Manchester Blog

The Manchester Blog Awards steams into its 2009 competition.
See more about the Manchester Blog Awards and make your nomination.
Manchester seems to attract a fair few of the UK blogging community. Maybe it’s because we all stay inside because of the rain?
Without doubt there are some great writers out in the Mancunion Blogosphere and [...]

Copper thieves broke into the Heaton Park sub-station, about 150 yards from where we live and stole the copper neutral bars on Wednesday last week.
Unfortunately even though they must have made a noise kicking one of the grills in no one was around because of the football match.
Electricity Spikes Start Happening
Around 9pm I noticed that [...]

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 [...]

An interesting Manchester blog that I discovered through an email from David Slack who is the co-organiser of the 24:7 theatre festival is called What Would You Do?
The author, Elizabeth Baines, is writing a story week by week and at the end of each “chapter” we’re allowed to choose some of the future plot [...]

I think “Remember Technorati Claim” should be emblazoned across my forehead!
Of course Technorati is where bloggers can go to find interesting blogs to read. After all to paraphrase Technorati, “one of them must be worth reading.”
And it completely slipped my mind to add this blog to it.
Consequently finding Manchester Blog through Technorati isn’t as easy as [...]

Manchester Blog Awards 2007 has just been announced byManchizzle.
Bloggers can nominate their own blogs! This must give us a chance.
Entries (as a URL) to be sent in by the 7th Sept, in anticipation of the awards ceremony: Moho Live, Oldham Street, 7pm Wednesday October 10, free and there are cash prizes.
Manchester Blog [...]

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows was the focus of our attention yesterday.
Because Kay entered the children for a TV competition on Granada Reports last week and our three year old, Rachel, won the prize.
And the prize was…

To open Waterstone’s, Deansgate Harry Potter shelves at Midnight on Friday
A copy of the hallowed book (Harry Potter and [...]

When the Manchester Evening News reports on a leak of a poll conducted by NOP I was interested to find that the leak shows that 57% agreed with the congestion charge when it was related to the ?3 billion cash for public transport.
There’s lies, damned lies and Statistics. And in particular statistics relating to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]