Nostalgia

Phoenix From the Ashes?

Thursday, 27 May 2004

Seems I wasn’t the only one affected by the fire at Ashton Market Hall. I’ve had several conversation with people who were equally shocked. There’s almost a sense of bereavement. It’s a bit like losing an elderly relative who you haven’t visited for ages, but who you thought would always be there. There has been [...]

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A Piece of my Past up in Flames

Tuesday, 25 May 2004

News that Ashton Market Hall was destroyed by fire last night has left me feeling pretty damned devastated. This grand Victorian celebration of the small market trader was a part of my childhood and a regular stopping off point during the Saturday shopping trip. If you’re quick, you can catch the aftermath from the webcam [...]

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Pot Calls Kettle Blackarse

Sunday, 29 February 2004

Labour MP Nick Palmer has run foul of the Mail on Sunday. Having shopped Tory MP Ann Winterton for telling a rather unfunny joke about the Chinese cocklers drowned at Morecambe Bay that led to her being sacked by her party, the MoS took its revenge for damaging one of their own by exposing Palmer [...]

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Echo, echo, echo

Wednesday, 31 December 2003

Forgot to mention the Christmas prezzies. Lots of good stuff, but pride of place to the DAB radio. The sound is brilliant and I love being able to tune into the extra channels, like BBC 7 to listen to good stuff now denied us, such as Round the Horne. But DAB has its downside (okay, [...]

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Compare and Contrast

Saturday, 22 November 2003

Phew! A world cup triumph, but didn’t they put us through the wringer. It made me think about the only other one I’ve experienced, 1966 and all that. So, let’s compare and contrast. In 1966 I had been lately started at Hyde Grammar School and the summer of ’66 was to be my first absence [...]

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The Best of British

Friday, 21 November 2003

So George Bush experienced fish, chips and mushy peas while visiting the Dun Cow in Tony Blair’s Sedgefield constituency. Now while we like to think that it is great to introduce visiting Americans and others to one of our national dishes, it may just be that they’ve tried it before. Take Ye Olde English Fish [...]

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It Takes All Sorts

Thursday, 25 September 2003

Liquorice is making a comeback according to the Daily Mail with nutritionists singing its praises because of their concern over child obesity. This naturally-growing root was common in many guises in my youth. First there was the hard stick of liquorice, flattened like a spatula about halfway up. We used it to dip into kali, [...]

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