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Kerry Hudson

Kerry Hudson

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Kerry Hudson: Caffeine, sugar and exercise: how the Swedes make the most of winter

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...

18.12.2024 3

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Kerry Hudson: Being European again is well worth the tangle of red tape

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...

02.12.2024 6

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'Books are a ladder for Scottish children to climb above poverty and deprivation'

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...

01.12.2024 10

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Kerry Hudson: Why my mud-eating son will love Swedish preschool

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...

10.11.2024 8

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Kerry Hudson: The kids were on a wave while I was waiving the fun

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...

10.09.2024 7

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Kerry Hudson: Why Antwerp made it on to my 'one day again' list

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). ...

07.05.2024 10

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Kerry Hudson: How to test your relationship to the max? Book a holiday

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...

25.04.2024 10

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Kerry Hudson: How I found out that travel isn't just for the rich

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...

10.04.2024 7

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Kerry Hudson: My Antalya adventure gave me peace to write a thriller

"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...

03.04.2024 20

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Kerry Hudson: 'I’ve stumbled on the secret of happiness'

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...

13.03.2024 10

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Kerry Hudson: 'I almost left my little boy without a mum which is unimaginable'

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...

27.02.2024 10

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Kerry Hudson: A bottomless pit of love: how a 'last chance' dog has changed our lives

This month we’re desperately in need of good news stories, with February being the bleakest month, freezing and endless with spring, let alone...

13.02.2024 5

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Kerry Hudson: Reflections on a joyful 12-year journey

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,...

31.01.2024 3

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Kerry Hudson: New Year's Resolutions? I’m resolving to do (almost) nothing

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,...

02.01.2024 8

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Kerry Hudson: I’m embracing barefaced chic - just like Pamela Anderson

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...

26.12.2023 10

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Kerry Hudson: Traditions are ever-evolving and it’s OK to make new ones

What’s your family tradition? Perhaps a recipe for Christmas pudding, handed down through generations and festively set on fire, a blue and white...

20.12.2023 9

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Kerry Hudson: The year I discovered the true meaning of Christmas

Twas the month before Christmas and all through the Department Store the bustle was horrendous. The elves claimed cystitis for extra toilet breaks and...

19.12.2023 6

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Kerry Hudson: Why I’m logging off from social media

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...

13.12.2023 20

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Kerry Hudson: I'm a newly-fat person - and I'm OK with that

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....

06.12.2023 9

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