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At the end of the day I don’t mind a cliche!


ty shops. The satisfaction comes in many forms.


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You can find those books which went out of print years ago and which you'd always intended to read when you got round to it. As for the music, you can find the CDs


you'd baulk at buying in the regular shop because of the price and the uncertainty about how much you'd listen after first hearing. A few weeks ago I acquired a couple of


works by the American composer Samuel Barber, whose famous "Adagio" is about the only thing that crosses your path from the concert platform. Now I've discovered a whole new dimen­


sion to the celebrated Samuel, and his music is among the first I turn to when I want to relax with a glass of something relaxing. The other day, a book caught my eye


and I paid up my 50p for a tome entitled “Dictionary of Cliches”. Now what's a cliche? My dictionary


defines it as “a phrase or idea that has been overused and has become uninteresting or stale”.


NE of my joys of recent years has been rummaging through the piles of cast-off books and CDs in chari­


As I see i t . . . b y Glen Pate


Two references to cliches immediately


sprung into my head when I saw the book. One was how that wonderful user of the


English language, Sir Winston Churchill, demolished the effect of a speech by a political opponent by describing it as con­ taining “every cliche except ‘God is Love’ and ‘Gentlemen please adjust your dress’.” The second was a comment from an


American friend who had seen “Hamlet” for the first time and wondered why it was regarded so highly “because i t ’s full of cliches”. Anyway, I dipped into the book and


began reading the phrases that the author had placed in that, if not despised, slightly tainted category. Haif-an-hour later I was aware that the


bulk of our communication these days is ridden with cliche in one form or another. For instance, I started to write this piece


LOOKING BACK 50 years ago


AN offer of an interview with American millionaire Mr Huntingdon Hartford at the Dorchester Hotel, London, who was seeking an English "Jane Eyre" for his Broadway production, was turned down by Miss Pamela Wilkinson, of 25 Hawthorne Place, Clitheroe. Errol Flynn had already been engaged as the male lead. • With a 140ft. drop - and certain


death-directly below him, "Big" Tommy Jackson, a steeplejack, sat astride loose coping stones on top of a crumbling mill chimney for three-and-a-half hours. During that long wait, when he dare


not move an inch for fear of disturbing his precarious perch on the rim of the high chimney of a mill at Sabden, police, fire­ men and other steeplejacks organised a rescue which snatched Jackson to safety. As darkness fell and Tommy still lay on


the chimney rim, searchlights were brought in to flood the tense scene in bril­ liant light.


pint of beer"! Following his rescue he asked for-"a big


in a chatty manner just putting down words as they came into my head. Up to this point, I ’ve used, by my esti­


mation 14 expressions which could fall into the cliche category without either trying to use orsurpress the form. (There are no prizes for spotting them, but feel free to try!) To make yourself aware of just how


much cliche is used around us, just listen to conversations on the bus, or in the pub, or anywhere really. Try the soaps on TV or some of those


programmes which are intended to be more intellectually stimulating, but which feature experts using their own forms of cliched jargon. If you want to apply the definition com­


pletely, you realise we’re surrounded by cliche music, cliche food, cliche clothes, cliche gestures and cliche laughter. Now the cliche response to this is that


I’m complaining. Far from it. I find to con­ demn out of hand (another cliche and I make no apology) many of those phrases and attitudes which people feel comfort­ able with smacks of cloud cuckoo land. And if anyone wants to be so sniffy


about it - frankly, as the book quotes, I don’t give a damn!


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dedication by completing her training well ahead of schedule. Sarah Grindrod (24), of


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Dinckley, near Ribch- ester, is now a fully quali­ fied chartered accountant with East Lancashire firm PM&M after pass­ ing her final exams six months earlier than is usual. Sarah (pictured) is a


25 years ago


ANXIOUS residents of two Ribble Valley villages besieged council planners with pleas for more housing. At two separate meetings in Tosside and Bolton-by-Bow- land, Ribble Valley Council was urged to drop its “no go” policy and allow some infusion of life into the area. At Tosside, deputy planning officer of Ribble Valley Council, offered a glimmer of hope to vil­ lagers who had gathered in the school. He said that the only way forward lay in a housing scheme controlled by the council to stop private speculation. • In a massive political shake-up on vil­


lage school governing bodies, the Educa­ tion Authority on the Labour-controlled county council dismissed 14 local gover­ nors and replaced them. Many of the gov­ ernors involved had served teens of years and more. • Cub Scouts in Clitheroe were cooking


up quite a surprise to mark the 75th anniversary of the Scouting movement. The plan to cook a giant sausage 75ft. long was an answer to a challenge to Scouts from their official magazine.


former Westholme School pupil who went on to study at Newcastle Uni­ versity before returning to the area to join PM&M Chartered Accountants, which has


branches in Clitheroe, Blackburn, Burnley and Nelson. Sarah is one of 13


employees a t the firm who have recently passed exams, (s)


THOUGHT f o r t h e w e e k


watching everyday scenes and he mostly says: “That’s fair.” I ’m not sure, but I think i t ’s advertising a bank, but I could be wrong. I am almost a t the end of


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conducting Harvest Festival services for another year and I am getting to the point where I want to sing something differ­ ent from “We plough the fields and scatter”. At harvest we celebrate another year when we all have


. plenty to eat and all is safely gathered in. We also remember


wonder if you’ve seen that advert lately on the box? I t involves a man filmed


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Jack will still stay around


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career which has made him well- known throughout the area. Mr Jack Keogh has spent the


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Sarah’s ahead of the game! mm


RIBBLE Valley woman has proved her tru e career


past 18 years at Burnley firm Clif­ ford Smith and Buchanan, work­ ing primarily on house valuations, but he is equally well-known for his table tennis skills which earned him the Burnley Express “Sports Personality of the Year” title in 1982. The 65-year-old’s career saw him


working in Burnley’s Manchester Road for several firms, including the Burnley Express, Broader and Spencer estate agents, KD King and then Firth Pagett, where he became a partner. In 1986 national firm Prudential


bought out Firth Pagett and Mr Keogh worked for them until 1990 when he left to work a t Clifford Smith Buchanan’s Nelson office, before returning to Burnley in 1992. Mr Keogh, who lives in Tim-


brills Avenue, said he loved his job and is proud to have never had a day off sick while a t Clifford Smith and Buchanan. He said: “I’ve been in the job a


long time but I ’ve reluc tantly decided to walk away. “I still feel pretty fit and I ’m continuing for two days a week as


RESPECTED estate agent from Sabden has reluctant­ ly called time on a long


a consultant here. I ’ve been very lucky because I ’ve really enjoyed my career and I think tha t is the secret. “My wife, Marilyn, has a few


jobs lined up for me, but I ’ve also enjoyed taking photographs in the job so I might take up photogra­ phy. I am going to buy myself a nice digital camera.” The ardent Clarets fan, who has


three children and three grandchil­ dren, was Burnley table tennis champion for 22 years and was an England junior in the sport. Although he has not played for


10 years he is thinking of taking up the paddle again in his retire­ ment. Long-term colleague Mr Alan


Riley, who is a partner at Clifford Smith arid Buchanan, said that his son Scott (27) was taking over Mr Keogh’s role and was learning a lot from him. He said: “Jack has been a great


servant to us and all the other firms he has worked for. To have never had a day off sick with us is testament to his commitment.” Mr Keogh said that it was now


becoming extremely difficult for first-time buyers, but said that he thought the housing market was slowing down. Our picture shows Mr Keogh,


right with Mr Riley. (B021007/4)


After all, fair’s fair


those people and parts of the world where life is tough and where farmers are exploited in order to make big companies, many of which are household names, huge profits. We all want cheap food and clothes don’t we? And if most of us are honest we don’t care where it comes from, after all, what’s it got to do with me? Imagine you were lumbered


with a debt th a t was placed unjustly upon you and that you could never repay even if you worked 16 hours-a-day, every day. Now imagine that the rate you were paid for your crop


was rigged so th a t you will always live in poverty. How does it feel knowing


that you can never afford to send your children to school, thus condemning them to a life of poverty? I wonder how it feels to produce something so wonderful as cocoa and yet your children will never be able to afford to taste it? And can you imagine what it would be like to be unable to afford the most basic of healthcare for your family? We can all do something,


such as buying, wherever possi­ ble, Fairtrade products. They may cost a few pence more and


we may have to get used to a slightly different blend of cof­ fee, but is it too big a price to pay in order that people are not exploited and families are not consigned to a lifetime of mis­ ery? Is it asking too much for us to have a little less so that others can have a lot more? Come on, let’s be fair and in


doing so help to begin to fulfil the prayer that Christ gave us: “Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.” After all, “Fair’s fair”. Happy harvest


REV. TIM THORPE Methodist Minister, Clilhcroe


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