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Helen Mead

Helen Mead: No Frills!

Call her scatty, but do call her! Helen Mead is dizzily drowning in domesticity but still finds time to dream of a way out...

Seduction is lost in the past...
8:44pm Monday 5th May 2008
Many of the e-mails sent to me at work are meaningless twaddle. But I was intrigued this week by one entitled New survey reveals Most Seductive Woman of All Time'.

Why our trip was worth all the risks
3:13pm Monday 28th April 2008
I almost decided to stay at home today and call in sick.

Roll on the day clocks go back...
8:40am Monday 31st March 2008
Don't you just hate waking up to British Summer Time? One less hour in bed, more daylight to pack with more activities, more expense, more stress all round.

He’ll now be handy in a crisis
7:31pm Tuesday 25th March 2008
"First aider? You?" I thought I was hearing things. My husband casually mentioned how he had put his name down to train as a first aid representative at work.

Born and bread in bun county
7:02pm Monday 17th March 2008
For a moment I thought I was going mad.

The world of chavs and grebs
8:40am Monday 10th March 2008
For a moment I thought I had Vicky Pollard in the back of my car. "She got whacked because she was standing by some chavs and then she went to the grebs and ran down the corridor shouting "The chavs are coming!" and the teacher grabbed her and she got a denny."

Silence isn’t golden if you love to talk...
5:29am Monday 3rd March 2008
My husband said it was one of best weekends ever.

Leaping at my chance for a decent proposal...
8:22am Monday 25th February 2008
If you're still waiting for your boyfriend to pop the question, wait no longer.

So I’m not down the tubes then?
8:46am Monday 18th February 2008
So there I was, lying on my side on a hospital bed, in such utter discomfort, trying to conceal the embarrassment of what was taking place. I got through it by thinking: "People pay a fortune for this."

Men, don’t adhere to undies tips
8:42pm Monday 11th February 2008
Here we go again - if I were male I'd be screaming at the barrage of patronising advice that fills newspaper columns in the run up to Valentine's Day.

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