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Our Bob on Radio 4

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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

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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

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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 […]

No Chips Here

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Blimey oh Riley. We’ve already had record viewing figures for my British Library talk this morning. As part of their ‘Unfinished Business – the Fight for Women’s Rights’, I decided to do a talk called ‘A Room of One’s Own – I Wish!’ The talk was all about how it is nigh on impossible to […]

Big Mother – Watching You

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Lockdown once more and I’ve had to move my 12-year-old son so he’s in the same room as me, whilst he ‘home schools’. It seems that tinkering with the parental controls, blocking YouTube and his favourite gaming sites have not been fool proof enough. Big Mother needs to be watching him…  At first, I felt […]

WARNING! Kids Joining Microsoft Teams …

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Today we had the first ever experience of kids at our high school having LIVE lessons online. At 9 am, I tried to help my son navigate round MS Teams, a zillion messages were pinging between the members of his class as they tried to figure out what they needed to do. In fact, I […]