Snow: the enemy of pastimes.
Trendy middle class people who live in the ‘vibrant’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ areas of South Manchester are today starting to get concerned about how the snow will affect their middle class, mid-week activities. Manchester saw between 5cm and 10cm of snow fall over the weekend and continued freezing temperatures will mean that the crystalline water ice version of precipitation is likely to remain for a number of days.
“I’m meant to have a Bikram Yoga class at 11am on Monday”, said West Didsbury mother-of-two Francesca Bartholomew. “But there’s a strong possibility that the schools will be closed, so I will probably have to look after my children Xavier, 4, and Amelia, 6, instead. It’s devastating.”
“Could you please make sure you put West Didsbury?”, added Francesca. “I don’t want people thinking I live in East Didsbury. I’m not a savage.”
Chorlton-cum-Hardy business owner Hugo Grilf is equally concerned. Grilf runs Ven Space, a Venezuelan-themed vegan cafe and chess club on Barlow Moor Road.
“We have a cookery class arranged for Tuesday morning”, Grilf explained. “Acclaimed lesbian author and Venezuelan food enthusiast Maria Lappergap was due to come in and teach local residents how to make a vegan version of Bien Me Sabe, a type of Venezuelan coconut layer cake. This is now in doubt, it’s such a shame.”
“Some of my girlfriends bought me a voucher for a meditation and reiki healing session which I’d booked for Monday evening”, said Sale resident Felicity Russell who owns Sass!, a digital business to business boutique PR consultancy for the fashion industry. “I’ve tried tweeting the owner to see if they are open but I’ve not heard anything back. I have no idea what I’ll do.”
News Manc reporter and Altrincham resident Melanie Garlogie has seen the panic unfold firsthand and warned that things could escalate.
“I’ve not seen anything like it since the big snow of 1998″, she said. “You name an activity and you’ll find that it’s being cancelled in South Manchester. Poetry readings, 1950s Argentinian film screenings, owl knitting clubs, gentle boxercise for new Mums, Advocaat-based cocktail evenings, gyrotonic exercise classes, organic pork-pie making sessions, ironic rollerskating, Orangina appreciation societies, unicycle repair classes, feminist literature book clubs, calligraphy marathons, stretch and play toddler groups. I could go on and on, but it’s safe to say that they’re all in doubt at this stage.”
“South Manchester is essentially at crisis point”, said Garlogie. “The next few days will be critical.”
Reports of looting at a Fairtrade artisan bakery in Hale Barns could not be confirmed as News Manc went to press.
February 5, 2012 at 15:25
funny as fook
February 8, 2012 at 10:51
You mean fuck and by saying ‘fook’ you gave away your location. Blackley?
February 18, 2012 at 13:26
If he meant fuck he would’ve wrote that, wouldn’t he?
February 6, 2012 at 08:10
always with the owl knitting…
February 7, 2012 at 07:12
You have my vote there, can’t see keyboard for laughing…
February 8, 2012 at 10:56
CSKFL!
February 6, 2012 at 08:56
relax citzens of sale..its the more pretentious
areas of south manchester…….
February 8, 2012 at 10:53
No it’s not, it’s you too.
February 6, 2012 at 17:47
As a South Manchester resident, I must say I’m appalled that the weekly “ironic rollerskating” has been cancelled due to the vicious 1/2 inch snow flurries we have experienced. They tried to alter it to “poncy iceskating” instead, but there just wasn’t enough interest. Now I have nothing to do.
February 9, 2012 at 15:53
horse n jockey?
February 7, 2012 at 09:26
Because of the difficulties in this weather of pushing my orange B and Q wheelbarrow to The Unicorn Grocery to collect my lentils, and logs for my log burning stove…..would I be ok to go in my Range Rover Vouge instead?
February 7, 2012 at 10:24
What a load of shit.
February 7, 2012 at 10:49
That would be organic shit ??
February 8, 2012 at 10:55
Organic, hand picked shit drizzled with urine vinaigrette.
February 8, 2012 at 09:30
Hilariously accurate, I must get a photo for my blog,
http://mancunianwave.blogspot.com
February 8, 2012 at 14:06
Oh my god! You’ll have to
Look after your children! Whatever shall we do! Get a grip woman!
February 9, 2012 at 10:43
Brilliant – please remember to include some of the subaltern experiences of us that live here close by in Whalley Range (oops I mean Chorlton Borders).
February 9, 2012 at 21:58
Its crept as far as Cheadle Hulme too. Waitrose didn’t get their delivery of Nicaraguan organic alfalfa sprouts this week.
I don’t know what to do now to feed our Tarquin and Cressida!
February 10, 2012 at 13:02
being of east-didsbury decent, (or as i like to call it, didsbury village) i can safely say this is spot on. hilarious stuff.
February 21, 2012 at 01:49
Not sure where “feminist literature book group” fits in that list, but otherwise very funny.
April 23, 2012 at 00:46
LOL! Genius.