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Nov 7 2008
BEDAZZLED. Is that the way we feel now MTV has been and gone? It’s hard not to get seduced by the showbusiness world of celebrity stars, exec limos and private planes. A world where even Premiership footballers feel strapped for cash....
Nov 7 2008
WHEN listening to Desert Island Discs, I was always flummoxed by the request for a luxury item, until I heard former MP Tony Benn say that his would be a never-ending supply of tea....
Nov 4 2008
This is a routine. Each morning I release them from the hutch, to which I return them each night, after earning my carrot at the office. For long, in the generosity of their spirit, the rabbits have known that our brush is just that, a brush. Even so, they skip before its rasping advance to spare my feelings, before leaping into the hutch with all the insouciance of the young....
Nov 3 2008
IT IS an intriguing literary game to muse who inspired the great figures in fiction, portraits so secure that they must have been drawn from life....
Oct 29 2008
NEXT week, I will undergo the annual ritual that I force myself into in the name of Getting Over My Fears....
Oct 17 2008
AMID the national slaughter of our post offices, with old folk having to walk three miles on Zimmer frames to collect their pensions, only to find on return that it's time to collect next week's payment, there is some good news from the Royal Mail....
Oct 16 2008
WE BEGIN this week with a trip down memory Lane for reader Mrs J Waby, of Ainsdale, who contacted us after reading the article about the premiere of Terence Davies’s film, Of Time and the City, which appeared in last Thursday’s Liverpool Daily Post....
Oct 13 2008
THE overwhelming growth of Victorian Liverpool led to some extraordinary characters emerging to deal with the huge problems that arose. More people required more health care....
Oct 10 2008
HOW convenient to learn that the ankle is the new erogenous zone, now that the rag trade fancies flogging us winter trousers somewhat shorter than those sold last year....
Oct 9 2008
IT COSTS me hundreds of pounds a year to maintain, goes green if I swim too much, and takes on the consistency of straw after a fortnight in the sun....
