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A Menagerie of Terriers and Working-Class Folk

Happy Yorkshire Day! Perhaps only in Yorkshire, can one of the county’s most famous symbols – the Yorkshire Terrier – still be proudly kept on display, alongside the Egyptian mummies. In body, though not in spirit. This little chap was a true hero of the people of Keighley in West Yorkshire. Many Keighley – working-class […]

Fix-it Lesson for Bob

I had to sit my son alongside me as I worked, for a good part of the year. This was so he wouldn’t be distracted from his online school lessons with gaming, YouTube and whatnot. To be honest, it all seemed like a complete waste of time, all those months … dead airtime, where he’d […]

Summer Spoilsports

It’s 8am and my 16-year-old daughter is having a conversation with her friend, as they prepare to set off for school together. We’ve just been discussing birthdays – with my daughter trying to outfox her friend by saying that she was a ‘Spring Baby’ when she’d been born in September (it’s true – she was […]

Our Bob on Radio 4

If you haven’t ever listened to the ‘Saturday Live’ broadcast on BBC Radio 4, then you really do need to improve your radio-input outputs. ‘Saturday Live’ is presented by one of the UK’s most famous and big-hearted vicars Reverend Richard Coles. It has an audience of 2.5 million and it broadcasts a refreshing mix of […]

Holiday Gender-Based Hell

This magazine article that I recently wrote, started out as a cheery recollection of past holidays, However, after reading it, several female friends and family members pointed out that it had descended into ‘evidence that it probably isn’t best to go on holiday with the male species’. So, with this in mind – I thought […]

Drunken Women Nicking Mackerels. And other Victorian Crimes

I write for a rather smashing little magazine that goes to thousands of homes in the Tameside area. In this particular edition, I wanted to focus on ‘crimes of the past’ and I thought that no better place could be examined that the northern cotton mill town of Stalybridge… As seen through the eyes of […]