…a gorgeous detour home from a night in Liverpool, through the Mersey Tunnel and over to The Wirral. Fabulous big, blue sky and no-one around for miles. A perfect mini, mini break 🙂 That’ll do us nicely until we’re back in Copenhagen later this month.
January in Manchester is usually a pretty dull affair, weather-wise – which is one of the reasons we escaped to Morocco on 1st Jan. We tend to have grey, overcast skies, rain, more rain and more rain. So, when we get the merest hint of a bit of snow, Instagram goes crazy 😉 Those of […]
Christmas is always a beautiful time of the year to head up north. Whether it’s crisp & sunny, blowing a snowy blizzard or foggy & atmospheric, we’re always guaranteed good shots, photo-wise, simply because it’s such a photogenic part of the country. Here’s what we saw this Christmas… Cold, bracing and beautiful. A lovely way […]
On a recent trip up north, we were taken to a “very spooky church” – words of six year nephew, who shares a liking of atmospheric – OK, *spooky* – places with me. Located on the summit of Grey Mare Hill, just off the A68 between Riding Mill & Castleside, stands the now deserted St […]
“Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.“ From “Coningsby” by Benjamin Disraeli, 1844. And how very, very true. A city which never stops changing and growing and developing, but always beautiful. A city which easily mixes different architectural styles, with crumbling remnants of the past, still sitting alongside brand new glass structures. […]
We’ve just been catching up on Happy Valley, the acclaimed BBC drama with Sarah Lancashire, Siobhan Finneran and Steve Pemberton, set in West Yorkshire. It is brilliant drama (although said with fingers crossed, as it’s the last episode tonight & sometimes final episodes are the weakest), but what I’ve loved about it are the locations. […]
Short blog about a short day trip to Wales at the weekend. Over at We Are Life, we’re doing a website for Bryn Evans, who’s just taken over The Nag’s Head Inn, in Garthmyl, and we thought it was a good excuse to do a bit of a recce and get away from our building […]
Our house – where we work from – is currently being smashed apart as we embark on a big renovation project. Not very conducive to running a business from home 😉 We decided to pack up and get away so that we could work, but also so that we could pop back to Didsbury […]
Every time we pop over to Formby, a visit to Antony Gormley’s Iron Men on Crosby Beach is a must. Every single time we visit, I see them in a different way, depending on the time of day, the light, the weather or the height of the tide. I’ve never gone and not seen them […]
Weather-wise, our Christmas journey north didn’t start off too well. Howling gales & lashing rain – awful driving weather, but probably a quite typical English Xmas drive on the M62 & A1… However, Boxing Day saw a real change in the weather and so a trip to the coast was in order, but not before […]
Like what you’ve seen? Visit Dunham Massey…
As beautiful as the iconic L.S.Lowry paintings of Salford are, thankfully it’s no longer quite this grim up north. Wonder what Lowry would make of the regeneration of Salford Quays? Planning a visit to Salford, Media City or Manchester? Check out The Lowry Hotel located on the banks of the River Irwell in the Chapel […]