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XX Notes: What I Won’t Be Doing…

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… What I Won’t Be Doing This Month This month, I won’t be going to Vienna to see the Modigliani-Picasso exhibition. Just…

XX Notes: Lockdown the Sequel – This Time It’s Dark

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Déjà vu. Wikipedia tells us this is the feeling that one has lived through the present situation before. That’s one I’m…

XX Notes: Lockdown Legacy Puppies Need Dogged Effort

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… How many lockdown hangovers do you have? This isn’t a rehash of a HuffPost article from back in April or a…

XX Notes: Embarrassing Shopping, But Needs Must

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… “Do you need a poo? Well, stop lying on the floor. Come on, get up. Ok, Daddy will take you for…

XX Notes: How Can These Exam Results Truly Reflect Pupils’ Abilities?

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… I don’t remember opening the O-level results envelope but I do remember going to my school to double-check the results: As…

XX Notes: Happy to Book Back in to the New Normal After a Cornish Family Holiday

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… White sand, blue sea and plenty of rosé, after months of being glued to the computer screen, our family holiday in…

XX Notes: To Buy Or Not to Buy, Aye, There’s the Rub

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… The firm pressure moved down my spine from my shoulders to lower back, pausing briefly before slowly moving back up again.…

XX Notes: Dishing the Dirt

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Mouldy cups, apple cores, crusty cotton buds. Anyone with the pleasure of living with a teenager will have come across these…

XX Notes: ‘Stuff To Do’ to Avoid Doing Stuff I Need To Do

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… Just had one of those Farty moments. Anyone remember Guildford’s own Man From Auntie sketch where Ben Elton has “stuff to…

XX Notes: Neighbour Watching

Maria Rayner‘s observational, fortnightly column from a woman’s perspective… “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” This line…

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