Open Day tomorrow (Saturday, June 26, 2021) 11am and 3pm – meet Sara, Arlo and Albino Schnauzer Zebby – the cutest dog in Perth! https://www.mammashq.com.au/ A beauty salon with real heart has been dedicated to a Perth mum who died of breast cancer last year. The owner of Mammas HQ, Sara Banks, has called the… Continue reading How Covid and sadness pushed a Perth mum to pamper and empower others
Author: Leigh Banks
I am a journalist, writer and broadcaster ... lately I've been concentrating on music, I spent many years as a music critic and a travel writer ... I gave up my last editorship a while ago and started concentrating on my blog. I was also asked to join AirTV International as a co host of a new show called Postcard ...
The night I met Scott in the dream-time of his ‘wilderness years’
Fifty three years ago Scott released Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his TV Series. It got to No 7 in the UK. Despite its good chart rating, Scott thought it was a ‘wilderness years’ album and ultimately it was deleted for decades. That’s sad because it contained some powerful big band-driven performances of songs… Continue reading The night I met Scott in the dream-time of his ‘wilderness years’
The house I live in, the home of liberty … this is what America once meant to me
Yesterday, when The Society published the moving story of Hurricane hero Joe Dore leaving his job at the local store – a job he had held for 30 years – I only felt it would do good. Maybe help a little man who rescues animals and has helped many people in the town of Winnie… Continue reading The house I live in, the home of liberty … this is what America once meant to me
FIGHT FOR HURRICANE HERO JOE AT ALLIGATOR TOWN’S OLD ‘FIVE AND DIME’
People in an old Texas railway town claim their local ‘dollar’ store manager – a hurricane hero – has lost his job because of a candy bar competition. Affable Joe Dore, a diminutive man in his early 60s, who spends his free time rescuing animals from the side of the old state Highway 24, lives… Continue reading FIGHT FOR HURRICANE HERO JOE AT ALLIGATOR TOWN’S OLD ‘FIVE AND DIME’
A happy Fathers Day to all us dads out there… we’re thinking of you
When you’ve been an absent dad for most – or sometimes all – of your life, some days hurt more than others. The most painful of course are Christmas Day, New Year’s Day even, birthdays, Easter Day, school open days, family days. Those are the days we just learn to turn the lights off. We… Continue reading A happy Fathers Day to all us dads out there… we’re thinking of you
The Father of all days for heartbreak amongst men
BY ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE, D.A.D.S and NAAP Fathers day … this is what people don’t know. The toughest time of the year has arrived for so many men. Fathers day. So many fathers feel the pain on this day more than any other. Floods of tears heartbreak and loss of life. Every year we brace… Continue reading The Father of all days for heartbreak amongst men
A visual tribute to Manchester’s victims of the Arena bomber
Concert of horror: 22 murdered and 22 harrowing sketches by artist Elton Twenty-two men, women and children died in the suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena on May 2017. Bomber Salman Abedi’s device ripped through the lives of hundreds more. The inquiry into the terror attack says that all these people –… Continue reading A visual tribute to Manchester’s victims of the Arena bomber
On the way to bed and I hear a noise … 22 men women and children dead in city I love
Moston writer Dorrie Jane Bridge wrote this piece for us the day after the bombing It is the fifth anniversary of the Manchester Arena terror attack. Twenty-two people died when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017. Among the tributes, a minute’s applause will be held at… Continue reading On the way to bed and I hear a noise … 22 men women and children dead in city I love
What a difference 40 miles makes to the protectors of heritage – but still our Northern history crumbles
A Mancunian rant! As Hough Hall crumbles into oblivion, British Heritage – one of the organisation that could have helped us Mostonians save it – are ‘weeping’ over another vanished listed building 40 miles up the road. We probably all know Hurst Green, Longridge, in Preston, that scruffy little industrial town up the A6 (I… Continue reading What a difference 40 miles makes to the protectors of heritage – but still our Northern history crumbles
BOB’S KINGDOM – OUT OF THE COVID SHADOW and into a STREAMed CONCERT today!
Well the future for me is already a thing of the past His Royal Bobness is doing it again… embracing new technology when most people of his age are embracing a cup of Horlicks! Tonight’s the night for his online concert on Veeps. Called ‘Shadow Kingdom’ it will see Bob in an intimate ‘club-like’ setting… Continue reading BOB’S KINGDOM – OUT OF THE COVID SHADOW and into a STREAMed CONCERT today!