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Fame at last – and more kebab talk

I was rather chuffed to get a mention on Sarah Hartley’s Life Through Food blog a couple of weeks ago, which is on the Manchester Evening News website. I’ve been reading Sarah’s blog for a while, and found some great tips for new places I’ve not tried, like this one called Bread and Butter in the Northern Quarter. As I don’t work round there I haven’t discovered this gem, but will be trying it out very soon indeed.

When I started this blog over Christmas it was really just a hobby and I didn’t think anyone would notice or read it for AGES. But of course, then I discovered Twitter, which enables you to reach a large audience very quickly. Around the same time Twitter has reached mainstream media and seems to get mentioned in the Press rather a lot by people who just don’t get it. Celebrities tweeting their daily trivia is just a small part of this network. I follow a few celebs but generally find it far more interesting to follow and converse with people who have similar interests to me and work in a similar field to me.

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Welcome to Manchester Is Ace!

hi all – this is the first post to introduce Manchester Is Ace – not that anyone will be reading this yet! But hopefully if we keep shouting out into cyberspace someone might start reading our musings/ findings/ ramblings.

We set up the Manchester is ace blog because we love Manchester and want to bring you tips, offers and details of the best places we’ve found. We want to sing the unsung, find the coolest little shops, the bars with the best offers that we find as we tootle through life.

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