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Hilarie: The long and winding road to Ingleton

NORMALLY I’d have been more than happy to have some reason for abandoning a tedious basket of ironing on a Sunday morning.Read

Hilarie: Now we can give our own cats some tlc

A HOME has finally been found for our kittens, so it’s time to say goodbye to Gracie (soon to be known as Princess) and Whiskers (new name as yet unspecified).Read

Hilarie: Voice from the past that moved us all

IT WAS Firstborn’s 20th birthday last weekend. We celebrated with a meal in a quaint little bistro in York.Read

Hilarie: I’m an interfering busybody at heart

AS A PERSON who secretly wants an easy life I often wonder how I came to be chairman of the school PTA.Read

Hilarie: Teenagers believe in the ironing fairy

RIGHTLY or wrongly – wrongly I suspect – I have never expected the Offspring to do much in the way of household chores.Read

Hilarie: Whatever happened to our stiff upper lips

DESPITE all the moaning, groaning and gnashing of teeth, it’s quite clear that something has to be done about the state of our economy.Read

Hilarie: Kitballing, the new sport

IN A SINGLE issue of a nameless and shameless national newspaper this week I found no fewer than eight stories of the ‘Killer Margarine’ variety. I call them ‘scaries.’Read

Hilarie: The scientific approach to work experience

THE BOY has asked me to find him some work experience in a restaurant kitchen over the summer.Read

Hilarie: Flouting the rules is a teenager’s role in life

WHEN I was at secondary school about a trillion years ago we had a fearsome and quite grandmotherly domestic science teacher who took it upon herself to be our moral guardian.Read

Hilarie: How list making is good for mucking out the mind

MY HALF-TERM holiday began with making a list of ‘Things To Do’, and supervising the delivery of 40 sacks of horse manure to the allotment.Read

Hilarie: Wouldn’t it be lovely if degrees were free

THERE is no doubt that our new Government needs to do some extremely careful housekeeping, some might say, vicious pruning of the national budget.Read

Hilarie Stelfox: Fidel Catro, Kitler and other catty dictators

IT’S A little unsettling to discover that I used to have something in common with several of history’s meanest megalomaniacs.Read

Hilarie: Hands up who wants to be an arts student

IF, LIKE ME, you’ve always fancied being an arts student but had to get what your parents considered a ‘real job’ instead, then the University of Huddersfield may have just what we need.Read

Hilarie: Science boffin creating time as well as cup cakes

FIRSTBORN is following in my footsteps by amusing himself as a blogger in his spare time.Read

Hilarie: It’s too quick and easy to be a cyber critic

THIS WEEK I have been obsessing over a comment on The Examiner website, posted at the end of last week’s column.Read

Hilarie: Girl power celebrates its first centenary

MY MUM took this photograph of me in our back garden, aged 11, on the eve of my first day as a Girl Guide.Read

Hilarie: She’s learning to paddle her own canoe

THE GIRL had a wind-beaten, slightly deranged look about her, brought on by a weekend living rough in the Yorkshire Dales, subsisting on cereal bars and Primula cheese spread.Read

Hilarie: Jo’s little gem deserves to be published

MY FRIEND Lesley took me out for lunch the other day and dropped into conversation the news that her daughter Jo had written a book.Read

Hilarie: Of slugs and snails and cute kitten tails

WHEN I was a teenager the mere thought of spending the afternoon digging an allotment would have been about as enticing as spending Saturday night watching Morecambe and Wise with my parents.Read

Hilarie: Those knitted characters get everywhere

THIS engaging little Last Supper, wrought entirely from knitted characters, caught my eye on a visit to York last week with the Man-in-Charge.Read