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Leeds Local food

Get your chops around this

I was driving to work last week, and there was a big new sign on the roundabout in Horsforth: Horsforth Asparagus, available to purchase 4pm – 6pm. I’ve never seen local asparagus advertised before, and was immediately intrigued. On my way home I stopped off, and the whole thing was quite exciting… I turned off […]

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Signs

Is this a bad sign?

Whilst in Menorca last year, I saw this: I took it as a sign. Hahahahaha.

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Feature Leeds

FEATURE: Bettakultcha – storytelling in the 21st century

Storytelling is verbally sharing a narrative, whether true or imagined. It began as an oral tradition; stories were committed to memory and passed down through the generations, until the written word came along and captured them in a new form. Storytelling is essentially what happens at Bettakultcha, although it wasn’t necessarily what I was expecting. […]

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Leeds Politics

Dinner with Ed Miliband

WARNING: Politics(!), and dinner. (They’re not meant to mix are they??) After the General Election last year, I was terrified of what was about to come, so promptly raced over to Labour’s website and became a member. I am not a particularly active member at the moment, but felt I needed to do something to […]

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Music

A Deeper Understanding of Kate Bush in 2011?

Kate Bush is creating again! This is great news for fans such as myself. I was, however, a little disappointed to learn that her next album, Director’s Cut, will be a reworking of tracks taken from her two earlier albums; The Sensual World (1989) and The Red Shoes (1993). Deeper Understanding is the first single […]

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Signs Trips

An escape to Bakewell….

A week ago, Mr M and I disappeared off to Bakewell in the Peak District. After some stomach clenching, breath holding swoops around the tiniest and darkest of roads we arrived in the small town famous for its tarts. Not to sound too British(!) but the weather was amazing! It was a little pocket of […]

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Blogging

Entering blogging land… here goes!

Hello! So here is my brand new shiny blog! I’m a novice to this blogging lark and to be honest, quite scared of it. It feels a bit like my first day at school, and I feel the need to shuffle around and look at my feet in a pink cheeked fashion. Also, right now […]