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Kerry HudsonThe Guardian |
When we decided to move to Sweden, our family’s concerns were around immigration laws, safety, healthcare and education. So it was weird that the...
I have been experiencing déjà vu. It's as we pack up our boxes and wrote on the side with black markers: Kitchen stuff, Books, Pants. As we...
Scottish Book Trust has given over 290,000 books to children in need of support, living in deprived areas, through food banks, community hubs and...
We’re in our local park on a sunny, brisk October weekend and my son has just run over to me in bright red all-in-one waterproofs, his hair slicked...
Two weeks ago, readers left me sitting on a rooftop bar in Florence with my best mate, overlooking the Duomo, drinking a limoncello spritz with a...
I could have summed up what I knew about Belgium in two words: frites and chocolate (shaped like seashells, but fancy, so mostly eaten at Christmas). ...
I’m currently addicted to Race Around the World and I bet it’s for the same reason as millions of other viewers. Yes, it showcases countries, so...
I can remember the exact moment the travel bug bit me. It was the summer of 1993 and it seemed everyone from school was off on a week’s package...
"ANTALYA? The place where people go for veneers and hair plugs? You know you can get kebabs in Istanbul?" My husband, not for the first time, is...
At this year's Oscars, amid a sea of Barbie feminism dressed in bubblegum pink and Cillian Murphy's architectural bone structure, the two films I was...
Does anyone really want to hear about someone else's illness? Having been sick for two years now, I can actually time to the second concerned...
This month we’re desperately in need of good news stories, with February being the bleakest month, freezing and endless with spring, let alone...
Twelve years ago I walked into the extremely fancy lobby of Kings Cross St Pancras Hotel, a place I’d never been inside, would never have dared to,...
Happy New Year, you filthy animals! Welcome to 2024 and whatever it might hold. Since, in our house, 2023 brought serious illness, four house moves,...
In the words of Shania Twain, ‘Looks Like We Made It’. Whether you love or loathe Christmas, it's behind us and all we have left is a Tupperware...
What’s your family tradition? Perhaps a recipe for Christmas pudding, handed down through generations and festively set on fire, a blue and white...
Twas the month before Christmas and all through the Department Store the bustle was horrendous. The elves claimed cystitis for extra toilet breaks and...
My son's visit to Santa. Our bright pink Christmas tree, topped with a Barbie who looks like she hit the Baileys a little too hard. A frankly biblical...
Fat. Such a tiny word with so many larger implications. No longer just a descriptor, it is a word loaded with prejudice, judgments and preconceptions....