BOLTON. A Quick Half On The Market.

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.

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 […]

I am writing this by the fading light of the day and the flickering volts of my mobile’s battery as not for the first time I have bounced out of the house without the charging cable. I’ve come to Shrewsbury as a last trip before the steamroller that is Christmas arrives and flattens everything before it. Anyway regular readers ( thank you if you are and hello if you are […]

Out and about, trying to wrap up the last of my Christmas shopping ( see what I did there ?). My travels have brought me to Colwyn Bay on the North Wales coast. It has a high Coffee House ratio plus a couple of interesting looking bars ( for future reference in the spring ). It’s been a useful day and some of the ‘stuff’ has been sorted. Sadly the […]

One of the many delights of the Edinburgh Festival is walking down the Royal Mile past the preview stages and taking in the bite sized samples of the shows on offer. Music, drama, magic or just plain odd, they are all their for your enjoyment.