POP!
I had hoped to find the word “strawberry” in the list of ingredients on my Sainsbury’s Strawberry Fizz. Alas not, the taste comes from a mixture of Carrot and Blackcurrant apparently…
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| 31 July 2007, 10:57 am |
| 30 July 2007, 9:05 pm |
Take me to your leader…
Either there has been an internal addition to the Triangle in Manchester since I last went inside or an alien spacecraft has taken up residence masquerading as a Caffe Nero.
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| 29 July 2007, 6:58 pm |
Warrington Music Festival
I walked into Warrington yesterday for the Warrington Music Festival, held in Queens Gardens, Palmyra Square, comprising of two stages featuring local unsigned bands.
Personal favourites from the day were the Chase HQ Allstars (of course!), Bill Davro & the Popes, The Cordells, and the Alcoholic Rats weren’t too bad either. The fact the event was completely free sort of makes up for the extensive sunburn we all arrived home with in the evening – Ouch!
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| 28 July 2007, 9:00 am |
Modern university buildings
One of the many new buildings constructed for Manchester University. This one is opposite the Citroen Garage on Upper Brook Street.
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| 28 July 2007, 12:59 am |
The difference a day makes…
Yesterday the leader of Stockport Council was proclaiming “As things stand, congestion charging for Stockport is now dead in the water” on radio stations and television news programmes following the councils ‘no vote’ in relation to the congestion charge. Today he has been significantly quieter following the decision by the 10 Greater Manchester Councils to jointly go ahead with the congestion charge proposal regardless of Stockport & Trafford Councils ‘no votes’. Following the decision, Dave, the leader of Stockport Council commented that the decision was “a sad day for democracy”. Privately, I suspect his comments were probably slightly more colourful…
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