Idle Hands Brunch and Pumpkins in trees

I love watching a programme called Four in a Bed which is about four B&B owners going to each other’s B&Bs and rating them. A big part of it is of course, the breakfast which then when I’m watching it, makes me want a breakfast. So, I dragged my mum to Idle Hands. I think this was one of the most creative breakfasts I’ve had and I loved the greens, seeds and all the veg. It’s definitely my kind of food.

After brunch, we did some shopping. I struggle in Japan because I’m tall and have long monkey-esque arms. ...

Manchester: Castlefield Viaduct, pizza and Manchester Museum

Back in town and today we had booked to go to the Castlefield Viaduct. I used to think Castlefield was miles away and would refuse to go to that part of Manchester. It’s about a 15 minute walk – how lazy!

You don’t have to book if you don’t want to do the tour, you can just go. We wanted to do the tour (only about 5/10 mins) and there were some people who just joined on the day. It’s aiming for similar to The High Line in New York. The lady giving the tour said part of the ...

Manchester: Art Gallery, Canals + HOME

I was back in Manchester for a little bit recently. One of the first things I did was get myself into the city centre (£2 bus fares – thank you, Andy). I love hanging out with my Mum and we first headed to Manchester Art Gallery. It’s in a lovely building and is smallish but packed with lots to see. We went straight to the cafe which was rammed and we both had the seasonal tart which was broccoli and cheese at £7 – amazing! Free filter water was available.

After enjoying the art gallery, we trotted about town. ...

jan + feb memories and march wish list 2023

Another 2 months, nothing productive done as usual. I start the same way every year – full of great ambitions and hopes for the year ahead and then waste my time like I have an infinite amount of it. Is that just me?

jan + feb memories

I went to see Scott Murphy + special guest who turned out to be Rivers Cuomo. This didn’t happen in either Jan or Feb, but I’ve not written about it and I wanted to. It was Nov last year. Actually, it was on the day I was due to fly to Manchester but ...

months of memories and october wish list

Wow, I had to look when I last did one of these and it was in June!   That means, we have the memories of June, July, August and September to go through!

months of memories

june – Palau!

We were in Palau.  You can read all about it on the following pages:

I went to Todoroki Valley (which I haven’t blogged ...