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No pleasure in shopping

Published 7 October 2008

I hate shopping. I see it as a matter of necessity rather than pleasure. I only wish that everybody else felt the same. Some people really like it – indeed, even view it as a kind of hobby. How sad!

My Japanese Puh-Jo 307 car

Published 6 October 2008

I have committed a cardinal sin. It’s not murder, theft or even coveting my neighbour’s ass, (however nice it may be). No, my ‘crime’ was to buy an almost French car.

Dropping tests spells danger

Published 4 October 2008

If you would just allow me for one moment to reminisce about my days at primary school... it’s 11am on Friday morning and this could only mean one thing.

Quite literally sick of chatter

Published 2 October 2008

Who decided that the best way to wake up in the mornings is to have someone chattering away to you incessantly, making little or no sense, and using phrases like “quite literally” when it’s obviously nothing of the sort?

A load of trash, strictly speaking

Published 1 October 2008

Strictly Come Dancing is back on our screens to join The X Factor to dominate and ruin Saturday night television.

How about the nothing party?

Published 29 September 2008

Hello, I’m starting a new political party and I’d like your vote at the next election. I’m thinking of calling my new organisation the: ‘I’m always right about things but please don’t ask me to do anything about it’ party.

Reminder of a precious life

Published 27 September 2008

It’s just typical isn’t it? Just when you think everything in your life is peachy, one of the kids has to go and do something that has you worried to death.

Rail shake-up? What a cheek

Published 25 September 2008

It beggars belief that Shadow Transport Secretary Theresa Villiers and her party’s leader, David Cameron, have had the temerity to come up with plans for a radical shake-up of Britain’s rail industry.

Resurrect the best of British

Published 24 September 2008

I was interested to read about a modern-day twist on the body-snatchers of the 19th century ne’er do wells who would dig up freshly-buried corpses for doctors to use in experiments and anatomy demonstrations.

My loyalty to the BBC is wearing thin

Published 23 September 2008

Its purpose was to educate, inform and entertain and I must admit I’ve always felt a sense of loyalty towards the BBC and reassured to know that if I want a ‘quality’ programme on the TV or radio then I can turn to a BBC channel and my wish will be granted.

Fancy a rescue by Royalty?

Published 22 September 2008

So, Whirlybird Wills the flying Prince fancies piloting one of those big yellow Air-Sea Rescue helicopters which are such a common sight over Cumbria when they come to the aid of fallen fell walkers?

Cheer up – you could be PM

Published 20 September 2008

INFLATION up, unemployment up, the financial world in meltdown, but don’t worry – the Labour Party conference starts today!

Too clever for our own good

Published 19 September 2008

In this scientific age with all the resources of game consoles and computer access, have the same resources become surrogates for their own imagination?

Home comfort so I’ll be back

Published 17 September 2008

I have lived in my “new” home for well over a year now and, last weekend, I came to a big decision. It took me all day to make up my mind, I was very apprehensive and I had lots of second thoughts. But in the end I decided to brave it.

Right man for the jobless?

Published 16 September 2008

If you are unemployed but able to work you have lots of options. There are jobs sections in Thursday’s News & Star, and Friday’s Cumberland News, recruitment agencies in many towns and advice from Jobcentres.

We are owed by institutions

Published 13 September 2008

Living in 21st century Britain can be said to be difficult at the best of times and we look to certain institutions to bring order to our increasingly chaotic lives. But are these pillars of our society still up to the job?

Time to bury pollution issue

Published 11 September 2008

The Government’s former chief scientific adviser has warned that our turbine charge for windfarms will actually increase the price of our electricity and force up to 500,000 people into the fuel poverty trap.

Nein danke to German exams

Published 10 September 2008

Having completed my last quota of GCSE marking this summer (German speaking test) I feel a need to comment on the serious decline in standards over the years – despite assurances to the contrary from the powers-that-be.

My best mate’s also my brother

Published 9 September 2008

I like being a dad. I enjoy seeing those little things that come along every day to remind you just how great and how rewarding it is to be a father.

No title

Published 8 September 2008

Exactly 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream” speech, another prominent African-American, Barack Obama, was formally named as Democrat candidate for US president.

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