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Doug Akroyd »

Bienvenue

Posted on 3:08pm Monday 15th December 2008

Some heartfelt bouquets to hand out after a visit by four French friends to Bradford and its district.

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Shouldering the blame

Posted on 4:12pm Tuesday 9th December 2008

Only now is the pain subsiding enough to be able to tap away at the keyboard and recount how I came acropper on the bike in the recent cold snap.

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Road raves

Posted on 11:21am Wednesday 5th November 2008

You can go quite a while to and froing on a bike to work without incident.

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Let there be light

Posted on 11:06am Monday 13th October 2008

Modern life is all very well until it goes catastrophically wrong, isn’t it?

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Strictly Utterly Tedious

Posted on 10:12am Monday 22nd September 2008

I may be a bit out of step here, I know (if you’ll excuse the pun)but isn’t Strictly Come Dancing utterly tedious and now being milked for all it's worth?

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Riding high for charity

Posted on 10:00am Monday 22nd September 2008

What better way to spend a glorious Indian summer’s day than getting out on the bike early in the morning and heading for the hills?

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Sick to the core

Posted on 9:47am Monday 22nd September 2008

It’s never very pleasant feeling under the weather, and there comes a time when you just have to take a day or so off to let the worst of it pass.

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Humbled by charity events

Posted on 9:06pm Sunday 14th September 2008

Another weekend of charity events in which I can only take my hat off to organisers and participants in brilliant fund-raising ventures.

Doug Akroyd »

On song for a fundraiser

Posted on 9:42pm Sunday 7th September 2008

What was I thinking of? Really!

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Cut to the quick

Posted on 9:29pm Sunday 7th September 2008

Secretly, I don’t actually mind the rain too much.

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Brought to life

Posted on 11:15am Monday 1st September 2008

You can’t beat live music, can you?

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Flat sales

Posted on 10:32am Saturday 23rd August 2008

I don’t know whether the housing market is less pressured in the Derbyshire town we visited this week in search of an apartment for our daughter… but there didn’t seem to be a great deal of pazzazz in the sales pitches.

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