The show can't go on for the walking dead

4:50pm Friday 14th March 2008

I AM lucky to work in a profession where "taking a sicky" is as unattractive to the employee as it is to the employer. Not only do I enjoy my work but "The show must go on" is etched through my generation's bones like Blackpool rock.

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Common-sense draws the short straw in all of this

7:11pm Thursday 6th March 2008

WHILST we all know that parking restrictions, planning regulations and by-laws generally are designed to be for the benefit of society at large rather than the individual, there are occasions when citizens who try to circumvent the rules earn our sympathy and grudging respect.

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The small case of my baggage being delayed

12:40pm Friday 29th February 2008

HAVING been working in Northern Ireland and Scotland for the last four weeks, I have been flying up and down from Heathrow each weekend. On seven of the eight journeys I took my small wheelie case onto the plane and stowed it happily in the overhead locker.

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Does anyone want to buy a used Tardis?

8:01pm Thursday 14th February 2008

GIVEN the many and varied opportunities now available to inform and educate, one might be tempted to think that our young people would be better informed than previous generations.

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Decency and sport fit so well together

1:52pm Friday 8th February 2008

HAVING regularly railed in this column against antisocial behaviour in the streets of our towns and cities, I feel it only fair to report evidence of the opposite when it occurs.

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Rural community is being short-changed

2:52pm Friday 1st February 2008

THE new pharmacy in Lane End has provoked a flurry of correspondence in the last few weeks. Some is from patients of the practice whose future is threatened by the Bucks Primary Care Trust's decision to allow the pharmacy to open across the road from the existing dispensary.

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I want the streets to be ours again

5:29pm Friday 25th January 2008

WHENEVER I write in this column about the current levels of antisocial behaviour in our streets and the violence that seems to be the inevitable result of law abiding citizens' attempts to protect their families and properties from marauding youngsters, I am thanked by scores of strangers in the street, as well as my friends and acquaintances.

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It's all for a good cause - but is it art?

6:36pm Friday 18th January 2008

Having been involved in a popular television programme, people raising funds for charity often contact me with various requests. Often it is easy to help. A photo, a signature, a message of support even - all easily given. Occasionally the request is more difficult.

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Dregs of society pick on soft targets

3:17pm Friday 11th January 2008

THERE are three stories in the news locally this week that sum up for me the world that we appear to have constructed for ourselves in these affluent times.

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How have we got to this?

3:39pm Friday 4th January 2008

THIS Christmas I didn't get to attend a school nativity play. I have always found that the sight of little shepherds and angels re-enacting the Bethlehem story does more to produce a feeling of the true spirit of Christmas than all the other festivities that accompany Christmas.

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