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Ian McMillan: Join in my Jolly Journey (for just £25.00)

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:31:59 GMT

In these hard times freelance people like me are looking for new ways to make a bit of cash; having discarded the idea of being a George Clooney Barnsley Lookalike (in certain lights only), a naked Yorkshire butler (in certain lights only) and a ballet dancer (in certain tights only) I’ve hit upon the idea of a Young Ian McMillan minibus tour, visiting significant places from my childhood.

Ian McMillan: Indulging in the collecting evolution

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:08:56 GMT

My wife and I were on holiday years ago in a little bed-and-breakfast place somewhere in Scotland; at the next table to ours in the breakfast room was a family with a boy who could be described as “precocious” or “forward” or, less charitably, as “a pain in the region of the neck”.

Ian McMillan: Gong but not forgotten

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:14:24 GMT

Many years ago we stayed as a family for a week in a guest house in Weston- super-Mare; we’d never been to that part of the world before and I suspect my dad chose it because he liked the name.

Ian McMillan: A wave of joy at the simple pleasure of being daft

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:26:56 GMT

I did something the other morning that I’ve not done for years, and when I’d done it I laughed with the sheer joy of the thing I’d just done.