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A SPLASH OF COLOUR FOR WINTER
10:34am Monday 16th January 2012
So many gardens are short of bright colour at this time of year.
Briefly tapping into the source of Da do ron ron
1:30pm Friday 13th January 2012
AFTER leaving the Italian restaurant and “de woise guys in the Bronx, Nooo York”, we walked along the main drag to the junction of 147th and Crotona. As it happens, that is just block from 147th and Belmont. The route was one of two moments of nostalgia I had designed to be included that day.
DOES YOUR GARDEN NEED SOME SPARKLE?
7:28pm Sunday 8th January 2012
Gardens don't have to be uninviting gloomy places during the cold months. It really isn't good sense to allow our gardens to lapse into no-go areas during the winter.
A day in da Bronx, well it was jest poifect
1:30pm Friday 6th January 2012
ONE of our daughters was and still is fascinated by the Mafia. She even took a holiday in Sicily while a teenager and has an encyclopaedia and who’s who of the Cosa Nostra.
The evaporated spirit of Christmas past
11:43am Tuesday 3rd January 2012
I braved the post-Christmas sales a couple of times in the last week or so, but it was a depressing experience. The twinkling lights and tinsel garlands that looked so jaunty and promising right up to closing time on December 25 now served as a limp reminder that the annual escape from rational reality was well and truly over.
A TIME TO ASSESS YOUR GARDEN
6:37pm Sunday 1st January 2012
The beginning of the year is a good time to sit back and think over the successes and failures of the past year in the garden.
Cheetah's passing nothing to sneeze at
11:48am Friday 6th January 2012
I HAVE a couple of old friends – both of them former reporters on this very newspaper – who have a liking for monkeys that borders on obsession.
I was guilty of accidental phone hacking courtesy of a crossed line
1:30pm Thursday 29th December 2011
I MUST confess to phone-hacking, accidentally. I picked up the phone one morning back in 1965 and dialled 21759 which was the number of Watford FC. The phone clicked and I heard the familiar tones of someone speaking. I was just about to reply when I began to suspect I had a crossed line. Then I realised it was the club chairman Jim Bonser and he was talking to manager Ken Furphy.
Sometimes the headlines are what they wished the a\ttached article really said
1:30pm Thursday 22nd December 2011
IT IS said that it is not just the reporters, but the sub-editors who are to blame for some of the excesses in national newspapers. They are the individuals who receive the reports and whose job on some newspapers is to try and come up with a corny pun, playing on words, rather than giving you the facts in a headline.
The cheesy sound of Christmas past
11:37am Monday 19th December 2011
I’m proud to admit that the soundtrack that accompanies my annual bout of tinsellitis is more cheesy than the deli counter at Waitrose. And what’s more it’s nostalgic, too… not always in a good way.
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