By Jim Symcox on Aug 17, 2007 in Factory Records, Jim Symcox, Manchester, Manchester music, Mr Manchester, Tony Wilson | 0 Comments
I’m sure many people in Manchester were shocked by Mr Manchester’s death by a heart attack. That’s been reported on all over the place.
Interestingly, while he appeared to have quite a gruff persona he went out of his way to help a lone American see Manchester as it should be seen, and to explain [...]
By Jim Symcox on Aug 10, 2007 in Car Parking, Jim Symcox, Manchester, Manchester Airport | 3 Comments
If you checkout Google Zeitgeist you’ll notice that in the UK Manchester Airport parking comes in at the number 10 most searched phrase in June.
That’s either good, because so many people are using Manchester airport and are looking for a convenient parking place. Or bad because the same bunch of people are making multiple searches [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jul 17, 2007 in Jim Symcox, Manchester, Manchester Bloggers, Manchester Congestion Charge | 4 Comments
Who was it who said Manchester would never have congestion charging because we don’t need it?
Certainly since we appear to have been caught hopping by the spin doctors we’ve been suckered into agreeing to it or else we can’t have the Metrolink Big Bang that puts tramlines and stations where people can actually use [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jul 16, 2007 in Harry Potter, J.K.Rowling, Jim Symcox, Manchester, Manchester Bloggers, The Deathly Hallows | 0 Comments
Waterstones in Deansgate, Manchester, has launched a bid to persuade J.k. Rowling to allow famous schoolboy wizard Harry Potter to stay alive.
Certainly Harry has been a fantastic franchise for all involved, film makers, author, publisher and product manufacturers.
Personally I’d like to see Harry move into the adult world and work with Muggles, rather like [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jul 13, 2007 in Jim Symcox, Manchester, Manchester Bloggers, blogging to the bank, power packed business growth, rob benwell | 1 Comment
I’ve read Rob Benwell’s book on Blogging To The Bank 2.0 so I’m going to use some of his techniques to get more traffic to this blog.
I’m not using Google Adsense at the moment and probably wont.
On my other blog (Power Packed Business Growth) I’ve reviewed the book, so if you’re curious head over there [...]
By Jim Symcox on Jul 10, 2007 in Jim Symcox, Manchester, Manchester Bloggers, UFO, shoes | 0 Comments
I was just returning from a church fete where Kay had a stall where she sold armloads of teddy bears and assorted games, puzzles and miscellaneous toys.
I’d been driving through a Manchester suburb when a set of unidentified objects in the sky caught my eye.
When I stopped I saw exactly what they were…
Have you seen them?
Maybe [...]