Hextol
Coffee brewed from powder is still my cup of tea
WHY is it so difficult to buy coffee powder these days?
Last updated 30 January 2012
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Skating on thin ice despite good intentions
THERE’S nothing better than a crisp frosty morning for sloughing off slumber and setting the blood coursing.
Last updated 23 January 2012
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Retail therapy isn’t worth car parking mayhem
I MADE the mistake of going to the sales at the Metrocentre shortly after Christmas.
Last updated 16 January 2012
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Thank goodness Christmas comes but once a year!
WELL, that’s another festive period over, and I can come back to work for a rest.
Last updated 9 January 2012
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Delving into the old curiosity cupboard
Mrs Hextol frequently sends me upstairs to hunt out some missing document, photograph or precious artefact, even though she knows the chances of me actually finding what she is looking for are as slim as a super-model.
Last updated 3 January 2012
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Christmas is coming, the geese are getting thin
ARE turkeys smaller than they used to be?
Last updated 26 December 2011
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Hats are off if you want a full head of hair
I HAD the undiluted pleasure of sitting next to a Yorkshireman in Corbridge on Saturday, when Tynedale Rugby Club thrashed the Mancunians of Sedgley Park.
Last updated 19 December 2011
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Flat pack furniture isn’t for the faint-hearted
I FACED a double dose of betes noire on Saturday.
Last updated 12 December 2011
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Being an eternal fall guy isn’t much fun
IS THERE any activity more embarrassing that falling over in public?
Last updated 5 December 2011
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Reluctant admission of failing hearing
THERE are certain ailmentrs which induce merriment rather than sympathy from family and friends.
Last updated 28 November 2011
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Golden memories of fastest woman on earth
THE news that the Olympic Torch is heading for Tynedale next year has for the first time filled me with a frisson of anticipation.
Last updated 21 November 2011
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Caught napping by throttling a bluebottle
I WAS awoken from a dreamless slumber in the early hours of Monday by a cowled Carmelite monk hovering near my bed.
Last updated 14 November 2011
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Courtesy car doesn’t deliver an easy ride
I HAVE come across a lot of misnomers in my time – the civil service, which is often anything but, is one that immediately springs to mind.
Last updated 7 November 2011
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Death-defying duties for DIY dunces
THERE are few things I hate more than wandering snail-like round the lost world of a certain Swedish furniture emporium in Gateshead.
Last updated 31 October 2011
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Still up a height in spite of aerial traumas
WHAT a narrow escape the good folk of Heddon-on-the-Wall appear to have had last week!
Last updated 24 October 2011
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Halcyon days were spent down on the farm
DON’T farmers get on your wick!
Last updated 17 October 2011
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The joy of cooking has passed me by
WHEN was it that men started taking an interest in cooking?
Last updated 10 October 2011
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Hunger pains led to desperate measures
WHEN I was at school, I well remember the geography master saying to me one day: “Hextol, you look like a five-a-day man to me.”
Last updated 3 October 2011
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Let the hedge-cutting battle commence
I WAS in the bank on Monday when the kindly clerk noted my pained expression and the sloth-like nature of my movements.
Last updated 27 September 2011
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Barrier grief plunges me into despair
AS I grow older, I find I am taking the art of being absent minded to a completely new level.
Last updated 19 September 2011
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