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Manchester
The gig that never was
You see the date, February 27th, you see the venue, the Bridgwater Hall, Manchester, you see the seat number, the time, and most of all you see the band, yes, the Mavericks! The story behind this gig that never was is that just after the interval having listened to the support, a member of the […]
MoreMaverick Kim’s game
Kim’s game was invented (or named) by Rudyard Kipling from his novel ‘Kim’ about a young boy learning the tricks of being a spy… This isn’t actually Kim’s game because in that game the objects are shown to those playing, then covered and the people playing have to try and remember what they were. So […]
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How many years ago?
We have just cooked spaghetti Bolognese, and are serving it into bowls… there would have been maybe three or four other people here but we were doing the cooking on a tiny little Baby Belling, a midget electric cooker. This was my first year away from home at Manchester Polytechnic.
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Lois Elsden 