Newspaper Article

Gadfly - Obit of the action

Amos, Mike

2008

Overview

THE other reason that today's column has been running a bit late is that on Monday morning, the specs broke yet again. Only on Friday I'd been to see Geoff Foster, the world's best optician, assured that while things were very far from 20-20 they hadn't actually deteriorated. It was on the way out of the consulting room that I walked side-on into the display, frames flying all over the floor. \"Ah, \" said Geoff cheerfully, \"peripheral vision gone as well.\" LAST week's column also mentioned \"obituary poems\" in classified ads, prompting a call from Tom Dobbin in Durham who'd waited years for the chance to quote a little cutting he'd kept. He suspects it was Alan Bennett, called Lane of Memories. . . . . . and finally, last Friday's paper carried a letter from Durham City councillor Terry Moderate, whose Framwellgate Moor barber's shop featured in the 2001 best seller A1 - Portrait of a Road. Terry's an Independent, and not only Moderate at all, but somehow it still seems a pity. He should have been a Radical, his slogan indelible. \"Vote for change, vote Moderate.\"

• Publisher: Newsquest (North East) Ltd
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