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31. James Chapman-Kelly - May 8 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 8 May 2008AS YOU read this I will be languishing at one of Her Majesty's institutions. No, not prison, although there is a semblance of being caught and confined, but in a place that is, allegedly, run by Her Majesty's Government. I am referring of course to hospital.
32. Cheered by domestic bliss of the stars of the suburbs
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 1 May 2008‘I HOPE I die before I get old’, was Pete Townshend’s lyrical V-sign to the ageing process.
33. James Chapman-Kelly - May 1 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 1 May 2008IT'S amazing just what you can buy on the internet nowadays. Try this one from the 'Used Nappy Company'. One mothercare shaped terry nappy suitable for a child from birth to potty. Now I know how old someone is at birth but aged 'potty' could be anything!
34. James Chapman-Kelly - April 24 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 24 April 2008DO THESE lines by singer/songwriter Tim Hardin ring any bells with you? "If I was a carpenter, and you were a lady. Would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?" A variation on the words would go something like this: "If I were a smoker and a heroin taker. Would you let me have it anyway, thank you Mr. Jailer?"
35. 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.
36. James Chapman-Kelly - April 17 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 17 April 2008PICTURE this: a man is lying on a bunk in a prison cell in a windswept village. He's looking scared, battered, bruised.
37. 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.
38. James Chapman-Kelly - 10 April 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 10 April 2008I WAS at Wythenshawe Hospital this week for a pre-op discussion. This means a long chat with the surgeon (who actually re-scheduled his day so as to see little old me!), and various tests undertaken to ascertain an individual's chances of surviving the trauma of having the body sliced open and worked on.
39. April 3 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 3 April 2008WE ARE hurtling backwards at such a speed that I am beginning to despair. Can nobody see the doomsday scenarios we are having thrust upon us a by an unthinking grossly inept set of local and national leaders?
40. A tale of two libraries
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 3 April 2008EVERYONE should try being a tourist in their home town every once in a while.