Huddersfield Examiner - Columnists - Hilarie Stelfox

Hilarie: Why we’re banned from archaeological pursuits

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:53:00 GMT

THE subject of summer holidays has cropped up, as it always does at this gloomiest time of the year.

Hilarie Stelfox: I need to do more standing and sharing

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:51:00 GMT

WE STAGGERED back from the supermarket the other day, laden like beasts of burden, with cat food; hay and straw for the rabbit; an enormous sack of mixed wild bird seed and a bag of peanuts for the squirrels.

Hilarie Stelfox : Abusers should be punished without mercy

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE Examiner’s front page lead on Tuesday told the sordid story of a pensioner who was caught downloading pornographic images of children onto his computer.

Hilarie Stelfox: And here’s one that I doodled earlier

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I AM and always have been a doodler. The desk pad next to my phone at work is usually covered in a random assortment of spiky floral sprays, heavily embossed chessboards, cross-hatched oblongs and words with the letters coloured in.

Hilarie: Now my hero da Vinci is a fashion designer too

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

LEONARDO da Vinci has long been recognised as an all-round genius – the embodiment of Renaissance Man.

Hilarie: And now I have a Kindle which will reawaken the classics for me

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

AH, it never pays to close one’s mind to new ideas.

Hilarie Stelfox: Have you heard the one about the Student and the Sprout?

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THE Man-in-Charge and his daughter have one of those Inspector Clouseau and Cato relationships.

Hilarie Stelfox: Forgiving our Ironing Fairy

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WE have bought the Ironing Fairy a new mobile phone.

Hilarie Stelfox: We had a ‘Phar-oahld’ time in Manchester

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WE spent the day in Ancient Egypt last week and took photographs in front of the pyramids.

Hilarie Stelfox: We need more ways to give children a Sure Start

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IT WOULD be wonderful if all children were born into caring, loving homes and raised with aspirations and encouragement.

Hilarie Stelfox: Christmas chickens are coming home to roost

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

FOUR-FIFTHS of the Stelfox family pets were waifs and strays when they came to us.

Hilarie Stelfox: Christmas is also the season of strife and stress

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

THERE’S something about Christmas that seems to evoke the best and worst in families.

Hilarie Stelfox defends cat and dog ownership

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

IF, AS A recent survey suggests, two thirds of women and three quarters of men can’t remember what their partner gave them last year for Christmas, it’s quite clear that we are all wasting our time and money.

Hilarie Stelfox on the high maintenance art of looking good

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

OVER THE past couple of weeks I have found myself in a number of waiting rooms – at the doctor’s, dentist’s and hairdresser’s.

Hilarie Stelfox: Is there anything worse than losing a handbag?

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

SHORT of war, pestilence and disease, there are few disasters more distressing to a woman than losing her handbag.

Hilarie Stelfox: And now for something completely different

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

THE painter Georges-Pierre Seurat had an obsessional approach to art.

Hilarie Stelfox: ‘They dined on mince and slices of quince’

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

INSPIRED by Kirstie’s Homemade Christmas I have been making preserves for the festive season.

Hilarie Stelfox: Hoarders and collectors wanted for new television series

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

MY RECENT column on the de-cluttering of my ‘empty nest’ attracted the attention of a television researcher who wants to find hoarders for a new prime time series.

Hilarie Stelfox: What are we going to do with all these photographs?

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

IN MY mission to purge all of our cupboards, this week I have been tackling the sideboard, repository of family photographs, some dating back to 1898 but most from the last 20 years.

Hilarie Stelfox: Why women feel ageism more keenly

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

WHY, said a colleague of mine this week, are women so sensitive about their age?