Northern Quarter

  • The Beauty of being Herd

    Sheep. Sheep are iconic. So, let’s see. Sheep stories. So, a few years ago, we were searching for somewhere shiny and new to add to our glamping chops (no poor-taste lamb ref intended). What swung staying on a farm in Ironbridge for me, was not the engineering magnificence of its iron bridge, but a review

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  • Plant based pizza restaurant Purezza opens in NQ, Manchester (and it’s fabulosa)

    I was going to use a terrible title for this blog post – Purezza: Vegan Sparkle – a very terrible play on words involving Meghan Markle. But given I’ve had to explain it and it’s beyond cheesy, I haven’t. Speaking of cheese, and I so often do, when invited to the soft launch of Purezza,

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  • Preview: NQ Jazz – 21.10.2019 – Sue Rynhart & Huw Warren

    NQ Jazz is one of my favourites things. Yes we have Matt and Phred’s and I give thanks to the gods of live jazz that we do. But Manchester needs even more and NQ Jazz gives us that more in a gloriously dark, underground befitting location that is The Whiskey Jar. To speak in New

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  • My Manchester in 2017 – in pictures

    The highs, the lows and the love that stemmed. Beautiful Manchester. .

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  • Mancs vs Food – aka my Saucy Sunday 

    Sunday, Bloody Sunday.  You wake up in the morning, you’ve got to read all the papers, the kids are running around, you’ve got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think  Sunday. Bloody Sunday With a few adjustments to the woes listed by Alan Partridge , I often do think the same. They’re

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  • Foundation – their coffee casa is indeed your coffee casa

    It’s 2pm and I’m sat in a coffee shop, writing about the etiquette of working in a coffee shop. The more I worry, the more I write about the worry, the longer I spend here, the more I worry. The circle of strife. This wasn’t my original intention. I was going to blog about Foundation

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