Tag: Leeds dynamite

South Leeds Roundup: Fungi, festivals and old photographs

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with a nature walk organised by Friends of Middleton Park last Sunday which revealed, amongst other things, an allegedly edible tree fungus called ‘chicken of the woods’.

South Leeds Roundup: Skills, sons and a skate park

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at SLATE. As well as recycling furniture and serving ace teas, SLATE provide work and training opportunities for people with learning disabilities. They are currently running a

South Leeds Roundup: Dabbing, dough and dementia

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at The Tetley art gallery in Hunslet where you are invited to collaborate on a giant group painting made by rolling, twisting and dabbing painted balls over

South Leeds Roundup: Ponds, Piles, People & Property

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week down at Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Stourton where Toby Roberts tells the story of the creation of the big new dipping pond in a new

South Leeds Roundup: Water, Witness and wasps’ nests

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with intriguing photos of Slung Low preparing for their water-borne version of Moby Dick to be performed at (on? in?) Leeds Dock next month. Tickets for

South Leeds Roundup: Sunsets, schools and supporters (but not supermarkets)

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Stephan Rushworth, a keen photographer, took this stunning shot of the the H2010 development on the river in Hunslet at sunset last Saturday . Speaking of photographs, Phil Kirby took a walk

South Leeds Roundup: Pooper Scoopers, Parking Permits and Police Volunteers

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Friends of Middleton Park have posted a lovely video made by Wakefield Council to remind dog owners to clear up after their pets. “Pooper Scooper” is a reworking of a classic Abba

Middleton Gala 2013 – were you there?

  The weather could not have been any better for this beautiful, fun-filled family day out. I am talking about the annual Middleton Gala which took place yesterday – Saturday 13th July 2013, at Middleton Primary School. As this was my first time attending this event, I gave myself enough

South Leeds Roundup: Artichokes and Ancestors

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Our jumping off point this week (geddit?) is Leeds Dynamite who have photos on their Facebook Page from their performance at the White Rose Centre today. They were marking the opening of

South Leeds Roundup: Big Bird, Sgt Pepper and the missing wedding couple

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Friends of Middleton Park have loads going on – every Sunday until the end of September – and it’s all over on their Facebook page and website. You’ve already missed a bird