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1. James Chapman-Kelly - November 27 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 27 November 2008STRICTLY. There’s something dark, sensual and risqué about the solitary word ‘strictly’, isn’t there?
2. 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?
3. 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.
4. James Chapman-Kelly - November 13 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 13 November 2008REMEMBRANCE Sunday has been and gone yet the real date of the Armistice was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day. One happy event on this Remembrance Sunday was that Syd celebrated his 85th birthday. Syd was involved on a little trek through Normandy, France just weeks after the D-Day landings in 1944. Thankfully 'young' Syd survived to tell the tale although, just like many old soldiers, he never divulges the full horror of what he witnessed.
5. James Chapman-Kelly - November 20 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 20 November 2008I ATTENDED the 'Great Debate' concerning the con-gestion charge the other day (you can read all about who attended and who said what to whom in another part of this week's paper).
6. 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.
7. James Chapman-Kelly - 30 October 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 30 October 2008HOW often have you been told by some officious looking person on the telly that changes are being made to the fabric of society that will make your life easier? And how often has it actually worked out that way?
8. Why TOTP is still my number one ...
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 6 November 2008CHRISTMAS just won’t be the same this year. There’ll still be the turkey, the booze and the tinsel. That, as Jim Bowen would have it, is safe.
9. James Chapman-Kelly - 6 November 2008
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 6 November 2008EVIDENTLY belief in a 'higher power' or 'God' goes hand-in-hand with belief in a life after death or 'heaven'. Most religions conform to the basic idea that you live your life, grow old (hopefully), get ill, spend ages in hospital (hopefully not) and eventually die.
10. Demons, NCT sales and a few other parenting nightmares
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 23 October 2008IT’S scary the things you hear through a radio baby monitor.