BIRMINGHAM. Sweet is The Night.

Well 2021 has taken its last bow collected a farewell bouquet and has left the stage. It’s only three days into 2022 so too soon to come up with any real impressions of what sort of year it will be.

Well 2021 has taken its last bow collected a farewell bouquet and has left the stage. It’s only three days into 2022 so too soon to come up with any real impressions of what sort of year it will be.

From my coffee and cannoli ( see previous post ) I got my tram ticket and travelled on down to the leafy suburb of Didsbury. I past this be-tusked gentleman sitting and watching the world go by. Conversation was short as I didn’t have bananas or peanuts with me. He said he’d remember me next time.

Cabin fever bites again so I’m curing it with a quick-ish trip into Manchester. I’ve no particular agenda beyond getting out of the house for a couple of hours. Though for a change I’m thinking of heading out to Didsbury to the south of the city centre. A day ticket on the city’s tram network will get me there. After I’ve finished my coffee obviously. https://www.visitmanchester.com/ https://www.visitengland.com/trip-ideas/places-visit-manchester-city-break https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/imagesbylachlan https://lachlan-main.pixels.com/ https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lachlan-main/shop/prints

As you might already know I have a liking for proper Markets, the ones where you feel like actually buying something instead of walking around just looking.

So 2021 is packing it’s bags and getting ready to leave stage right. It was a bit of an improvement on 2020 but that’s not setting the bar very high. As is usual at Christmas all my carefully worked out plans fall apart like a house of cards in a wind machine. I had a few things still to get so I headed off to Chester, see if I could […]

Winter officially starts tomorrow, the 21st the shortest day but that cold gentleman put in and early appearance yesterday as I had a walk around Lytham and St. Anne’s. This is the time of the year when I like to grab whatever chance of daylight happens to be passing, even when like this day there wasn’t a whole lot of it about as a thick fog settled in and showed […]