Manchester Blog

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 [...]

Manchester weather appears to be an odd variety of sleet, rain, sun and cloud. So to get a more consistent type of weather – snow – we decamped to the relatively new “sports resource” near to that shopping Nirvana: The Trafford Centre. To disappoint the keen golfers I’m not talking about the all weather golf [...]

The Russians are coming! Are they intent on invading Manchester and the Northwest? Certainly looking at my blog statistics it looks that way. Over the last few weeks the subscribers from Russia have simply sky-rocketed. Obviously I’m always pleased to have new readers. However, I’m a little puzzled that they’re all from the same country. [...]

So the “Enjoy England” campaign is presenting information about lots of cultural stuff going on in England under the banner of Culture08. Meanwhile in sunny Manchester (although my fingers are dropping off from the cold) we’re getting ready to have a huge set of sporting fixtures that should help to propel us back to the [...]

Manchester City beats Manchester United – and we know who’s the modern day Svengali who did it.

Manchester seems to be getting better and better at hosting sports events. Why don’t we help London by hosting the 2012 Olympics for them? Anyway, the latest sporting event starts on Saturday, 18th August at Bellevue. It’s the European Hockey championships 2007. The best 8 teams in Europe will be there to battle it out. And [...]