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This year's holiday came at the end of  a long and difficult Summer for me and Adele. For one there was the pandemic and lockdown - not seeing family and friends in the ways I would have liked to do, missing colleagues and people from work - and then having harsh chemotherapy treatments every three weeks, that took over a week to recover from and left me very tired. One gets progressively weaker from each treatment. So once I knew it was coming to an end I felt fairly s

15th September 2020, Ardwick Green, We had gorgeous weather for the first TLC Art Project workshop since the start of Lockdown in March. We could only have 6 people meet to make sure we were sticking to the government rule of 6. Which led to these great images of the group, a little piece of history. Instead of meeting at the drop-in and walking together we each arrived at Ardwick Green under our own steam (mostly on foot). We first walked around the park to look at how power

Last week we managed to do our final walk in the Ardwick Art Walks series funded by GM Walking This final walk was designed and lead by Emily Hayes on our theme of Nature Resilience and we will covering this walk in the next blog post. Here I just wanted to highlight our workshop had a total of six people, Emily Hayes (Artist) myself (TLC Media Artist) and four participants who lived locally in Ardwick and had signed up for this walk when we first advertised the walks in Febr

Coming home after a short break away was lovely - back to so many things that have sustained me over the last strange months. I was reminded of previous posts on the Blog of “everyday things” and drawings and pictures of 9 things which made lockdown a little bit easier. I thought I’d share a mixture of pics and sketches representing 9 of the things that have helped me through  the last few months. These included exploring green spaces in Chorlton meadows with Dolly the

As we are restricted from meeting friends and family in our own homes and gardens we have all been forced outside to meet up with people in parks and public green spaces. For those of us who are mobile and able to do that, this has been a wonderful way to get to know more green spaces in our local areas. Even though I have been working on Mapping Manchester's Quiet Spaces for sometime clearly there are still green spaces on my doorstep that I had not got around to visiting. H

I was recently in contact with Karen Marshall and she sent me her recent iPad drawings, which are absolutely stunning, in particular, my eye was drawn to the drawings of Hebden Bridge during the floods and storms of last winter. Karen has recently moved to Hebden Bridge, so it is interesting to note what she has been sketching since she has arrived there. She is clearly making records of events and local activities (her drawings including opera on the pub steps in Heptonstal