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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. Chewing It Over - October 16 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 16 October 2008BEHIND the living room bay window in a book-filled flat in a sedate Didsbury deco mansion block, a woman who has long harboured a deep-felt fascination and empathy for people embroiled in life’s tougher struggles, is in a near frantic state.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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."
9. 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’.
10. Neil Roland - July 10 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 10 July 2008WINE, Women and Smoke are dominating the domestic news recently.