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1. November 15 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 15 November 2007BATHOS has always appealed to me - the juxtaposition of the profound with the banal, the sublime with the commonplace.
2. November 29 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 29 November 2007WE RECEIVED our apology today. That’s the one from HM Revenue & Customs who aren’t, as a rule, particularly big on apologies.
3. November 1 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 1 November 2007ALL this stuff about Didsbury versus Chorlton. I’m sure the editor won’t agree with me, but I don’t think the two suburban villages are nearly as much at war with each other as those who do get their kicks from a bit of bickering would like to make out.
4. October 18 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 18 October 2007LIVING with a wills & probate specialist was a fun experience this week that the government announced inheritance tax changes the effect of which are so very different from the way they first looked.
5. June 7 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 7 June 2007'DID you know', I asked my little son Felix, 'that your great grandmother lived to be a hundred!'
6. May 24 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 24 May 2007THE media really does have the power of deity when it comes to manipulation of our national heartstrings. Not that I have anything new to say about it. Madeleine McCann. Who doesn't know her name?
7. April 26 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 26 April 2007IT IS precisely fifty 'Chewing It Over' columns ago that I first ranted about stray apostrophes - and while I know that most of the signs for 'CD's', 'MOT's', and 'coffee and tea's' are for the most part just saddening for the eye, I have reason to be grateful for the grammatical poverty of our great nation.
8. July 12 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 12 July 2007I THINK the late, great Sophie Tucker was right when she belted out the lyrics to 'It's Human Nature To Complain'.
9. August 23 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 23 August 2007'I'LL TELL you what', offered a woman in a hatchback as she swerved to avoid me at the corner of Beaver Road, "you're becoming a real grumpy old man with your column."
10. April 12 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 12 April 2007BY THE time this is read, Didsbury's beloved Didsbury Village Store (known to many as the Village Saver) will be within a length of masking tape and a bottle of Windolene from closing its popular doors, and - so I'm told - Barnardo's will be preparing to open them again in this very central village location.