YOU’RE going to have to trust me on this one – it won’t be bad luck if you read this column today . . . honest . . . promise . . . cross my heart.
Yes, it’s Friday the 13th (only the second Friday

THERE was a time when I was regarded as something of a ‘stickler’ for dress codes.
In the days when I sat in the editor’s chair, it was a case of woe betide any male trainee reporter who turned up for work without a jacket

TIME was when I was young enough (and twp enough!) to talk about making a ‘fox pass’.
As a young cub reporter, I even committed the cardinal sin of scribbling ‘fox pass’ in a news story.
My editor at the time stopped short of a

A WISE man once declared, “You can live to be a 100 if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a 100.”
OK, I’ll pause there, as it wasn’t a very wise man. It was film director Woody Allen

BACK in July, I was a Bear. For some strange reason, in August, I became a Dolphin. This week, it turns out that I am now a Parrot.
Confused? Please don’t lose any sleep over it. Leave the worrying to me.
Here’s the explanation: as

THEY say every day is a school day. Just when you get to the age when you think you know it all, something new comes along to broaden your horizons.
A week ago, I didn’t know a thing about community benefit societies. Today, I well