Monthly Archives: August 2013
On Yer Bike
There’s no time like the present. This is an oft-quoted platitude but, in my view, true of cycle commuting today.
Cocks o’ the North
When a band kicks off its set with a piece of indolent pop perfection like Boredom, you know they must have tons of classics tucked up their sleeves.
It Would Be A Crime to Miss It
Bill Clinton, it is alleged, once described the Hay-on-Wye book festival as the “Woodstock of the mind,” a proposition that would presumably make the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate the “Woodstock of the criminal mind”.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
A few minutes in and alongside the fancy credits the ninny from Norwich is belting out Roachford’s Cuddly Toy with passion and sass, while keeping his eye on the road and taking advantage of the instrumental break to warn another driver about his fog lights.
Hosteling Holidays Are Back In Vogue
In these times of austerity and the rising popularity of staycations, it is little wonder that people are turning to old favourites like the Youth Hostel Association to cut costs.
A-Foraging We Will Go
Forget BBQs, the true art of eating outdoors is sticking your hand in a nettle bush and eating what you pull out.
High Wire Jinks
Welcome to middle-aged dad hell or, as it better known, the Treetop Trek Ariel Adventure.
Applause, Applause, Applause
This year’s 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester was a triumph. Following her reviews of the first few shows last week, Lucia Cox talks us through the rest of them.
The Naked Truth
Naturism is much like any other hobby expect trainspotters and Goths don’t let it all hang out.
What’s in a name?
Over the years many things have helped to shape and define Manchester, including, and in no particular order: the weather, football, cotton, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, coal, the Luftwaffe, the Manchester Ship Canal, music, rich people, poor people, poor people who became rich people, foreign people, 24 hour party people…and religion.
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