God Created Manchester – that’s what the legendary t shirt said. But I preferred my ‘Born In The North’ top. Don’t know why. Perhaps I harboured some deep concern that the mention of God and dear old Manchester in the same sentence might somehow be a bit blasphemous. I wasn’t going to post anything about […]
A Royal Irrelevance?
“I’ll get you a drink, Mum” said my 9 year old lad. This being the rare occasion of an offer, I allowed the boy to make me a brew of my favourite Lancashire meets Yorkshire concoction (Manchester’s Vimto with a splash of lemonade from Huddersfield Aldi.) “And I’m going to choose you a nice mug,” […]
Go To London?
I’ve been in London for the last few days. I was at the House of Lords the evening before the ‘terrorist incident.’ On entering the Lords though, I have to say that I was thinking, ‘Good God, security seems so lax – in comparison to it was a few years ago. If I was a […]
To Parent. Or not to Parent.
Oh, the irony of it! As I left the house in the early hours of this morning, I yelled at my eldest; “YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW I HAVE HAD TO PUT MY LIFE ON HOLD – IN ORDER TO BRING YOU UP! YES! I USED TO *HAVE* A LIFE OF MY OWN YOU KNOW!” […]
How We Murder Sleep
At last, the mainstream media have been following my blog en masse and have decided to invest the BBC’s money in investigating whether my sage advice on parenting and lifestyle in general, is as wonderful as we all know it to be. Only joking. But I do have to say, that it was smashing to […]
More Than Just The Thought (far, far more)
“It comes to something, when you’ve got to be told by the bloody media and Twitter or whatever – to remember to be kind to someone,” a grumbly old sod just said to me. This person has a point. But on the other hand, for so many of us life today is super-duper fast. We […]
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