Updated 8:34am 3 June 2012

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John: Boom and bust

AUTUMN is not my time of the year. Not for me the coloured leaves, the mists and mellow fruitfulness.Read

John: In your dreams

ALPHA Bradley and Georgina Bear were girls who met on the first day of term at a boarding school and became firm friends.Read

John: Save our pubs

WE can’t lose our pubs – if only for the great tales told in them.Read

John: Brits vs the French – fighting the rebel cause

BRITISH people are not good at revolting. We used to be. We have a history of setting fire to things (and occasionally people) that we don’t like.Read

John: The costly problem of keeping pets

CATS seem to home in on the people who don’t like them.Read

John Avison: a New Year’s Revolution?

MY father’s early years were spent in Scholes, Cleckheaton. He told me that he was well into his teens before he saw the sea. A trip into Bradford, not much more than six miles away, was the equivalent of a holiday.Read

John Avison: Tales of the park

GREENHEAD Park has a special place in my memories.Read

John Avison:Fender bender drama

I WAS in a hurry to get to an appointment after work one day last week.Read

John Avison: Brits in battle down the ages

There’s a big drive on TV at the moment exploring the Normans’ part in shaping our country.Read

John Avison: little dogs

I’M walking along the footpath and a woman with a small dog calls it to heel.Read

John: Free energy from waterfalls

IT was late in the day and we were navigating through a rich wilderness of emerald woodland and sheep-studded hillsides near Ludlow.Read

John: Nuts in the wood

DEEP down in our souls, we know there’s something not quite pleasant about a wood.Read

John Avison: Heaven and hell in a carrot

WHEN it comes to the crunch, Avison’s your man.Read

John Avison: Some good advice

YOU want to know why men should not write advice columns?Read

John Avison: The film as modern myth

STORYTELLING has a history as old as mankind.Read

John Avison: Bill Gates advice to schoolchildren

THERE are times when I’d like to pour petrol over and set fire to everything with the Microsoft name.Read

John Avison: working in wood

AS the iron teeth of the recession bite into state schools we are likely to see less of taught handicrafts.Read

John: injustice of pensions versus prisons

THE value of your pension is plummeting, residential and nursing care is costing £600 to £1,000 a week out of your hard-earned savings and the NHS is going private.Read

John: The beauty of miniature gardens

AS previously reported we have a Dimmock in our front garden. Read

John: Sister-in-law ‘Sarah’ and her amazing memory

SARAH is not her real name. She lives a sheltered, protected life and her real name, even if it were exposed in an article in a newspaper nearly 200 miles from where she lives, would be an infringement of her privacy.Read