Richard Glover
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Opinion
Workplace
Should parking inspectors feel bad about doing their job?
Even these derided professions deserve some respect, surely.
- by Richard Glover
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Style
The ‘proper shoe’ is dead. Comfort has defeated style
We are now, surely, just a generation off the arrival of the wedding UGG boot.
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Comedy
Give me back my landline, my desk drawers, and my dreary old office
The modern office space is a noisy, annoying, overcrowded travesty.
- by Richard Glover
Opinion
Spectrum
Quiche used to seem amazing, when did we become so immune to delight?
Is there a way to recapture that enthusiasm? To channel our younger selves, and remember our giddy surprise?
- by Richard Glover
Opinion
Wellness
Time and time again, I find myself running away from exercise
If I do the exercises I’ll develop strong legs and not limp around the office in a way that brings sympathy.
- by Richard Glover
Opinion
Family
Bookkeeper or insect killer? Everyone has a role to play in a family
There’s no pleasure in life greater than being asked to open a jar of olives by a loved one.
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Comedy
Eight pressing questions I’ve left unanswered for decades
The answers are surely a quick Google away. But do I really need to know?
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Comedy
Help, I’m pathetically addicted to loyalty points
Fifty bonus points for slivered almonds I’m never going to use? Sign me up!
- by Richard Glover
Opinion
Comedy
The everyday debates guaranteed to start an argument
Do you stack your cutlery in the dishwasher pointy end up or down?
- by Richard Glover
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Comedy
The clever everyday objects that will baffle future historians
As the world changes we are forgetting that eggcups, soft drink bottles and coat hangers once had a whole host of other uses.
- by Richard Glover
Opinion
Family
Forget siblings, the best family relationship is cousins
Your cousin is you but also not you, like yourself in a misty mirror.
- by Richard Glover