Margo Grimshaw's weekly column from the Lancashire Telegraph

Blog: The best things really are simple

2:32pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

MY grandmamma always said ‘it’s no good preaching to a man, if he has an empty stomach’. She was a big Salvation Army-ist.

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Column: It pays to play a ‘little bit thick’

3:11pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

HEY up — and get out road. Did I really say that? Surely not?

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Comment: Blackpool was the lap of luxury

1:54pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

I am feeling restless, in want of a change, but to where? And to do what?

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Blog: After the parachute jump, the Himalayas were a doddle!

4:01pm Tuesday 30th April 2013

I AM in the mood to do something different, something exciting — but what?

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Comment: A good day on the whole, by George

2:29pm Tuesday 23rd April 2013

ARE we patriotic? Well, until Saturday, I would have emphatically said yes, we definitely are.

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Comment: Mayor’s Ball was a ‘reet good do’

1:30pm Tuesday 16th April 2013

I attended the Mayor’s Ball at King George’s Hall, in Blackburn.

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Comment: Great trip to our fantastic capital

10:26am Tuesday 9th April 2013

I WAS offered, as a treat, a ticket by Nigel, my kind hairdressing and greatly entertaining nephew, to accompany him on a day trip to see that long running and much praised show, The Lion King.

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Column: Spring has arrived at long last!

1:47pm Tuesday 2nd April 2013

I CAN feel it! Spring is here. On Saturday we were in the Lake District and the views coming back through the Trough of Bowland were breathtaking.

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Blog: When fags were a currency

2:10pm Tuesday 26th March 2013

IT’S snowing and I am recalling the time, years ago – I think it was 1948 – when the weather was so bad the buses stopped running, and everything came to a standstill.

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Column: My goodness, the deceptions of youth

10:37am Tuesday 19th March 2013

I WAS at a civic society meeting where Canon Andrew Hindley gave a very interesting talk about the new development to be built in the cathedral grounds.

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Column: TV soaps have become ‘my neighbours’

1:58pm Tuesday 12th March 2013

I MUST admit that I am becoming a creature of habit.

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Beach clean volunteers to get Sea Life experience

1:34pm Tuesday 5th March 2013

TWO Stacksteads students have been thrown in at the deep end after securing work experience roles at an aquarium.

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Column: What fun to make sparks with clogs

1:32pm Tuesday 5th March 2013

ARTE et Labore: I have seen these words on the Blackburn coat of arms and subconsciously known that they meant something to do with work.

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Blog: Should I stay or should I go?

2:05pm Tuesday 26th February 2013

I’M in a state of indecision! Twenty five years ago I planted a small sapling, about three feet high, after the man from the garden centre said it would never grow much bigger and would look pretty in the middle of my back garden, right in front of my window.

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Blog: Healthcare for all - that's real freedom!

1:00pm Tuesday 19th February 2013

IF what we have been reading about hospitals in other towns is a true record of what goes on, then here in Blackburn we are very lucky.

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Column: I’ve no big beef with horsemeat

1:11pm Tuesday 12th February 2013

SO, in that part of our ‘stable’ diet that is the ubiquitous beefburger, it now seems that we have been saddled with horse meat.

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Column: I couldn’t carry on, I felt a fool

2:14pm Tuesday 5th February 2013

AVERY funny thing happened to me the other night.

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Blog: You never know what you'll find at a jumble sale

1:15pm Tuesday 29th January 2013

I BRAVED the weather on Saturday and went to Windermere.

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Blog: We women are constantly brainwashed

2:51pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013

IT’S just ‘snow good’, this weather! I don’t like it! Yet, when I was a kid I just couldn’t wait to get my wellies on and rush out to play in the magic white stuff.

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Column: We are all living in a great age

12:27pm Tuesday 15th January 2013

IT’S a funny thing, memory! We are always trying subconsciously to edit it, leaving in and enhancing the good bits, and blue pencilling out the bits ‘we dinna care to think about’.

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