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Emma Beddington

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Men get more disgusted as they age? It’s only a matter of time before my husband sees the real, slovenly me

Men get more disgusted as they age? It’s only a matter of time before my husband sees the real, slovenly me
31.03.2025 70

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Never ask ‘what’s for dinner’ and hide food from teenagers – my essential rules for happy home dining

Never ask ‘what’s for dinner’ and hide food from teenagers – my essential rules for happy home dining
30.03.2025 20

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What I learned from the woman who does 52 new things a year

What I learned from the woman who does 52 new things a year
24.03.2025 5

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It’s time to embrace Dugnadsånd – the Norwegian concept we all need right now

It’s time to embrace Dugnadsånd – the Norwegian concept we all need right now
23.03.2025 10

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Dressing like a witch is in fashion – finally I am ahead of the curve

Dressing like a witch is in fashion – finally I am ahead of the curve
17.03.2025 10

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Many young people find safety in the soothing world of ASMR videos – imagine if we could give them that in the real world

Many young people find safety in the soothing world of ASMR videos – imagine if we could give them that in the real world
16.03.2025 30

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My phone knows what I want before I do. That should be worrying – but it’s oddly comforting

10.03.2025 7

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Sunshine’s back, the days are getting longer – and doesn’t everything look awful?

09.03.2025 10

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How can you tell if a man is really into cast-iron kitchenware? He’ll pansplain it to you

03.03.2025 30

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It’s two years since the kids left. Here’s what I’ve learned – and what has surprised me

02.03.2025 10

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How do I know young women are not OK? Their devastation over a doomed anglerfish

24.02.2025 20

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I am a tweakment holdout. When will wrinkles, bad teeth and big pores be back in fashion?

23.02.2025 8

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What would I tell my younger self if I met her for coffee? Mostly that things do get better

16.02.2025 50

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Why is it so hard to go to bed? Maybe science has the answer

16.02.2025 10

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I tried the popular 30/30/30 morning routine – and was left sadder, wiser and nauseated

10.02.2025 50

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We’re in a relationship recession – and a lot of women are absolutely fine with that

09.02.2025 9

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They’ve closed my local Sainsbury’s. Other supermarkets are available – but I am not OK

03.02.2025 5

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Why do we go to coffee shops? It’s not just for the hot drinks

02.02.2025 10

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Married people living apart is a great idea – but I absolutely couldn’t do it

27.01.2025 9

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How do we end the WFH culture wars? I have the answer

26.01.2025 10

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Somehow, it is still January. Here are my nine wellness-free survival tips

20.01.2025 40

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How’s my home life? Well, I’ve moved into the shed to spend more time with the chickens

13.01.2025 20

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The internet wants me to spend £500 on a jumper. How can I say no?

12.01.2025 20

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‘New year, new you’? How are we supposed to find the time?

I’m not anti-resolution. I actually stuck to one last year: not a single microwave rice sachet has passed my lips since 1 January 2024 and yes, I...

06.01.2025 10

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Why tell someone ‘I love you’ when you could overfeed, ridicule or ignore them?

It took a while, over the holidays, to work out how to stop my exhausted, frail mother-in-law jumping up constantly to fetch more food without ever...

05.01.2025 10

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Why worry about your body falling apart at 44 or 60 when you could fret about your brain at 58 or 70?

I don’t believe ageing is linear: I reckon we have long plateaux, then everything falls apart all at once. I realised this at the close of my...

22.12.2024 4

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Lisa Kudrow is right: friendship ‘takes work’. But you wouldn’t know it from TV

Lisa Kudrow says being and staying friends with her Friends co-stars was tough at times. “That six-way relationship took some work – and we did...

20.12.2024 4

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Is there anything more condescending than being called ‘buddy’?

It’s “word of the year” time, so I was hoping to offer you mine, but I appear to have only learned one new expression in 2024: zwizz de cachalot,...

09.12.2024 10

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Once I would have squirmed if a barista knew my order. But I’m learning to love being a regular

We went to the same cafe almost every day during our month-long trip to Venice. It was the same one as on my last trip, its windows stuffed full of...

08.12.2024 5

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Winter is coming – and so is my 50th birthday. It’s time to eat all the pastries and grab all the joy

Support for seasonal self-love comes from an unexpected quarter: the French daily Libération has issued a plea for us to embrace our “winter...

18.11.2024 20

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If reason can’t save the world, no wonder magic and superstition are on the rise

How good must it feel to gather up physical manifestations of your anxieties, shove them in a giant papier-mache demon and set fire to them?...

17.11.2024 10

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I’ve gained a whole new insight into my personality – from a cat psychiatrist

The only time I have ever mentioned my bird-lover’s slight – slight! – ambivalence towards cats in a public forum, it brought me the angriest...

11.11.2024 20

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Tom Hanks reckons 35 is the worst age. This is why he’s wrong

If you’re 34, watch out: Tom Hanks says 35 is the worst age. Why ask Hanks – delightful as he seems – as opposed to, say, the highly qualified...

10.11.2024 5

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Is the British obsession with class starting to wane?

Rejoice: British class distinctions are finally crumbling. Yes, the gap between rich and poor is as big as ever and I am, inexplicably, unhappily,...

04.11.2024 5

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Welcome to the new era of midlife lust! I need a lie down …

Are middle-aged women absolute horndogs and does that make for good box office? That’s what Grazia wondered recently, asking if the film industry...

03.11.2024 4

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If my Netflix recommendations are anything to go by, I am tragically basic

A single female friend is feeling uncomfortably targeted by Netflix. The content categories the streamer is now offering on her homepage include...

28.10.2024 5

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Want to understand British irony, humour and politics? Visit the NHS suggestions website

Do you ever wonder if the British might be a fundamentally unserious people? I do, though I should stress that I include myself; a thoroughly...

27.10.2024 10

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Bad buffet behaviour is out of control. So should we be fined for our food waste?

Should you be penalised for having eyes bigger than your belly? A Cornish pub is trying it out: Mark Graham, the landlord of the Star Inn, now...

21.10.2024 9

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Welcome to the ‘winter arc’ – the very worst season in the self-improvement calendar

Ah, autumn. Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness, chunky knits, pumpkin spice lattes and cosiness, right? Wrong. In the words of an intense young...

20.10.2024 9

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What’s in my handbag? 76.75 loose and potentially dangerous items

The kingdom was shaken by another shattering royal revelation last week when Lord West revealed that when he was briefly given custody of the queen...

14.10.2024 7

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Good news, everyone! We appear to have reached peak longevity

The news hasn’t been good for people planning to live for ever. First came Dr Saul Newman’s investigative work into supercententarians – those aged...

13.10.2024 10

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I was way out of my depth at the yoga workshop – but at least I wasn’t bleeding like my neighbour

Why on earth did I read about a five-week yoga forearm-stand workshop and think: “That sounds like a fun challenge – I should sign up”? I’m...

07.10.2024 3

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I thought I was fine with being bald. But the chance of a cure has stirred up all sorts of feelings

My hair looks incredible at the moment. I know because people keep telling me – in bakeries, cafes and when I was getting my tattooed eyebrows...

06.10.2024 10

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I took a common sense test – and my result appalled me

Common sense is not that common: a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania concludes the concept is “somewhat illusory”. Researchers...

30.09.2024 4

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The Substance is gory – but the real body horror is that 70% of women dislike the size of their breasts

I was thinking about breasts as I watched The Substance. Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror fable features Demi Moore as a newly 50, supposedly fading...

29.09.2024 20

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I thought I was laidback about my sons leaving home. My WhatsApps tell a different story

‘Texting your teenage son is like texting a guy who has no interest in you” goes a meme that has re-emerged recently, piercing in its accuracy....

23.09.2024 10

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I decided to spend a day as a dog. It was completely idyllic, at first ...

You know how sometimes you think you’ve had a brilliant idea, then it bites you in the bum like an athletic but mean jack russell? Suggesting I...

22.09.2024 3

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I worship Nigella Lawson. But I disagree with her – very strongly – about eating in bed

Possibly the least surprising revelation from the Times’s recent Nigella Lawson interview: she loves eating in bed. It’s so on-brand, it reminded...

16.09.2024 3

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Parents are anxious, lonely, overwhelmingly stressed – and their crisis affects everyone

It is the kind of statistic that makes you do a double-take, because it can’t be right. It is, though: 41% of US parents are so stressed that they...

15.09.2024 10

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All these health scares are making me ill. I need someone to tell me croissants are good for you

The recent headline that a “Daily croissant can take a toll on your heart in under a month” was like a dagger to mine, just as my beloved local...

09.09.2024 30

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