Bucks Free Press | On The Edge

It’s my money and your money – why this?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:31:34 +0000

SO THE council has ‘agreed in principle’ to invest your money and my money on buying a new ground for Wycombe Wanderers and the Wasps.

Potholes are alien life forms producing at alarming rate

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:34:58 +0000

SO just what is grabbing the attention of the good folk of High Wycombe in these troubled days? Is it the plight of a whole nation – Haiti – in the wake of a disastrous earthquake or the continuing death toll of our soldiers in Afghanistan?

I could swear I’ve been here before

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:49:37 +0000

Reincarnation is a tricky old business. For a kick off it’s one of the few philosophies that’s embraced by virtually every religion in one form or another. It is an intrinsic part of Native American and Inuit traditions and can be found in Norse mythology.

Wasps’ sting pulled in the rain

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:35:46 +0000

WHEN I worked at the Express & Star in the 70s amazingly we had enough fit and/or experienced journalists to put together a rugby team. Apart from Tony Raba.

We've all given in to temptation

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:44:11 +0000

UNLESS you have the moral fibre of a Franciscan Monk there is every likelihood you have taken a day off work when you didn’t really need to. Come on admit it – even if it was a dubious sickie when you were feeling just a tad under the weather and a day at home looked very inviting, you’ve done it.

Leaf this garden gear well alone

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:09:43 +0000

DRIVING home to Hazlemere from Rickmansworth the other morning I trundled past a man with a machine blowing leaves off the path outside his house into the road.

Fawlty Towers bank courtesy

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:33:47 +0000

BASIL Fawlty is alive and well and working in a bank in Malta. I know this news will bring great joy to all his fans and could spawn a mini-tourist boom to the Mediterranean island which actually lies nearer the equator than Tunisia.

Sing for your shower until the police drop in

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:51:46 +0000

WHAT’S the point of having a shower if you can’t sing? Especially if you are Welsh.

Dark art and a cow’s light

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:04:03 +0100

I WAS looking for something exciting to do on Saturday. So I decided to go and look into a black hole. Not any old hole mind you, but THE black hole at the Tate Modern.

Grapes got the wrath message

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:06:35 +0100

I CAN confirm that the Heights of Hazlemere are now truly enjoying a Mediterranean climate. There are those who think that all this talk of global warming is bunkum, but after extensive ecological tests I can confound these wildly misplaced theories.