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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]