Hiya Dean from another brit Down in the countryside, just far enough away from Leicester here. Drinking tea and having a medicinal ciggy
My mates a single parent, looking after two kids and my hat goes off to you mate. Not an easy thing to do.
Sounds like you'll like it round here, but I bet you start laying in bed thinking about how to make big piles of sawdust soon. It's bound to happen if you're around here for too long.
I haven't been to Manchester for ages, last time I went I ended up in ©**** (S)treet for a few pints which was quite good fun (I'm starght BTW ).
See you around the boards.
EDIT: mmmmm, interesting editing by the filter there, that was supposed to say "Canal Street". It's the main gay area in Manchester and somone has painted the C and the S white so it now says "an*l treet" which I found highly amusing.