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How long would YOU queue to scream for 165 seconds? – Simon Carter

Us Brits are world class at queuing. We might not like it, we might moan while doing it, but we still do it.

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It’s DIY season again! – Verity Lush

If there are any readers out there who have a home with which they are entirely pleased, then I would love to hear from them. For clarification, by ‘entirely’ pleased, I do not mean that you are simply happy with your home.

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How I’d love to relax on the forts with a glass of fizz

The saying goes, ‘it never rains but it pours’ and that has been the case both literally and metaphorically this week. It feels like it hasn’t stopped raining begging the question, what happened to our glorious summer?

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Thanks to the invention of boxer shorts, Blaise Tapp now has two kids (Picture posed by model, obviously)

I make sure to not get caught short in substandard undercrackers – Blaise Tapp

Ask any child of the 1980s to recall the sayings and old wives’ tales which punctuated their early years and there will be plenty of choice.

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If only Steve Canavan was a muscular dad like this (picture posed by models) Shutterstock

Babysitting duties can be made worse when you’re weak – Steve Canavan

With Mrs Canavan working this week, I have been on babysitting duties (‘it’s not baby-sitting,’ she bawled in exasperated fashion when reading the above, ‘it’s called being a father and looking after your own child’).

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COMMENT: Importance of teaching must be reflected

Seven years ago teaching was the number one choice for graduates. Now it's not even in the top 10. So what has happened in that time to make a career in teaching so unappealing that Portsmouth is now facing a recruitment and retainment crisis?

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Wightlinks new 30m flagship Victoria of Wight

All eyes were on the buxom woman, not her hula hoops – Rick Jackson

My wife surprised me by getting tickets for the circus last Sunday afternoon. Would our four and two-year-olds sit through it? Would I be able to sit though it?

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Boris Johnson brings tea for the press to drink outside his house

Boris is no buffoon – he deliberately spreads hatred – Zella Compton

There are some very, very cheap ways to stir up controversy in a column, and one of the cheapest and easiest ways is to attack people for the way that they look.

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Kieran's toddler son Louie has a better social life than him

The daily work slog is a welcome break from the kids – Kieran Howard

Should your two-year-old toddler have a better social life than you? Since entering the world in November 2015, Louie's rapidly developed a circle of friends which is already embarrassingly larger and more impressive than mine.

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COMMENT: Face covering is a personal choice, not a political one

It’s a typical Boris Johnson distraction technique – turning up at the end of his driveway to offer the waiting reporters cups of tea, but saying nothing about his latest controversy as he does so.

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The film Natural Born Killers was banned

CLIVE SMITH: Banning music won’t stop stabbings

The stabathon continues unabated in London with blood being spilt every day. Who’s to blame? And what can be done to stop it? The arguments rumble on as the bodies keep piling up.

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We live in an age when the hipster seems to rule.

I never thought I’d be cool but now I’m a Hipster – Simon Carter

Fancy a little sing song? You know you want to. Come on then, join in with me...

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex kiss at a polo match last month. Picture: PA

Harry and Meghan’s public kissing has shown us the way – Lesley Keating

Public Displays of Affection, otherwise dubbed PDAs, are hitting the headlines, accelerated by royals like Meghan and Harry kissing and, more recently, Mike Tindall being openly touchy feely with wife Zara, the Queen’s granddaughter.

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Verity says children should not have breathe in fumes from cars at the school gates

Schoolchildren shouldn’t have to breathe in filthy car fumes – Verity Lush

Apparently some schools are going to stop parents from dropping their children off near to the school in cars with an engine running.

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Boris faces calls to resign over burqa letterbox comments

Is Boris a berk over burqas? – Sean Blackman

We are coming to a time when it is difficult to remember when Boris Johnson was not in the news for something he said which offended one group or another.

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Steve Canavan's tot Mary has just started to walk, but he can't see why his wife's so bothered

My toddler’s started toddling, what’s the big deal? – Steve Canavan

Something terrible has happened. Our child, Mary, has started walking. I say walking, it’s kind of staggering like someone who’s been on a seven-day bender with Oliver Reed, swaying from side to side and looking like she might totter headfirst into the cat bowl at any given moment.

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Cheryl Gibbs has an idyllic view of the countryside from her bungalow

We sacrificed a floor for a view and it was worth it – Cheryl Gibbs

It’s two years since we started living in Clanfield now – two years! Okay, well actually that’s not strictly true. For the die-hard residents of Clanfield I don’t technically live in Clanfield, but in the village of Catherington.

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This has been the best summer ever – Rick Jackson

This is the summer dreams are made of. The summer we all wish for. If we could describeour perfect summer, the summer of 2018 would be it.

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Two Ronnies v Ant and Dec: there’s no comparison – Blaise Tapp

Age isn’t a thing,’ said the young chap who sold me a loaf of bread and a ready meal the other evening.

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Zella Compton has lived in some pigsties over the years - they are not the preserve of millennials

We’ve all had dodgy boilers and ever dodgier landlords – Zella Compton

I read an interesting article in The Guardian at the weekend, about what it’s like to be a millennial renting in today’s cities. And here’s the thing, while it might cost proportionately more, the shocking stories of the accommodation they need to put up with were no less shocking than anything me, or my friends, lived with.

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