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Posted at 4:22pm Tuesday 8th February 2011

Billy on boilers

HOW many of us spent half of the big freeze with a kettle full of boiling water trying to defrost the outlet pipe from the central heating?

Posted at 3:14pm Thursday 27th January 2011

National Coronation (Street) Day

MS Nomates and I have still not come to terms with it.

Posted at 11:10am Tuesday 11th January 2011

There's an art to being a pantomime cow

THE pantomime didn't go quite as well as I had anticipated. Yes it sold out.

Posted at 10:32am Monday 10th January 2011

Happy New Year

IT’S the end of another year and maybe it’s my age, but I do find I am becoming more nostalgic or could it be associated with the old belief that elephants go home to die?

Posted at 10:30am Tuesday 4th January 2011

Maybe Scrooge had a point

MS NOMATES and I took Mother Nomates to see A Christmas Carol at the Grange school.

Posted at 9:21am Thursday 23rd December 2010

What's the attraction in getting married?

THERE is to be a society wedding next year and we’ve been invited.

Posted at 12:20pm Tuesday 14th December 2010

Cameron and Clegg are from another galaxy

‘LAST Christmas, I gave you my heart.

Posted at 10:20am Tuesday 14th December 2010

We Brits have a good sense of humour

IF you don’t live in Northwich, a shanty town in Cheshire, you will not have heard the exciting news that a taxi driver has actually been allowed to keep the slogan on his taxi: ‘British by birth, English by the grace of God’. I should blooming well think so too.

Posted at 10:25am Thursday 15th April 2010

The Goody Two Shoes

I HAVE always believed that you should never trust a man who doesn’t take a drink. Tea-totallers everywhere will be having a fit but it does hold some modicum of truth.

Posted at 9:34am Tuesday 23rd March 2010

The cheaper the prices, the quicker the service

I’LL tell you something. My moan last year about Mrs Dawdle keeping us all waiting at the tills has worked wonders in some quarters.

Posted at 10:31am Thursday 4th March 2010

Arty Farty

I DID art in school. I hate to blow my own trumpet – nobody else will touch it – but my chalk drawing of a wine bottle and grapes should be in the Tate National Gallery, if for no other reason than I included both blue and green grapes and the label on the bottle was spelled correctly in French.

Posted at 10:13am Thursday 19th November 2009

All I want for Christmas is a good google!

ANY day now we will have the Christmas cacophony from every corner ‘And so this is Christmas and what have we done? Another year older la la.’ To be perfectly honest, not a lot.

Posted at 10:48am Thursday 5th November 2009

Sometimes things just come to me

NORTHWICH was within the sovereignty of Vale Royal until some bright spark thought of a great way to waste money by changing us, so we now fall within the new unitary authority of Chester West and Chester.

Posted at 9:44am Tuesday 3rd November 2009

'RING A DING A DING DONG’

MY digital alarm goes off at five am. It should be six, but I can’t set the blooming thing.

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