Watford Columnists - Watford Observer
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LOOK TO THE FUTURE
3:02pm Monday 6th February 2012
A good time for gardeners to stay indoors and keep warm whilst doing some serious planning for the coming summer.
Along the Texas Panhandle, teenage memories rekindled
1:30pm Thursday 2nd February 2012
IT is popularly known as The Day The Music Died: February 3 1959 and I can remember it as if it were yesterday. As a teenager, I felt we had lost something unique with the passing of Buddy Holly, by far he most innovative of all the first generation rockers.
A Rye comment on the past
11:39am Monday 30th January 2012
It's so refreshing to find a town that reminds you of the best things about your childhood...
FERNS - AN ATTRACTIVE SOLUTION FOR A PROBLEM AREA
8:02pm Sunday 29th January 2012
Ferns have been with us for a long, long time and man's fascination with them is nothing new.
Declining heritage a bitter pillbox to take
11:48am Friday 27th January 2012
When we think of historic buildings, we British tend to go long. Because we’ve got the benefit of many centuries worth of architecture, we reckon that Hampton Court Palace, The Globe Theatre and Stonehenge are historic. Unless it was visited by the original Queen Elizabeth, it just doesn’t seem very old.
The French motorways are something else
1:30pm Wednesday 25th January 2012
I WAS a little anxious. We had loaded up the car and the roof-pod with items and added our usual shopping, such as bulk crumpets, baked beans, teabags etc. We do that every Christmas and the Spring holiday when we return for a visit to the UK.
A CLIMBER FOR ALL SEASONS
9:41am Monday 23rd January 2012
Climbers are amongst the most versatile and valuable of garden plants and high on the list of the best of these are clematis.
Traumas, big or small, never seem far from our door
8:21am Thursday 19th January 2012
WE tend to suffer some degree of trauma whenever we head back to England. We have so many to see, and appointments to meet, we do tend to run a tight schedule. Over the years we have tried to modulate it in that we progress up and down the M40 rather than hare back and forth.
Poetic response to my views on man-flu
4:11pm Monday 16th January 2012
Well, here’s a first. Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to receive letters, phone calls, emails and tweets in response to things I’ve written or broadcast. But never before have my opinions sparked anyone into sending me a poem in response.
You've got to hand it to Madonna
10:58am Monday 16th January 2012
You can do all you can to hold back time, but it always weighs heavy in your hands. It’s definitely where the ageing process shows - and there’s not much you can do about it, except wear a pair of Chanel gloves at all times, obviously.
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