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Tag: manchester

  • I spent a while failing to interpret this sign. It seemed to be saying that if you didn't clear your tray... then you'd get ketchup poured on your wrist?

    Full image of Printed sign reading 'this is a self-clear area; thank you' beneath a red illuminated icon of a hand onto whose wrist a bottle drips.
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    Printed sign reading 'this is a self-clear area; thank you' beneath a red illuminated icon of a hand onto whose wrist a bottle drips.

    It turns out there's a baby bottle warming station on the other side of the bins.

    (It is possible they my brain is struggling from a lack of sleep.)

    • Note
    • posted 24 May, 2026
  • Dan shrugs for the camera as he sits at a pub table with a variety of people; one woman, sat to his left, throws a V-sign with her fingers.

    Queer Coded ๐ŸŒˆ

    Paraphrased from a conversation in a Manchester pub last night -

    Them: Your [dyed blue] hair is queer-coded, right? Like... you're telegraphing you're queer?
    Me: I mean... I'm also wearing a pride rainbow t-shirt and my watch strap is a 'bi pride' flag. I don't feel like I'm being subtle.
    Them: Nah. The hair's the giveaway.

    • Note
    • posted 12 May, 2025
  • Sitting in a traditionally-decorated circular reading room, Dan writes in a notepad.

    Found GC84F1A Manchester Central Library

    What a truly spectacular cache. FP awarded, without hesitation. I've seen a similar kind in a library before but never with such depth, such a story, so voluminous a container, nor - let's be honest - so beautiful a building!

    Read more (114 words)

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    • to GC84F1A
    • posted 12 May, 2025
  • Dan gestures at his laptop in a quiet pub function room, on which he's writing some code. In the background, two women are having a conversation.

    ๐Ÿ‘‹ Farewell, NLA

    Highlights of yesterday's Goodbye Nightline Association party in Manchester: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿคโœ๏ธ๐Ÿคž. Low points: ๐Ÿ˜ข.

    Read more (94 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 12 May, 2025
  • Oxford Station. Catching a train to Manchester for a get-together in memory of the Nightline Association, which will sadly be closing this year (although individual Nightlines will doubtless soldier on just as they did before the Association).

    Carrying a big ol' bag of Three Rings swag to give to basically anybody who expresses even the slightest interest. ๐Ÿ˜…

    Three Rings has been supporting Nightlines since before the Nightline Association and nowadays underpins voluntary work by hundreds of other charities including helplines like Samaritans and Childline. Feeling sad that the Nightline Association is going away and looking for a new and rewarding way to volunteer? Come chat to me!

    Full image of Dan, with blue hair and wearing a black t-shirt, stands on a sunny train platform holding aloft a medium-sized tote bag.
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    Dan, with blue hair and wearing a black t-shirt, stands on a sunny train platform holding aloft a medium-sized tote bag.

    • Note
    • posted 11 May, 2025
  • Finger pressing a lift button.

    Stuck in a Lift

    About twenty years ago, I spent three hours playing I-Spy in a broken-down elevator. And in doing so, I learned two things about my friend Fiona.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1364 words)

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    • with an accompanying podcast
    • 2 comments
    • posted 29 November, 2024
  • Back From Lancashire

    Spent the last four days in Lancashire and elsewhere in the North of England, visiting my folks (among other things). Details follow...

    Thursday 26th June 2003
    Linux Expo 2003, Birmingham
    Sorted out Claire's bank, packed bags, and set off for Birmingham to the last day of Linux Expo 2003 at the National Exhibition Centre, to meet up with โ€ฆ

    Read more (257 words)

    • Article
    • posted 30 June, 2003

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