Last week, Manchester’s Reform Radio celebrated the opening of it’s new home – two brand new studios, and office and workshop space. The space was created in collaboration with Jagermeister, who have a history of working within the music industry and aptly named The Jäger X Reform Studio. Whilst I couldn’t make it to the…
Tag: Geekery
Body Scanning with University of Manchester and Phase Eight
It’s not often I get to refer to the organisation I work for. For those of you who don’t know, I work at the University of Manchester, at the National Graphene Institute. As my work is related to cutting edge research, this means that I often can’t talk about it. And the stuff I can…
Product Review: Stationery with Ryman Stationery
My name is Charlie and I’m a stationery addict. It started in school – yes I was knee deep in eraser collections, scented, moulded, characters. Then came pencil toppers. From a simple triangular rubber to feather topped springs, trolls and pompoms. Once I hit my final year of primary school and we were firmly in…
BBC Radio Manchester: Over to You
I often describe myself before as nosey. And it’s true. I want to know how things work, what makes people tick, processes. It’s something that comes in handy when I visit a venue, or interview someone, and especially when it comes to the geeky side of things. Sometimes it’s getting me to stop asking questions…
The Story Collider
It’s no secret that next week I’m hosting a series of events for Manchester Science Festival. But what you might not know is that I’ve been asked to speak at an event. On science. Yes, me. I don’t know either. Whilst I work in science, I am a bit of a cuckoo – I have…
Hendrick’s Gin: Grand Tour of Enlightenment
Hendrick’s Gin is an intriguing liquid. Far from the ‘old’ spirit it’s often thought to be, it was only created in 1999 – making it far younger than the apothecary style bottle would have you think. There are also those who would also suggest that it’s a little bit of a ‘one-trick wonder’ – the…
Review: Cooking for Geeks
Mr GFB has lost patience with me a bit already over presents this Christmas. Everything I’ve asked for is practical: perfume, gin (well given the blog, it is more practical than not), make up. And no cries to family of ‘just buy me a bottle of gin, it’ll be fine’ seem to be working. I’m…
Game On at the Museum
There’s one thing I miss – that blogging, writing, training and spending so much time out and about keeps me away from. No, not Mr GFB, he does sometimes come out to play with me. It’s gaming. Way back (showing my age now) we had a C64, that I loved so much, I even learned…
Horrible Histories: Blitzed Brits
I’ve mentioned before, that I’m a bit of a geek. Not quite a nerd, I think I flit about loving too many different things for that, but I’m definitely a geek. And I can remember being a teenager, almost having left high school, when Horrible Histories first appeared on the bookshelves of my sisters and…