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1. Forget the bad news, it's Top of the Shops
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 27 November 2008FOR EVERY silver lining, there is a cloud. For every light, our newspapers need to concentrate on the darkness before the end of the tunnel…. Does nobody ever question the psychological effect of the way our media presents our lives back to us?
2. Part and parcel of a frustrating morning out
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 13 November 2008IF IT is logical that the human being is drawn to spending as much time as is possible in the place in which they feel most relaxed, comfortable and at ease, then it seems that a building at Fallowfield’s Granville Road is poised to become the new Cote d’Azure.
3. I can't see the woods for pictures of the trees ...
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 30 October 2008TODAY'S column was to have been about trees, to tie in with the recent Withington Photographic Competition 2008, organised by the highly community spirited Charlotte Gildart-Butler who had involved me to help judge the many entries. She had chosen "Trees in the Withington area" as the topic for photographs.
4. Dumb too live spelin up to kidz
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 18 September 2008THE bell is tolling for the English language this week, should the Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College London - and, sadly, President of the Spelling Society, get his way. John Wells has declared that our children are being held back at school by being forced to memorise irregular spellings and how to use an apostrophe.
5. Baffled by the joy of text
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 4 September 2008I 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.
6. 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).
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. January 24 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 24 January 2008I OFTEN become very irritated when reading restaurant reviews.