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The route also took us through Nixon’s Farm, a place we’d driven by several times, but we’d never bothered to visit. Anyway, we dropped the bag of old batteries off at the tip, and the man there even said he’d drop them off in the right place for us. I’d forgotten that Manchester is a Nuclear Free City until we came across this sculpture featuring some very dirty doves. A huge fan of literature, films, philosophy, and tabletop games, he also has a special place in his heart for anything related to fantasy or science fiction.

It was a lovely day for a walk around the city, we really should spend more time just mooching around aimlessly. The radio show this week was titled ‘Fathers and Daughters’, so songs by Fathers about their little girls, and by girls about their Daddies. We stopped for fish and chips, well, pie and chips in my case, to fully appreciate the seaside atmosphere. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

When she thought nobody was watching, Martha went behind the curtain to practice her netball skillz. As ladies and gentlemen, or Liesel, I and several strangers, gather for afternoon tea or an evening soiree, the weather is the ballet of our conversations. The show was hosted by Suzi Ruffell and she, and the other four were absolutely brilliant, very funny. As Verity Wilson’s abundantly illustrated new study Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain shows, Asher’s book is no outlier, but part of a time-honoured tradition.

As mentioned before, this week’s radio show was Seconds, to mark England’s Lionesses coming second in the World Cup. Pictures from the publication – an older man dressed as a butterfly, in red leggings, cardboard wings and dark sunglasses furnished with wire antennas; a red-headed man, dressed as a carrot, dancing with a woman wearing a red and white tent costume; four people, some adults, some children, covered with 12 metres of painted bubble wrap, posing as the Loch Ness Monster – went viral on Twitter.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I let some of the others go first, just to make sure the bridge could bear the weight of pedestrians. We picked Martha and William up from their home and we drove to Catalyst near Widnes, a science experience centre and museum that we’d taken them to years ago. And just as well: two people had turned up for their first time and we all did our best to make them welcome. Once she stopped laughing at our ineptitude, Helen said she’d be happy to see us earlier than originally planned, phew, so we’ll be off to Australia in March, woohoo!

By the time we got home, we were glad not to have the extra weight, it was warm, hot even, almost like a proper Summer’s day. The Thursday walk took place as usual in Wythenshawe, and again, a couple of new people turned up to join us.

The children kept themselves busy while waiting for nearly an hour for the race to turn up by playing video games on parents’ phones! Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Over the weeks, though, this old phone has been sitting there on my desk, waiting for me to clear all the data, and reset to factory settings so I could pass it on to be recycled.When the next train arrived, it disgorged several more, and over twenty of us walked from Wilmslow to Alderley Edge. On the one hand, it was like rediscovering an old friend; on the other hand, said friend was being pelted with eggs. The heart wants what it wants; surely the only way to explain the eccentric hobbies and characters that have seized the popular imagination over the last 12 months. And then, over a week or so last month, people across the globe united to obsess over a 1983 book, Jane Asher’s Fancy Dress, which promises “Over 100 costumes for children and adults and how to make them”.