Huddersfield Examiner - Columnists - Andrew Hirst

Andrew Hirst: Lakes walk was no stroll in the park

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:00:00 GMT

WE went up to the Lakes recently to celebrate a friend's ‘special' birthday.

Andrew Hirst: You’ll soon be paying for all your pleasures

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:00:00 GMT

SO the Government did a U-turn on the pasty tax – or, in their parlance, ‘listened to what the people had to say and then acted accordingly'.

Andy Hirst: Terrier in the doghouse after wrecking spree

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT

LOCAL Newspaper Week starts on Monday and is a way of reminding those of us in the industry just why we do it.

Andy Hirst: How not to fit a pint into a half pint glass at Johnnys

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:00:00 GMT

JOHNNYS nightclub will have a special place in the memories for thousands of Huddersfield people. And those memories have been recalled by Johnny and Joe Marsden, who have set up a website featuring hundreds of photographs.

Andy Hirst: Alan’s bad impression of being an honest geezer

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:46:00 GMT

ANNOYING phone calls from people wanting to sell something to you or simply steal your cash seem to be on the up again in our house.

Andy Hirst: If only family life was a little bit predictable

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:44:00 GMT

WE are a family of six so the parents in our house are definitely outnumbered ... and certainly outgunned.

Andrew Hirst: Enjoying a walk on the really wild side at Ovenden Moor

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

I’VE often felt there are masses of places to explore around Huddersfield and yet never had the time to do it.

Andrew Hirst: Are men blind when it comes to colours?

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:00:00 GMT

SOME people may see life through rose-tinted spectacles, but men and women certainly wear different types of specs when it comes to colour.

Andy Hirst: Oh we do like to be beside the seagulls in Whitby

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

MY wife Ruth woke up with a start one morning and thought ‘that sounds like a seagull.’

Andy Hirst: Why do we always end up in the shops?

Huddersfield Examiner — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:00:00 GMT

SHOPS and my wife have one thing in common. She likes them and they love her.

Andy Hirst: Planning a summer holiday

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

THERE’S A lot of twitterpation going on in our garden at the moment.

Andy Hirst: Am I as mad as a balloon or as sick as a parrot?

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WHAT do balloons, parrots, dogs, posts, doornails, lords and frogs have in common?

Andy Hirst: Facing up to the fact my car’s an animal

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

IT’S surprising how many cars are named after animals … and equally surprising how few live up to the sometimes racy tag.

Andy Hirst: Time we all stopped talking twaddle

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

JUST what are we on about?

Andy Hirst: Nothing Academic about this visit to Manchester

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I’VE resisted the temptation so far to get modern and invest in a sat nav.

Andy Hirst: An alien experience in windswept Whitby

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

WE took the kids to Filey for a weekend in November and ventured up to Whitby for a day.

Andy Hirst: Working my socks off to pair them all up

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

MANY families do many things together.

A roar of laughter ... but who’s tittering now we have a picture of a lion at Shepley station

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

WHEN you’re a journalist you’ve got to have skin as thick as, well, a lion’s.

Puppy Betsy bounds into my life and wallet

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

WE have a new puppy in the house, not that we particularly needed one as we’ve already had a dog for eight years now.

Andy Hirst: I’m afraid you can beat a bit of bully

Huddersfield Examiner — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

BROWSING around the Freeview channels late at night I came across one so dark I hardly dare mention it by name.