Manchester Blog

Last week Warner announced that they were going to tour with an exhibition of Harry Potter sets, costumes and other stuff. The press release notes: ‘“Harry Potter: The Exhibition” will include elaborate displays of authentic costumes, props andartifacts from popular environments featured in the films such as those from Hogwarts School ofWitchcraft and Wizardry, including [...]

After months of rehearsal and working Thursdays and Sundays for quite a while the show has come together at last. As usual we seem to not get the knack of a particular dance step until we’ve had it drummed into our brains 11 million times. Anyway, now we’ve a show on our hands and I’m [...]

Have you ever hankered after a museum that allows you to touch and try out its exhibits? Even trying on the olde fashioned clothes? Well the good news is there’s one in Stockport. It’s called Staircase House and is a warren of rooms and little corridors that take you through what seems like every century. [...]

Manchester weather appears to be an odd variety of sleet, rain, sun and cloud. So to get a more consistent type of weather – snow – we decamped to the relatively new “sports resource” near to that shopping Nirvana: The Trafford Centre. To disappoint the keen golfers I’m not talking about the all weather golf [...]

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 simply sky-rocketed. Obviously I’m always pleased to have new readers. However, I’m a little puzzled that they’re all from the same country. [...]

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 Clayton Vale a pleasantly landscaped and reclaimed council rubbish tip from decades ago. The Friends of Clayton Vale had organised a [...]