Monthly Archives: April 2012

How Not To Sew Seed: An Allegory.

Tommy O’Duggan was an agrarian expert, a Lancashire farmer imbued with the generic gifts his forefathers had bequeathed when they left the broad green fields of their native Tipperary to seek a life in distant lands after their agricultural skills had deserted them following some bad harvests long ago.  Lancashire was where they pitched up and in those dark satanics… (more…)

St. Robert’s Relived Whilst Languishing In Longsight.

With all the comments I have received lately about a piece I penned over two years ago, I thought I would continue on the same theme and write of more thoughts I have about life in Longsight and especially life attached to St. Robert’s parish and school and try to invigorate our selective  memories. I was born in February 1946… (more…)