Watford Columnists - Watford Observer

I have worked at the Watford Observer since July 2006, initially covering the villages of Bushey and Radlett. I now report on the town of Watford and have done for the past year and a half. Away from work, I enjoy socialising with friends, listening to bad 80s rock music and following the many ups and downs of my beloved football team, Blackburn Rovers.

Are we being mugged off?

I like Easter, I like it a lot. It has a lot of the good parts of Christmas (time off work, seasonal food, rubbish television) without a lot of the bad parts of Christmas (too much time of work, possibility of strangling one of your relatives, rubbish television).

‘Barack – welcome at my home’

So Barack Obama didn’t make it to Watford then. What a disappointment.

My week with the stars

There are weeks, there are good weeks and then, ladies and gentlemen, there is the week this diarist has had these past fine seven days.

Be vewy, vewy quiet, I’m hunting wabbits

IT was animal traps at the ready this week as hacks turned hunters following a sighting of a ferocious-looking “big cat” near Chorleywood.

Resolutions there to be broken

So, here we go again. Another year, another Diary column, another series of pointless new year’s resolutions to depress the pants off me.

‘Our Skinny had been chopped’

Hours after 99.99 per cent of the population had missed his highly-publicised debut on the small screen (if anyone actually managed to find the Community Channel I salute you), my starry-eyed colleague, Mr Neil Skinner, was this week delivered a DVD of his appearance.

Who the Jeff is he anyway?

PERHAPS you could help. We have tried our darndest to find out who he is, we have trawled the internet, exhausted our contacts and, alas, we are still at a loss.

No more happy hour

HANDS up who else is thoroughly miserable? The financial crisis has well and truly ruined this diarist’s mojo.

Vinnie lays down the gauntlet

FIGHTING out of the Red corner; weighing in at a healthy weight, one of football’s most notorious villains, the “Windmiller from Watford” – Vinnie Jones.

Sex and the superhero

IS it a bird? (Derrrr!) Is it a plane? (Derrrrrr!) No, actually it is a grammatically incorrect press release.