By Andrew Mosley on Mon 29 Nov 2021
IT always starts with the recorder. Well, almost always, because it didn’t for me.
By Andrew Mosley on Fri 26 Nov 2021
“HOW do you spell Czechoslovakia, Miss?” I had asked.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 22 Nov 2021
I’VE always been a fan of talking in songs. When it’s done well it really works. When it isn’t it is at least funny.
By Andrew Mosley on Wed 17 Nov 2021
TIMES were hard and they were about to get harder, but at least I had something to look forward to and the last thing I needed was this.
By Admin on Mon 15 Nov 2021
IT’S a Saturday night, I’m in on my own and taking the opportunity to play some old vinyl on my recently purchased turntable.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 28 Oct 2021
I ALWAYS fancied going on Bullseye, but in many ways to me it now represents sadness and disappointment.
By Andrew Mosley on Tue 19 Oct 2021
BURYING the hatchet can be difficult and to do it properly the timing has to be right.
By Andrew Mosley on Wed 13 Oct 2021
TOWN centres are not what they used to be and are unlikely to ever return to their former glories.
By Andrew Mosley on Tue 05 Oct 2021
I WAS always fascinated by Ireland — the history, the “Troubles”, the music, the place names, the literature, Gaelic sports — and wanted to make a good impression when I made my first visit there in 1995. I was also fascinated by the Guinness and the whiskey so the good impression was, to be frank, not possible.
By Andrew Mosley on Fri 01 Oct 2021
I HAVE never been one to reach for the feelgood factor, be it a lightweight book, a cheerful song, a nice film or, perish the thought, a musical or pantomime.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 16 Sep 2021
IN 1984 I read George Orwell’s 1984 and the world seemed all the more sinister.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 13 Sep 2021
MRS Stead had decreed I was the most likely to remember all the words, so I was awarded the main role in a school assembly production.
By Amy Hebdon, Macmillan fundraising manager on Mon 13 Sep 2021
IT has been a difficult 18months and across the board we all feel that we’ve lost valuable time with our loved ones, not visited places we planned to, not shared experiences we had hoped. Many of us have been disconnected from the people, places and activities we enjoy the most.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 09 Sep 2021
HE came from one of the roughest families in the north. “World in Action actually featured us in a documentary. My mum had 13 kids to 12 different fathers and there’s only me and one other brother who have done good. The rest have just had kids, increased the population and sponged off the state,” he would say.
By Andrew Mosley on Mon 06 Sep 2021
MY first game, October 23 1976, Elland Road, Leeds v Liverpool, the north on edge, living in fear of the Yorkshire Ripper, people wondering if he may be in the ground; he might even be standing next to us. He could be our father, brother, uncle, cousin, son.
By Admin on Mon 23 Aug 2021
TWO community-minded groups have been given vital fund injections through the Rotherham Advertiser’s Cash For The Community scheme.