This ash cloud debacle has given some proper attention-seeking cranks the chance to get their mugs and beards in the local press. Here’s an example from the Greater Manchester Evening News. The latest on this amazing story of one man and his globe-trotting wedding party, is that he is in Madrid hoping to get to London for Wednesday. Phew…
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man”
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I did my best to immerse myself as much as I could in local culture and history. Not because I’m some hoity-toity intellectual (though I am, obv), but because immersing yourself in local culture and history mainly involved looking at boss murals of Castro, Guevara and Cienfeugos whilst necking a ridiculously strong Cuba libre and smoking a cigar fatter than Anderson after a month of Bem Brasil half-price lunch offers.
I did my best to immerse myself as much as I could in local culture and history. Not because I’m some hoity-toity intellectual (though I am, obv), but because immersing yourself in local culture and history mainly involved looking at boss murals of Castro, Guevara and Cienfeugos whilst necking a ridiculously strong Cuba libre and smoking a cigar fatter than Anderson after a month of Bem Brasil half-price lunch offers.
I really should say “No, it’s great” but I’d be fibbing as I don‘t know if it‘s good or not. If you read it in the next few weeks then you will be the same as me as I have not read it. When I closed each chapter I usually accompanied it with a “Woo-hoo” to signify that I’d thought I’d got it. If it didn‘t get a “Woo-hoo” then it didn‘t feel right to close it.
Issue 10 of AFLM:SPG will once again be on sale in and around Gigg Lane before, during and after FC United of Manchester’s home game against Blyth Spartans on Saturday, March 23.
The band appearing at FC United’s pre-match tertulia Course You Can Malcolm on Saturday, go by the name of Sam Smith and Company. Here is an interview with Sam himself…
Myself and Mike went for a walk round Boggart Hole Clough once, it was very good, Mike has a lot to say and most of it very very funny, anyway we decided to do it …
I enjoyed the floating garden, it was a garden that floated and for that reason I edified it to levels of flabbergastment which was probably a bit over the top given the dour nature of the garden.
The Basin was hosting Atelier[Zero] which had built a row of seaside bathing huts along the side of the water’s edge.
The National Union of Journalists has issued the following regarding the strike at the BBC today, which includes staff at MediaCity. FC United has a nice history with the NUJ, after club staff refused to …
While over there on holiday last year as his lovely, Spanish speaking wife was working hard, he went ‘weird’ again and spent his time hatching BCN:MCR, which takes place from Thursday, February 21, at 2022NQ, 20-22 Dale Street, in town.
