I had never thought much about birds before I met Muddy. Any interest that I had in them, and the various species that inhabited Britain, was because of him. There were a lot of things I hadn’t considered before I met him. I’d often thought of life as something to be bargained with, to be battled with. It was an entity to which you repeatedly justified your existence, to which you made your case for why it deserved to be embellished with happiness and love and friendship. There was something almost mythical about people for whom it hadn’t been this way, people who were simply entitled to
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quotidian /kwōˈtidēən/ I. adjective — [attrib.] 1. of or occurring every day; daily • the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic. 2. ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane • his story is an achingly human one, mired in quotidian details. 3. [Medicine] denoting the malignant form of malaria. – origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin quotidianus, earlier cotidianus, from cotidie ‘daily.’
Mancunian is the associated adjective and demonym of Manchester, a city in North West England. It may refer to:
Anything from or related to the city of Manchester or the county of Greater Manchester, in particular:
The people of Manchester (see also List of people from Manchester)
The Manchester dialect of English
The Mancunion, a student newspaper published by University of Manchester Students' Union.
Buses created primarily to the specifications of Manchester Corporation's transport department:
The Crossley Mancunian front-engine double-decker chassis of the 1930s
The rear-engine Mancunian double-decker bus bodywork on Leyland and Daimler chassis of the 1960s
The Mancunian Way is a two mile long grade separated elevated motorway in Manchester, England. It is officially made up of the A57(M) and A635(M) motorways, although the latter does not appear on road signs for practical reasons.[1] It is also part of two other roads: the A57 to the west, which runs east–west through Greater Manchester linking the M602 and M67 motorways, and a short section of non-motorway A635 to the east. Part of this non-motorway section collapsed on 14 August 2015 due to a sinkhole.[2]
Mancunians is Manchester's rugby league and sports club fielding several rugby and handball teams across the city at various age groups. The club is a Sports Club Community Mutual (Co-operative) and carries out development work across the city of Manchester.
Mancunians
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Club information
Full name
Mancunians Rugby League and Handball Club
Colours
Scarlet, gold and white
Founded
2 April 2009; 16 years ago
Website
www.wearemancunians.com
Current details
Ground(s)
The Hough End Centre
Competition
North West Men's League
The club submitted an expression of interest to the Rugby Football League to join Championship 1 in 2009 and are working with the Rugby Football League to develop their application further.
History
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Mancunians RL was formed on 2 April 2009 and joined the RL Merit League. In their inaugural season they were able to field two full teams on several occasions due to the sheer numbers of players interested in the club. The club were RL Merit Club of the year in 2009.
The club joined the Rugby League Conference in 2010 and were crowned regional champions at the first attempt and were promoted to the North West Premier division of the Rugby League Conference for 2011.
Mancunians RL announced a partnership between Manchester College, the Rugby Football League and Manchester City Council, to fund a full-time community coach to begin to increase participation in rugby league in Manchester.
Manchester College began offering a rugby league academy in 2012, giving young people in Manchester the opportunity to study rugby league on a full-time basis and secure coaching and sports science qualifications, whilst also representing the college and the city at rugby league.
Mancunians Handball was launched in 2012, with the club running several Handball after school clubs across the city.
The club was reconstituted to a community benefit society (cooperative) in May 2012 in line with other successful sports clubs including FC Barcelona, FC United of Manchester, Rochdale Hornets, Bramley Buffaloes and Hunslet Hawks.
In 2013 Mancunians launched a rugby league coaching scholarship in partnership Manchester Metropolitan University.
On 12 November 2013, Mancunians held Manchester's largest ever schools rugby league tournament at Parrs Wood High School. Over 100 schools pupils took pay with several Australian Kangaroos mentoring the sides and presenting the winning side Wright Robinson college with the Mancunians Year 10 rugby league tournament trophy.
On 15 November 2013 Mancunians launched a 13- to 16-year-old Rugby League Academy at Parrs Wood High School, Didsbury.
In March 2015 the club announced their 20:20 Vision to have 1,000 participants across Manchester involved in the club by the year 2020.
In November 2015 they began to offer wheelchair rugby for adults and children.
In January 2016 Mancunians announced that they had expanded their geographical footprint to encompass five areas of Manchester due to demand from partner schools and community groups and would be creating new leagues in the sports that they offer.
