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Emma Clayton, the T&A's Leisure & Lifestyle Editor shares her views on a wide variety of topics.
Posted at 9:29am Monday 29th December 2008
Tis the season to be scary
"It’s a glorified Sunday dinner - how hard can it be?" That’s what I thought a couple of months ago when I foolishly agreed to cook Christmas dinner for several members of my family.
Posted at 11:38am Wednesday 5th November 2008
Guilty pleasure
"Sorry Mr Banker, but no deal." Those words meant nothing to me until about this time last week when I started to develop a fascination with Deal or No Deal. By the time I realised there was no actual skill involved - it's just people opening boxes and getting all emotional about it - I was hooked.
Posted at 10:39am Wednesday 8th October 2008
Tat's what I like
There it was, nestled between the Sagrada Familia paperweight and the matador and bull-shaped salt and pepper pots.
Posted at 10:01am Wednesday 20th August 2008
Happier families
Well done to T&A green columnist Keith Thomson for highlighting China’s family-size policies as an example of how to stabilise a population - something perhaps all nations should be addressing in the ecological time bomb that is the 21st century.
Posted at 7:32pm Thursday 7th August 2008
A bit green as an eco-bag lady
I’ve got enough ‘bags-for-life’ to last me several lifetimes. Having been browbeaten into feeling guilty for even contemplating using a plastic bag while out shopping, I eventually got round to buying one of those big supermarket eco bags. That was several months ago, and I can probably count the number of times I’ve used it on one hand. I keep it in the boot of my car, where it very rarely sees the light of day.
Posted at 11:47am Thursday 15th May 2008
Living the Sex And The City dream
A friend of mine once went through a traumatic break-up with her boyfriend and at the time she kept telling herself that everything would be okay "because they’re making another Jurassic Park movie."
Posted at 9:28am Saturday 3rd May 2008
Back to school
More than 20 years after I left my old convent school I recently found myself back there, sitting nervously beneath a painting of Our Lady waiting to see the deputy head.
Posted at 3:52pm Friday 4th April 2008
Posted at 8:16am Saturday 22nd March 2008
Still starstruck
One of the nicest - and often most surreal - things about my job is that I get to interview people I’ve long admired.
Posted at 8:10am Saturday 22nd March 2008
A pernicious affliction
Fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett says he would rather have cancer than have his "living self stripped away by Alzheimer’s."
Posted at 1:52pm Tuesday 4th March 2008
The thorny topic of the English rose look
I never thought I'd be inspired by a member of Girls Aloud, but it seems to have happened.
Posted at 11:35am Monday 4th February 2008
Bus lane blues
‘Drivers get the bus-lane blues!’ cried a Telegraph & Argus headline last Thursday.
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