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1. Chewing It Over - June 5 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 5 June 2008SONG lyrics don’t always ring true. Life, for example, does not all that often come across as a cabaret. A farce, sometimes (Robert Mugabe travelling to Italy to lecture Europe on avoiding food shortages).
2. Neil Roland - April 24 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 24 April 2008GREED is the theme of this week’s column. It has featured all over the media, from the front pages of the broadsheets to the letters’ page of last week’s South Manchester Reporter, and it has made for some fascinating ruminations.
3. Neil Roland - 10 April 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 10 April 2008WE HAVE survived another holiday. This time, we headed to Italy - to the Umbrian/Tuscan borders. edge on neurotic bigotry.
4. February 21 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 21 February 2008DOES anyone recall a Beatrix Potter story about two mice who find themselves in a dolls house. One was a cook who, being a mouse in a doll’s house, never actually cooked anything.
5. January 24 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 24 January 2008I OFTEN become very irritated when reading restaurant reviews.
6. January 17 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 17 January 2008AS IT pours down outside - a treat for me, as the puddles are like small lakes and cause gorgeous reflections to photograph - I remember many years ago taking myself to the Old Parsonage Gardens in order to hide myself in my favourite spot, the Orchid Houses attached to the main house in long greenhouses.
7. January 3 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 3 January 2008WE SHOULD all resolve to make no resolutions for the new year. Would that, perhaps, be the only resolution to which we could keep?
8. November 15 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 15 November 2007BATHOS has always appealed to me - the juxtaposition of the profound with the banal, the sublime with the commonplace.
9. November 1 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 1 November 2007ALL this stuff about Didsbury versus Chorlton. I’m sure the editor won’t agree with me, but I don’t think the two suburban villages are nearly as much at war with each other as those who do get their kicks from a bit of bickering would like to make out.
10. October 18 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 18 October 2007LIVING with a wills & probate specialist was a fun experience this week that the government announced inheritance tax changes the effect of which are so very different from the way they first looked.