Sabi Rock Man crosses Trinity Way, Salford. This blog has been cheerfully pointing to Manchester’s mysterious Sabi Rock Man for some time now and he’s been brightening up the city’s rush hours for more than a year by my reckoning. He’s been featured in an American tourist guide, there’s a Google map tracking Continue reading
Update: Charcoal Kitchen comes good Someone old enough to remember, once told me that before the war this was Chorlton-cum-Hardy’s main high street, bang opposite the bus station. I have my doubts, as I’m sure Chorlton Cross has been bustling for many years, although the concrete precinct obviously wouldn’t have been around. Nevertheless, Continue reading
Where Dark Star used comedy, Sunshine uses horror. An old school claustrophobic science fiction cum light slasher movie that frightens off the kids with the science bit before the action comes. And sadly fails, despite many chances, to offer any psychological insights. A thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless 7 out of 10. Director: Danny Boyle……Writer: Continue reading
Perhaps the only people foolish enough to get a GMTV phone-in question wrong (e.g. ‘Who lived in Sherwood Forest? A Robin Hood B Shrek C Peter Pan’*) were the people who thought it was worth £1.80 a time to enter. It’s a scarily large number: 25,000 raising £45,000 each day. But it’s not Continue reading
Chocolate seems to be heading ever further downhill. Cadbury simply isn’t what it was and Thorntons may have done okay over Easter but, for many of us, their chocolate hasn’t tasted the same since they stopped free gift wrap (and there should be an apostrophe in their name: i.e. Thornton’s Chocolate). It’s getting Continue reading
