I was keen to watch ice hockey in Canada, which I imagined would be beautiful and graceful, like Torville and Dean with a puck, nothing like some of the football codes in Australia with their love of violence. And ice hockey is graceful, I discovered, but it is also unbelievably violent.
Read MoreI sometimes wonder whether digital technology is the next stage of evolution or the next generation’s version of the precious from Lord of the Rings, powerful but with the capacity to eat a person up from the inside.
Read MoreMy husband and I would be fairly sure we each do more than two thirds of the household and childcare jobs, which means either at least one of us is exaggerating or, more likely, children create some sort of chore vortex in which doing 100 per cent of the chores requires 130 per cent effort.
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