Manchester Blog

It was a pleasant surprise to find that The Manchester Blog was awarded “Blog of The Week” by Sarah Hartley over at the Manchester Evening News. It’s always nice to be reviewed and even better to get a few compliments too. The review appeared on the Manchester Evening News web site and was also printed [...]

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 last year. Perhaps everyone had the urge, lemming-like, to leap into their cars and rush for the seaside, or Blackpool. Whatever [...]

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 spectacular thunder and lightning and I thought about worrying whether it might strike the cables going into [...]

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 style restaurant where you go and choose whatever you want to eat from the buffet, [...]

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 the very prominent nose sticking out from the outcrop.  If you see it in the daylight you can also see what looks like an Indian headdress. My son David [...]