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Blog: Have things changed, and is it all for the better?

5:17pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

Anyone follow the BBC Sunday night drama, The Village, set against the backdrop of the so-called Great War?

Blog: Which phase of your life are you in?

5:11pm Friday 3rd May 2013

Being the age that I am I seem to be surrounded by a lot of people who are facing up to, experiencing for the first time or becoming hardened pros at being retired.

Blog: Jack of all trades . . .

5:54pm Friday 26th April 2013

Got speaking to a nurse the other day, possibly nearing her fifties. Always been a nurse?, I asked.

Blog: What are your favourite British rituals?

2:53pm Friday 19th April 2013

How many of us watched Margaret Thatcher's funeral the other day or at least the highlights of it later?

Blog: Our shifting family relationships

5:54pm Friday 12th April 2013

We had a really good night the other night. It was my wife's birthday.  One of our "children" came round and we had a right good evening sat around the kitchen table eating, drinking and laughing!

Blog: Do you do it yourself?

5:51pm Friday 5th April 2013

My more immediate pals will know that recently I've been delving into home baking.

Blog: Making mistakes is the key to learning

2:50pm Tuesday 2nd April 2013

Ever made a mistake? Never made one?

BLOG: SAD?

1:51pm Friday 22nd March 2013

Don't you like the brighter nights?

Blog: A hobby please!

5:45pm Friday 15th March 2013

Should I get a hobby?

Blog: What kind of people do you associate with?

5:22pm Friday 8th March 2013

Do people seek you out or do you seek people out?

Blog: Share your negotiation expertise!

4:48pm Friday 1st March 2013

I've 'locked antlers' with quite a few different sorts of people down the years.

Blog: Tell me about your motoring memories

10:00am Friday 22nd February 2013

I think I’ve been driving for coming up for 40 years this year.

Blog: Scenes from a cafe

10:00am Friday 15th February 2013

Lancashire Telegraph blogger Sir Bill Taylor brings you a series of scenes he's witnessed in his time . . .

Blog: What do you think of celebrities and all their cash?

5:44pm Friday 8th February 2013

My morning radio routine is: any time prior to 7am, Radio 5, 7am-8am is Radio 4’s Today, then Graham Liver on our local BBC radio.

Blog: How do you express your creativity?

5:21pm Friday 1st February 2013

My occasional pieces on the “e version” of the Lancashire Telegraph become blogs. So called I understand as they began as web-logs?

Blog: Memories of snowy winters

5:56pm Friday 25th January 2013

In 1963 we had a really bad winter, or good, if like me you were 10 or 11… Did it snow!

Blog: We mustn't let Blackburn Rovers go the way of HMV

5:27pm Friday 18th January 2013

Former Telegraph web manager Paul Cockerton did a great piece for his new ‘paper headlined “From Woolworths to Blockbuster: How our high street has been hit by recession”.

Blog: Written a good book lately?

4:02pm Friday 11th January 2013

Have you read 'Sunrise Hill' by Karunkar T Nair? I’ve not but my wife has.

Blog: What can we do to maintain the pride created in 2012?

Jessica Ennis

11:04am Friday 4th January 2013

Really enjoyed a couple of programmes on catch-up TV the other day, both of them about the Olympics.

Share your hospital experiences

9:04am Monday 24th December 2012

For only the third time in my 60 years I’ve just spent some time in hospital (baby illness treated in St James’ Leeds & sports injury in BRI, previously).



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