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On Blogging and Journalism 22 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
RECENTLY, A STUDENT at one of the local universities requested, after browsing The Tears of a Clown that I participate in her research on the topic of blogging and it’s relationship to journalism. The...
Nottinghamshire History: The Extraordinary Story of Kitty Hudson – the Human Pin Cushion 5 Jun 2013 | 08:38 pm
KITTY HUDSON WAS BORN IN ARNOLD, NOTTINGHAM in 1765, the granddaughter of Mr. White, a sexton of St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham who she was left with from a young age. During the latter part of that ce...
Sweet – Funny Funny 5 Jun 2013 | 04:50 pm
I RECENTLY READ A DISCUSSION ON an online forum on the subject of music that one had previously ignored that later became in vogue with one’s musical tastes. I think many of us can label ourselves in ...
A Late Call and Hibernian Euphoria! 24 May 2013 | 06:00 am
The following article appears in the 2013 Scottish Cup Final edition of Mass Hibsteria. It was written for the Hibs fanzine shortly after the recent victory in the Edinburgh derby game. ~ I WRITE AS A...
Stop Press…The Nottingham Post in new website shock! 23 May 2013 | 03:33 pm
At times I struggle with the local media here in Nottingham for a few reasons. A bugbear of mine is the former Nottingham Evening Post, now simply termed The Nottingham Post after a change of the dail...
Hibs: McPake or Forster for the Cup? 21 May 2013 | 04:56 pm
AS WE APPROACH THE FINAL few days running up to the Scottish Cup Final with Hibs due to make a second consecutive appearance, Hibs boss, Pat Fenlon has a major conundrum before him. With influential c...
Nottinghamshire History: Mordecai Sherwin, ‘Nowt Fears Me’ 9 May 2013 | 05:15 am
The name of Mordecai Sherwin, a local and internationally-known sportsman of his era was known to me from doing a little research and reading on the golden age of cricket in the nineteenth century and...
Nottinghamshire History: The Lincolnshire Poacher 19 Apr 2013 | 05:26 pm
I’ve written previously about the numerous networks of caves that run under the city of Nottingham and some of it’s outlying suburbs such as the one I live in. They are many in number, not generally c...
Springtime and back on the road 15 Apr 2013 | 01:55 pm
IT’S BEEN A LONG WINTER and it’s so welcome to finally see a little watery sunshine again and have a brief respite from the chilling winds of the past few months. I felt it time, upon this encourageme...
Hibs in a Lazarus-like comeback 14 Apr 2013 | 07:07 pm
WELL, THOSE OF US OF A HIBERNIAN persuasion can breathe again. It’s the day after a tumultuous, worrying and ultimately relieving victory over First Division Falkirk by four goals to three. The unusua...
