Olive & Brown in Lancashire Life

My lady is in Lancashire Life, Cheshire Life and a few other local newspapers!
The Olive&Brown article tells of the difficulties of getting thread through wallpaper, (which is no easy task on a stubborn sewing machine) and of how Olive met Brown and from this beautiful things happen.

Me? I am Proud as Punch!

free art

My lady and I took a walk over to Kim By The Sea last week and happened upon an impromptu exhibition of free art.

Roues très belle...

My lady and I have been looking for a set of wheels to use for our business and we have seen this little beauty.

A trip to France may be needed but it would be worth it.  

Bespoked Bicycle Show

Great line drawn illustration aside, Bespoke looks and sounds like it will be a really good bicycle show. Its good to see so many people creating bicycles to such a high aesthetic standard. Some of the press pictures on the Bespoke site show great craftsmanship that you just have to admire in both diligence and creativity.


The event takes place from the 10th-12th June 2011 at the Paintworks, Bristol. Perhaps my lady and I could sashay down to Bristol for the day...If not bring Bespoked to Manchester for 2012.

Bell Vue

This is the cover of a Mancunian 'zine' full of anecdotes  that can be found in the City, the cover is wonderfully produced by Neil Dimelow, whose work I have seen around and about here and there. I really like the uncomplicated line drawn representation of the City-scape, well worth two quid.

Try and get a hold of one, they're a great read.

Rough trade

What a weekend!
My lady and I had plenty on our plates Friday and Saturday but in more ways than one on Sunday. Trove is our small food business and on Friday it hit Manchester Piccadilly Gardens for the first time.

We had a laugh with the other traders, met all types of folk and listened to Piccadilly Pop (ear plugs are a must) and learnt a great deal about doing business.

On Sunday we relaxed and ate to our stomachs desire with plenty of brown sauce to taste. Mm m mmm.

A rainy City

This week has been a busy one, my lady and I did our first market stall selling our wares to masses. The weather wasn't as favourable as we had hoped but we did ok and learned a lot!

There is a poem on the end of a row of houses on Oxford road here in Manchester, that looks at the weather we have in a positive way...the verse runs vertically.