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Did I tell you about that time?

People tell me stories. Sometimes they make me laugh, or gawk or scratch my head. Usually they are just snippets and vignettes and I often think it's a shame not to share them with others. Here are a few I've heard recently. Most of the names have been changed. And don't ask me if the stories are true. I'm not fact-checking them. Angus and his new shirt. When he was a teenager Angus was a little bit wild. But in those days (the 1980s) wild boys were still just wild boys and nobody minded very much.…

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Scams are big business, so beware

A friend of mine got a message via Facebook a couple of weeks ago. It was from a friend of friend, whose name he recognised. This friend of a friend wanted his phone number. Not suspecting anything untoward, my friend shared his mobile number. Next, the person told him he had lost access to his own Facebook account and needed a code, which he was currently unable to receive. Could be please have the code forwarded to my friend, as a favour? My trusting friend decided to help out. Guess what happened next? What happened was…

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Childhood memories of The Newcastle Show

Newcastle Show, to me as a child in the 1960s, was an extravagant feast for the senses that marked it as one of the great highlights of the year. The smells, sounds, lights and crowds of the nighttime show made it seem to me like a magical town, with its streets and alleys and the big public square of the main ring. I drank in the excitement of the event with wide-eyed enthusiasm. The Show really seemed like a city to me – so huge, with so many different areas, each with an entirely different feel,…

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