Tag Archives: sheffield

Thinned Sheffield Sky

By 6000 | 6000 | July 6, 2011

Earlier today, I was wandering around arepeejee’s flickr (you may remember him from such blog posts as What were the skies like when you were young? and Eccy Rd Hoff Stolen), having seen a link to this masterpiece. It was there that I saw the full version of this superb photo: “Sheffield Sky” …which I have thinned [...]

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Comedians like Sheffield

By 6000 | 6000 | June 10, 2011

And they’re not being funny, either. Who could forget Alexander Armstrong’s kind words about my hometown last year? And those were followed up by Michael Legge last month, which were emailed to me by regular reader, Darthfarter. I would probably have got to this sooner, but I only found it by chance in my deleted [...]

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Don’t sit down…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 12, 2011

Feels like someone should have suggested that for me this week. Busy. But no, this is the new one from the Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys: Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair. I’m getting heavy Beatles, I’m getting dark Oasis and there’s a soupçon of The Smiths and a hint of The Pixies in there [...]

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Bravery in the face of defeat

By 6000 | 6000 | May 3, 2011

(post title borrowed from The Streets’ track Has It Come To This? [youtube] which is also quite apt) After the upset of Saturday evening, it was heartening to read the first few paragraphs of this: Instead, the team went to every corner of the ground, acknowledging the supporters who had stayed behind to sing ‘We love [...]

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Sheffield (for David Smith)

By 6000 | 6000 | October 8, 2010

M&G thoughtleader columnist David Smith was quick to nip in with a quip when UK comedian Alexander Armstrong tweeted a picture from the top of the “Sheffield Eye”, having told us: It’s only ANOTHER beautiful day In Sheffield. Going to ride the massive wheel outside our hotel and will twitpic from the top. LOVE it [...]

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