Manchester Blog

Hollingworth Lake has been going a long time and has been used since before motor cars were the normal mode of transport for most people. And whilst the beach is not particularly enormous it’s a great lake to tootle over to for a relaxing couple of hours. Be warned that you pay for parking before [...]

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 be completely Internet based. If it’s as much fun as it appears Corrie could be taking a back seat at the Soap Awards [...]

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 Festival they formed (now in its 5th Year) gets new plays performed every year in alternative venues. That is venues that aren’t normally [...]

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 chose the school 10 years ago we knew the OFSTED reports were good. We liked the way the Infants school was [...]

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 heavens opened and a veritable torrent over the weekend and in the morning washed away any chance of the day happening [...]

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-time job working for a high school in the same area. This high school saw her supply [...]

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 on the roof to which were attached what looked like 4 cameras. Then [...]