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The Manchester Zedders
By Marie On the first Sunday in October the Manchester Zedders were pleased to join the LRM for a loiter around Didsbury. We had already zedded the gates to hell so no new squares for us, but it was nice to do it as a group...
Gateway House, Piccadilly Approach, Manchester should be restored and not demolished.
The Manchester Zedders Congrats to all the winners at www.manchesterblogawards.com Chuffed to be mentioned as runners up. We are almost as good as the best, darlings.
Source: www.manchesterblogawards.com
The Manchester Blog Awards were established in 2006 and this year take place at Band on the Wall on Wednesday 21 October 2009
Claire Congratulations chaps on your shortlisting for Best City and Neighbourhood Blog!!!
Source: www.manchesterblogawards.com
This year's awards have drawn an impressive response, with nearly 200 separate nominations from across Greater Manchester (and beyond). Here's the 2009
We decided to spend our Sunday afternoon zedding. We had an invitation to go look at a brand new baby so we packed our knitted booties and fairtrade babygro, and like the guardian reading lefties we are, set off to walk there – thereby eschewing public transport and nasty cars. ...
By Liam The Shrieking Violet is another great Manchester blog. It’s anonymous so I don’t know if we’ve met the Violet herself in person. Anyway, you may have noticed that we keep encountering gargoyles in our meanderings, but never manage to photograph the buggers. Shri...
By Liam ‘If it stopped banging on about its football teams and its bands and its shops and its attitude, Manchester has something that it can be genuinely, enormously proud of, something that it should shout from the rooftops. ...
Last night Liam and I enjoyed meeting lots of lovely people at a Manchester blogmeet. There was a moment when we wondered how one identified bloggers in a bar, what would bloggers look like? We tried the basement…ah ha..bloggers wear labels! ...
By Liam, because Marie has been working for 125 hours and isn’t up to typing Running across a big stretch of South Manchester is a very, very long ditch. Legend (and Wikipedia) has it that the Nico Ditch, or Mickle Ditch, was dug in one night, by men who were forced to dig it at swordpoint. ...
By Liam Iain Sinclair The writer and film-maker Iain Sinclair is, like us, a fan of walking in cities. With books like London Orbital, he’s brought a literary kind of psychogeography to a wide audience. ...
The Manchester Zedders Just fell in a 1000-year-old ditch. Muddy.
The Manchester Zedders
Some people who like the motorway, like that we like the motorway:
"The Manchester Zedders try it for size and like minded urbanists that they are, they soon contend that the Mancunian Way is 'where Manchester’s smile would be if it had one…'
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we want to make sure our monthly features aren’t such tales of doom, gloom and despair that you lose the will to live, so in this section we hope to uplift the spirits with a regular dose of the city’s ...
By Liam Marie has long harboured a rather unusual desire to visit Eccles. A group rather charmingly called Freccles have erected a sign at Eccles station saying ‘Discover Eccles past, present and future’. This goads and challenges her every time she goes through on the train. I ...
A lovely piece of Manchester-related graffiti and also a description of zedding:
By Marie It was a drizzly Sunday afternoon, ideal weather for standing in the middle of a reservoir...
