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Up North

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Well, it’s been a while since my last blog – or at least it seems so.  Life has been on the hectic spectrum and now that I am due to have my hand operation in January I won’t be able to type for a few weeks so the clock is ticking to get Singles in India finished before the op.  The surgeon operating on me said “It’s a painful operation; your hand will be very sore.”  “Don’t you hold back, doc.  You give it to me straight,” I said!   I’m bracing myself because I really do not do pain.  At … Read the rest »

Parked Up Sidekick Alley

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Last week it was such a refreshing surprise to hear a woman’s voice on Radio 2.  Jeremy Vine was off on his hols and Vanessa Feltz was sitting in for him.  It had dawned on me a few days earlier that Radio 2 has male presenters on the whole day through; Chris Evans, Ken Bruce, Jeremy Vine, Steve Wright and Simon Mayo.  Poor old Vanessa gets the up-at-dawn-slot of 5-7.30am and then the only other female voices heard from then on are giving the traffic news or occasionally reading the news.  Janice Long gets midnight.  The only female I can … Read the rest »