Mad for it
We took Joe into Manchester on Saturday to pick up some new clothes and generally mooch about the big city away from our hill-ringed village. They have shops and galleries and pretty shiney lights in the big city. He got a very fine 1980's Adidas zipper sweat jacket, complete with authentic german disco logo, groovy dude.
We went on the Manchester Eye (or is it 'the Wheel'), which was a real effort by me as I absolutely hate heights. It was my idea, spontaneous lets-have-fun that propelled me through the ticket booth, the small queue for the next empty pod and as far as about 5 foot off the ground before reality hit and I got all tense jawed and starey eyed, much to the the boys amusement. The fact it was really windy and the pod-thing (much smaller and flimsier feeling than it's London big brother) swung a bit made it all the more funny for the youth. Junior gits.
We also went into the uber trendy Richard Goodall gallery, in the northern quarter. I want to buy everything in there, should I win the Lotto. Loved the band posters and a lot of the vinyl toys, Dalek's exhibition work is technically great but I prefer the more vibrant, warm cartoony-ness of Jon Burgerman for example. Its a great gallery, get there.
Photos of the day are below..
We took Joe into Manchester on Saturday to pick up some new clothes and generally mooch about the big city away from our hill-ringed village. They have shops and galleries and pretty shiney lights in the big city. He got a very fine 1980's Adidas zipper sweat jacket, complete with authentic german disco logo, groovy dude.
We went on the Manchester Eye (or is it 'the Wheel'), which was a real effort by me as I absolutely hate heights. It was my idea, spontaneous lets-have-fun that propelled me through the ticket booth, the small queue for the next empty pod and as far as about 5 foot off the ground before reality hit and I got all tense jawed and starey eyed, much to the the boys amusement. The fact it was really windy and the pod-thing (much smaller and flimsier feeling than it's London big brother) swung a bit made it all the more funny for the youth. Junior gits.
We also went into the uber trendy Richard Goodall gallery, in the northern quarter. I want to buy everything in there, should I win the Lotto. Loved the band posters and a lot of the vinyl toys, Dalek's exhibition work is technically great but I prefer the more vibrant, warm cartoony-ness of Jon Burgerman for example. Its a great gallery, get there.
Photos of the day are below..
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