What brought me to Manchester

It’s a holiday weekend in this country. Well, a bank holiday weekend, to be exact (I have no idea what a “bank holiday” is – nor do I feel like looking up the meaning of the phrase on Wikipedia). In any case, this weekend presented no shortage of fun activities in Leeds – such as Leeds Festival (which a couple of my current flatmates attended) and Leeds Carnival, the subject of a recent article on the BBC website.

Corine, Daisy and Daniel in the Sela Bar

However, my weekened started with the customary: I finished third in the ParkRun – which hasn’t been abnormal for me. But the abnormal was running sub-17 minutes for the second time: 16:58, to be exact. I just wish I had been closer to the top two.

But the running club fun wasn’t solely limited to the ParkRun. Saturday evening, several…