Imagine your son or daughter, or even yourself, joining a good pop band, starting to tour around, becoming popular. That would be cool, right? But, although fame and money are seductive, it’s just pop music. Probably doesn’t mean a great deal in the scheme of things. But at times and in many places around the World, [...]
There seemed, until this week anyway, to be a fundamental misunderstanding among the general public of the mindset of ‘hard’ news journalists. For example, a bereaved army mum interviewed by the BBC over the phone hacking revelations this week says she does not understand how anyone could be that insensitive etc etc. Nothing that’s being [...]
Carolyn Bourne’s email to Heidi Withers hit the Daily Mail et al this week causing a frisson of oohs and ahhs throughout the nation as they read the message in which Ms Withers’s stepmother-in-law to be criticised Heidi’s manners, insulted her in general and made her opinion about her forthcoming marriage and her reasons for getting married clear. [...]
It was about 8.30pm, and I had just finished making dinner and was about to serve it up. As I laid the table, he was sitting in front of his computer, absorbed, and I asked him to move so I could lay out the knives and forks. He didn’t reply, just shifted a little in his seat. But I caught his [...]
Every time I open my email inbox I find a message asking if I want a garage, a candle making set, chicken wire, crochet needles, a guitar case, a car or disposable nappies. Spam? No, because all this stuff is free. I found www.freecycle.com a Yahoo group, about five years ago. It’s gone Worldwide now. And is [...]
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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