Friday, 12 March 2010

Anne Pickles

Happy Mother’s Day, the designer proggy is yours

All fingers and thumbs – every one of them swollen and sore. Ah yes, those were the days. Funny how pain can form so large a part of happy memory.

Last updated 12 March 2010
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A mother’s tale of rags to riches

All fingers and thumbs – every one of them swollen and sore. Ah yes, those were the days.

Last updated 12 March 2010
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I can’t hear the argument for the shouting mob

We’re in grave danger of talking ourselves out of the freedoms, protections and democratic privileges we have held so dear for centuries.

Last updated 9 March 2010
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Guess what? The nights are fair drawing out, again

Has spring sprung? This tongue-twister for beginners is a hot topic – or at least a warm one – as daffodils finally stir from the hardest winter in 30 years. I like to think my fascination shows I am in tune with the natural world, preferring to discard the alternative explanation that I have no life.

Last updated 5 March 2010
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Perhaps we should package Carlisle as a 1950s progress-free destination?

It would be wrong to call it abject failure, too cruel to see it as public humiliation... but goodness me, it sure is tempting.

Last updated 2 March 2010
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Easy question – harder jobs

The question was, on the face of it, a simple one. Would British workers be better off if immigrants weren’t taking their jobs?

Last updated 27 February 2010
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On Expenses: Nothing to laugh about

They said it was going to be a comedy. I couldn’t find anything to laugh at.

Last updated 27 February 2010
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If only we could compete on our ungritted streets

Before the Vancouver Olympics started rudely butting in on perfectly adequate news bulletins, I’d been under the impression luge was a name for a woman who drank too much.Oh but we’re good.

Last updated 26 February 2010
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We’ll need helplines to cope with helplines

He looked puzzled – seriously perplexed, in fact – as he pored over the details of yesterday’s shocking national newspaper reports of unacceptably hurtful behaviour, sensationally exposed.

Last updated 23 February 2010
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Is there a better way to find serenity?

Sue Johnston was looking for Shangri-La... aren’t we all?

Last updated 20 February 2010
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Designer babies we cannot begrudge

A number of years have passed now since angry controversy raged about so-called designer babies being created by use of tissue-typing IVF.

Last updated 20 February 2010
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Gordon Brown trapped in Piers Morgan predicament

I blame Piers Morgan. He’s Gordon Brown’s friend and it’s hard to believe Gordon begged him to find room for him on his show.

Last updated 20 February 2010
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A Heaven hotline? There must be something I need

Surprise of the week came yesterday when I discovered – late in the day – I could email God during Lent.

Last updated 19 February 2010
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Chat-along-a-deity – great! I’ll give it a go

Surprise of the week came yesterday when I discovered – late in the day – I could email God during Lent.

Last updated 19 February 2010
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It’s official. It’s okay to cry, even for politicians

Frankly, I struggled to see what all the fuss had been about. He cried, that’s all.

Last updated 16 February 2010
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Corrie Gail’s acting goes adrift

Gail Platt-Mcintyre should know better than to look for love in the Lake District.

Last updated 13 February 2010
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DCI Barnaby, don’t go

Joining the annual Midsomer Parva seaside awayday to Brighton, DCI Barnaby was an uncomfortable community coach-trip passenger.

Last updated 13 February 2010
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The real Devil wearing Prada

She’s reputedly the fashion world’s brightest, most closely followed beacon. When she says wear red with pink, Manhattan dresses in red and pink... and London goes shopping a day later.

Last updated 13 February 2010
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There’s a lot to be thankful for in ordinary lives

This is for Agnes, whose friend Margaret will be reading out loud to her today as they share their weekly newspaper coffee morning – because Agnes can’t see well enough to read this column. And it isn’t included in her talking newspaper.

Last updated 12 February 2010
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Little lives that make a big, big difference

This is for Agnes, whose friend Margaret will be reading out loud to her today as they share their weekly newspaper coffee morning – because Agnes can’t see well enough to read this column. And it isn’t included in her talking newspaper.

Last updated 12 February 2010
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