Stunningly ugly bridge

This is Alderley Edge station with a very poor bridge and an uncared for feel. Sad. I suppose it is good to know that places like Alderley Edge don't get preferential treatment but we badly need a lot of investment in our train stations.

Spooky goings on.

It is Halloween as well as Abby's birthday.

Wild mushrooms

View from Alderley Edge.

Great day out but quite cold.

Elbow with balloons!

Simple enough but very good fun.

Elbow again.

At the Apollo. Lovely gig. Part of their 'lap of honour tour'.

A prize for the first person to tell me the mistake in this.

You can see this in the timeline at Salford Museum.

Launch of Salford music map

Nice event and something was happening over there.

A quiet song

Mind you he already said good night and then surprised us by coming back on...Oh, how we love these little rituals... "This is our last song" (no it isn't).

Feeder at the Apollo

Ok this is becoming a gig blog, but here i am seeing Feeder and they are excellent, as they always are.

Fell Clarinet Quartet

In concert at St Phil's. Very good.

British Sea Power at the Ritz

Brilliant in places. Quite mad in a good way. I'd prefer it though if they talked to us a bit more. When they did the sound wasn't very good. Enjoyable gig though.

Music at St Phil's

Marchini String Quartet and friends. Awesome.

Unconvention at Trinity

This is Down the Tiny Steps.

Michaela with her medal

She completed the 5 k in less than half an hour. And got a prize for 2nd highest fund raiser of the day. Well done!

Michaela's run

Tree athlon in Heaton Park. In aid of trees for cities.

We've seen the light!

Ting Tings at the Academy

I'm on the guest list which is pretty cool, but they are our very local band. Very Good so far but I'm intrigued by the view from here. You see all these little lights as people record it on their phone to post on youtube!