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Peter BarronThe Northern Echo |
FROM childhood to adulthood, into middle-age, and old age (if you’re lucky), defining moments come thick and fast. The nervous excitement of...
DRESSING up as ‘Santa Claus’ has become a Christmas Eve tradition for me over the past 20 years or more – but spreading the Christmas magic has...
FROM the distant perspective of my younger days, I always thought being a grandad would be relaxing. I expected to potter rather than dash. Well,...
I DON’T know what it is about my blood, but mosquitos love it – never more so than during a recent holiday with my wife to the Italian island of...
SO, here I am, on Platform 4 of Darlington station, waiting for the 3.58pm to Aberdeen – with a drum-kit. Yes, a drum-kit. I’m not even catching...
THE longer the marriage lasts – and ours has just reached the 37-year mark – the harder it is to earn brownie-points. The days when youthful...
SOMETIMES only raw courage will do – and that’s what it took the day the birds invaded the house. It started on Sunday morning when a startled...
AS I head deeper into my seventh decade, I feel the need to focus on something that’s become an increasingly important feature of my life: reading...
MANY thanks to former teacher June Clough for passing on a lovely story after my Dad At Large talk to Durham Friendship Centre in Belmont earlier this...
TALK about being well and truly shellshocked… Christopher, our eldest, was woken from a deep sleep with the devastating news: “Nigel’s dead!”...
BEFORE I go any further, I should acknowledge the fact that my mum, now approaching 93, is a ruddy marvel. Still independent, still doing her own...
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