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Nell Frizzell

The Guardian

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Heavily pregnant and devoted to clothing apps, could I survive a return to actual high street shops?

I love clothes; I loathe clothes shops. Like many of my contemporaries, I have embraced the world of online secondhand shopping. And yet, I also...

06.01.2025 5

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Nell Frizzell

You’ve got a great new product for dogs’ bottoms? That’s nice – but please don’t call it a revolution

This morning, I walked past an advert for something described as the anal gland revolution. I didn’t know anal glands had been calling for a...

02.12.2024 5

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Ideas and originality are overrated – just ask Titian or Michelangelo

Last week, I interviewed the journalist, podcaster and author Hattie Crisell about her new book, In Writing. It’s a collection of writing advice...

01.12.2024 20

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I’m still running at seven months pregnant. But it’s transformed how I think about exercise

Have you recently seen a sweating woman with a watermelon stuffed up her fleece, wheezing her way behind a bush mere metres from a towpath to have...

25.11.2024 10

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Still hanging on to your old diaries and teenage photos? Chuck them out – and start to live

There is a particular sort of box that lurks in every home, full of “memorabilia” or “mementos”. Baby teeth, divorce certificates, spare keys for...

24.11.2024 4

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Great news, everybody! We’re about to be over-run by giant spiders

It is giant spider season and I am delighted. As someone who is ravaged by flying insects all summer, I welcome these eight-legged death machines...

26.09.2024 20

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I still haven’t worked out how to use a washing machine. At 39, this is a bitter pill to swallow

It was at the back of a school hall, sitting on a blue plastic chair, watching my son erratically kick a chest-height dummy while a medley of synth...

25.09.2024 1

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Desperately need something for a headache or diarrhoea? Good luck trying to find a pharmacy

Until I’d woken up in the middle of an orchard at 2am with a child so covered in bites it was like trying to share a tent with a bag of feral cats,...

29.08.2024 2

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Nell Frizzell

Want to feel like a teenager again? Just dig out the books you were forced to read at school

This isn’t one of those social media writing challenges or book trends you’ve missed such as NaNoWriMo or #ReadWomen. But perhaps it should be. Re-...

28.08.2024 3

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New Zealand culture is booming around the world – do we have Jacinda Ardern to thank for it?

When I was growing up, the sum total of New Zealand’s contribution to global culture was, essentially, the singer from Crowded House and Shortland...

22.08.2024 2

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I’ve finally got round to fixing up my house – and it’s given me a radical idea

Here is a short and by no means comprehensive list of things that have been at the bottom of my fruit bowl for about a year: two screwdrivers, a...

21.08.2024 1

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If you can be tried as an adult you should at least be able to vote – or become a Labor politician

14.08.2024 30

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I love it that a two-year-old’s paintings have created such a buzz. His brush with branding, less so

If you’ve ever spent £40 and a whole weekend trying to paint out the scrawling of your young children from your rental walls in the futile hope...

14.08.2024 3

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I swam in the Thames last week. Yes, it is full of sewage – but it is also a beautiful river

Pull on your effluent suits and ring the sewage bell because, friends, Thames Water is being fined. Or at least it might be. The industry...

12.08.2024 5

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Want to help refugees - but not sure how? I found a surprisingly simple answer

I wish refugees didn’t exist. Of course I do. I wish war, persecution, violence and discrimination didn’t exist, too. But people have been fleeing...

11.08.2024 30

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Nell Frizzell

Why I’m swapping ‘adult food’ for bland, hedonistic snacks

I don’t want to undermine my international standing as a gourmand (you are, after all, looking at the woman who once ate the entire Bella Italia...

23.07.2024 2

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Nell Frizzell