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Seasons' bleatings and writer's cramp

11:11am Monday 14th December 2009

Writing Christmas cards is such a chore, isn’t it? If you are anything like me, you probably bought a fine selection to inscribe back in early November and have been studiously avoiding the horrible task ever since.

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There's something about Mary

10:54am Monday 30th November 2009

I’m quite keen on the concept of Nativity plays. If I’m honest, I have to admit there’s still a part of me that aches to be invited to play the role of Mary - even though I’m 46!

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History lessons shouldn't be a thing of the past

10:49am Monday 23rd November 2009

I never know where I am with Prince Charles: sometimes his pronouncements utterly infuriate me, while others find me nodding in agreement.

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Looking forward to 2012...?

11:22am Monday 16th November 2009

I love a good disaster movie. From the star-studded excitement of The Towering Inferno to watching the black and white gloomfest of On the Beach one afternoon back in the 1970s when I was off school and recovering from the flu, there’s nothing quite so life-enhancing as watching other people having a really bad day.

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Scary monsters and super geeks

11:07am Monday 9th November 2009

Buying Christmas presents for an eight-year-old Doctor Who fan unleashes our columnist's inner geek girl.

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Let the Christmas countdown begin

11:12am Monday 2nd November 2009

I hate to mention the C word so early in November, but now that we’ve packed away the gory excesses of Hallowe’en and lit a couple of safety-conscious sparklers at the end of the back garden to mark Guy Fawkes’ night, it’s time to turn our thoughts to all things tinsel.

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"Fantastic" new tram servive for Watford

9:54am Friday 30th October 2009

WATFORD: Transport minister Lord Adonis came to St Albans Abbey station this morning to announce an innovative project to convert the Abbey Flyer branch railway into a tram link.

Hallowe'en fails to cast a spell

10:54am Tuesday 27th October 2009

I hate the way that Hallowe’en has become a tacky, tawdry tat-fest. Where once church bells clanged out across the land to ward off evil, the only ringing you hear these days comes from supermarket tills chinging up sales of purple child-sized witch hats made from suspiciously flammable fibres.

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Where are these programmes going right?

11:35am Monday 19th October 2009

It’s quite difficult to turn on the TV these days without coming across the X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing or one of the many genetically modified offspring of these two shows.

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Crude cards are top shelf reading matter

11:26am Monday 12th October 2009

Greetings cards adorned with eye-poppingly obcene expletives bring on a case of the blues.

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