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Tim Dowling

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Tim Dowling: dog training takes a strange turn on a midweek walk — I.guim.co.uk

Tim Dowling: dog training takes a strange turn on a midweek walk

Tim Dowling writes that on a loose midweek afternoon he joined his wife for a dog walk in a park, and their dog’s training has taken a weird turn. The couple take turns delivering monologues of complaint to fill the walk; when it is his wife’s turn she

Tortoise reappears during pets’ scuffle as manure sellers call, writes Tim Dowling — I.guim.co.uk

Tortoise reappears during pets’ scuffle as manure sellers call, writes Tim Dowling

Tim Dowling writes that, in his kitchen, he watched his dog and cat fighting when his tortoise suddenly reappeared; later the two men who sell farmyard manure rang his doorbell. Dowling says he had not seen the tortoise for six weeks but suspected it had been tucked by the sofa,

Tim Dowling rigs permanent fix for chain‑pull toilet amid January blues — I.guim.co.uk

Tim Dowling rigs permanent fix for chain‑pull toilet amid January blues

Tim Dowling says he had an epiphany at home while repairing his high‑mounted, chain‑pull toilet cistern during a bleak January. Earlier in the month he and his wife had been arguing about the start date of Dry January and he described the month as having a prodigious capacity

Tim Dowling wakes with mysterious scalp and neck pain as family offers little sympathy — I.guim.co.uk

Tim Dowling wakes with mysterious scalp and neck pain as family offers little sympathy

Tim Dowling wakes at home with a strange head pain that he describes as not quite a headache, telling his family it feels “like I walked through a low doorway and cracked my skull on the frame” or “like an invisible hand is holding me up by the hair.” His