I have limited mental capacity for shopping. I know myself well enough to realise that I have to be coaxed into shopping between cups of coffee, or simply avoided altogether.
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Exhibitions of fabrics are normally what I slip stealthily past in museums, along with the porcelain and the stone axe-heads. I comfort myself with the thought that I can’t be interested in everything, but still feel guilty doing so.Read
In our neighbourhood we’re into the third (or is it fourth ?) week of fireworks. It might seem odd, in such circumstances, to declare the official end of Bonfire Night.Read
To mark the release of the new £50 note, with Birmingham’s two foremost industrialists side-by-side on the reverse, here’s a poem I’ve penned about one of them called James Watt on Glasgow Green:Read
You’ll be well aware, if you ever you read this column, that I’m no great fan of the “Big Society”, believing it to be a cunning plan to reduce government expenditure and throw a group of well-meaning volunteers in at the deep end.Read
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