Comment

News

Neil Roland

Neil Roland: Dancing to the same tune ... thanks to customer services

On Tuesday, I asked my partner Sara if she would like to dance with me across the kitchen, and as we swirled gracefully, yet with a growing sense of irritation to the tune of Duke Ellington’s Satin Doll, we knew in our hearts, that just a few miles away, set in a green oasis of calm and looking over a goose and duck filled lake at Lingley Mere (this is the description for a vast office complex between junctions 7 and 8 of the M62 at Warrington,) another couple were dancing to the same tune.

Neil Roland: The death of someone you love makes you chew things over

This column may be a slightly odd one this week, as yesterday, my mother died. I had intended to perhaps not write it. Then I considered writing a column about whatever was in the news, but realised I hadn't seen or heard any news, and had no intention of doing so.

Neil Roland: The trials and tribulations of parenting

I don’t know about you (naturally – I have no idea who you are), but when I read articles about the findings of studies, the subject of which relates in some way to my own life, there is an instant need in me to pitch myself against the findings – to see how I fare up against Joe Public, and to hopefully come away with a quietly smug realisation that in some way, I have bucked a trend.

Neil Roland: Bed buying - it's not to be taken lying down

Buying a bed involves, it seems, far more than going into a shop and choosing the most comfortable piece of furniture in which to sleep.

Neil Roland: Where have Didsbury's old treasures gone?

Can anybody reveal to me the mystery of where a cache of treasures may be, that belong to the people of Didsbury?  I ask, because last week Didsbury Civic Society invited those interested to wander around the hauntingly pretty grade 11 listed Old Parsonage, left to the City Council by Alderman Fletcher Moss, and now standing empty.
More Comment

Poll

Blog : MEN Media blogs

In Touch

In Touch gives you the chance to try to renew old acqaintances. To submit a letter for publication (free of charge), please email postbag@menmedia.co.uk with 'In Touch' in the subject line, or send a letter to In Touch, Manchester Evening News, Mitchell Henry House, Hollinwood Avenue, Chadderton, Oldham OL9 8EF.


loading...

Business Finder

Weather

Spotty showers
Spotty showers
Temp High: 17°C / 63°F
4 day forecast

Obituary

Search our archive of Deaths, Memoriams & Acknowledgements


View all notices