Articles...
Dec 18 2007
SHE was in pink lace and he was in his dog-collar and lounge suit. Together, they smiled beneath the magnifi-cent tower of their church, bursting the sky at 142ft over the seaside resort....
Dec 17 2007
SURPRISED eyebrows would have risen with the steam from the beef-tea and defiant pies down in the terraces, when news broke that the inside-forward with no-nonsense shoulders had been hired to advise an Italian temptress on her role as the first female manager in top-flight English football....
Dec 14 2007
HE WAS the classic dude to emerge from the steaming banks of the Mississippi, where wizards in pointed hats burned crosses, old men rocked in chairs on sleepy verandas, Gospel choirs swayed in white, timber churches, and bare-foot children ate corn-on-the-cob....
Dec 13 2007
HIS True expertise lay in what grew upwards through the earth, but the slim young man who had suffered from a sickly chest as a child, was staring into the hole made by the rude and uninvited arrival of “doodlebug”....
Dec 12 2007
HE WAS, of course, a pirate, who kept his wooden leg in a shed at the back of the house....
Dec 11 2007
THE average chap would not have been able to name any of his tunes. For he was not the composer of breezy melodies to be hummed on the bus to work....
Dec 10 2007
THE summer hols had only just begun, but George, Dick, Julian and Anne were vexed and although Timmy was wagging his tail as hard as he could, it made no difference....
Dec 7 2007
HER descent from Attila the Hun, on her mother’s side, was, close observers believed, rather less bumpy than her marriage to one of the most brilliant English novelists of the 20th century, though it could well be argued that he also suffered considerable bumpings along the way....
Dec 6 2007
WHEN she was a teenager, the hotelier’s daughter from suburban Cheshire developed a passion for the buckskins worn by Davy Crockett, but many years would pass before she was allowed to dress a pair of gay cowboys....
Dec 5 2007
HIS domed head and quizzical, close-eyed gaze from heavily-rimmed glasses suggested a wise owl of superior feather, appraising the lower life forms grubbing about beneath his perch....
