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Mike Irving (a.k.a Mr Blogsbody), a former investigative Fleet Street reporter for yesteryear's Sunday Pictorial, has switched to performing a small town role as Alresford's hack, satisfying assorted media assignments between queuing for his weekly state pension.

More infamous today for the consequences of the half-century difference in age between his youngest son Sam and himself, after Blogsbody's third wife left he raised their three offspring on a unique combination of child benefit and old age pension paid out to him by Postmistress Jackie Sanger in Hampshire's watercress capital of the world.

Cressroads' ambassador for disabled invited to ice Spanish resort's 21st birthday cake

For a man who lives his life from a wheelchair, Ross Smith has lived more life in 27 years than most of his contemporaries.

Other pubs in Cressroads plan bite of their own on Chestnut Horse cherry

One pub's flop may prove itself another's opportunity to bring back the good old Boomer times of Berni Inns and starched petticoats.

Tonight's the night for Greater Cressroads kids of old to remember how it was in Berni Brothers' days of gold

'Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with you," as good as promises the personal assistant to ambassador for the disabled Ross Smith. And accepts the town hack's saucy invite to a one-off Berni Night at Easton's Chestnut Horse.

Voluptious red-blooded Greek raises Blogsbody's temperature in Cressroads

Cressroads' town hack completes his daughter's 30th birthday letter with news of her septuagenarian father looking towards a possibility of life resurrected after four children and three failed marriages.

Blogsbody's 30th birthday daughter - Keogh of Tichborne Arms fame - is blogged open greetings for start to her fourth decade

Little or nothing is kept under raps within or outside of Cressroads town hack's dysfunctional Lower House of Windsor as well as continuing tale of self-styled watercress capital of the world.

G'Saturday, young buddy - and, troubles in the cyber camp, best you hold onto your wheelchair

Son of a renowned Appeals Court judge threatens to take his cyber axe to Blogsbody's Continuing Story of Cressroads within next two days.

On an hour's noonday visit to the cathedral city in Hogshire's Greater Cressroads

For the sheer joy of sharing a moment or more of Cressroads barmaid Thirsty Kirsty's graduation day, the town hack and his photo-journalist son Matt Dylan trip the light fantastic in Winchester.

'Go on Bloggie, do your stuff,' Cressroads' town hack urged to follow his nose for scandal

Gossip emanating from Hogshire's county line with Royal Berkshire commits Alresford's town hack into blind-dating his source for laying bare a gathering storm of love and lust in Cressroads

With dawning of his 70th, Cressroads' Mr Blogsbody muses on his miracle of life

From around the world and within its self-styled watercress capital family and everyday folk remember generously to wish a town hack 'happy birthday' as he passes into his eighth decade on the planet.

Blogsbody is urged to let loose and tell it as it really is in the snooty, self-styled watercresss capital of the world

Blogsbody, Alresford's town hack, is egged on and a next day to let loose with his Continuing Story of Cressroads, watercress capital of the world, as he survives into his eighth decade on Mother Earth.

Misleading newsbreak kills off Cressroads' town hack

RIP Mr Blogsbody - town hack at large in self-styled watercress capital of the world - but listen or read carefully. He has sluffed, not snuffed it at the town's dysfunctional Lower House of Windsor. And not necessarily to everyone's relief ...

Blogsbody handed free 'scrip to Cressroads' swank fitness suite

"Too many birthdays," diagnoses Alresford Surgery - and writes the town hack a prescription to workout at the swank fitness suite in the watercress capital of the world.