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The regulars
TIPS FOR MEANIES Jane Thynne on coffee
MODERN LIFE What is a staycation?
William Stirling explains
OLDEN LIFE What was a remittance man?
Mark Baker remembers
MEMORIAL James Hughes-Onslow on Sir Alastair Aird
UNWRECKED ENGLAND Candida Lycett Green on The Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
DEAR MAVIS... The Oldie's agony aunt is Mavis Nicholson
Talk to yourself by all means, but don't start answering back
READERS WRITE Your letters
LITERARY COMPETITION Tessa Castro judges your poems
MORON & GENIUS CROSSWORDS by
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