Halcyon days part 2
The first part of this piece can be read here. Let’s go out to dinner, yes lets, if...
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Category: Culture
Halcyon days – part 1
For goodness sake ‘here we go again’ all our yesterdays, give it a rest, will you? It’s different...
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FROM BEHIND THE PAYWALL – Cats and Dogs
There are times when even a snarky sketch writer hits one of those proverbial nails on the head...
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Buskers, Beggars and Homelessness – the hell that is the modern High Street
A walk down my high street tells a story of how times have changed. I am greeted by an...
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FROM BEHIND THE PAYWALL – Two Articles on the Civil Service
Original Mandarin Two opinion pieces in the paywalled DT and The Times provide a fascinating...
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Busy Doing Nothing – Part 2
[Part 1 of this essay was published yesterday, here] ~~~ Living here as I do in St. Mary in the...
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Busy Doing Nothing – Part 1
I was recently given a copy of a West Midlands publication called “The Bugle”. It’s a local...
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A nation of shopkeepers
Nobody is quite sure who first coined the phrase ‘a nation of shopkeepers’ or even if it referred...
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‘Consequences’ Used to be a Game – It Isn’t Now. – (Part 2)
Ed – Part 1 was published yesterday on Independence Daily. In their world, somebody having a...
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‘Consequences’ used to be a game – it isn’t now. (Part 1)
I can’t remember when – probably getting on for thirty years ago now – it was some...
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Bulldozing through the heart of England
A belated birthday treat meant we were having tea on a sunny afternoon at The Grimsdyke Hotel....
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In celebration of the traditional church fete
I do love church fetes… and school ones too. And I especially love the one I help out at twice a...
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