Things I wish I’d said first, pt 47

You all know I’m on Twitter, right?
A couple of weeks ago I changed my name on Twitter by adding a ‘Ms’ in front of it. This was because one of the volunteers at the CAB where I work on a Wednesday told me about a 70s song called ‘Ms Grace’, I looked it up on [...]

As promised!

Sorry, this post is going to be a bit massive. Like I said I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, and since I started it I’ve been delayed by swine flu and #freeBevaniteEllie and stuff.
In the couple of months since I was last regularly blogging, I have…
- been listening to a lot of Lily [...]

Swine flu and stilettoes

That mammoth, catch-up blog post I’ve been promising you all is underway, but has been somewhat delayed by the fact that – as you’ll know if you follow my bleeding heart Tweets – I’ve spent the last week in quarantine (i.e. under a duvet) with suspected swine flu.
I’m much better today and spent several hours on [...]

Enough is enough

On Friday night I was at the launch of Manchester Young Labour at the Town Hall. The turnout was encouraging – even a few young members who’d joined up in the last fortnight – but the talk inevitably focused on MPs’ expenses, with an on-form Andy Burnham getting questions on little else.
One member said she’d [...]

Sweet Mandarin

Last year, until I was forced to find somewhere more cat-friendly, I lived in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. I miss the area very much and would move back in a second if only Audrey wasn’t so attached to things like grass and trees.
Although my current location obviously offers a lot in the way of eating in/eating [...]

Jay Foreman

If you’re a current student or recent graduate of the University of York you’ll already be aware of the musical comedy genius that is Jay Foreman. Either way, I’d like to urge you to go to http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/ and have a look at his videos. The man is hilarious – ‘Stealing Food‘, ‘The Procrastinator‘ and ‘John Lennon‘ [...]

Thursday: Jobs Day

Now, I have a job, and no particular desire to get a new one, but so ingrained is the effect of my unemployed weeks in Manchester that I tend to grab the first MEN I see every Thursday without even remembering that it’s Jobs Day.
Today, however, I was reminded. The paper-stand chappie at the Piccadilly [...]

Hopefully 5-year-olds don’t know how to Google…

My mother and little sister Adastra came to visit this weekend and we had a very enjoyable day at the Manchester Art Gallery today – it’s very family friendly and I’d definitely recommend it.
While I was tucking Adastra in last night she was looking at a mocked-up picture of me in which my friends Adam, [...]

Fletcher-Hackwood given parental advisory rating…

Sorry that the top of my blog now looks slightly silly, but I felt the sheer number of profanities in my rant last night necessitated a strong language warning. Tories just make me so fucking angry. I’m gonna edit my header images tonight anyway. Anyone have any suggestions for inclusion?

Don’t blame the Brummies!

While I’m always happy to hear that my beautiful adopted city of Manchester is the spiritual home of the Labour Party (and if any of my Scotland-living friends are reading this – yeah, yeah, I know), apparently it works two ways – the Today programme’s Evan Davies is reporting from the Tory Conference in Birmingham [...]