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  Searching for Northern spirit in Silk Town My New Year’s resolution for this year was to make a better use of my precious weekends - a desk based job with a degree of stress all week, the need to get out and be more active and the inspiration from one of my blog regulars Shouting from the shed who author regularly expounds the doorstop miles and the idea of taking mini adventures in your own back yard. A recent chat at the end of our beery podcast (maltravale), where I floated a possible trip back to Manchester, as it had been a good 18 months since we last drank our way around Cottonopolis, prompted brother to state that he would much rather have return visit to Macclesfield - the focus of our Podcast Episode 55 when we had discovered a cornucopia of great beery venues - something for every one micros, solid old antiquated and hipster new brewery taps.  A Northern trains flash sale offering stupidly low prices. (£3.40 for a day's return!) and having read good things a...