DON Filleul is not everyone’s cup of tea, or even a halfway decent slug of Calvados, and although I’ve disagreed with some of the things he’s said and done over the very many years he has served the public of this Island, I doubt that many would disagree with his comments about those residents who [...]

IN THE almost certain knowledge that something I say this week is really going to upset or annoy some of our pinkoe friends, may I begin with the observation that first it was d’Hautree that wasn’t fit for purpose, then Le Rocquier followed soon after by Hautlieu and now it’s Les Quennevais that apparently needs [...]

BY the time most people read this column my good friend Lord Liron of Fauvic and St Malo will have been laid to rest not far from his Grouville home.

DON’T ask me why but for the second time in a matter of weeks I feel the urge to comment on something I read on the business pages of this newspaper. I know perfectly well that they are as much part of what the JEP offers its readers as are the news and features pages, [...]

IT WAS interesting to read some of the online comments (on thisisjersey.com) about a halt being called to plans to demolish Camelia Cottage, which is just below Gouray Church, if only to see how some of the correspondents missed the point by a mile.

ALTHOUGH this is being written before the event, so to speak, The Reader can rest assured that this bolshie little crapaud did not shop at any Waitrose supermarket last Friday.

HAVING slung a line, weight and hook over the back wall of St Catherine’s breakwater the other afternoon – with a decent measure of edible success, I might add – I certainly didn’t expect Herself to verbally set about me in quite the way she did on my return.

MY MATE in Guernsey – the crapaud who went on a Muratti day trip, met a girl over there and stayed – has been in touch again, this time getting some of his own back for my innocuous little asides about life over there. He was reading their newspaper the other day and, having a [...]

MY MATE in Guernsey (the crapaud who went on a Muratti day trip, met a girl over there and stayed) has been in touch again, this time getting some of his own back for my innocuous little asides about life over there.

FIRST all there was an Establishment Officer – Ron Gray who later went on to become States Greffier held the post in the 1960s and I think Brian Le Geyt was his deputy – and then it grew a bit and became the States Personnel Department with a floor to itself at Cyril Le Marquand [...]

IT would be easy for me to be a bit flippant and suggest that £546,337.50 was ‘not much if you say it quick’ but the sheer enormity of the golden goodbye cheque given to Bill Ogley probably precludes that sort of levity.

OVER the years I’ve learned that it’s often important when commenting on something to get certain issues out of the way before ever so gently putting the boot in.