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Category: Columns

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The image shows a cream envelope with a small pink heart on the seal. Behind the envelope there is a pink cloud with small pink hearts.
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Love Letters: Ode to Oxford

by Lucy Pollock March 7, 2024March 6, 2024
This illustration shows an alcove filled with personal items, including a teapot and toy ballerina, with the column’s title ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ in the background
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Sublime Drizzlings: Vacation Fear and Trembling

by Chloe Smith March 6, 2024March 6, 2024
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Diaries of a Rusticated Student: Ok, Love You, Bye!

by Alice Brooker March 5, 2024March 5, 2024
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(Dis)abled

by Ruby Bailey-Proe March 4, 2024March 14, 2024
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Diaries of a Rusticated Student: Penultimate

by Alice Brooker March 2, 2024March 2, 2024
This illustration shows an alcove filled with personal items, including a teapot and toy ballerina, with the column’s title ‘Sublime Drizzlings’ in the background
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Sublime Drizzlings: Son of a Preacher Man II

by Chloe Smith March 1, 2024March 1, 2024
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Love Letters: February Blues (or, rather, Greys)

by Lucy Pollock February 27, 2024February 28, 2024
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Diaries of a Rusticated Student: The Grey (or Going Mad in a Poetical Way)

by Alice Brooker February 24, 2024February 24, 2024

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