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John Avison: Bang out of order

YOU can hire a suicide bomber costume for your cat.Read

John: old photographs – memories, truth or fiction?

BY an odd coincidence various members of my family have been turning up recently in the Examiner in sepia-style pictures from a distant past.Read

John Avison: Beatles just like yesterday

THE Beatle crossing the road barefoot on the cover of the Abbey Road album is Paul McCartney.Read

John Avison: The trouble with squirrels

FOR several years, the record number of squirrel-sightings in my local woods on my regular 40-minute, two-mile walk held firm at 17.Read

John Avison: True cost of metal

THE Metal Theft Prevention Bill had a safe passage through the Commons two days ago, which could mean it will be law by next spring.Read

John Avison: the good old days of pubs and beer

THERE is much talk these days of the imminent ‘death’ of the public house.Read

John Avison: Games we play

THE old-fashioned pub has always been a place to play games.Read

John Avison: an idea or two about the population explosion

THE human population of the world hit seven billion this week.Read

John Avison: Public notices gone wrong

WORKING with words can be tricky as we hacks are only too aware.Read

John Avison: Don’t make plans

IF you are a Kirklees councillor and someone offers you a job on the planning committee, turn it down.Read

John: Strange music from Georgia

GEORGIA, as the song so aptly put it, is on my mind.Read

John Avison: Card miser

SHOCK, horror: the senior Avison family sent not a single Christmas card last year.Read

John Avison: how the British shun violence – usually

THE vast majority of us prefer to rub along nicely together if at all possible.Read

John: Delving into the mind of a serial killer

I’M shivering in my steamy-windowed car outside 6, Garden Avenue, Heaton, Bradford.Read

John: the infamous Bristol Zoo car park ‘scam’

NO doubt you’ve heard the wonderful story of the Bristol Zoo car parking attendant who wasn’t.Read

John Avison: That’s the ticket

THE assistant at the supermarket ciggie counter was probably just being cheerful.Read

John Avison: Greenhead Park and childhood revisited

GREENHEAD Park has figured now in the lives of four generations of my family.Read

John: Can’t get away

REMEMBER the film The Great Escape, where Steve McQueen’s character tried to get out of Germany on a motorbike and got stuck between the lines of wire?Read

John: The history of collecting things

COLLECTING things is a peculiarly capitalist activity.Read

Film review Crazy, Stupid, Love

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (12A, 118 mins) 8/10(12A, 118 mins) 8/10Read