Manchester Blog

Could Cameron Mackintosh put on Mary Poppins in the theatre without losing the magic the Disney film generated? I took 3 of my children to check it out and review it for my loyal readers.

I picked up a nice little paper backed book on Bury in ASDA the other day. It showed old photographs of Bury from days gone by. You could see streets full of empty space – no rush hour to disturb the photographer!
Anyway, I enjoyed reading it so much that it got me to [...]

Yes, I know some quip that Manchester is a hole. To those of you I say you’ve obviously not plumbed the depths elsewhere!
The hole I refer to is on the Middleton Road carriage way from the M60 towards Manchester.
Actually the hole isn’t visible because there’s obviously a leak in one of the mains water [...]

Well my children loved the meager amount of snow we got on Monday. The weather people kept promising to send us more snow all week. And yet what have we got?
Sunny days…
I mean, alright the days have been a bit chilly. Well, OK freezing. But there’s been no further snow. I followed a [...]