Enterprise
The Church for Atheists
It may seem an oxymoron but people who don’t believe in a god are the world’s third largest ‘faith’ group. Now the Sunday Assembly movement aims to give Britain’s nine million atheists their own church.
Read the full story..The Society of the Spectacles
It’s been nearly two years since the idea of The Society of the Spectacles came to me.
Read the full story..The Write Way
It all started with an email that went something like this:
“hey krn do we need 2 bring any stuff wiv us tomoz for cls”.
Read the full story..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.
Read the full story..The Food of the Gods (in Prestwich)
I started to write this review before I had my tea. That was a mistake, like the folly of shopping at the supermarket on an empty stomach.
Read the full story..Keep Calm and Carry On
Ubiquitous really does apply to the Keep Calm logos that have appeared on everything from maternity clothing and mugs to posters and t-shirts.
Read the full story..Keen on the Bean
Chorlton has a coffee festival now. Twenty years ago, the chances of those words, being used in that precise order, would have been so astronomical that it would have required a computer of HAL 9000 proportions to calculate the odds.
Read the full story..Earth Cafe, Northern Quarter
As a long-time veggie who works in Manchester’s Northern Quarter I thought it was high time I got myself some lunch at the Earth Vegetarian Cafe and Juice Bar. I wasn’t disappointed.
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