Clean Air Day 2019 – If you can walk it, why not?

How far can you walk in 20 minutes?   To mark Clean Air Day, local residents have designed and installed boards to tell us. People are being encouraged to walk to destinations which are under twenty minutes away on foot, so a busy Kirkstall junction is now populated with signposts  to places like Kirkstall Abbey, Bramley […]

Review: The Carole King Songbook World Premiere

Last night’s performance of The Carole King Songbook at Yeadon Town Hall reminded me of why I love the theatre. It also made me think that I may be desperately in need of therapy! First things first. This is not a deep, meaningful piece of drama but a celebration of one of the best songwriters […]

Anticipating The World Premiere of The Carole King Songbook

Forget the West End and Broadway – the only place to be seen between 13th and 15th June is Yeadon Town Hall where the World Premiere of The Carole King Songbook is being staged. The Carole King Songbook is described as the story of one girl and her piano, but it is more than that; […]

Review: Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile

I had been looking forward to this event for some time, and even more so since I interviewed the amazing Lisa Holdsworth a couple of weeks ago. Lisa has adapted the novel Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, by the equally amazing Adelle Stripe, into a stage play and its first performance was by The […]

Mark’s Kitchen Takeover

How it all began – I first met Mark Smith when he catered for my nephew’s first birthday party back in March. His enthusiasm and passion for food seemed somewhat familiar. After developing a love of baking and cooking over recent years, Mark saw an opportunity at Palaço’s, Morley, and started a six-month stint helping out […]