Here is a link to The Scarman Trust Manchester website, where they have put a YouTube™ link on their page to a video I did at the recent City of Manchester Stadium conference.

Did the earth move in Hulme? Either that or one of those heavy lorries came flying pass my flat in the early hours. At 0056hrs the walls of my flat rattled. The same experience I had a couple of years ago when the tsunami hit Asia.

If it’s not Hulme’s fault, then where on Earth was those plate tectonics rubbing each other up the wrong way? If a lorry can boom, boom, shake my room, then this was something bigger. If you get my continental drift? Maybe it was a minor tremor or old mining subsidence. I wonder if Russia was doing any underground nuclear testing?

We’ll see it on the news like the one last year that everyone was talking about for a day. Metro.co.uk Article You know the one.. of the morning of Friday 10th August (only because I looked it up).

The Manchester Evening News was quick by posting this on their website Earthquake rocks Manchester. According to their sources it was 4.7 on the Richter scale. Some reporter was up all night after he/she felt the ground beneath move. Come to think of it.. so was I

A whole bit of shakin’ goin’ on!

Anyways.. who moved my bed?

- by Paul Summer

- by Paul Summer

Sounds great! You buy the mag and help the poor at the same time; keep the mag and sell it later for more than 50 times its value. Mind you.. I’m no expert, but I have watched a few daytime TV shows.

Last week’s “The Big Issue In The North” magazine could be worth something in a few years time. Why? Not because Daniel Day-Lewis is on the cover, it’s just that there’s a spelling mistake on the front cover.

In this day and age of computerised spell-checkers, it’s hard to find spelling mistakes, but to find one on the front cover of any magazine has to be one-in-a-billion. It is very very rare, in any day and age.

The word ‘homeless’ shows on last week’s front cover as ‘Homless’. This is why I think it would be worth something in the future.

An organisation as big as THE BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH would squirm at the very thought of misspelling ‘homeless’ on any page, let alone their front cover, as the magazine itself is designed to help these very people.

But I don’t want to focus on this. Instead, I want to put to you the idea of keeping hold of last week’s copy dated 18-24 February, 2008. So you can make a bob or two in a few years to come.

Must be rare - surely?

- by Paul Summer

But this was in East Manchester! Have I defected to the East?

No, this was an MCIN thing. MCIN run this website and www.mymanchester.net and they asked me to film something that was taking place near Sports City.

The Grange Community Resource Centre opened its doors to the folk of East Manchester to celebrate the Chinese New Year - Year of the Rat. There was a dragon, Lion Dancers, singing, music and a Tai Chi demonstration. The food looked good, but had to give it a miss as I was busy filming. Suffer for my art. Workshops included origami with Grumpy, the Greater Manchester Play Resource Unit.

The people, pictured here with Ruth Northall from Grumpy, made the lanterns that lined the path to The Grange. There were performances from Ashbury Meadow Primary School and Wai Yin Peoples Choir.

- by Paul Summer

Help! Someone tell me please..is it Loxford Tower or Towers? Google it and you get both

The former Manchester Metropolitan University Halls of Residence, School of Architecture & Mixed Media on Lower Chatham Street, is being demolished even as I write this news item this very night. Loxford Tower used to house CaReS’ Administration, the Accommodation Office and the Conference Office. Loxford Tower was built in the 1970’s, when it used to be Manchester Polytechnic.

What will stand in its place? Will it be the new £65m sustainable state-of-the-art business school and teaching centre? A modern glass environmently friendly building featured in last years’ Manchester Evening News article.

It was interesting to see that they minimised dust clouds by spraying water in the air towards the building. Wasn’t to put any fire out or to clean the windows.

I was amused to see these blue double doors and trying not to think.. “I hope no-one walks through them”. Wouldn’t it be funny if.. not even going there. Me, a first aider.. tut-tut!

For students who once lived there, you can download these images - I’m giving you copyright permission to use them for your private use or on your social networking website profile page. PULP can use them for free! Just put my name underneath “by Paul Summer”.

This Saturday, 16th February, Disney officially celebrated the opening of their new store in Manchester. This was a move from its old location on St Anne’s Square to the new vibrant section of the Arndale Centre - joining the colourful array of retailers that took advantage of being strategically positioned close to Starbucks.