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1. November 8 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 8 November 2007MANY of you will be wearing a red poppy in tribute to the people who fought and fell in the interminable wars that have haunted our world since time immemorial.
2. November 15 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 15 November 2007SANTA’S in training, it's official according to the gospel of Bluewater Shopping Centre in Greenhithe, Kent. Bluewater is an upmarket version of our woeful Manchester Arndale Centre. Bluewater makes the Arndale look like a cheap public inconvenience (and I'm being kind here!).
3. 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.
4. 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.
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. 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.
7. 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!
8. October 25 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 25 October 2007‘THE War of The Closes’ has raised its ugly head again as Didsbury and Chorlton vie to outdo each other in yet another act of that perennial stage play, “We’re better than you! Oh no, you’re not!”
9. January 18 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 18 January 2007THE constant and huge strides taken by medical science in the last few years are staggering. Whether it is heart bypasses, which go back to 1967, or invitro fertilisation (IVF), cloning, stem-cell therapy and all the other wonders, they are all amazing in the extreme.
10. January 25 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 25 January 2007THERE are some weird and amazing facts and figures in our little world aren't there? Did you know that most car horns honk in the key of F? I wouldn't know what the key of F sounded like anyway but it's good that a musical note can save us.