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‘Good cat.’

Twitter

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Smoking

15 February 2014 9:00 am

‘Marcel — we need to talk!’

Marcel

15 February 2014 9:00 am

‘Sorry, darling, but I’ve decided you’re not genetically suitable to be part of a breeding programme, so I’m going to chop you up and feed you to the lions.’

Chop

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Ducks

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Spaceship in a bottle

Spaceship

15 February 2014 9:00 am

‘Let’s play doctors and health tourists.’

Doctors

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Cards

15 February 2014 9:00 am

‘Some of us feel that all these photographs of your children send out the wrong message.’

Family

15 February 2014 9:00 am

‘I never wake him up when he’s sleepworking.’

Sleepwork

15 February 2014 9:00 am

‘But I’m not patronising you...We did find you under a gooseberry bush.’

Gooseberry

15 February 2014 9:00 am

‘We lead separate lives these days.’

Separate

15 February 2014 9:00 am

‘You were right, this is the most exciting first date I’ve been on.’

Date

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Flirt

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Percival

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Floods of incompetence - why Chris Smith should resign from the Environment Agency

8 February 2014 9:00 am

When Prince Charles arrived in Somerset to meet some of those caught up in the disaster which in five weeks…

Portrait of the week: water, water, everywhere

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Home The Somerset Levels continued to wallow in floods. The Environment Agency was widely blamed for not having dredged channels,…

Barometer: When Britain was good at the Winter Olympics

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Our first winter Hopes will not be high for a big haul of British medals in Sochi, but we have…

Spectator letters: Bernard Jenkin and the cabbies fight back, rising school fees, Nigel Lawson on aid

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Private pain Sir: A line in Alec Marsh’s article (‘Britain’s one-child policy’, 1 February) caught my eye; that school fees…

Books and Arts

8 February 2014 9:00 am

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‘Roses are red / Begonias maybe / Hello Hugh Grant / I’m having your baby.’

Valentines

8 February 2014 9:00 am

‘There’s only one thing for it — give up driving.’

Smoking

8 February 2014 9:00 am

‘He always makes sure we get out of the car when he wants a fag.’

Cigarette

8 February 2014 9:00 am

‘The property has some unique features: a sunken garden, sunken garden shed, sunken patio…’

Floods

8 February 2014 9:00 am

‘It’s part of the drive to make us more like a private school.’

School

8 February 2014 9:00 am