Dear Prue: ‘How can I reverse the gentle decline in quality of my husband’s presents?’
Dear Prue, Over the past few years I have noticed that each Christmas my husband’s gift to me has been more and more modest. When the children…
My wife loves our new friends, but they bore the pants off me
It was only when the third lockdown was lifted, and life between variants returned to a kind of normal, that I realised just how comfortable I’d become…
‘My husband and I can’t agree on how much to spend on Christmas presents’
Dear A&E, I come from quite a ‘conservative at Christmas’ family, where we give one meaningful gift, but Christmas at my in-laws’ is a present-fest: they spend…
I’m sick of my husband taking credit for looking after our grandkids
We had both taken early retirement and were thoroughly enjoying it when our first grandson was born. It was a total joy to have time to spend…
Kirstie Allsopp: ‘Covid has definitely revealed a mealy-mouthed gutlessness in people’
‘If you say there is ignorance about this, you are shouted down. “Rubbish!” they say. Of course, young women are absolutely fed up with being told about…
Shagged Married Annoyed, The O2, review: a not-very-good podcast that was even worse on stage
There are religions with fewer devotees than Shagged Married Annoyed. Launched in 2019, the unfathomably popular podcast – in which Chris Ramsey, that nice Geordie comedian you…
Rock’s best frenemies: Inside Rod Stewart and Elton John’s 50-year ‘war’
The bad cover was forgiven, clearly, because by the early Seventies, when Elton’s then boyfriend lived near Rod, the two young singers became so inseparable that Baldry…
The man I married has turned into a country squire – and I hate it
When we married 25 years ago, my husband lived in the fast lane. He had an exciting job in the city, drove a snazzy car, enjoyed glamorous…
Rock’s best frenemies: a history of Rod Stewart and Elton John insulting each other
Rod Stewart and Elton John have always weathered a turbulent friendship. Despite reportedly having patched things up earlier this year after yet another falling out, Rod Stewart has…
My husband doesn’t make enough effort on my birthday and it really upsets me
Every year around the beginning of November my husband and I fall out. It’s not down to the darker evenings or the nights drawing in, or even…