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1. December 20 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 20 December 2007DON’T worry. A week from today and half the festive season will have run its course!
2. Merry Christmas to one and all
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 20 December 2007AND SO – as Liverpool’s favourite son never tires of telling us – this is Christmas. No matter how much you see the festive season as a mawkish and unnecessary interruption to this thing called life, it will get you in the end.
3. Pregnant pause for a dad-to-be
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 20 December 2007A STRANGE emotion accompanies watching a pink dot slowly appear on a pregnancy test for the first time.
4. December 13 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 13 December 2007ALL but our younger readers will have known somebody special who has died. Dying is an intrinsic part of life. It's what we are all moving towards at different speeds.
5. December 6 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 6 December 2007ACCORDING to a new survey, ten percent of people reading this will not have washed their hands after they went to the loo! Well done that ten percent as it means your aim was true and there was no necessity to wash your hands; unlike the other aimless, slap-dash ninety percent.
6. Why I'm not flying the flag
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 6 December 2007GET back to your own country. Those weren’t quite the words used by my critic in last week’s Letters Page, but the message wasn’t a million miles away.
7. Ricky 'Blue' eyes an upset
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 6 December 2007IT’S not often that I side with a Blue over a man who wears the Red of United, but this weekend comes an opportunity to break the habit of a lifetime.
8. November 29 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 29 November 2007THE things we humans do eh? There are so many people walking around with things stuck in their ears that for a while I thought everybody, except me, had gone deaf and that the ear inserts were hearing aids. I couldn't understand why even young people had such bad hearing.
9. November 22 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 22 November 2007PICTURE this: A low sun shining weakly through rain-sodden clouds, and the sulphurous smell of coal smoke from a thousand chimneys as the fumes drift slowly, grudgingly, apologetically, over the roofs of a south Manchester suburb.
10. Punks didn't make my day
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 22 November 2007JUST over 30 years ago a band of angry young men arrived in the city play a gig to a handful of disaffected youths at Lesser Free Trade Hall.