Grace Dent's Weekend column
Baking won’t get me through a Covid winter but a bossy, breathless Melvyn Bragg just might
Grace DentAs the colder, darker half of 2020 looms, I’m turning to my special happy place: the BBC’s In Our Time
Monty Don would weep, but each green shoot in my scrappy plot makes me happy
Grace DentA bag of tasteful wildflower seed fetched up dandelions and clover. ‘I’ve grown designer weeds,’ I tell people proudly
Lockdown living
I started lockdown with the focus of Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. Now I’m drinking more than everGrace DentLife is still incredibly difficult out there, and the boon about working from home is that the sun is always over the yard arm
Who needs a middle-aged woman screaming: 'I am scared to go to Morrisons' via video link?
Grace DentBig shouts going out to all the WFH crew necking 4pm shots of sherry
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I have decamped to the seaside, for a week of rain and tedium. It’s bliss
Grace DentThe best holidays of my childhood were crap yet weirdly amazing, and I want the younger Dents to enjoy the same
I'm never more aware of my working-class origins than when I hide from my cleaner
Grace DentWeekend magazine generation gap special
Once I was a young radical, with all the right opinions. Now I am Auntie DisgustingGrace DentI used to stockpile for the nuclear apocalypse. Where did my youthful terror go?
Grace DentI don’t like birthdays – why make it easy for the Grim Reaper by making a fuss?
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Is it too soon to argue about Christmas? Some monsters among us are very organised
Grace DentToday’s demisexual kids are swimming against the tide of hookup culture. Good luck to them
Grace DentAs Westminster unravels, can I recommend losing yourself in the worst films of 2019?
Grace DentIn this always-on era, I sometimes like to go missing. Please don’t call a search party
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If Harry and Meghan want a quieter life, they need to be more boring. Here’s how
Grace DentLess public pontificating; more afternoons spent flower arranging. If generous Uncle Elton wants to see you, let him make the journey to you
Is Simon Cowell's surprising new face a vision of our deepfake future?
Grace DentIn the future, we might all embark on a side-slide not into younger, prettier people, but whole new personae
I’m angry, sore, and bloated. Is this the menopause? The more I read, the less I know
Grace DentDog funerals may sound self-indulgent, but there should be no shame in pet grief
Grace DentWhat does your garden say about you? My ugly, scrappy plot smacks of personal failure
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Holidaying alone is glorious – what took me so long to admit it?
Grace DentI’ve long suspected that the term ‘family holiday’ is an oxymoron, and now I feel more sure
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