Manchester Blog

Speed cameras for a road that sees very little traffic seems very strange.
For some months we’ve been driving up Victoria avenue, from the Heaton Park end, and seen the huge poles that look like fat lamp posts. Then overnight they were transformed into camera gantries with an arm extended over the road way [...]

This last week has been great fun. I’ve had the privilege of building a snowman with my children and having snowball fights with them.
Later in the week my eldest took my two youngest sledging. And they came back cold, damp and filled with glee.
And even the fact that I’ve had to clear [...]

Situated where we are we can’t hear the Oasis gig at all, as the concert is on the Bury Old Road side of the park.
Two of Kay’s cousins borrowed a small bit of our drive to park their car and went to the concert.
Their verdict? Fantastic!
Our verdict on the how [...]

Well here we are once again, another hole in the road.
Over the weekend a few bollards were artfully displayed along one of the lanes on Middleton Road leading away from Manchester and towards the M60.
Today the bollards have arrived in force and it looks as though they’re opening another hole in the road next [...]

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 [...]

Yes, I know some quip that Manchester is a hole. To those of you I say you’ve obviously not plumbed the depths elsewhere!
The hole I refer to is on the Middleton Road carriage way from the M60 towards Manchester.
Actually the hole isn’t visible because there’s obviously a leak in one of the mains water [...]