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11. Neil Roland - June 19 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 19 June 2008CARING, like love, sometimes gets better press than it deserves.
12. 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).
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. January 24 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 24 January 2008I OFTEN become very irritated when reading restaurant reviews.
19. 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.
20. 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?