Category Archives: General

That Eighties Design Look is Back.

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Unwanted Replacement

Originally posted on doc's whatever:
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Northenden Boat Race

Originally posted on The Adventure Within:
Who needs Henley Regatta or the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race when we’ve got gangs of slightly inebriated Mancunians, in rubber dinghies, paddling in all directions on the River Mersey. Yes it’s the annual Northenden…

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The Peterloo Massacre

Originally posted on yourhistoryteacher:
The rotten borough of Dunwich gained notoriety in Blackadder the Third when it’s most notable voters were, “a dachshund named Colin and a hen in it’s late forties.” In the early 1800s the borough was practically…

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Charcoal and Chalk

Originally posted on Buxton Museum and Art Gallery:
A new exhibition at Buxton Museum by artist Clare Allan is getting a lot of attention. Although her prints explore the grey rain-drenched streets of northern cities like Manchester, Stockport, Blackpool and…

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“Don’t touch me brah” and other things you don’t need to hear at a low-end supermarket

Originally posted on Lieverbs:
“Don’t go there brah. This is for real. I am warning you I am this close. I am this close to warning you again. I will tear off your ears and warn them so hard it’ll…

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A Caribbean and 日本-flavoured weekend

Originally posted on Getting Pounded:
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…

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Happy Manchester!

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Lifeboat: wasting time and reflecting differently in St Ann’s Square

Originally posted on interactionsperformance:
Written by Sarah Spanton I’ve experienced Institute for Crazy Dancing’s Lifeboat twice now, once in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston, Leeds in April this year, and the second time in St Ann’s Square, Manchester at Hazard in July. The lifeboat…

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Urban Permaculture Chronicles: Soil, seeds and rain

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