Manchester Blog

As I checked Bury’s web site for the Radcliffe pool opening times I noticed that highly attractive phrase "free swimming."
Apparently anyone who’s under 16 or above 60 can swim for free in Bury’s pools. It’s part of a 2 year test which begins in April this year.
Sounds interesting. Although as I’m not 60 I [...]

Clayton Vale played host to a fun run today. Diane Modhal, the Auckland Commonwealth Games 800 metre gold medal winner had a hectic weekend as she kindly started the Clayton Vale Fun Run.
The course wasn’t that hard and anyone who’s walked around the famed Clayton Vale Halloween Howler event would have had little [...]

After the farce of a vast array of bollards preventing happy shoppers vacating Sainsbury’s on Saturday they’re back!
As I reported before the leak is still on Middleton Road. So two diggers have been sent in to dig a hole to find where the leak is. I’m just hoping they don’t go straight through [...]

Sainsbury’s at Heaton Park was the scene of a lot of irate motorists trying to get out of the car park and onto Middleton Road and home. Luckily I got there to buy my milk and bread just as the massive backlog was snaking out of the car park thanks to two policemen [...]

I walked out of the door into a lovely morning. and I noticed a chunk of concrete down by one of the cars.
It was about 8 inches by 6 inches and I looked up at the house to try and see whether it had fallen from somewhere.
Nothing.
Then I walked to the top of [...]