Agony Aunt

Your problems solved, with Holly Harper

Dear Holly, The other day, I thought for a split second that John Prescott had stripped naked and broken into our house, but then I realised it was just my reflection in the bedroom mirror...

Your problems solved, with Holly Harper

Dear Holly, I recently went out on a night out with some of my work colleagues and indulged in one too many Bacardi Breezers. One minute, I'm discussing the finer details of a mail merge with one of the other secretaries, the next, I find myself stripped to the waist on the banks of a river...

Your problems solved, with Holly Harper

Dear Holly, I'm in the midst of a terrible predicament. It seems that my father thought it would be a good idea to buy my mother a vibrator for Christmas.

Your problems solved, with Holly Harper

Dear Holly, As I sit here, all alone in my grubby little bedsit, wearing the same pants as last Monday, surrounded by empty pizza boxes and beer cans, listlessly tossing myself off to the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special, I can't help but think that things could be different next year if I made a few small changes...

Your problems solved, with Holly Harper

Dear Holly, It's once again time for my work Christmas party and this year I have vowed to ensure I don't go home alone. I have my eye on a couple of prospects: Sheila from accounts whose husband recently died, and a woman called Maria who works on reception and has some manner of palsy...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly, There's a woman who sits opposite me at work who every year insists on festooning her desk with an array of cheap, gaudy Christmas shit and gabbers inanely about how she did all her Christmas shopping online in January...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly, Until recently, my husband and I had a peaceful and happy existence in a quiet corner of upmarket suburbia, but ever since our new neighbours moved in we've had nothing but bother. We merely raised our eyebrows when we discovered they were cohabiting out of wedlock and that she was 'with child'...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly, Having been happily married for over a year now, myself and my husband were considering having a baby. That is, until the shocking news that child benefit is to stop for those on the highest tax brackets...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly, I've been going out with a lovely man for a few months, and it feels like it could be the start of something beautiful. The only problem is that no-one in my family seems to like him - in fact they regularly tell me he's bad news and that I should get rid of him as soon as possible. It could have something to do with the fact that he is a member of the BNP...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly, The other day, a female friend and I were comparing notes about our husbands. It turns out her husband gets up extra-early every  day to prepare breakfast in bed which he brings to her on a tray with a single red rose, then performs certain lewd acts on her downstairs department...