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11:18am Saturday 6th February 2010
FOOTBALLERS aren’t known for their grasp of the finer points of the English language, but their philandering has had me reaching for the dictionary.
10:28am Saturday 30th January 2010
AT the end of my talk in Tudhoe, County Durham, on Monday night, a man approached. “Do you know what Tda is famous for?” he asked.
10:56am Saturday 23rd January 2010
AS I watch the nightly horrific scenes on TV, I realise how little I know about Haiti. How can a government crumble as quickly as buildings? What causes a country to be the poorest in the western hemisphere? So I’ve found a few pointers: Ayiti means “mountainous country” in the language of the native Taino people.
10:47am Saturday 16th January 2010
THE way she acted out the turning of the doorknob convinced me. She held one hand out flat to represent the door and curled up the fingers of the other so that they grasped its rounded doorknob.
12:11pm Saturday 2nd January 2010
THE silliest story of the season has come from Suffolk where Sudbury Town Council has asked 75-year-old bingo caller John Sayers to modify his language.
11:28am Saturday 26th December 2009
STANDING at the top of the sledging bank which was sculpted out of the North Yorkshire countryside by the River Tees many millennia ago, I fell to thinking about snow.
11:02am Saturday 12th December 2009
Hullo everybody, hullo everybody,
10:34am Saturday 5th December 2009
TOMORROW, Bishop Auckland Hippodrome celebrates its 100th birthday.
12:09pm Saturday 21st November 2009
THERE cannot be many jobs in this country where when you leave home in the morning you cannot be certain of returning safely when the work is done.
10:56am Saturday 14th November 2009
HIS long locks flowing, his beard billowing, his muscles rippling – Neptune is an all-action hero as he skewers with his trident the dolphin trapped beneath his feet. The mighty fish wriggles in desperation, a piercing shriek coming out from its gaping, tooth-lined mouth.
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