Hextol
‘Worzel Gummidge coat’ is a vintage item
MUCH to my distress, Mrs Hextol has coerced me into buying a new coat.
Last updated 16 May 2011
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My bitter experience of the financial world
Events in the world of high finance have set me thinking about how I could get in on it – particularly the insurance side.
Last updated 9 May 2011
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Wicket experience ended my cricket career
“YOU OK for after work then?” It was an innocent enough inquiry in the office many years ago.
Last updated 2 May 2011
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A very contented life on the ocean wave
DESPITE the fact that my father was a salty sea dog, and my youngest son has followed him into the Royal Navy, I never really fancied a life on the ocean wave.
Last updated 25 April 2011
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Display ban sends out wrong smoke signals
FROM a very young age, I have abhorred smoking.
Last updated 18 April 2011
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Modern motors are driving me to despair
MODERN cars are wonders of technology – but aren’t they paralysingly dull!
Last updated 11 April 2011
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Ice and easy viewing on Sunday evenings
WHAT am I going to do of a Sunday now that Dancing on Ice has finished?
Last updated 4 April 2011
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Getting to grips with the slips in the aisles
I WAS in full Matt Prior mode in Tesco last week. I have far less facial hair, but much more on top than the maladroit England wicket keeper, but there is little to choose between us in the safe pair of hands department.
Last updated 28 March 2011
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Some bazaar behaviour at the car boot sale
I KNOW I shouldn’t be tempted, but I just can’t stay away from the Hexham car boot sale.
Last updated 21 March 2011
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Ice folly leaves me a bloody victim of cold war
I ACHIEVED a new first on Friday, as possibly the only person ever to suffer deep lacerations while defrosting the fridge.
Last updated 14 March 2011
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Feathered friends were a childhood fascination
FOR as long as I can remember, I have been a bit of a bird brain.
Last updated 7 March 2011
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Messing up the apostrophe is a catastrophe
There’s always a danger when one clambers on to a soapbox that someone will be only too happy to knock you off it.
Last updated 28 February 2011
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Shell shocked at my role in demise of mussels
ALTHOUGH I normally sport a benign countenance and sunny disposition, it’s all been a mask.
Last updated 21 February 2011
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The legend of the ‘Belly of Steel’ lives on
LONG before Mrs Hextol and I were married, my mother knew we were destined for a long and happy life together.
Last updated 14 February 2011
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Bowled over by a trip down memory lane
I TURNED the clock back more than 40 years last week – and enjoyed every minute of it.
Last updated 7 February 2011
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Quiz sparks memories of the Hexham minstrels
THERE is nothing I like better than a good quiz. I am not very good at many things, but when it comes to quizzes, my giant head comes into its own.
Last updated 31 January 2011
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Baring all in the name of post-festive fitness drive
I AM asked to do all sorts in the course of my work, but I don’t think the world is quite ready to cope should I go along with the latest approach.
Last updated 24 January 2011
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Staying in tune with the pop music of the past
BELIEVE it or not, there was a time when I was pretty clued up on the pop music scene.
Last updated 17 January 2011
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Vandals take the multi-colour out of Christmas
WELL, we got a White Christmas, but I’m afraid we were left seeing red at Hextol Towers.
Last updated 10 January 2011
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On line is so much better than shopping on foot
HEXTOL Towers is slowly returning to normal after the traumas of the pre-Christmas power surge.
Last updated 4 January 2011
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