Monthly Archives: November 2012

(Archive) News & Star Column Week 3 (27/11/12) (Director’s Cut)

We lost the Christmas bit for the printed edition of this one.  Here you can view it as it was meant to be seen.  (lol)   This week I’m going to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly … Continue reading

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(Archive) News & Star Column Week 2 (20/11/12)

I was asked this week why nearly all of my blog posts recently have been about the past.  It’s true – lately I have found myself swimming in pools of nostalgia, unwilling to get out, dry myself off and get … Continue reading

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(Archive) News & Star Column Week 1 (13/11/12)

Welcome to the first edition of “The View from the Blue”, a sometimes funny and irreverent view of life as we know it now, and how we once knew it before.  Regularly, this column will take you back to 80s … Continue reading

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Journalism and Marketing.

These are two careers that I have tenuous links with.  I “studied” journalism in “college” (Only some will understand the inverted commas) and I have worked in Marketing for a while (I also own a tiny marketing company.  I’m talking ants … Continue reading

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Sweeties!

I said in the last blog that I was going to do one on sweets next time around, so here I am, as good as my word. See these:  and these: And these: And actually…these: I didn’t like any of … Continue reading

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A visual Journey into the past – Part 2

Generally, people have little to no interest in looking at other people’s old photos.  Unless they themselves make an appearance somewhere along the line, the interest is temporary at best. However, I don’t really care.  What I’m hoping, as I … Continue reading

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Man Utd & Liverpool.

Liverpool and Man Utd.  Catholics and Protestants.  Israel and Pallastine.  David and Goliath.  Ken Barlow and Mike Baldwin. Rivalries that have shaken the earth to its very core. This blog is going to be about the first rivalry mentioned because unlike all … Continue reading

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