Talking Point 30th July 2005 Aug 1 2005
Just returned from Norway, where 70s band Smokie are still big, everyone linedances, you can't smoke in pubs and beer is over £5 a pint. more
Talking Point - 5th July - 2005 Jul 7 2005
"Your blood-pressure is rather high," warned the doc.
"I'm not surprised," I told him. "You're scaring the life out of me."
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Talking Point - June 23th 2005 Jun 23 2005
Wife's still in a mood - despite our mini cruise to the Norwegian fjords being only days away.
Heavens, I hope she doesn't plunge overboard into the icy water, or anything like that.
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Talking Point - July 1st 2005 Jun 9 2005
Still trying to piece together the lost hours that constituted my first and, if the organisers have anything to do with it, last stint as a real ale festival judge. more
Talking Point - May 24th - 2005 May 30 2005
An emotional weekend for us Lockleys, with Number One Son's soccer side lifting the cup after a see-saw final. more
Talking Point - 10th May - 2005 May 13 2005
Lost interest in the elections since the demise of the Natural Law Party, which aimed to change the world by getting people to bounce on their bums. more
Talking Point May 5th 2005 May 5 2005
Dark tales of swinging - not in the 1960s discotheque sense of the word - and wife swapping are rife in our country community. more
Talking Point - April 28th Apr 29 2005
Yours truly has only been invited to Denmark, land of the Dens, to celebrate Hans Christian Andersen's birthday. All three of them. more
Talking Point - April 5th, 2005 Apr 5 2005
Chase Post reporter Mike Bradley is marrying fellow-hack Theresa Larner, from our sister paper in Lichfield, amid glorious spring sunshine.
Theyve asked for Big Day advice from Yours Truly, but sadly I was heavily sedated for my own coupling.
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Talking Point - March 25th - 2005 Mar 24 2005
To ease the financial storm clouds gathering above Chateau Lockley, I've offered my services to the local hunt. more
Talking Point - March 8th 2005 Mar 8 2005
Can it really be 25 years since Cliff Richard - Stiff Pilchard, we call him - recorded the Wired For Sound video? more
Talking Point - March 1st - 2005 Mar 1 2005
My fragrant dentist suggests I nibble a chunk of cheese after every glass of wine to stop the acidic vino eroding enamel.
Its 8pm and Ive already got through half-a-pound.
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Talking Point - February 22 - 2005 Feb 23 2005
So, farewell then, Dirty Den.
You won't be going to a better place: Fort Boyard beckons, I fear.
My mate Keith reckons you're the most wooden actor to appear on TV, but he's too young to remember The Woodentops. more
Talking Point - February 16th - 2005 Feb 15 2005
Taff, one of the more eccentric, committed parents at Joes football team, has taken to ending almost every sentence with the phrase, I jest you not.
This I find irksome.
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Talking Point - February 10th - 2005 Feb 15 2005
Feverish activity, and much over-spending, as Number One Son prepares for his first school trip abroad: a three-day tour of Great War battlefields and cemeteries. more
Talking Point - Thursday February 3rd - 2005 Feb 15 2005
I got regressed last week.
I went to one of those hypnotist johnnies to discover what I was in a past life.
I believe I was a dashing French aristocrat who was beheaded in the French Revolution.
I got regressed last week.
It turns out I was the bastard son of a
Tipton labourer, was cursed with rotten teeth and rickets and died prematurely from eating a bad spud. more
Talking Point - January 27th Feb 15 2005
She Who Must Be Obeyed is over the moon after being named Colleague of the Month at her workplace; an ' honour' bestowed for selfless acts and a cheery disposition.
Is this the same Colleague of the Month who hurled a Spanish onion at yours truly during a row over the acting prowess of EastEnder's Dennis?
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