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11. 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.
12. 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?
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. August 30 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 30 August 2007THE excitement of the A level and GCSE results is calming down. I'm glad.
17. August 23 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 23 August 2007'I'LL TELL you what', offered a woman in a hatchback as she swerved to avoid me at the corner of Beaver Road, "you're becoming a real grumpy old man with your column."
18. July 12 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 12 July 2007I THINK the late, great Sophie Tucker was right when she belted out the lyrics to 'It's Human Nature To Complain'.
19. June 28 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 28 June 2007POLITENESS versus rudeness. That is to be the theme of this week's column. Why? Because old-fashioned concepts that they are, these are the litmus tests of how successful our city can be now its industrial heritage is just that - heritage - and its present industry is supposedly that of service.
20. June 14 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 14 June 2007SITTING in Didsbury Deli having ordered a very sensible salad and wishing my resolve could weaken enough for me to change my order to a thick wedge of chocolate orange cake, I'm reading an article in one of the Sundays about front doors.