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Diary 14th To 24th April 2020

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 24 Apr 20

A diary of doing virtually nothing, given the ongoing lockdown. I'll be talking to sock-puppets before long if this goes on much longer. The 14th April would have been the day I returned home from the big science fiction...

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Diary 8th To 12th February 2020

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Feb 20

Diary - Saturday 8th February 2020 - I spent most of the day preparing for my trip to Manchester for my 58th birthday celebrations. The weather was nice but I was worried by reports of major storms expected on my birthday itself....

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Diary 31st January To 7th February 2020

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 7 Feb 20

Diary Friday 31st January 2020 A bill paying day that cut my bank account to ribbons. Diary Saturday1st February 2020 Even more bills to pay. Diary Sunday February 2020 I returned my library books as they were due today....

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Diary 10th To 16th January 2020

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 16 Jan 20

Friday 10th January - the first meeting of the book club this year and a very well attended lovely event it was too. I've reviewed the book we covered, Sandra Cisneros's The House On Mango Street seperately. Saturday was a quiet...

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Diary 17th To 27th December 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 27 Dec 19

My final week on the temporary mail sorting job, and all the shifts would be full ones, no reduced hours. Adding the very early starts and getting up at 4.30 am made for a gruelling week. On Wednesday 18th December I treated...

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Diary 3rd To 5th December 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 5 Dec 19

Tuesday 3rd December 2019 - A promising start to the working week (I'm off on Sundays and Mondays) when I finally got a full uncut shift, but Wednesday 4th was reduced by an hour and Thursday, 5th by ninety minutes. Two fairly...

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Diary Monday 3rd To Sunday 9th June 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 9 Jun 19

A week of quiet days and busy ones. Job searching is usually quite a mechanical routine process, involving the same career websites being checked daily. It can be tedious and take hours. I have to do it daily. The Monday and...

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Diary 20th To 26th May 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 26 May 19

A quiet Monday at home (20th) and a week on a very low budget for me. On the Tuesday I called to the Doctors to pick up a repeat prescription for my blood pressure medications, and collected enough of the necessary drugs for the...

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Pub Sign Study The Streetbridge Inn Failsworth Manchester

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Apr 19

I sometimes like words only signs as well as pictographic ones, This one, on the North Manchester and Oldham Tameside borders has a refreshingly honest approach to advertising, by admitting the pub has no claim to fame whatsoever....

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Pub Sign Study The Stocks Inn Stalybridge Manchester

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 4 Apr 19

A real piece of history here, as stocks were used as a medieval cruel, humiliating punishment for minor crimes such as drunken behaviour, or spreading malicious rumours. If found guilty by local magistrates, a felon would be...

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Pub Sign Study The Pig And Whistle Heywood Manchester

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 9 Mar 19

A lovely fun sign depicting a very happy pig driving a locomotive and tooting the whistle. He is dressed in an engine driver’s uniform. Beats being turned into bacon. The Pig And Whistle is a name used on quite a few pubs,...

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Someone Worse Off Than You

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Feb 19

On my own difficult (see my 9th-10th February 2019 diary entry) journey to Manchester I saw a man at Preston station who had savage bruises on his face. He was panicking over the train delay and asked me what was going on. At...

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Diary 9th And 10th February 2019

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 11 Feb 19

Diary Saturday 9th February 2019 My 57th birthday, and I woke up early feeling no different than at 56. I was up early as I planned to get an early train to Manchester to have time to see my Mum before meeting friend later in...

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Pub Sign Study The Lazy Toad Droylsdon Manchester

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 8 Feb 19

The toad doesn’t look lazy at all to me, just relaxed and possibly gigantic unless he is in a very small pub. He is sitting on a wooden bar stool, and enjoying a pint. Probably preferable to sitting on a lily pond catching flies...

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The Manchester Irish Martyrs

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 30 Jan 19

The execution of three Irish Fenian rebels over the death of a policeman in 1867 has led to the erection of an unusual and controversial monument to them in Moston Cemetery (aka St. Joseph’s Cemetery) near to where I lived for...

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Pub Sign Study The Governers House Cheadle Hulme Manchester

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 2 Jan 19

Known as The Ravenoak after its location on Ravenoak Road in Cheadle Hulme when first opened in 1882. This was a large sumptuous restaurant bar, which might now be called a bistro-pub, where wealthy diners could eat while...

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Diary 22nd To 25th December 2018

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 25 Dec 18

Diary Saturday 22nd December 2018 My last post ended as I was about to set off to Manchester for the weekend. This is the adventures that followed. The coach was fully booked and there were literally no seats left. I am glad...

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Pub Sign Study The Spread Eagle Chorlton Manchester

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Dec 18

The eagle, among the greatest of the birds of prey, was seen as the king of the air as much as the lion was seen as the king of the jungle and African plains. The eagle became a powerful symbol of might and reach, a symbol of the...

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Diary 30th November To 3rd December 2018

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 3 Dec 18

Diary 30th November 2018 I got my welfare payment today and I was not surprised that the promised top up payment extra money for my rent was not included. This is a payment arranged by the Council to supplement my welfare...

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Pub Sign Study The Edwin Waugh Heywood Manchester

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 30 Nov 18

Edwin Waugh (1817-1890) was one of Manchester’s best loved poets and story tellers, capturing the life and soul of the cotton mill industry in dialect verse and short stories. He was born in Rochdale, serving much of his life as a...

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