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Green finger envy

ECONOMISTS are busy competing against each other to discover any “green shoots” of economic recovery, some say they can spot them, others say not.Read

Fame’s bitter taste

BGT – whatever it stands for, be it Britain’s Got Talent, or Boyle’s Gigantic Tantrums, it has certainly still been the major talking point of the week. Everyone’s addicted.Read

Bagels for all tastes

WHEN I was a kid in the 1960s, growing up in the North East of London, if you ever ate bagels, you were Jewish . . . simple as that.Read

MPs living the high life at our expense

THIS week’s column was going to be a lighthearted little effort concerning bagels – honest – but the main news of the week means that will have to wait.Read

Stuck in the web

PEOPLE in their fifties, as I am, are sometimes categorised as being hopelessly fuddy duddy and out of touch. Read

Are we all mad?

IN THESE days of hundreds of television channels, any programme that gets more than 10 million viewers is a smash hit.Read

Flag up our pride

CAN it really be three years since I last wrote about St George’s Day? It certainly is, and The Sunday Sun is still campaigning to have England’s patron saint’s day declared an English holiday.Read

Fun and games at summit

HAPPY EASTER! The weather certainly seems to have taken a bit of a turn for the better in the last few weeks, so maybe this will be a perfect Bank Holiday to visit the family or start doing stuff in the garden.Read

Live on the waves

OVER the years I’ve done my radio show from various unusual locations. Read

End of the road for Motor Show

FOR years the Motor Show was a permanent fixture in our family calendar, along with the Christmas light switch on and summer holidays on the North Sea coast.Read

Sutch great ideas

THOSE of you of a certain age will remember a long-haired rock and roller called David Sutch.Read

Doesn’t anyone listen to what people want?

I’VE decided that I’m going to put the subject of this week’s column out for a consultation exercise. They are quite the fashion at the moment.Read

Quiz for Kids

IT will not have escaped your notice that this column appears next to Eddy Eats’ Pub Quiz page each week. Read

Here’s to memento inventor

WRITING this column every week, it is a great temptation to want to alter the world for the better or rant about all and sundry.Read

Power back to the people

THE unofficial protests outside power stations and refineries this week in the UK have refused to go away.Read

All at sea with no internet

ABOUT 10 years ago, the computer I had at the time decided to go to the great hard drive in the sky, from where no data returns.Read

Hi-tech is lost on me

AS I may have mentioned before, I’m not an early adopter of new technology.Read

Pack your bags, pet, time to go

TWO sets of statistics caught my eye this week. Relationship counsellors are, once again, expecting a record January as the divorce and separation rates rocket.Read

Taking a look ahead

NOTHING ventured, nothing gained . . . so even if most of my predictions last week have already come true, here’s Old Mother Ross’s Almanac for the second half of 2009!Read

What 2009 will really bring

THEY say that the one thing we learn from history is that we never learn anything from history. So, with that in mind, here are “Old Mother Ross’s predictions” for 2009 . . .Read

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