AMELIA arrives home from her half-day at work. She has the week’s shopping and quickly squirrels everything away, leaving just her children’s magazines on the kitchen table. Seeing she only has three-

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Taking in the views near Queenstown in New Zealand, here is my son, five-year-old Scott. What a beautiful location, this lake really is blue in colour. Vanya Hammett, Neston When exploring new places,

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UGH, I hate bull night,” Sheila said as they walked back from the Mess after tea on Monday evening. “How can you hate it?” Madeleine queried. “Don’t you like it when everything is clean and polished?