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31.Landmarks, romance and fancy a job at the BBC?(Thursday 12th of June 2008 12:32:28 PM 3 weeks, 5 days ago )
Mancubist received its half-millionth hit recently, which seems pretty decent for what is essentially a blog. It’s currently ranked 17th in the ‘Local’ category on Blogtopsites and has 160 RSS followers and 170 email subscribers - including new additions from Arts About Manchester, the Not Part Of organisation and even...
32.Forest gardening techniques on Leaf Street(Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 06:00:25 PM 1 month ago )
Read this article to view photographs of comfrey planted as a living mulch around the base of eight year old fruit trees, in the forest garden area of Leaf Street community garden. The comfrey is successfully out-competing ground elder, and goose grass, as well as providing multiple other benefits as...
33.Rides for Bike Week 14th-22nd June(Sunday 01st of June 2008 11:18:46 AM 1 month, 1 week ago )
GMCC are holding cycle commuting rides into Albert Square (Wednesday St Peter’s Square) on all five weekday mornings of Bike Week. These will be like the regular last Friday of the month rides we organise with Manchester Friends of the Earth/LoveYourBike.
Longer leisure rides are also being organised (see...
GMCC are holding cycle commuting rides into Albert Square (Wednesday St Peter’s Square) on all five weekday mornings of Bike Week. These will be like the regular last Friday of the month rides we organise with Manchester Friends of the Earth/LoveYourBike.
Longer leisure rides are also being organised (see...
34.Visit our stall at Bike Week Cycle fair, Sat 14th June(Saturday 31st of May 2008 09:07:31 PM 1 month, 1 week ago )
Visit the Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign (GMCC) stall at Manchester Bike Week Cycle Fair on Saturday 14th June (11am to 4pm). The event takes place at Cathedral Gardens behind Urbis.
At our stall campaign members can tell you more about how the campaign works to make life better for cyclists in Greater...
At our stall campaign members can tell you more about how the campaign works to make life better for cyclists in Greater...
35.Guided wild food foraging ride Thurs 19th June(Thursday 29th of May 2008 10:32:24 PM 1 month, 1 week ago )
Guided wild food foraging and bike ride on Thursday 19th June starts 6pm meeting at the children’s playground in Birchfields Park then cycling to and along the Fallowfield Loop. Family friendly with lots of stops to forage food along the loop. This...
Guided wild food foraging and bike ride on Thursday 19th June starts 6pm meeting at the children’s playground in Birchfields Park then cycling to and along the Fallowfield Loop. Family friendly with lots of stops to forage food along the loop. This...
36.Sum difficultees I bin havin(Wednesday 28th of May 2008 01:53:03 PM 1 month, 1 week ago )
See shud I sleep in me bed or the sofa? See trubble is much as I luv me bed its in the kitchen and meens I hesta wark cross blessed shiny floor. Now Shefeeder is most oblijin many times and do carry me cross but then she cleers off and...
37.Leaf Street Community Garden - home of the worlds largest herb spiral - so big you can see it from outer space!(Friday 09th of May 2008 08:10:50 PM 2 months ago )
Leaf Street is a community garden situated on the Redbricks in Hulme, Manchester. I was one of three facilitators on the permaculture 72 hour design course in June 99, during which the garden was designed, and the first raised bed was created. Read more, to see photographs of Leaf...
Leaf Street is a community garden situated on the Redbricks in Hulme, Manchester. I was one of three facilitators on the permaculture 72 hour design course in June 99, during which the garden was designed, and the first raised bed was created. Read more, to see photographs of Leaf...
38.Diet of Disaster(Friday 09th of May 2008 05:20:20 PM 2 months ago )
"Ultimately, if left unchecked, environmental degradation may threaten not only economic growth, and stability but the very survival of humans on the planet." UN FAO, Nov 06.
Notes on talk at Friends Meeting House, by Tony Wardle, associate director of Viva (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals), about the deadly...
Notes on talk at Friends Meeting House, by Tony Wardle, associate director of Viva (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals), about the deadly...
39.Birchfields Forest Garden(Friday 09th of May 2008 03:45:10 PM 2 months ago )
Birchfields Forest Garden is a permaculture project organised by the Friends of Birchfields Park, in the Longsight area. Read more for a summary of the project, downloadable documents, and photographs from different events and activities.
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40.Slump in property prices in Manchester - Was it inevitable?(Thursday 01st of May 2008 11:50:29 PM 2 months, 1 week ago )
Comment by Aidan O’Rourke
For months now I have been hearing about a slump in the Manchester property market: Rents and sale prices down, repossessions up and incredibly, apartments in the Beetham Hilton Tower going for knock-down prices.
All this was confirmed in an article in the Manchester...
For months now I have been hearing about a slump in the Manchester property market: Rents and sale prices down, repossessions up and incredibly, apartments in the Beetham Hilton Tower going for knock-down prices.
All this was confirmed in an article in the Manchester...
