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Taking a bow wow

ONE of the things I managed to do during my Christmas and New Year break was to catch a movie that several friends had recommended.Read

Taste of weeks to come

I TRUST I find you fit and well on this, the third Sunday of the year. You'll need to be firing on 100% of your cylinders to get through the next 12 months, if our friends in the marketing and promotion division of UK plc have anything to do with it.Read

Stop, it’s Sunday

NORMALLY, if you were to read this column sometime between 6am and 10am on a Sunday morning and turn the radio onto Magic 1170, you’d hear my colleague Roger Kennedy, doing one of his two weekend breakfast shows.Read

Changed forever

I’M writing this in advance, with fingers crossed, since this weekend is the 10th anniversary of the event that literally has changed our world.Read

Cut to the chase

I HOPE you are enjoying your “extra” hour this morning. You did remember to put the clocks back, didn’t you?Read

Wet to the bone

DURING the past few weeks, I’ve been paying more attention than usual to the weather, both during and after my short break away in North America.Read

Not so nice

WE’VE all been suffering from a bad case of acronyms recently.Read

What a load of Muppets they are

A FEW weeks ago, there was much hilarity at the expense of Danny Alexander, the new Secretary to the Treasury, when some bright spark spotted that he was a Muppet.Read

Pride in our boys

HOMECOMINGS are funny old things . . . it seems you either do it with your head held high, or staring at the floor shuffling along, hoping no one will see you.Read

Scrap council 'news'

WELL, the politicians certainly are softening us up. We can’t say we have not been warned. Read

Sillier than silly

WHAT journalists call the "silly season" is fast approaching. It's certainly the onset of the season of "wishful thinking". The Eurovision Song Contest always heralds it.Read

Not on the money

MANY a true word is spoken in jest, so the saying goes. Read

Other side to Brown

AT the time of writing this column the polls were nowhere near closing, so predicting a result is not something I'll even attempt.Read

Down the years

YEARS ago, one of my first columns in this paper was about the wonders of digital cameras.Read

Vote for hell?

ONE of my listeners, Eric Whitehouse, sent me a very timely political gag that has been doing the rounds on the internet. In case it hasn’t appeared in your inbox, here’s the gist of it.Read

Catch these scum

THE nature of my job means that I inevitably come into contact with news pretty much non-stop.Read

Smell the roses

THERE are loads of sayings about seeing the positive in things, aren’t there? Just some that spring to mind: Glass half-full, always look on the bright side, every cloud has a silver lining, there’s always someone worse off than yourself, etc.Read

The good guys

IN just a few weeks we will be up to our eyes in the stench – sorry – in the cut and thrust of healthy debate, as once again we get to put a cross on a ballot paper in order for our elected representatives to largely ignore what we think and, judging by some of the last lot, feather their nests while doing it. Read

Offers i can’t refuse

ABOUT this time each year, I gaze around the little bedroom that I use as an office and think that I really must get around to clearing up some of the stuff.Read

Tests of time

THE turn of another year, but also another decade. Gives one time to pause. What's changed over the past 10 years? And will we have any conception of what life will be like on January 3, 2020?Read

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