Anne Pickles

Finally interested – in sport of flying flames

Somebody once told me – I think he was drunk at the time – that no matter how much I disliked sport, if I looked hard enough and long enough I’d find something to tickle my fancy.

Last updated 11 May 2012
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Don’t call me a fossil because I chose journalism

Given the nervous state of the newspaper industry these days, a more sensitive soul might have taken offence.

Last updated 4 May 2012
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No appetite for recession? Come shopping with us

The day they started talking about double dip, I started craving an ice cream.

Last updated 27 April 2012
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If they’d stayed for sausage we’d have been safer

Word was, something was up. And worried word was spreading fast.

Last updated 20 April 2012
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On security matters, I try to play it straight

Security is a seriously complicated business these days. We know that now. Snoops and spooks will be spying on our emails, tweets and butcher’s queue coded gossip very soon ... all in the interests of national security, of course.

Last updated 13 April 2012
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No need to panic while a petrol station can still pamper

Panic? Oh come now; we don’t panic. We’re made of sterner stuff than that. And it gives you wrinkles.

Last updated 30 March 2012
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For role models, don’t allow young to look to our MPs

Why are MPs so boorish, baying, loudmouthed and rude? Or is it too impolite of me to ask?

Last updated 23 March 2012
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Dinosaurs don’t Twitter well, their claws catch on the keys

An old friend popped up on my phone the other day, to offer a cheery hello. It was a long-time-no-see kind of greeting. And they are always welcome.

Last updated 16 March 2012
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Some crusades are – eventually – just for the birds

It’s a puzzle, if you ask me – which you didn’t, of course. But I’ll tell you anyway. It’s a puzzle.

Last updated 9 March 2012
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Dear or Piccalilli, guess which I’d prefer to hear?

With a name like Pickles, you tend not to worry too much about what people call you. Most made-up monikers are an improvement.

Last updated 2 March 2012
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There’s no-one I want to get my claws into

Big day, Wednesday – for predatory, knot-tying types. It’s Leap Year day and a momentous date for women with designs on marital bliss.

Last updated 24 February 2012
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Even Cabinet debate beats calorie-counting

Out of the blue, Twinkle made one of her life-changing affirmations – which is always a bit of a worry.

Last updated 17 February 2012
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If not exactly happy, at ease with grumbles

Happiest lot in the UK? Us? Excuse me but maybe we ought to talk about this. See, so far as I could make out, it was being so miserable that kept the smiles on our faces – which is a happiness of sorts, I suppose. But it’s nothing that might qualify as, well... delirious.

Last updated 10 February 2012
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