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It’s a man thing

DESPITE all the progress with gender stereotypes, there are a few character traits that still distinguish the male. We may place keys anywhere about the house and they are still in the ‘correct’ place; we (and we alone) know which answers in quiz games have been superseded since publication—and we are incapable of opening a packet of courgettes without sowing them all.

Every year, I do the calculation: there’s myself, my wife and our daughter: two

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