North West based fundraiser for Young Lives Vs Cancer & Pope of Chilli Town.
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You'd pay nearly £15 for two pints in some of the pubs round that way!
Watching Tip Toe, three episodes in, and where on Barlow Moor Road in Didsbury is this Italian restaurant offering a two course meal for £15 on a *Friday* night?! I need to get me down there!
(For any non-Mancs watching, that price point is very generous for that bit of South Manchester...)
Also features a photo/post from @groomb.bsky.social of Manchester Central Station in 1983 (now the convention centre) which absolutely blew my mind for just how abandoned and run down it all was...
Alongside Jen's fab piece, for anyone interested I'd also recommend this recent @manchestermill.bsky.social piece where a walk through the (desolate) 80s city centre is recreated, showing just how much has changed (in the centre at least) down the decades.
manchestermill.co.uk/a-city-on-th...
Desmond wanted some fussing as I started up the work laptop this morning which was cute, but good Lord I've never known a cat that sheds so much hair without going completely bald.
It's an impressive team photo, but the last time a load of Norwegians rocked up in the Americas in long boats, they had a terrible time and all ended up going home pretty quickly, so not sure it's necessarily something they'd want to emulate this summer...
If you read one thing today, make it @stephenkb.bsky.social's admirably clear and rational analysis of the police's actions following Henry Nowak's murder, from the @financialtimes.com Inside Politics newsletter
www.ft.com/content/aa94...
Very late to this, but The Ethiopian Brothers, Selassie. Got me into buying a tonne of Mister Mushi 45s online from a record store in Germany, each one of which was also a certified banger (his version of Hard Lifetime especially).
youtu.be/INiUYcz3E_g?...
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
