Coming up Roses in Manchester

A rosy evening of creative celebration awaits in the city of my early artistic education for the Roses Design Awards do. Flying in the face of austerity, the bibbed and tuckered will enjoy the warmest hospitality Piccadilly has to offer, launching traditionally with something French and bubbly, then indulged at the table with the North West's finest produce, specially selected and slaughtered for the occasion as gongs are distributed to the worthy and deserving by an aspiring young entertainer.

And why? Because it's worth it - a well deserved pat on the back never did anyone any harm.

Congratulations to all the winners and let great creative work triumph through constraint and adversity.