Lockdown
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Things to do in Liverpool
5 Ways To Make Lockdown 3.0 More Enjoyable
After a mostly rubbish 2020, this year hasn’t got off to the best start either has it! But there’s still plenty to be happy about. Here’s some ways to make Lockdown 3.0 more fun. 1 Order a takeaway from your favourite independent Liverpool Restaurant We know just how much you’re missing sitting in Liverpool restaurants. We’re all desperate to get back out into the real world but for now get the restaurant experience at home.…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
The Best Home Delivery Meal Kits To Get Cooking At Home During Lockdown
With the second national lockdown now in effect we look at the best home delivery meal kits so you can get creative at home this Autumn. Belzan at Home With Belzan at Home, you can order starters, mains and desserts for collection (Saturday local delivery available too) to enjoy some amazing restaurant quality food from one of Smithdown Road’s best restaurants. They also stock a range of produce and plenty of wines so make sure…
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Coronavirus
‘A Spray of Hope’ Poetry and Prose from Lockdown 2020 now published
A Spray Of Hope has just been published; A beautiful anthology captures the voices of NHS staff, other key workers and self-isolating members. NHS staff, other key workers and self-isolating members of the public from across the UK all contributed to these snapshots of life in the time of COVID-19. These evocative, heart-wrenching and inspiring pieces, produced by participants in the ‘Writing for Wellbeing’ initiative run by the University of Liverpool’s Literature & Science Hub,…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Lu Ban Kitchen launches Heat at Home – Restaurant Quality Chinese Meals
Lu Ban Restaurant has launched a new online service – Lu Ban Kitchen – as the Liverpool restaurant responds to being forced into lockdown for the second time this year. The online operation will offer a range of its Chinese dishes that will be prepared by Lu Ban executive head chef Dave Critchley and his team, before being shipped to customers across the UK in sustainable food-friendly packaging to heat at home. The ‘Heat-at-Home’ menu features 12…
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Liverpool News
Liverpool Tier 3 High Alert Coronavirus Level and What It Means
Liverpool Tier 3 High Alert Level Coronavirus restrictions will come into effect from Wednesday 14 October. Boris Johnson has confirmed this afternoon that Liverpool will move into the Tier 3 high alert level due to the high levels of infection within the Liverpool city region. The new restrictions mean that other households will not be able to meet in indoors or outdoor settings, pubs, bars, gyms, leisure centres, betting shops, casinos and adult gaming centres…
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Lockdown
Liverpool Lockdown Restrictions – What You Need To Know
New Liverpool lockdown restrictions mean that people will be banned by law from mixing indoors with different households from Friday night at midnight (2 October). Health Secretary Matt Hancock made the announcement in the Commons this morning, making Liverpool one of four additional North of England areas now under increased restrictions. Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough will also face the same restrictions. Liverpool’s infection rate has risen to 268 per 100,000 population, which means that rules…
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Fun Things to do in Liverpool
Escape Room Play At Home Games Launched
Escape Room experts Escape Hunt has launched several play at home games which you can download and play in your free time. Escape Hunt has launched The Treasure of The Aztecs and Stolen as play at home games, which are suitable for everyone over 8 years old. So you can enjoy some family fun or play with your mates. Can you decipher ancient aztec clues to find Montezuma’s lost treasure? Then try The Treasure of…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
Delifonseca Collection and Delivery Service During Lockdown
Delifonseca collection and delivery options for shoppers during the Coronavirus lockdown include chef-prepared meals as well as groceries. Dockside restaurant and food hall, Delifonseca, are remaining committed to delivering quality food and produce to the city’s residents. With Proprietor Candice Fonseca leading the way, Delifonseca is now bringing chef-prepared meals along with its entire food hall product range, including specialist and everyday groceries, Edge Butchers’ meat, cooking kits, cheese and wine, right to the doorsteps…
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Bars in Liverpool
Alcohol Deliveries In Liverpool During Lockdown
Ok, so you’ve got your grocery shop sorted, Deliveroo and Just Eat are keeping you well fed but what about the booze? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Here’s where you can order alcohol deliveries in Liverpool straight to your door during lockdown. The Botanical Garden The Botanical Garden is our favourite gin haven in the Baltic Triangle and they are now delivering frozen gin slushie pouches to enjoy on a sunny day! They’ve also…
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Art Exhibitions in Liverpool
FACT Liverpool Launches Online Programme of Events During Lockdown
FACT Liverpool has announced a free online programme that explores our relationship with the natural world. Over the next few months and beyond, the FACT team will be sharing a series of podcasts, live streams, videos, challenges and activities for you and your loved ones to get involved, enjoy and learn remotely. The Living Planet will look at how we can build a more sustainable, responsible global community. In the midst of a global pandemic,…
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Featured Posts
Fast Food Fans Will Love This Homemade McDonald’s Big Mac Recipe By Gizzi Erskine and Professor Green
Chef Gizzie Erskine and rapper/presenter Professor Green have provided the ultimate homemade McDonald’s Big Mac recipe. We’ve been without some of our favourite fast food chains for over 4 weeks now so when we stumbled across a brand new Instagram account by chef Gizzi Erskine and rapper/presenter Professor Green – @gizandgreens we were ecstatic to find their homemade McDonald’s Big Mac recipe. Chef and food writer Gizzi has been spending lockdown with her good friend…
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Featured Posts
The Books, Podcasts and Films Getting Us Through Lockdown
Here we’ve shared some of our favourite books, podcasts and films for lockdown. Books The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Henrietta Lacks, better known to scientists as HeLa, was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the…
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Food and Drink in Liverpool
The Liverpool Foodies Helping You To Create Mouth Watering Dishes During Lockdown
If you’re needing a bit of foodie inspiration during lockdown then look no further as we’ve compiled a guide to the best food bloggers and Instagrammers in Liverpool here to help you whip up some amazing dishes. Food Sounds Food Sounds is the perfect Instagram account to follow for tasty recipes as well as music inspiration. Founders Rachel and Chris provide mouth watering food, paired with a track or an album to accompany the dish.…
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Things to do in Liverpool
Escape Hunt Launches Free Easter Activity Packs To Keep The Whole Family Entertained During Isolation
The Escape Hunt Free Easter activity packs will give the whole family something fun to do this Easter. Escape Hunt, he live escape the room and exit game franchise, with a location at Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock has launched free downloadable interactive games for the whole family to help pass the time spent at home this Easter. The packs will keep the whole family entertained, filled to the brim with brain-teasing puzzles, mindfulness colouring pages,…
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Featured Posts
Live Stream Entertainment In Liverpool During Lockdown
Live stream entertainment in Liverpool is argueably one of the best things happening in our lives right now. There’s live streams of Bongo’s Bingo, film quizzes, yoga classes and more, all detailed below. Bongo’s Bingo Live Stream The alternative-rave-bingo sensation that is Bongo’s Bingo has been using streaming platform Twitch to live stream their show every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday during the lockdown. Better yet, they’ve made it free for people to play at home…
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Featured Posts
Road to Nowhere: Part 2
A new month would bring about more challenges for the Purps and the start of two new campaigns in the league and FA Cup. Find out below if Liverpool Noise music writer Jamie Hankin could make City of Liverpool sing in the second instalment of his Football Manager adventure! August Butterflies in the stomach and anticipation in the air, the day underlined in the diary back in early July had arrived. The start of the…
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Festivals
Liverpool Festivals Rescheduled Dates Due To Coronavirus
With Coronavirus looking to upset most of our summer plans, we’ve compiled a list of Liverpool festivals rescheduled dates and cancellations. Melon Yellow: Saturday 19 September 2020 Threshold Festival: Postponed until further notice Sound City: 25 – 27 September 2020 Smithdown Road Festival: Postponed until further notice. Smithdown Virtual Festival news TBA LightNight: Postponed until further notice Liverpool Psych Fest (PZYK): Postponed until 15 – 16 May 2021 Baltic Weekender: Postponed until 4 – 5…
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Film & TV
VideOdyssey To Deliver Free Nostalgic Care Packages To Over 70’s
VideOdyssey nostalgic care packages are available now… VideOdyssey are helping the fight back against Covid19 by offering to deliver nostalgic care packages to anyone who is self isolated on Merseyside. VideOdyssey is dubbed the ‘UK’s last video shop’ with retro video tapes available to buy and rent, you can even rent a VHS player. So what better way to give the older generation a taste of nostalgia than by providing them with classic films and…
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Liverpool Home Delivery Service Launches To Deliver Goods During Coronavirus Lockdown
We’re all being encouraged to stay at home and stay safe during the Coronavirus lockdown and so a new Liverpool home delivery service launched by several local independent businesses is designed to help. Dave Critchley, the Executive Head Chef at Luban restaurant, has brought together a group of amazing local independent suppliers who are ready to deliver their goods and products direct to your door. They are already delivering all across Liverpool to anyone struggling…
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Film & TV
Top 5 John Carpenter Films To Watch During Lockdown
George at Geeks That Don’t Want To Grow Up gives us his Top 5 John Carpenter Films To Watch During Lockdown. It’s a weird time we’re living in at the moment. A time of social unrest, and apocalyptic foreboding. However, it’ a good time to make the effort to see some movies, TV shows and read some books that you’ve been putting off for a while. In this vain it feels like we’re living in…
