Strange times. Especially if you live on your own and just want a hug. Well, don’t despair as they’re giving them out at The Spärrows, Manchester in the form of a comforting and generous portion of their eponymous spätzle (it...
Read MoreAs you approach the Lancashire Museum of Mining (formerly the Astley Green Colliery), you can’t miss the Grade II listed pit headgear which, like a huge Meccano construction, dominates the skyline. It is the last surviving...
Read MoreIt feels even colder and wetter than Manchester as I step off the train at Blackburn. But it is this climate that allowed the cotton industry to thrive here and whose legacy the inaugural British Textile Biennial (which runs...
Read MoreWatercolours can get a bad press. For me they conjure up an image of legions of Sunday painters out in the field with their Windsor & Newtons. It’s great for mindfulness and I would always be happy to join them, but...
Read MoreWhen the Northern Soul Editor was called away at the last minute, our willing Opera Correspondent stepped into her shoes and joined me for mid-morning brunch at Manchester’s Midland Hotel. On my way, I stopped at the post...
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