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COVID 0, Vaccine 1: Adjusting to a post-Lockdown world

The nurse, Doreen, pushed the needle into my arm. I felt the mildest of pin pricks. A colleague of Doreen’s had been attempting to keep me chatting. I guessed this was a good cop / bad cop thing: Doreen was the bad cop administering the vaccine while her colleague kept me talking to distract me,

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Family Life & parenting

Here’s looking at you kid

Having learned that the secret to getting a good photograph can involve being somewhere at the right time, I paid a visit to the London Borough of Croydon just before sunrise. I had heard about an urban art festival called Rise and thought some of the art that was on display on the streets might

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Exploring the lanes of Melbourne

Is this a colourful, eye catching example of urban art or a shambolic, unruly mess? It’s up to you to decide! I took this photograph earlier this week when I made a brief visit to Melbourne in Australia (why was in Australia? Click here or here to find out more). It’s of a back alley

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Panto klaxon! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

  It’s Christmas and that means it’s panto o’clock. With this in mind, the Adams family trudged off en-masse to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon, South London. This was a bit of an experiment. I took our eldest two years ago and her response was lukewarm. This

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