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Catriona Olding

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Still life / My first ever blind date

Still life /					 													 						My first ever blind date
25.06.2025 5

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Catriona Olding

Still life / My first ever blind date

Still life /					 													 						My first ever blind date
25.06.2025 2

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Catriona Olding

Still life / My first ever blind date

19.06.2025 10

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Catriona Olding

Still life / Two years without Jeremy Clarke

27.05.2025 30

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Catriona Olding

Still life / Two years without Jeremy Clarke

27.05.2025 10

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Catriona Olding

Still life / Two years without Jeremy Clarke

27.05.2025 4

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Catriona Olding

Is chemically castrating sex offenders really a good idea?

23.05.2025 4

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Catriona Olding

Still life / Two years without Jeremy Clarke

22.05.2025 9

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Catriona Olding

Still life / My high-speed bus chase

07.05.2025 9

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Catriona Olding

Still life / My high-speed bus chase

07.05.2025 10

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Catriona Olding

Still life / My brief encounter with online dating

Provence One of my daughters and a few pals, thinking I need company, have been urging me to get Bumble, the online dating app where women make the...

17.11.2024 1

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Catriona Olding

Still life / Martin has worn down my defences

Provence My older, adopted sister came to stay. She suffers from peripheral neuropathy secondary to diabetes and is registered disabled. It’s a...

03.11.2024 2

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Catriona Olding

Wes Streeting is right – palliative care isn’t good enough

Wes Streeting informed backbenchers this week that he is voting against the assisted dying Bill on 29 November, saying that ‘end-of-life care is...

24.10.2024 2

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Catriona Olding

Move over, Mrs Bennet / I’ve had two daughters married in less than a month

Provence A few days before my middle daughter’s Oxfordshire wedding this summer, my youngest announced that she and her fiancé, who’ve been...

03.10.2024 3

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Catriona Olding

Still life / The ‘Clooney effect’ hasn’t touched my corner of Provence

Provence My eldest daughter’s husband is from Como. In the early 2000s George Clooney caused a stir in the town when he bought a villa on the...

15.08.2024 2

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Catriona Olding