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Lockley: Hypnosis has taken me back to my past life... as Mr Whippy

I’VE reached an age where family bonds have taken on greater significance. Part of it is the realisation my son’s going to pick my care home.Read

Gok Wan pulls out of Style in City after suffering a cardie-yak!

THE stories behind the stories that make newspaper headlines are often more fascinating than the stories themselves… if you get my drift.Read

Under doctor’s orders to walk backwards out of surgery

LAST week I admitted defeat: this cold, which has raged in my head, chest and nose for a fortnight, will not go away without intervention from a medical professional.Read

Mike Lockley: Joe settles into uni life.. after finding Countdown on TV

THE incessant drum and bass muzak has, after four years, stopped.Read

Amateur dramatic Panto is a thing to dread

IT may be only October, but the rehearsals for this year’s am-dram panto are already underway.Read

Lockley: A quick visit to new age clinic to burn my lugholes

POPPED into that new alternative therapy clinic last week and had candles stuck in my ears. Honest.Read

Lockley: A quick visit to new age clinic to burn my lugholes

POPPED into that new alternative therapy clinic last week and had candles stuck in my ears. Honest.Read

Lockley: Match Of The Day in drag

“FOR heaven’s sake, take the thing off!” demanded my wife.Read

Lockley: Yellow-belly fever in Antigua

I HATE heights and big, hairy spiders. Take note: if you come across a six foot, hairy spider, don’t ring me for help. I’ll just squeal like a girlie.Read

The beautiful game has turned damned ugly in our parish

UGLY scenes have tainted the annual inter-parish football match.Read

Mike Lockley: I’ve been having a few problems with my new computer

MY computer at home is so old that when it broke down the IT chap urged me to pedal faster.Read

Mike Lockley: My Antigua antics

IF the wonders of new technology are truly wonderful, and my laptap works, I’ll be sunning myself on the Caribbean island of Antigua when you read this.Read

V Festival hell:Oasis singer Liam Gallagher is a bog-eyed, fen-dwelling marrow gobbler!

“THAT’S it,” I stormed, leaping out of bed and putting on my trousers. “I’m going to tell them to turn it down.”Read

Mike Lockley Column: Son Joe is ready to fly the nest

IN four weeks’ time, the fruit of my loins – a 6ft 5ins youth with hands the size of shovels who my wife still refers to as ‘our little boy’ – leaves for university.Read

Mike Lockley Column: Bird-watchers don't appreciate Kerrang Radio

ON Saturday I dusted off my binoculars and went birdwatching.Read

Mike Lockley Column: A real fright night after bat swoops in to haunt our toilet

INTERESTING pub debate about weird wildlife that has entered our homes.Read

Mike Lockley Column: Wife's Wolverhampton Wanderers obsession has gone into overdrive

FOR months there’s been something missing from our marriage.Read

Mike Lockley Column: Cheesy hits and cheesy fingers as we head back to the ’80s

MY ears still ring, my head still thumps, following a night of pure nostalgia.Read

V-Festival is set to rock our O.A.P's again

IT’S that time of year again.Read

Mike Lockley: Why I hate family gatherings

I HATE family gatherings.Read

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