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The X Factor is my secret guilty pleasure Nov 12 2011

THE X Factor is my secret guilty pleasure. Or, perhaps, not so much a secret any more.Read

Why I just caved in to the inevitable with Secondborn Nov 12 2011

I AM far from delighted at the news that the legendary Three Counties System of caves beneath Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria has been finally linked.Read

Such cute calendar kitties Nov 12 2011

THE calendar season is upon us, bringing with it an opportunity for organisations great and small to raise funds and show us what they can do with 13 photographs.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: I’ve got the K Factor, at least that’s my theory Nov 05 2011

THE PEOPLE who created our garden had a penchant for hideous, spiky shrubs.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: It’s time universities changed the admissions process Nov 05 2011

AS FOLLOWERS of this column will know, this year the Stelfox family went through the gruelling university application process, yet again.Read

Hilarie: If only every cupboard had a feelgood factor Oct 29 2011

WE took Secondborn back to her student accommodation at the weekend, after she’d enjoyed a good night’s sleep back in her own bed.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Lest you forget, visit the national arboretum Oct 29 2011

POPPY DAY is an annual event that has meant different things to me at different times of my life.Read

Hilarie: The day I signed up to be a bone marrow donor Oct 22 2011

THE Examiner’s librarian Stephen spends quite a bit of his time trawling through our archives.Read

Hilarie: Now I’m a believer in the obesity epidemic Oct 22 2011

IT IS many years since the Stelfox family had what is known as a beach holiday.Read

No empty nest syndrome for me even though both my kids are at university Oct 15 2011

SECONDBORN is feeling murderous towards the ducks that live outside her university accommodation.Read

Jack Murphy’s short life was full of love and devotion Oct 15 2011

IT’S ALL too easy to take a gloomy view of the world and its inhabitants when there appears to be so much war, crime and bloodshed.Read

Hilarie: It’s her business if she wants to be a Wally Oct 08 2011

ALL WEEK The Girl has been asking questions such as: “Have you got anything yellow that I can take with me?”Read

Hilarie: Digital readers don’t fire my enthusiasm Oct 08 2011

THIS week the Examiner asked its readers whether they see a future for books as we know them.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Baking cupcakes and making new friends Oct 01 2011

THIS week we have been dining on cottage pie, ratatouille and lemon cupcakes.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Of teasels, easels, art and Adolf Hitler Oct 01 2011

A STRANGE thing has happened. I have discovered that for many years I have been fooling myself over the matter of artistic talentRead

Hilarie: Help Rosie follow her musical dream Sep 24 2011

EARLIER this summer it was my privilege to meet a charming young school leaver, Rosie O’Hare, who, most kindly, agreed to model for one of my fashion pages.Read

Hilarie: Flapping about in my soon-to-be-empty nest Sep 24 2011

AND SO it begins. The emptying of our nest.Read

A tale of three archaeologists Sep 17 2011

IT AMAZES me that the ancient Greeks and Romans managed to get any civilising or conquering done at all given their corner of the world is suffused with a soporific heat for much of the year.Read

How The Girl went to work on an egg or two Sep 17 2011

SECONDBORN has been hen sitting over the summer for our neighbours.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: We’re off to Rome Jul 09 2011

WE’RE off to the Eternal City for a few days next week, leaving The Boy in charge of the cats, rabbit, fish and allotment.Read

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