Tag: lockdown
“Yes, madam, this is a bank: but, no, you can’t have...
This morning we watched the rain in dismay as we counted down the hours to the Steeple Aston church fête, one of those traditional...
Dear Fat Controller: as you reorganise the nation’s railways, please remember...
Bernard Trafford hopes that reforms to the rail network might bring a reduction in silly titles and management gobbledegook.
Railways have been in the news recently. No,...
Return to normal, or to a very different “new normal”? Well,...
Lockdown is easing, pubs and restaurants are open (up to a point) and, better still, the weather is improving, with even a hint of...
Finally there is light at the end of the tunnel: but...
Bernard Trafford reckons he cannot be the first person to use that metaphor with regard to the Covid pandemic. The current lockdown seems at...
The coming year: light beginning to dawn, or an extension of...
On New Year’s Eve Bernard Trafford was tickled by a bogus quote from Samuel Pepys’s diary doing the rounds on social media. But it also gave...
Ministers are floundering into exam chaos: but it’s candidates who’ll suffer
On 30th September I published a piece on Voice of the North about next year’s (summer 2021) public exams. I predicted that, notwithstanding their...
A level and GCSE exams won’t take place as “normal” in...
As one in six schools has year-groups sent home due to Covid outbreaks, and pupil progress is affected as a result, education bodies are...
My kitchen sink drama when BT’s repairs left me in the...
Kitchen sink drama or BT soap opera?
Kitchen sink drama or BT soap opera? COLIN WAKELING finds himself left in the lockdown lurch
I RECENTLY 'ENJOYED'...
Curious cacophony in Crookham as Banksy goes ballistic: a tall tale...
What was that curious cacophony in Crookham last weekend? Don’t worry: it was only Banksy going ballistic at government’s labyrinthine Cummings and goings!
Was I...
Will the virus kill off the local rag? On paper, possibly....
Coronavirus has killed tens of thousands of people and devastated the printed press. But could it kill off the true hyper-local media ? In...
