My kitchen is filled with seemingly nondescript objects that mean a great deal to me: my mum’s wooden-handled fish slice and masher; her pans; the knives and forks I used while I was growing up; a tea

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Here is my beautiful rescue dog, Tynky. She had a hard life on the streets of Romania, but this lovely one is living the dream with me. We rescued each other. It’s very true that you cannot save all t

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POPPY, can you come up here?” Kim called downstairs to her fourteen-year-old daughter. “I’m busy. Can it wait?” “No.” A few minutes passed, then a figure appeared at the foot of the stairs. Black hood