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Lucy Orgill: Fridge Fascists
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Thursday, 19 February 2009. Lucy’s column for Feb 17th. They’ve riffled through our rubbish. They’ve leered into our kids’ lunch-boxes. And nagged us into eating our five-a-day portions of knobbly greens, tasteless tomatoes, bent bananas, and wilting watercress. There are also moves afoot for busy-body council employees to turn up on our doorsteps and demand to know how many en-suites, utility rooms, extensions, and hen coops we’ve got, in order to re-value the amount of council tax we pay.
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Lucy Orgill: Grannies
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Thursday, 26 February 2009. Lucy’s column for Feb 24. Indulge me a bit while I talk about grannies in general, and those close to me in particular. She’d met my grandfather in India in the 1890s, where she worked as a nanny, and he was an Army regular. They had three sons, and only a year after my dad, the youngest, was born, he was killed by a cricket ball to the head during a game. She had to sail home alone, with her three little boys, to what? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Lucy Orgill: February 2009
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Thursday, 26 February 2009. Lucy’s column for Feb 24. Indulge me a bit while I talk about grannies in general, and those close to me in particular. She’d met my grandfather in India in the 1890s, where she worked as a nanny, and he was an Army regular. They had three sons, and only a year after my dad, the youngest, was born, he was killed by a cricket ball to the head during a game. She had to sail home alone, with her three little boys, to what? Thursday, 19 February 2009. So it was only a matter of ti...
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Lucy Orgill: December 2008
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Monday, 29 December 2008. Earlier this month I returned from a week away to find two timely reminders that Christmas was, indeed, a-comin’. There was a pile of cards on the doormat from those who are infinitely more organised than yours truly, and a story in the papers suggesting that we give Christmas cards a miss – and that from a man of the cloth, the Right Reverend Bishop of Reading Dr Stephen Cottrell. And for a moment, I was torn. Tuesday, 16 December 2008. Home Alone by John Orgill. Mates ring up ...
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Lucy Orgill: April 2008
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008. Lucy’s column for April 29. Not only was I a fat little kid, born weighing eleven pounds, but was lumbered with the kind of moniker, Lucy Seymour, which cried out for cat-calling of the Loose-Elastic, See-More-Knickers, variety. And not the most pleasurable experience when you’re on the receiving end. It sounded like a chain saw at work in my head. And was I miffed when he suggested that if I stopped talking, he’d concentrate better? I reckon the whole darned cataracts team on War...
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Lucy Orgill: June 2008
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Thursday, 5 June 2008. Lucy’s column for June 3. The old man’s trouser hems are, more often than not, held up with Sellotape. I’ve never darned a sock in my life. And if a shirt button drops off, it’s tough if the garment is any other colour than black or white. That’s the extent of the cotton-reel colour co-ordination in our sewing basket. How come there is no Marital Rating Scale – because that’s what this downright cheeky check list is called – for men? My dear friend Joyce Palin, who’s also had...
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Lucy Orgill: July 2008
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Friday, 25 July 2008. Lucy’s column for July 22. It’s difficult describing to your nine-year-old granddaughter the intricacies of the Gay Gordons and the Eightsome Reel, and the great gusto with which this granny danced them on the lawns, fields and playgrounds of her childhood, when Grace has spent the past month or so practising to perfection a 50s style jazzy-jive Jools Holland number before making her debut on the Assembly rooms, Derby, stage. Hip-hop and be-bop, bhangra and Bollywood, boogie and bal...
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Deputy Editor's Blog: February 2008
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Thursday, 28 February 2008. Interpreters figure was wrong. At the Derby Evening Telegraph we have an ethos of admitting when we are wrong, no matter how difficult or embarrassing, it may be. We believe that our readers and users of our websites will trust us more if we are as open as possible. Thus, I can tell you that yesterday’s first edition front page lead, was incorrect. A full inquest was held into how the mistake was made. The reality is it was simple human error. We did, however, believe that the...
