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Clayton Park Friends Event Let Down By The Weather?
The Friends of Clayton Park held a “Fun Day” for kids at Clayton Park and Clayton Hall. And the weather was lovely and sunny. Maybe that’s why they got less people than they did las...
Rainbow Arrives In Manchester
Today has been like a monsoon. The rain has descended on us like it wants to make up for the sun giving us some glorious days over the last few weeks. During this afternoon we had some pretty spectacu...
Restaurant Review: The Peking Court
Kay had been to the Peking Court on a night out with her sister some weeks back and wanted to take the whole family so we could see what we thought too. The Peking Court is actually a Chinese buffet s...
Adventures At Indian Head
Next to Greenfield, near Uppermill, near Oldham there’s a reservoir. And above it there’s a “mountain” that’s know locally as Indian’s Head. You can probably see th...
Spinning Jenny - Will It Take Over from Corrie?
Well you could knock me down with a feather. The Manchester blog got a new subscriber from SpinningJenny.tv. If you don’t know it’s Spinning Jenny it’s a new soap, which appears to b...
Manchester Theatre Has Left The Building
Manchester Theatre has been incredibly lucky to have a twin driving force in the shapes of David Slack and Amanda Hennessy to put theatre outside of normal theatre experience. The 24:7 Theatre Festiva...
Manchester Beacon Primary School Loses Head
Well actually the head is retiring. Headteacher, Mrs Eustace has decide to put her feet up and leave the infant and junior school that she’s run for umpteen years. Certainly when Kay and I chos...
Manchester Sports Day Rained Off
Yet again the Manchester weather spoils the plans of parents. My eldest daughters last sports day at her primary school was scheduled to be on Monday, 7th July. As sometimes happens in Manchester the ...
CRB Craziness Continues
The CRB requirements continue to amaze me. My wife got a CRB check done so she could do supply work in Manchester and the surrounding areas. Which she had to pay for of course. Then she got a part-ti...
Big Brother Explodes On Manchester
I was minding my own business on the M60 car park the other day when I noticed a tiny car zip by in the middle lane. The thing that caught my attention was that it had a large pole stuck vertically up...
The Manchester Place Hotel - Mixed With Simply Networking
I like the Place Hotel. Formerly an enormous warehouse next to Piccadilly Station it took many months to dry out before the developer could begin converting it into an apartment hotel. The hotel front...
Fuel Protest Creates M60 Car Park
We live 3 minutes from the M60 and another 2 minutes from there to the M62 and M66. So we’re always the first to know whether there’s a problem on the motorway. What normally happens is th...
Manchester Weather, Whether We Like It Or Not
I fell in love with Manchester when I came for my University admissions interview. It had been exciting to travel up by train from the farthest reaches of East Anglia, well Peterborough anyway. I̵...
UEFA Cup 2008 Final - Behaviour of Fans - Rangers & Zenit St. Petersburg
I left Manchester by train from Piccadilly station in the early morning yesterday. I’d got the tram in from Bowker Vale (on the Bury line) and I’d seen thousands of Rangers supporters in P...
Fairies and Peers Make A Night Of It
The Royal Northern College of Music fairly shook with the loud cheers and applause as we finished our final performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe on Saturday night. We’d struggl...
The Russian Invasion Is Spreading From London To Manchester
The Russians are coming! Are they intent on invading Manchester and the Northwest? Certainly looking at my blog statistics it looks that way. Over the last few weeks the subscribers from Russia have s...
Quacky Races At Clayton Vale
This post is well overdue as the Quacky Races I’m talking about were over a couple of weeks ago when Manchester was basking in unusually clement and sunny weather. The event was held at C...
Manchester Horse Drawn Tram Re-Introduced
Manchester horse drawn tram is making a welcome return to Heaton Park. They’re out in force taking video and photos of the last running trial before the service is launched tomorrow (I assume). ...
One More Little Way To Waste Taxpayer Money
A private company has a remit, given by Manchester City Council, to provide fun for the Manchester public. Part of what this company does is to put on days when they provide things like, say, a bouncy...
The M60 Extension Work
Over the last few weeks as I’ve been going around the M60 I’ve noticed vehicles and men with theodolites measuring roads and roundabouts and bridges around chunks of the M60. More specific...
Manchester Feels Earthquake From Lincolnshire
I feel duty bound to report that I was awake when “The Earthquake” happened yesterday (I clocked it in at 12:57, according to my radio signal controlled alarm clock). It felt like the Lond...
Enjoy England Through Manchester
So the “Enjoy England” campaign is presenting information about lots of cultural stuff going on in England under the banner of Culture08. Meanwhile in sunny Manchester (although my fingers...
Manchester’s Top Secret Horse Drawn Tram Trials
I’ve been sworn to secrecy but I can reveal that on the 30th March in Manchester a horse drawn tram will begin operation. I was very lucky to discover the horse drawn tram being given a test out...
Why Do We Have The CRB Check?
You may remember the CRB Check saga my wife had about getting her CRB check back before she could start working in schools. It arrived in the post today. So on the one hand, hurrah! And then on the ot...
Manchester, Better Known As "Blogs R Us"
Sarah Hartley over at The Mancunian Way is maintaining a nice blog about stuff on behalf of The Manchester Evening News. Having lived next to the Mancunian Way for 2 years as a university student I...
Manchester Lives Up To Its Name
Rain! And yet more rain buckets down outside. Inside it’s lovely. In the study where I’m sitting the noise of squirrels opening up Christmas presents is now just a dim memory. I’m t...
Christmas Carols Not Wanted Here
For the last few years the Friends of Clayton Park, in Clayton, have run a Christmas event at Clayton Hall. Father Christmas has arrived in his sleigh (or horse and cart) and dispensed presents from h...
Dr. Who Lands In Manchester
Dr. Who, K9, Rose Tyler, Martha, The Daleks… Names that are very familiar to anyone who’s current with the latest Dr. Who series with David Tennant. And if you want to go and see them all...
CRB Background Checks - Do They Work?
My wife has experienced the complete chaos that is the CRB check for working in schools. I applaud any effort to keep pupils safe but I really think these CRB checks are a completely red-tape bound wa...
G-Mex Reborn As Manchester Central
I was at Manchester Central today having arrived at the G-Mex station via Metrolink. Inside the exhibition hall they were running Business Northwest, incorporating BEX Conference. I met some great peo...