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Some people view the so-called "friendly drop-in" with all the warmth with which they'd greet a home invasion.

Don Kavanagh: Track down champers

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Fiction Addiction: Recommended read - Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

Damien Brown's first book offers a humble, sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing account of one man's experiences of the realities of aid work.

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Shelley Bridgeman: Tui billboards are hilarious! Yeah right.

Tui's efforts to belittle boutique sectors of society leave little to laugh about.

Children's books getting bleaker - study

Heroes in children's books face darker times today than those in the past, say academics after conducting a study.

Don Kavanagh: Bartenders need personality checklists

Don Kavanagh welcomes the return of the cocktail-mixing theatrics in bars.

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Wendyl Nissen: Survive without me by any means necessary

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Dita De Boni: Early starts. 'Damn it all to hell.'

A university friend of mine who I don't see very often came to see me this weekend and when I opened the door to her, I was blown away with how fantastic she looked.