photographs: people, places & things
Manchester City – another trophy parade through the streets. 2023 saw Manchester City scoop up a fabulous treble of trophies and not for the first time in the last 10 years or so demonstrate that when it comes to club football they really are head and shoulders above everyone else. I wrote recently about these […]
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Manchester City – these are the days for us to remember This is not really much more than a picture post marking the remarkable achievement of Manchester City wining ‘the treble’. Completing The Treble means winning the domestic league (The Premier League), the FA Cup and The Champions League. It’s a difficult and rare achievement. […]
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Home work & home improvements – time for new doors The fairly random approach to this blog sees a bit of a change from the last couple of posts. Recent posts have featured our decent trip to Yarrow Valley County Park before that our trip to Wembley for the Manchester City FA Cup semi final […]
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Yarrow Valley Country Park – a fine place to visit A few months ago, round about November I think, we visited Yarrow Valley County Park, and it’s fair to say we really enjoyed it. The County Park is managed and run by Chorley Council and spanning some 700 acres it really is a decent size. […]
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FA Cup Semi Final 2023 – it’s a funny old game A couple of days ago saw the first of the two 2023 FA Cup Semi Finals at the national stadium. It’s a decent enough venue to watch football and unless you’ve taken a seat too close to the pitch then views of the game […]
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Things to do near Manchester – visit the city of Chester Last time out, and that I wrote about was after our recent trips to Poland and Scotland. This time it was short visit to Chester, with a group of schoolchildren and so wasn’t really the sort of trip one where I had free rein […]
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Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 4. Jim Clark, Duns & Melrose This is the final blog post in this short series of posts following our very enjoyable visit to the Scottish Borders and our stay in Kelso. In Part 1 I mentioned about our superb visit to the National Museum of Flight and […]
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Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 3 In Part 1 and Part 2Â I wrote about the first couple if days of a decent stay in the Scottish Borders when we based ourselves in the Border town of Kelso. Selkirk and Hawick Selkirk is a relatively small town in the Borders, in the south […]
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Visiting the Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 2 Coldingham and St Abbs In Part one of the Scottish Borders post I wrote about our trip to the excellent National Museum of Flight, Cove Beach and Eyemouth. This second post covers some time spent on the coast. On our second full day of the […]
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Scottish Borders – Things to do Part 1 We were recently in Krakow for a short break, and within a couple of weeks of returning from our Polish trip we were off again. This time to somewhere quite different as we had booked accommodation in the Scottish Borders, and we headed north to spend a […]
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