Sunday, 7 December 2025

Christmas Party / Santa Dash / Christmas Markets

Friday night: public sector staff party in Oldham Events Centre, Oldham Athletic Football Club’s function rooms. Great evening with teammates, Christmas dinner, photo booth, and a dance. 

 

 

The annual Saddleworth Round Table Santa Dash took place on Saturday, raising money for local causes. Picture a thousand Father Christmases charging through the leafy suburbia of the Yorkshire foothills and you’ve got the gist of the event. My family have done it for a few years. Back in early October I made a plan to get fit for this, aiming to get down from 82.1kg to 72.2kg. I ended at 76.9. Oh well. Race went well on the day, completed the 5km course in 29:55. I’m happy with that.



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— Matt Tuckey 🇬🇧 (@matttuckey.bsky.social) December 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM

And then I got steaming in Manchester with my Meetup group. 

 

Christmas markets #meetup last night with Manchester Nightlife. Beef Yorkshire pudding wrap, chips and a Christmastini. Shambles area near The Printworks.

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— Matt Tuckey 🇬🇧 (@matttuckey.bsky.social) December 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM

 

Great food and drink on the Christmas Markets. Ended in Roxy Ballroom and got my arse handed to me on pretty much every game we played – pool, shuffleboard etc. Oh well. Finally, vampire TV show Talamasca is currently at No.1 on Netflix. Believe it or not a part of this was filmed in Oldham’s nightclub Liquid and Envy in October last year. I got these shots. I’m watching it now. Predictably average.

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