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Low life

The English-Scottish gender divide

6 October 2018

9:00 AM

6 October 2018

9:00 AM

Once the house move was completed, Catriona’s oldest and best Scottish friends, two of them, came to stay for a week. Now that Catriona lives in France they see each other but infrequently.

A seven-day female catch-up feast did not appeal to me. Neither would a shadowy male presence about the house appeal much to them, I imagined.

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