Cleveleys News

Dr Seuss famously wrote in his lesser known, yet seminal work ‘ There’s a Weeveleys in my Cleveleys ’: "You’ll feel you’re on high, way up in the sky and you’ll never come down when in Cleveleys town! But you’ll land with a thump and end up in a grump feeling ever so glum if you go to Bispham" These words have become something of a mantra for Cleveleys children who grew up in less complex times, guiding them through life. Sure there’s self-help books for adults such as ‘ Stagnate & stay in Cleveleys ’, or ‘ Men are from Earth, and so are Women ’, but when you hit one of life’s difficult moments you can’t beat the simple wisdom of Seuss – sometimes life is great, but sometimes it isn’t.  Also avoid going to Bispham wherever possible. Sometimes though, feeling a bit ‘glum’ is a whopping great understatement - when life throws you something so gut-wrenchingly awful that you struggle to eat or sleep, you have that hollow void in your stomach day and night, it be

If you live in the Blackpool area and are looking for somewhere to eat out this weekend, you may have looked in The Evening Gazette's lifestyle section, where this week you can read what I believe to be the worst restaurant review ever for 'Mr Basrai's World Buffet'. I don't mean the review is bad in the sense that it is scathing of the restaurant – just that it reads like it was written by a 9 year old, and not a particularly bright one at that. Read on and see if you agree… RESTAURANT REVIEW: Mr Basrai’s - a place you can taste the difference Taste the difference? Between what? My daughter has reached that age where a meal is now a birthday must, along with the ever increasing list of gifts and of course, a party. Are you sure your daughter didn’t write this article? It reads very much like a child’s homework. So the choice of venue fell to her, and to my surprise it didn’t include pizza! Except it DID include pizza, as you go on to say. Mr Ba

There was a time when being a nerd was something of a dirty word Reading books and being clever was not a popular endeavour But that opinion was soon offset with the advent of the Internet These days it’s harder for the ridiculer as geeks are considered so much cooler But they need a place they all can meet, somewhere to go for a nerdy treat and so was created a brand new invention: something called a Comic Convention They happen all over, in towns and in cities Some of them good, and some of them…. not so good Then Fylde coast nerds began to drool at news of a comic con here in Blackpool! The hype for this event soon began No one suspected it might be a scam They promised 'conateers' would have a ball and that this event would have it all Meet your favourite sci-fi actor! There’s a technician from the death star’s reactor One of the zombies from Dawn of the Dead The guy who operated Jabba’s head You can cospla

Set in 1950s Cleveleys, the moving tale of a shoe seller’s daughter and her struggle to overcome prejudice in a male-dominated profession. WARNING: This review may contain loafers. The Shoe Seller’s Daughter is the third in J.R.R. Withers hugely unsuccessful series of footwear novels which began with A Tale of Two Slippers and was followed by To Kill A Moccasin . Fourteen years on from the events of Moccasin we find Iain Smithers’ daughter Clarabelle has come of age and is preparing to take over the family business, but she has a rival in the form of her evil uncle Clark Startrite who believes a woman has no place in the shoe trade and wishes to take over his brother’s business himself. Withers appears to have taken on board criticism of his previous works, that they were “disturbingly shoe-obsessed” (Times) and “entirely lacking in coherent prose” (Independent). Blackpool’s Evening Gazette was slightly kinder with their review when they said his previous work “reads