the other day, the postie greeted me bleary-eyed on the doorstep with a package which turned out to be the new  itrip i’d ordered a couple of days earlier, to accompany my ipod.  although i’d read good reviews about the itrip, i was expecting it to be  at best a ‘not bad’ piece of [...]

yesterday we all piled down the pub after college, coz it was one of my workmate’s birthday.  ironically the venue chosen for the occasion was none other than the salutation in hulme - nary a stonesthrow from my house and my onetime local, until they tarted it up a bit and all the regulars seemed [...]

i kick manchester city council’s fat arses - yet again!

many years ago, i fought the buggers through the courts to force them to pay me compensation for the loss of my flat when olde hulme was demolished to make way for the student ghetto we have now.  it took about three years and several lawyers [...]