes: Debenhams – Once Iconic But Not Immune

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Weymouth: sun, sea, sand and… Debenhams. Every summer, until the age of 12, I visited my relatives on the Dorset coast…

XX Notes: Travel in the Time of Corona

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… I’ve been travelling around quite a bit lately. At the weekend I enjoyed a gastronomic retreat in Argentina, and now I’m…

XX Notes: The Year in Books

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Three months to read one book? Anyone who’s been in a book group with me wouldn’t believe this fact, but that…

XX Notes: Your Guide to Square Eyes

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Bingeing TV Box-sets in 2020 Usually, about now newspaper columnists offer tips to help their readers survive the festive season. This…

XX Notes: Boardom Is Not Allowed This Christmas

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Up early stuffing the turkey. Thumbing through the battered Robert Carrier for the most impressive side dishes. Decking the halls with…

XX Notes: Christmas is Banned

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Don’t worry, I do not have any inside knowledge. For all I know, Christmas 2020 is still going ahead. Whether families…

XX Notes: It’s the American Way and We Can’t Help Watching

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… We have been lucky this week. Without the popcorn-munching entertainment of the American presidential elections to compete with the national media…

XX Notes: Far From the Madding Crowd

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Despite my predictions of doom in last fortnight’s XX Notes, our corner of Surrey has not been pushed up the coronavirus…

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