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Yorkshire Words Of The Week

From: G Page, Heath Road, Dewsbury.

Ian McMillan: I dreamed a dream – of misery

I wake up from The Dream and I’m sweating and thrashing and disorientated. I’m mumbling: “Take the big wings away! I don’t want to see those giant spots any more! I’m sorry! I’m really sorry!” I drag myself out of bed and go downstairs and drink lots of water, lots of lovely water with no wings or spots. I calm down a tad. But I can’t go back to bed because, like somebody from a cheap horror film, I might fall asleep and then... I might dream! I might dream The Dream again! (At this point you should hear crashing doomy chords in a minor key and a terrifying scream but as this is a newspaper not a film perhaps you could just hum some crashing doomy chords in a minor key and give us a bit of a scream. Ta.)

Yorkshire Words Of The Week

From: Rev Canon J Calvert, Darlton, Newark, Nottinghamshire.

MRS V Russell asks for different versions of Christmas/New Year “Lucky Bird” rhymes (Country Week, December 24).

Ian McMillan: Cinematic memories of an evening of laughter

My dad used to tell me that his dad, George McMillan of Carnwath in Lanarkshire, converted all the cinemas in his part of the county to sound in the late 1920s, and when people first heard the talkies they ran from the cinema in fear into the frosty Scottish night, trying to cover their ears with deep-fried haggis and black bun.

Yorkshire Words Of The Week

From Norma Caton, Scawton, North Yorkshire.

Ian McMillan: The life and times of an NME showbiz journalist

When I was a teenager with long hair, a noisy LP collection and an ex-Army greatcoat that was badly in need of a good scrub, I couldn’t wait for Thursday to come because that was NME day. To the uninitiated or the deeply ungroovy, that’s the New Musical Express, the weekly music paper that’s celebrating its 60th birthday this year. I’d grab it from the shelves and devour it from front to back, back to front and then middle outwards, both ways, and because the ink came off on your fingers, by Thursday night I looked like I’d done a double shift down Darfield Main coal mine.

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Titanic memories

The initial grief following the world’s most infamous shipping disaster was focused on Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the bodies recovered from the freezing Atlantic found their last resting place. Terry Fletcher reports from the city ahead of the centenary in April.

Yorkshire Words Of The Week

From: Jose Barnes, Hessle, East Yorkshire.

Ian McMillan: Music that comes from the very depths of me

What’s that noise? Sounds like a crash of unseasonal thunder coming over the muckstack from down Grimethorpe way, or maybe somebody up the street’s having a king-size skip delivered and it’s come adrift as they’re unloading it. Or has my wife dropped some hard-backed books on the floor upstairs? Or is young Thomas watching a film with avalanches in and he’s accidentally sat on the remote and turned the volume up to what I once heard somebody refer to as Uncle Max? (As opposed to Auntie Min, of course.)

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