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1. 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.
2. Neil Roland - August 28 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 28 August 2008PAM 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.
3. Neil Roland - August 14 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 14 August 2008AN 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."
4. Chewing It Over - July 31 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 31 July 2008ON 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’.
5. Neil Roland - July 10 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 10 July 2008WINE, Women and Smoke are dominating the domestic news recently.
6. Neil Roland - June 19 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 19 June 2008CARING, like love, sometimes gets better press than it deserves.
7. 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).
8. Neil Roland - 22 May 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 22 May 2008THEY say it about people who love animals. If you’re kind to animals, you’re probably a kind person. A certain German Shepherd - what else - called Blondi is possibly the best example of this idea having exceptions.
9. Neil Roland - May 8 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 8 May 2008HOUSE prices used to be the domain of middle class dinner party conversations, or so we were led to believe.
10. 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.