When my cat jokes are met with near silence, there’s only one thing for it ...

I can’t tell the GP ghosts are pulling my hair. That’s even more embarrassing than my previous ailments – ‘hot hand’ and ‘phantom phone’ ...

I suspect the fox is stealing my delivery parcels off the doorstep, but I’m not going to escalate without proof ...

We have to drag the bins through the house because the garden door is jammed. Until a scary encounter with my old enemy, that is ...

It is mid-afternoon – post-lunch but safely before the schools let out – and I am walking the dog in the direction of what my wife and I now call the Triangle parks. The Triangle parks are the result ...

After a sometimes fraught four-hour car journey, my wife and I and three friends arrive at a remote, sea-facing house in Greece. I’ve been here once before, a couple of years ago, but my memory of the ...

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One minute the house is full – when I walk in the oldest one, and his friend, and the middle one, and my wife are all fussing over a manual juicer the oldest one has brought back from a car boot sale.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Selman Hosgor/The Guardian (Illustration: Selman Hosgor/The Guardian) A reader writes, asking how I can let my ...

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