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Hilarie: Why children need their sleep

THERE is a good reason why parents nag their children to go to bed early. We want some time to ourselves.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Waiting for Twinkle’s little stars to shine

WE’RE thinking about filming our very own television series, along the lines of ‘Lambing Live’.Read

Hilarie Stelfox defends cat and dog ownership

THE BOY came home for Mother’s Day bearing a Tupperware box filled with chocolate cakes that he had baked himself.Read

Hilarie: A tale of bad dogs and even worse owners

MAN’S relationship with dogs goes back thousands of years.Read

Hilarie: No chocolates or bin bags for Mother’s Day

SINCE the Man-in-Charge decided that the Offspring were old enough to buy their own Mother’s Day cards and flowers I have received no cards and flowers.Read

Hilarie: Learning to deal with life’s rough and tumble

WHEN the Offspring were much younger their idea of a great day out was a trip to Hardcastle Crags (near Hebden Bridge) where they’d spend several hours dabbling in the stream, poking things with sticks, collecting stones, climbing trees and getting their clothes dirty.Read

Hilarie: My books at bedtime are a right good read

RECOMMENDING books is always a bit risky because what one person believes to be the greatest novel since War and Peace may turn out to be another’s Midnight’s Children.Read

Hilarie: My deleted expletives - and everything else

LAST WEEK I exceeded my quota of kilobytes, which meant I had to prune the hundreds of messages in my email account.Read

Hilarie: Fancy a bit of juggling, or snakeboarding?

WE ALWAYS know when Secondborn is practising with her juggling balls because we can hear the occasional muffled thud from her bedroom.Read

Hilarie: Here’s to a future delving into the past

SECONDBORN is at that stage in life where she is having to make some big decisions about her future.Read

Hilarie: We don’t envy Posh her bunion

EVER since someone noticed that the haughtily elegant Victoria Beckham had a bunion, the trashier newspapers and magazines have been awash with gleeful stories about her deformed foot.Read

Hilarie:‘That would be an ecumenical matter’

MY TEENAGERS have been raised on the sayings of Father Ted Crilly from which, I hope, they have gleaned a healthy scepticism about organised religion and its manmade trappings.Read

Hilarie: We’re giving our house a heart transplant

OUR boiler is so elderly that it qualifies for a £400 grant from the Government’s scrappage scheme.Read

Hilarie: A dog is for life - a happier, healthier life

WE DON’T have a dog, which is a constant source of irritation to Secondborn.Read

Hilarie: Why I prefer my movies in two dimensions

IT LOOKS as if another little pleasure is about to be culled from my life.Read

Hilarie: Women are rolling their eyes

SUSAN TOLLEFSEN was 57 when she gave birth to her first child.Read

Hilarie: Weddings and funerals - all on the same day

SOMETIMES I find it difficult to sleep. I have one of those over-active brains that constantly mulls things over.Read

Hilarie: We never did get any of the Christmas cake

WE took The Boy back to uni at the weekend, bravely battling through the sleet and slush to return him to his student hovel.Read

Hilarie: Life’s a slippery slope so enjoy the sledging!

THE NURSE in the accident and emergency department did that finger-wagging thing.Read

Hilarie: Make a date with Giants

SOMEONE has kindly sent me a copy of The Huddersfield Giants 2010 charity calendar, wittily entitled Scrum-ptious. It took me a while to get the play on words – I’m rubbish at writing headlines.Read