Neil Roland

Baffled by the joy of text

I HAVE an admission. I can’t send texts. There are no advantages in life to being unable to send a text, and I agree that it is backward of me in the extreme to have so far failed to achieve what almost everybody can do without thinking.

And it’s not me being deliberately other-worldly like people who pretend they’ve never heard of Freddie Mercury or Elsie Tanner because they prefer to think of themselves as above all that. I really can’t.


 

Neil Roland - August 28 2008

PAM Siddons is not someone who particularly enjoys the limelight. This is not to say she shuns it, but when spokesmen are required to represent the community in West Didsbury where she lives - the battles to save beautiful buildings, parks and sites of historical interest - it tends not to be her name we hear and read. But she’s always there, central to the proceedings, and it is pure passion for her local environment which drives her.

Neil Roland - August 14 2008

AN INTERESTING note appeared in my emails a week or so ago, from a fellow in West Didsbury who suggested that he was very concerned that an article I’d written a couple of weeks before had suggested stereotypes about different groups of people, and that , in his words "stereotypes - be they positive or negative - are really worrying…. giving people the right to discriminate."

 

Chewing It Over - July 31 2008

Chewing It Over - July 31 2008

ON SATURDAY morning last, a hand-written sign appeared by the garden gate of a house on Barlow Moor Road, declaring a garage sale - ‘no reasonable offer refused for anything’.

Neil Roland - July 10 2008

WINE, Women and Smoke are dominating the domestic news recently.

 

 

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