Revelation

Write one get one free is what I offered but I am still waiting!

Born: Derby

Brought up: From about three months old - In New Brancepeth and subsequently Ushaw Moor

Favourite journalist: Johann Hari

Favourite atheist: Richard Dawkins

Favourite cleric: Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Best pudding: hot blackberry pie and vanilla ice cream

Favourite politician: Vince Cable [1st reserve Baroness Shirley Williams]

Favourite football team: The Rams [followed by Arsenal]

Homespun philosophy: Be aware of the incredible luck involved in being alive/look after your family/try and make the world a fraction better for  being in it [I am struggling badly with that one] and look for evidence rather than adopting lazy blind faith, especially in matters of great importance.

Current pet dislike: people who attack media studies as being soft and inferior. It is neither soft nor inferior. Much of the media manipulates and distorts; maybe that is the motive, for some within it, to sneer at the subject.

Well there we are. I hope to get back on the straight and narrow soon. By that I mean 'normal articles' that concentrate on memories of the Deerness. Perhaps we can have a look at large Sleetburn families from Edwardian times and also think about local workingmen's clubs and how they fared, or are faring. How about a review of the Ushaw Moor 7?  There was not much protest about the seven I selected!  

WB