Dec
2008
Articles from 16th Dec 2008
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Mr Brocklebank: Why no post haste?
Dec 16 2008 | Comment
I’M SORRY to say that Mr Brocklebank’s breakneck race in his brougham on Saturday to reach a Liverpool city centre post office was compromised on finding that lengthy queues would stop him reaching the counter before the 12.30pm closing time. Read
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‘LOOK, Dad,” said the boy smiling proudly into the glass in the bathroom, as he lifted his left arm to show a few dark hairs breaking like heralds from their lairs.
Dec 16 2008 | Comment
For a few moments, the father and son stood together before the mirror of time, admiring the hairs; and then I stepped back from the brooding reflection, knowing that something had changed forever. One man was coming, the other was going, ever so slowly, though only sympathetic eyes would have noticed this on that stooped night. Read
