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Hilarie Stelfox: Is Man V Food gluttony or gourmet? Jun 02 2012

THE Girl recently discovered a new television show for us to become addicted to.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Eurovision was just too bad to be even a little bit good Jun 02 2012

THIS TIME last week we were toying with the idea of watching Engelbert on Eurovision.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Talking rhubarb, but without the custard May 26 2012

RHUBARB. It’s a funny old word, isn’t it? For a funny old vegetable.Read

Hilarie Stelfox : Students will want value for money May 26 2012

SEVERAL of my friends and acquaintances have children at university.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: A home under the plumber’s hammer May 19 2012

MY MUM, The Ironing Fairy, is having a new bathroom. Which is why we were out touring Huddersfield last week looking for the plumber’s merchant.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Why the RSPCA needs to find stable futures May 19 2012

IT IS often said there are more horses in the UK today than there were at the time the industrial revolution began.Read

Hilarie Stelfox : Abusers' families may now be blaming the abused May 12 2012

IT’S DIFFICULT to imagine the level of contempt the nine Lancashire men convicted this week of child exploitation must have had for their victims.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Plotting my own vegetable disasters May 12 2012

I SUSPECT that I’m considered something of a maverick by my fellow allotment holders for the devil-may-care way that I approach vegetable gardening.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Baking friends the sourdough way May 05 2012

THE CATS are deeply suspicious of the mixing bowl currently resting on our front room windowsill.Read

Hilarie Stelfox : For teenage girls vanity is a great motivator May 05 2012

WHY do so many girls hate PE at school and find that it puts them off sport for life?Read

Hilarie Stelfox : Beware of things that go squawk in the night Apr 28 2012

THE Girl has always been an animal lover but, of late, I’ve noticed that her attitude towards birds has changed.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: What did the Romans ever do for us? Apr 28 2012

SCENES from Monty Python’s Life of Brian kept coming to me last week as I picked my way across the well-preserved remains of an ancient hill fort at Housesteads in Northumbria. Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Why trees should come with a warning Apr 21 2012

WHEN we moved into our house 14 years ago it’s fair to say that it had been subjected to many years of benign neglect.Read

Hilarie Stelfox : The difficulties of buttoning up baby grows Apr 21 2012

IT DOESN’T take much to get me started on anecdotes about when The Offspring were babies.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: It’s my long-held ambition to be a gold digger Apr 14 2012

MY BROTHER lives just a few fields away from where the Staffordshire hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver was found three years ago.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: I’ve finally risen to the bread challenge Apr 14 2012

ONE of my colleagues is selling his house. Read

Hilarie Stelfox plans a summer holiday Apr 07 2012

AFTER working in local newspapers for all of my adult life I can honestly say that these great British institutions are populated by some of the most interesting, witty, intelligent and tenacious people you could hope to meet.Read