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1. Why I’ve always put on clean underpants
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 28 February 2007I WAS browsing in Waterstone's yesterday and spotted Alan Titchmarsh's book Nobbut A Lad. I hadn't heard that phrase since my 83 year-old granddad used it to describe someone he'd met in the pub. (The 'lad' in question turned out to be 60.) Every now and again I hear a phrase I haven't heard for decades.
2. Why I’m using any excuse to pay a visit to my new doctor
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 7 February 2007I JUST heard Venessa Feltz banging on about discourteous and inconsiderate General Practitioners.
3. London’s formula
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 14 February 2007AS A frequent visitor to the capital I'd say congestion charges have done a pretty good job of keeping surplus traffic out of the West End.
4. The lunatics are taking over the asylum
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 7 February 2007DO YOU remember when we were supposed to have a referendum on regional government? You may recall how hastily it was cancelled after voters in the North East gave it a huge thumbs down.
5. ‘Don’t fightback’ message is just PR for criminals on the streets
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 28 February 2007I'M GROWING increasingly nervous of all the TV programmes and newspaper articles warning the public not to fight back if robbed or assaulted in the street. It's a multi-million pound PR exercise for muggers and criminals.
6. Double your rent money
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 14 February 2007TO DATE I've been quite impressed with the performance of Cheshire Peaks and Plains as the new custodians of Macclesfield Borough Council's housing stock, but what they are doing with garage rentals defies belief.
7. Dinner tables turned on me
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 28 February 2007I WAS booked to do the after dinner speech for East Cheshire Sub Aqua Club last Saturday. Instead of taking the mickey out of the members they did it to me.
8. Consultation a joke
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 21 February 2007WE SHOULD have known. A record breaking petition and the most vociferous protest ever made in the borough was never enough to save our hospital.
9. They are your kids – try to set an example
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 21 February 2007I DOUBT there's a week goes by without me receiving an email, letter or phone call from a parent berating the police, council, school, social services, etc, etc.
10. Have we all gone stark raving mad?
Macclesfield Express, Wednesday 7 February 2007ST Paul's Catholic Church wants to erect a 6ft statue of a mother and child on an ugly old roundabout outside their church in Poynton. Ah, but is it religious, Macclesfield planners want to know? It's a mother and child outside a Catholic church - you figure it out.