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Colleen Smith

Got a complaint? Sing it off your chest

Thursday, March 11, 2010

COMPLAINING is a good thing.

That's what I've decided this week. It's time that we, as a nation, stopped trying to be so darned nice and polite.

Leave the positive spin to the Americans. We need to get back to plain speaking. To not beating about the bush. To...

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The wrong songs of praise might turn your little angel into an underachiever

The wrong songs of praise might turn your little angel into an underachiever

Thursday, February 11, 2010

THIS week I have been picking up some unexpected tips on parenting on the internet. Apparently everything I've been doing so far is wrong. Which...

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Business and pleasure don't mix and I've got one shorter finger to prove it

Business and pleasure don't mix and I've got one shorter finger to prove it

Thursday, February 04, 2010

BLEISURE. It's the new trend. What does it mean? Blending business time and leisure time into one: bleisure. Geddit? Or, if you want, you can call it...

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I may be old-fashioned, but at least I can unblock drains and mush my peas

I may be old-fashioned, but at least I can unblock drains and mush my peas

Thursday, January 28, 2010

EVERY now and then something happens that makes you feel really, really ancient. This week I felt like a quaint, old-fashioned grandma of 93. I was...

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How one man in a nightclub found out about Mrs Angry... the hard way

How one man in a nightclub found out about Mrs Angry... the hard way

Thursday, January 21, 2010

THIS week I have mostly been getting in touch with my inner anger. Just so you know, this is going to be one of those columns where I get a lot of...

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Secret life of an office cake addict

Secret life of an office cake addict

Thursday, January 14, 2010

I AM an addict. A secret addict. A two-faced lying cheat. And if you are a mum or dad, I bet you are too. If you are reading this and you know any of...

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Snow casts a magical spell over the town

Snow casts  a magical spell over the town

Thursday, January 07, 2010

I'M SAT at my kitchen table looking out at proper snow falling thick and fast and it's remarkable because I'm 50 and it's only about the third time in...

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The art of thinking up a good New Year's resolution

The art of thinking up a  good New Year's resolution

Thursday, December 31, 2009

YOU'D imagine that everybody makes the same-old, same-old New Year's resolutions, year in and year out, wouldn't you? I was sitting here, much too...

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Ten things which ruined my decade

Ten things which ruined my decade

Thursday, December 17, 2009

I AM going to have to apologise in advance for this week's column. I have a neck injury and I'm in pain and probably should go to A&E in a minute....

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OMG St Nicholas is still filling our shoes with chocolate

OMG St Nicholas is still filling our shoes  with chocolate

Thursday, December 10, 2009

MY CHILDREN have been celebrating St Nicholas' night every year since they were small. Few people in this country know about this lovely, magical...

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