Bee-ing good at a half term community event today. Well done to all 4CT🐝 💙 for organising! Ruth Denton #childfriendlycity

Calling all choirs! The application period for the MACC 2025 at the RNCM in Manchester is now open. Full details can be found at themacc.org.uk

Well deserved standing ovation for the departing Sir Mark Elder after so many years leading The Hallé. Bravo Sir Mark!

At Stockport Pride

Come and see our #HAF2024 stall at the Anti-Poverty Ardwick and Longsight event at 422 Community Hub Manchester City Council MCRactive Holiday Activity

Today, join us as we celebrate children’s right to play as part of National Play Day. Expect activities for children of all ages - from crafts to free play, den building to team sports. 🤸🪁🪀 Find out more: orlo.uk/Play_Day_2024_… #PlayDay2024 #ChildFriendlyManchester

#playday2024 #childfriendlymanchester East Manchester Youth & Play Partnership ManchesterSettlement mcrbikekitchen YPAC Manchester Newleaf Foundation jalmacleisure The SPACE group Manchester MCRactive Holiday Activity join us today

Happy National Play Day everyone. Our young people are having a great summer with us #eat #play MCRactive MCRactive Holiday Activity Comic Relief Sainsbury's Forever Manchester #holidayclub #holidayactivities #HAF #SummerHAF #NourishtheNation #playday2024 #childfriendlymanchester #Manchester

Join MYL #playday2024 Free activities & food for children & families. All welcome. 12-3pm Addy Young People’s Centre, Woodhouse Lane #wythenshawe 2-5pm Moss Side Adventure Play, Whitnall St #mossside A6 Young People’s Centre, Wilson St #ardwick #longsight #childfriendlymanchester

#HAFSummer fun and games for our very first week of summer holiday activities☀️🎯🎥🥳 #youngpeople #axethrowing #icecream #archery #movies #arts #crafts #healthymeals #sports #park #friendships #games Vue MCRactive Holiday Activity Manchester City Council MCC Harpurhey Manchester Youth Zone Jon Atkin

The full Manchester Literature Festival programme has just dropped and it's packed full of ideas to inspire, move, challenge and reimagine the world through literature. 📅 4-20th October Tickets open for priority booking from today, on general sale Thursday. #CityofLit manchestercityofliterature.com/news/mancheste…

When I'm on the tram in Manchester and hear different languages being spoken, I sometimes close my eyes and pretend I'm abroad on holiday 😀😊

Five years ago, Tom Holland suggested that someone should find a song to represent each of the 66 Biblical books (sorry Catholics, Orthodox, etc.). The following is what I came up with. Rules: no bad songs, no church songs, no repeated artists, and nothing too obscure. Read on!

5. If Saturn were as close to Earth as the Moon, this is what it would look like:

8. This GIF by Jakub Nowosad demonstrates how the Mercator projection distorts the true sizes of continents and countries on a world map.

9. The actual size of Africa

WW1 Western Front every day

Completely fixated by this!

Pippin by Vermeer 🎨

Big shout-out to the train conductor on the 16.15 Avanti West Coast from Manchester to London today who had everyone smiling with his tannoy announcement about the perils of leaving bags on seats. I managed to thank him when getting off the train😀