David Barnett column

Our columnist David Barnett takes a look at some
of the more offbeat issues of the week

Mum's the mane attraction on capital trip

9:10am Friday 17th May 2013

My family has never had a happy relationship with horses, ever since my dad killed one with a hot-air balloon.

Oh, I don’t like to be beside the seaside!

12:56pm Friday 10th May 2013

It is Bank Holiday! It is the hottest day of the year so far! We are going to the seaside!

So what’s the mystery object?

8:33am Friday 3rd May 2013

This is a public service announcement. In response to a number of calls and e-mails to the offices of the Telegraph & Argus, we can confirm that sightings of a strange, unidentified object in the skies above Bradford are being investigated.

Betting on the wrong outcome

10:05am Friday 26th April 2013

Despite our best efforts, prejudices can sometimes be difficult to overcome.

Decency is going down the Tube...

8:52am Friday 19th April 2013

The car has died. Well, not so much died as is lying there on life-support, just waiting for us to give the go-ahead to switch off its systems and let it gracefully pootle off to the scrapyard in the sky.

Legacy that keeps us all in our place

9:02am Friday 12th April 2013

There’s a famous Frost Report sketch in which upper-class John Cleese looks down on middle-class Ronnie Barker who, in turn, peers down at working-class Ronnie Corbett, who does, of course, know his place.

Problem is, we have no perspective

10:55am Friday 5th April 2013

My e-mail provider has done something to my e-mails. I’m not sure what, because I didn’t really properly read any of the e-mails they sent saying they were doing this.

Building on green fields not all white

9:03am Friday 29th March 2013

The children are taking me sledging, to a place I haven’t been before, by ways known only to roaming cats and small boys and girls. We could have got here in five minutes by a much more direct route, but I have to admit that the circuitous journey we took along paths and alleys I had no idea existed was much more fun.

Vandalism was just mindless

8:31am Friday 22nd March 2013

Clap, clap, clap.

The uprising

8:35am Friday 8th March 2013

It is my sad duty to inform you that the microwave, which last week I reported had been coerced into joining the Great Machine Rebellion which seems to be taking place round our way, has finally bitten the dust.

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