Awwwwwwwwwwww, intit lovely!

As I mentioned the other day, I wandered around Manchester on Saturday afternoon and enjoyed the Christmas lights as they came on and lit the streets around the city. Here are a few photos that I took there.

These displays are hanging around Albert Square, which is where the Town Hall is. Unfortunately, there's a Starbuck's in the way of the shot, but that's not hard since there are about 15 of the bloody things in the city.

This looks a bit shite, but this is Deansgate - one of the main shopping/eating streets in Manchester. One of the nice themes of the lights is that most of the trees around the city centre are covered in those little lights.

Kendals, one of our original department stores, is a Manchester landmark. It's nice to go in there and try to get across the ground floor without being accosted by sales personnel attacking you with the latest "oh no de parfum". I remember being taken to Santa's Grotto there as a child... well, I don't, but there's a photo of me struggling to escape from Father Christmas, tears streaming down my face, so I know it happened.

I "heart" the big wheel when it comes to Manchester. It's an impressive structure that occupies an prominent place in the city's skyline. Trump was so patient as she waited with me while I took this shot. I'd been waiting for what seemed an eternity for the thing to get spinning so I could get an action shot.

We usually keep the wheel until May, but unfortunately, we're only having it until the beginning of January because it's getting shipped off to the European Capital of Culture. Big wheel in Liverpool? Are they fucking mad? It'll be missing a few pods by the beginning of February.