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2 years

Had some fantastic news about my chemo - it did everything it was supposed to and the tumour’s gone!Hurray - and huge gratitude- for scientists, doctors and nurses. I’ll still have surgery because I have the BRCA2 gene and don’t fancy going through it all again, but am very happy

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2 years

My son has responded to the offer of a cheeseboard by preparing himself a chocolate board

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

Some personal/personnel news: I'm excited to be the Guardian's new money and consumer editor - how companies treat workers and consumers has rarely been more important, so I'm expecting to be busy

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9 months

I've just realised it's exactly a year since my last chemo session. I had limited hair left - despite the cold cap - and surgery to, um, look forward to. I couldn't imagine things being back to normal. Now I'm sitting in the office with quite a bit of hair and, aside from the...

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

Slightly stung by Lego’s cynicism towards my profession if I’m honest

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4 years

The Love of Cooking book I inherited from my mum never fails to entertain- 24 hours in to our latest read we’ve found a recipe for sausage crown salad. You’re welcome

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Hilary Osborne

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9 months

Wondering why the government put up inflation again after all of their fine work in cutting it - strange move

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6 months

Weird feeling this morning as I take my last targeted cancer drug. It means after 21 months my cancer treatment is finally over, but also my body is on its own now. It’s daunting. But I’m so grateful for medicine, science and everyone who discovered and delivered all of this

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

Just started what should be my last round of chemo. Last hours in the hat from hell, last ‘ouch’ as the needle went into the port in my chest, no more constant confirming of my name and date of birth (painful because the latter is so long ago)

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4 years

@HRFMichael Port and lemon (I think I was trying to pass as a 60-year-old)

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11 months

Inflation may have dropped, but there's some horrible stuff under the headline rate: food price inflation still at 10.1% and the ONS says last month the price of food was about 30% higher than it was in October 2021 -

UK inflation drops sharply to 4.6% as energy prices fall

Decline in annual rate in October eases fears that Bank of England will raise interest rates again this year

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9 months

If you're at any stage of chemo, rest assured that you can forget how horrible it was (and good luck with it)

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5 years

@nadiakhomami I’m disappointed that he’s clearly not bothered to show her around Wood Green Shopping City

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1 year

I finished my radiotherapy today! So if you find me with a glass of cut-price fizzy wine tomorrow it will probably be because of that and not the other thing

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

A couple of years ago when things were miserable and locked down my son declared 31 January ‘international breakfast day’. Now we celebrate on the nearest Sunday by having breakfast for every meal. (We have stretched this to allow anything that classes as brunch to qualify)

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Hilary Osborne

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8 months

Just build some flippin homes

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8 months

INDEPENDENT: Sunak’s youth vote election gamble: the 99% mortgage #TomorrowsPapersToday

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1 year

Today I began a phased return to work and was reminded of a) how interesting my job is and b) how great my colleagues are. I need a sleep now, though

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

Last-but-one chemo session today - pleased to have made it so far. No immunotherapy as I now have an overactive thyroid to go with my underactive adrenal glands. Hoping not to add to my side effects collection

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Hilary Osborne

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5 years

@ladyhaja Please pitch a new one-line-answer agony column

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2 years

I’d never spotted this blue plaque opposite Baker Street station before today

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

Chemo update: so far no vomit. Hurray for the wonderful doctors and nurses and their treasury of anti-sickness tablets (thanks scientists). Missed Bake Off though so now have to avoid result until child gets home from school #likelylads

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3 years

@KimFishlegs She obviously never saw the Bagpuss episode with the chocolate biscuit mill, poor thing

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9 months

table reminders, things are pretty much as they were. I only remember I was away when I suddenly realise I don't know exactly what was happening to house prices in March, or have to check that I didn't dream the whole Liz Truss thing

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1 year

I’ve written about trying to return to normal, and being afraid of the pirate ship; People call me brave for going through cancer treatment – but the scary bit starts now

People call me brave for going through cancer treatment – but the scary bit starts now | Hilary...

After chemotherapy, I’m planning a future beyond medical care. I’m grateful but somewhat daunted by the challenge, writes Hilary Osborne, the Guardian’s money and consumer editor

www.theguardian.com

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Hilary Osborne

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8 months

Had my hair cut today. It’s almost a year since a really amazing hairdresser agreed to sort out my post-chemotherapy barnet. I was sad and self-conscious and she made me feel normal again. She’s moving on from hairdressing now but I’ll be forever grateful to her

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1 year

I’ve written about talking about cancer and how much it’s helped me to discuss it - but how I’ve also chosen which bits to say out loud

It’s hard to talk about cancer, but being open about my mastectomy has given me strength | Hilary...

I have explained what has happened to me on my own terms, and people have responded in kind, says Hilary Osborne, the Guardian’s money editor

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

There's a consumer crisis and an energy plan coming and I'm still not back at work and want to explain why. In late June I was told I had breast cancer (hard to hear because it's what my mum died of when I was 9) 1/

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

It was my grandma’s funeral this week. She was 94, and we were very lucky to have her around for so long. For 49 years she was treasurer of Chester Model Flying Club, which is quite some volunteering. For us, she’ll be Grandma forever. I miss her already

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

I realise you’re probably all over Christmas by now, but my tree is coming down tomorrow and it makes me sad to think no one has been able to see it except us, so I’m forcing these pics on you

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7 months

We’ve been clearing out my grandma’s house and amongst the treasures was a book where she recorded who she had sent a Christmas card to each year and who had sent one back. I was so relieved to find I’d not let her down ever!

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4 years

Eating chocolate in the middle of the afternoon at work never involved having to shove it all in my mouth at once so no one else noticed and insisted on having some too

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4 years

@ladyhaja They’re great if you freeze them and use them as ice packs/drinks for picnics. And I bet Woman’s Weekly would have put that in a box on the letters page and given me £25 for that

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2 years

I had (what’s left) of my hair cut this morning and I’d forgotten just how lovely it is to sit there and have something non-medical done to you. It might all fall out after next week’s treatment but it’ll look neater as it does!

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@hilaryosborne

2 years

I know I make and post these every year, but this is the first lot this festive season, so forgive me

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Hilary Osborne

@hilaryosborne

10 months

There's a phone-in about good bosses on Radio 5 and if none of my team calls in they're fired

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Hilary Osborne

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1 year

It's a year to the day when I found out I had breast cancer. Everyone told me it would be a rollercoaster, and they were so right - I've had some very low moments (I did think it must have been spread and that I was not going to get much more time with the people I love so much)

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Hilary Osborne

@hilaryosborne

2 years

Set to start a new lot of chemo drugs today - have had 12 lots of paclitaxel and carboplatin and about to move to EC. I feel like I’ve been lucky with side effects so far (mostly thinning hair, tiredness, horrible nails) and am v nervous about the change

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Hilary Osborne

@hilaryosborne

4 years

Thinking work can only be done from an office in a city is part of the reason why people can get away with offering ��homes’ like this one

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4 years

Love browsing London studio flats. All yours for just £754 per month.

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Hilary Osborne

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3 years

Can we get the army in to deliver our WhatsApp messages?

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Hilary Osborne

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3 years

Please forgive any tear-stained tweets from me today - it's my son's last day at primary school. Sob

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Hilary Osborne

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6 years

@danhancox Or, and I am gagging as I type, pilchard pancakes au gratin (yes, those are tinned mandarins)

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Hilary Osborne

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8 years

First man to leave Sainsbury's on Black Friday is carrying ... three baguettes

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

I've written about why I think Scouting rules (thanks for asking me @lisabachelor ): Why I love being leader of the cub scout pack

Why I love being leader of the cub scout pack | Hilary Osborne

Being an akela is the best way to switch off and have fun – and 90,000 children are on the scouts waiting list…

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Who could have guessed that we’d one day look back nostalgically at that time in the summer when no one seemed to be actually running the country

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Hilary Osborne

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3 years

Very proud to have been given this today, and in awe of people being awarded for 20, 30, 40, 50 & 60 years of Scouting. Thanks @NLScoutDistrict @JamClar96

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2 years

I’ve written about finding out I had the cancer gene mutation - I’m hoping it might persuade others to consider getting tested. Thanks ⁦ @jenny_stevens ⁩ for asking and editing so well

I thought knowing I had the 'cancer gene' would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I...

Despite the history of breast cancer in my family, I chose to be blithely ignorant. Now I have the disease, I realise that knowledge is power, says Guardian money and consumer editor Hilary Osborne

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2 years

Very proud of my 12yo who has made lots of bara brith and Glamorgan sausages to sell at the school’s food festival to raise money for the Turkey and Syria earthquake victims (I’m wishing I’d bought some of it before he left)

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

Just watched my son set off on his bike with his friend (at a safe distance) for the first time since March and it has actually made me cry

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Hilary Osborne

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8 years

It's pretty, but did you ever imagine a £1m house would look like this?

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

Pitching a book about my experiences as one of the few people in the country who doesn't have a book coming out today ("a bittersweet tale of ambition thwarted by laziness and lack of imagination")

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

I think they should let a child ask a question at the next government briefing - mine really wants to know when the swings will reopen, and I reckon there are 100s of other things like that which no one’s put to them

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Hilary Osborne

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1 year

I wrote about supporting the mighty ⁦ @HaringeyBoroFC ⁩ - it may have started because I’m cheap but now it’s true love

Supporting local football: how two fans found new teams – and saved cash

Two lifelong supporters of Premier League sides describe how they now enjoy even more games by also backing clubs closer to home

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

Getting quite nervous about going in for chemo tomorrow. The last time I had it I started vomiting during Bake Off and didn’t stop all night. They’re giving me a lower dose this time but what if they ruin the final?

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Hilary Osborne

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3 years

Emotional moment as my primary school child just became a secondary school child. Feel excited for him (and old for me). Good luck to everyone starting somewhere new today

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

Slightly alarmed that my family is just about to see close up how I work on budget day

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Hilary Osborne

@hilaryosborne

9 months

We talked about happiness at Cubs tonight and worked on things to cheer us up - and I was beyond happy to get this at the end

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

Doing a post last chemo audit: Losses - most of my hair. On my head there’s just about enough to wear a hat and pretend all is normal underneath. Without, not so much. I only have any eyebrows still because my dad blessed me with bushy ones to start

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

Given how much has already come out about the contents of this week’s Budget, shall we all just take Wednesday off? Asking for Money journalists everywhere

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2 years

Unexpected upsides of chemo: I’ve not had to shave my legs or underarms for weeks and now my nasal hair has gone the last four+ decades of carrying a tissue up my sleeve for emergencies makes sense. Think that’s it though

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2 years

Went to Cubs for the first time since July (taught them how to safely light a candle - for fire safety but also they are now power cut-ready). Felt more energised by them than by the steroids I’m taking

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

The thing I don’t get is that they callled off the exams in March then had literally months to talk to schools and unis and hear the issues, model different idea, etc. What on earth were they doing?

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Hilary Osborne

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3 years

Current status: feeling like its budget day but without any free sandwiches

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1 year

@MichaelRosenYes I used to think the theme tune to the TV show went ‘Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen. Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his panda-men’

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3 years

We joined Cubs together but now junior is leaving me to join Scouts. It’s been fun and pretty badgetastic

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4 years

About to start celebrating with a Snowball

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4 years

Anti-Corruption Journalism (sponsored by @Global_Witness ) is a new category for 2020 – and the winner is @guardian for its Luanda Leaks investigation – well done @JulietteGarside @davidtpegg @hilaryosborne @burke_jason & @PaulLewis #BJA2020

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Hilary Osborne

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2 years

100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying - number 35 is spot on. I can’t get behind number 17 though

100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying

Whether it’s taking fruit to work (and to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved …

www.theguardian.com

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Hilary Osborne

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6 months

I’ve written about telling people about my cancer diagnosis because so much of what Kate Middleton said resonated with me: I was stunned when diagnosed with cancer. Then I had to work out how to tell my son

I was stunned when I was diagnosed with cancer. Then I had to work out how to tell my son | Hilary...

Like Kate, parents with the disease face a big decision – how and when to tell the children

www.theguardian.com

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Hilary Osborne

@hilaryosborne

2 years

Someone needs to investigate if he’s buying kids’ trousers to avoid VAT!

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2 years

Anyone have a tip for solving this trouser issue?

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2 years

This place kept me sane during maternity leave many years ago, has provided me with stories, made me laugh and, while I’ve been off this summer, has helped me feel connected with my normal life. If it does implode, thanks everyone for all of that

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Hilary Osborne

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4 years

Woman who got 86p a week state pension finds she is owed £42,000 - great story by ⁦ @Harriet_Meyer ⁩ and hats off to ⁦ @stevewebb1 ⁩ for making people aware of this

Woman who got 86p a week state pension finds she is owed £42,000

Thousands may collectively be owed more than £100m after being underpaid for years

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

The amazing ⁦ @DonnaLFerguson ⁩ will be getting an extra Christmas card this year after this: Homebuyer loses £300,000 to fraudsters – but gets it back after we step in

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1 year

I've started radiotherapy and I feel like it's the most space age thing that's ever happened to me - it's so weird having a treatment where you're not touched by people or medical instruments

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4 years

Financial inequality: the ethnicity gap in pay, wealth and property - thanks to Selina, Cheryl and @OteghaUwagba who talked to me about the cumulative impact of low pay and lack of representation

Financial inequality: the ethnicity gap in pay, wealth and property

Data shows that people of colour are worse off than white counterparts and black households face the biggest deficit

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2 years

It's #WorldCancerDay - this time last year I must have had it without realising - I ignored some pain and didn't think to check what was going on. Please look after yourselves. And please don't panic if you find something - it might not be that, but if it is it's best to know

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11 months

I didn’t want my cancer diagnosis to affect my relationships. But of course it did - I wrote about the impact of being ill, and also explained how to load a dishwasher properly

I didn't want my cancer diagnosis to affect my relationships. But of course it did | Hilary Osborne

Being seriously ill tests you and those around you to the limit, says Hilary Osborne, the Guardian’s money and consumer editor

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Finally plucked up the courage to lift up my hair to check how thin it is all over my scalp and was delighted to find there is stubble underneath - I have an undercut!!

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Hilary Osborne

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8 months

A year ago today I had a double mastectomy. It was in the afternoon so this time 12 months ago I was so worried. As well as the op itself, I was worried about the loss of feeling, and that when I hugged anyone there would be a void in the middle. I worried I would be different

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3 years

Big day today. First real-life Cubs meeting in more than a year. Means I have to iron the back of my Akela shirt too

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5 years

@katybeale @madameanthro Every so often my jam jar collection is vindicated in a similar way, and it feels so good to be right!

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4 years

That thing when you're worried about not getting enough info so interview a million people and then can't work out how to get it all in 700 words

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4 years

Happy #WorldBookDay from Marvin the Paranoid Android

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2 years

Astonishing that the idea of not speaking to every child as though they have the same set-up at home should be considered as woke

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5 years

PwC executive leaves firm after Dos Santos revelations - BBC News

PwC executive leaves firm after Dos Santos revelations

Executive leaves the firm after PwC links revealed with the former Angolan president's daughter.

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4 years

I love England but after two nights in a tent during a gale, trips to the beach that exfoliated my legs, and hours glued to weather apps to spot sun I remember why we ended up in Greece last year

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2 years

Good luck marathoners, including the amazing nurse who looks after me at chemo and has somehow managed to train for this as well as doing what must be an exhausting job full-time x

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2 years

The impact of 9% inflation: @CitizensAdvice says so far in May it's referred more than 750 people a day to food banks, and already this year it has seen more cases of people unable to top up prepayment meters than the whole of 2021

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1 year

It’s been found!!! Thank you to the eagle-eyed security man who picked it up

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5 years

To say we’ve not quite narrowed down the shade we want could be an understatement

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7 years

@janinegibson did I accidentally set my alarm for the 1950s?

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1 year

Today the Cubs got the badge I was born to help them with - they learned about budgeting, scams and spending and are now about to start saving in the piggy banks they decorated #moneyskills

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2 years

I am so depressed by the prospect of tax cuts. I want investment in services, more help for those who need it most. I feel despair for the way things are going

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2 years

I wrote about my side effects (although today my main problem is the common cold) - and the comments below are generous and inspiring so I’m in love with our readers

When it comes to cancer drug side-effects, it’s about what you’ll tolerate to stay alive | Hilary...

No matter how bad I feel, I have to remind myself that the treatment is working to reduce my tumour, says the Guardian’s money and consumer editor, Hilary Osborne

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

This evening I invested two Cubs and gave out two of these - including one to my 10yo. Feeling very uplifted and a little proud

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4 years

My son is meant to be on a residential trip with school this week so instead of some of the lessons the teachers have set brilliant things like making a den and reading by torchlight and it’s making him very happy

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3 years

Sainsbury’s has gone all Spotify and it turns out that I am pure Guardian

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2 years

I let the 12yo decorate the Christmas cake this year and it’s one for fans of @parrygripp

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2 years

For the second day running I've woken up to some overnight oats and I can confirm there is no smugger way to start your day - I'm so pleased with yesterday-evening me

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2 years

This evening the Cubs delivered Easter cards and baskets to some older people in Tottenham. One was 104 and I’ve rarely seen such excitement as when she came to the door to say hello. I hope she likes chocolate

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3 years

Don’t think I’ve ever been sadder about taking down the Christmas tree - it felt like a rare nice thing at the end of a quite rubbish year

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2 years

Made it to a gig last night! Watched the fabulous @chapmusic and others on @LoRecordings in a studio in east London. (Still in pjs and may need the rest of the week to recover from the excitement)

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