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LAP TOP CLUB? JUST A SLIP OF THE TONGUE
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03/09/2008
FUNNY isn’t it – what makes people laugh? We were sitting in the pub the other Friday lunchtime and I was telling my companions about the new club that has opened in the old Post Office Hotel building in Victoria Street, the drinking establishment of our youth that eventually became the Spotted Horse...
LAP TOP CLUB? JUST A SLIP OF THE TONGUE
"Save a life – and risk your job"
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27/08/2008
IT’S been a while since I last set eyes on Mick Mullinger. I think I was waiting at a bus stop on Mansfield Road when he pulled up in his car to offer me a lift. Or maybe he was already on the bus when I boarded. No, come to think of it, I was walking through the Westfield Centre with Mrs R and he was...
"Save a life – and risk your job"
It was the way they told 'em
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20/08/2008
IT was Wally who brought up the subject of comedians. Or at least the fact that nowadays – Peter Kay excepted – there don’t appear to be any. At least none worthy of the description.We were sitting in the pub when the debate erupted. That’s not Wally’s real name, by the way; it’s Paul Walton but, like...
It was the way they told 'em
Clearing his wardrobe
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19/08/2008
Lucy’s column for August 19.Wardlo…1He was, once upon a time, the picture of sartorial elegance – all Daniel Hechter suits and silk ties. But then, he had an image to keep up, in the heady word of telly, and the cutting edge of PR.But retirement does something to a man, and the slob emerges – in his...
Clearing his wardrobe
Random (Female) Rams fan
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15/08/2008
I've always wondered why it's always blokes pontificating about football in newspapers, online and at matches so, in an effort to redress the balance, I am starting my own Random (female) Rams Fan blog.As someone who has been watching Derby County since the age of eight, one of the fist things I'd like...
Random (Female) Rams fan
Mad happy campers!
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15/08/2008
“I lurrrvvve you,” sang out the drunk. “You fill me up...”There were a few precious moments of silence, followed by a large burp, then he started again, warbling like Simon Cowell’s worst X-Factor nightmare: “Youuu fillllll me up.”I still haven’t worked out which song he’d wrenched these lyrics from...
Mad happy campers!
That merry mix that makes a friendship
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13/08/2008
THE Friday lunch club is growing. It began more than ten years ago when old mate John Cheadle – we started Bemrose School together in 1956 – rang to ask if I fancied finishing off the working week with a convivial pint. It was probably meant to be a one-off, but we agreed to meet up again the next Friday....
That merry mix that makes a friendship
Camping Horrors
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12/08/2008
Lucy’s column for August 12.Camplo…1We’ve had some rum holidays in our time.We once joined forces with my sister’s family to rent a cottage in the wilds of Wales, advertised in the Sunday Times, no less, so it should be posh. But nothing prepared us for a flock of sheep dancing on the roof at regular...
Camping Horrors
It's all about the givers and the takers
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06/08/2008
WE had been walking around the city centre for about an hour when my old pal Stan suddenly asked the question: “Has Derby got a particularly bad unemployment problem at the moment?”“I don’t think so,” I said. “Why do you ask?”“Well,” said Stan, “I can’t figure out why all these apparently able-bodied...
It's all about the givers and the takers
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05/08/2008
Lucy’s column for August 5th.Homelo..1Following his anti-sun, sea, sand and sangria revelations last week, when he invaded this column to set himself up as the bore of the Balearics, I have to admit that the old man has come good.I came home from my ten-day extension – as he left Palma, the gels swooped...
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