Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces  (Read 374839 times)

hellymedic

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2650 on: 23 October, 2021, 11:33:19 am »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-59003006
Fisherman's Friend
Certainly Fleetwood's Friend.
Most times (this year was the only exception because the tides were favourable for the Knott End ferry) the Manchester-Blackpool FNRttC has gone past the Fisherman's Friends factory.
It always smells like, well, a Fisherman's Friend.
My grandfather came from Fleetwood and was always eating the lozenges as an antidote to 70+ years of smoking. I was surprised when I first found out they are sold outside Lancashire.

It seems they're sold in Danish pharmacies, according to Woolly.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2651 on: 23 October, 2021, 02:08:35 pm »
My Swedish colleague had a packet of them when we were in Germany a couple of weeks ago.


Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2652 on: 23 October, 2021, 02:17:42 pm »
Well the Swedes do like salmiak, licorice flavored with ammonium chloride so........
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Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2653 on: 23 October, 2021, 06:07:19 pm »
More shockingly for a Lancastrian delicacy they’re sold openly in Yorkshire.  :o

I used to buy them from the newsagent when the milkman I worked for stopped to buy his small cigars.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2655 on: 28 October, 2021, 02:43:11 pm »
Who's been a naughty boy then?

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rogerzilla

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2658 on: 08 November, 2021, 12:49:56 pm »
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2659 on: 08 November, 2021, 01:23:40 pm »
"Mischievous badgers" close cycle path: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-bath-railway-path-close-6175056

I was expecting a Silly Sustrans Gate™ constructed from goalposts...

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2660 on: 08 November, 2021, 05:51:17 pm »
"Mischievous badgers" close cycle path: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-bath-railway-path-close-6175056

I was expecting a Silly Sustrans Gate™ constructed from goalposts...
A couple of Saturdays ago, I saw some people (probably students) on the Downs playing quidditch. TBH I probably wouldn't have known what it was if someone hadn't pointed it out to me. I've just about to start devizing a sport called badgerball. Goals will be scored by rolling down a hill and knocking cyclists between posts (recumbents count double).
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2661 on: 08 November, 2021, 05:56:41 pm »
We had a BHPC race at dePreston a few years ago where quiddich was being played on the ballsports area inside the track.  We were warned to beware of wols, muggles etc. in the pre-race safety briefing.

Badgerball sounds like an ideal subject for a Megadrive game.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2662 on: 08 November, 2021, 06:05:33 pm »
I thought wols were a feature of Winnie the Pooh?
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2663 on: 08 November, 2021, 08:20:45 pm »
When my eldest was at Uni, he said that the Quidditch Society got really miffed that the Sports Union weren't keen to recognise them, and people generally took the mickey out of them. They thought it was a serious sporting endeavour.

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2664 on: 08 November, 2021, 08:27:53 pm »
When my oaves started out at Edinburgh, the Quidditch Soc would do their thing in the Meadows.
Charging around on broomsticks, with goal hoops set up on sticks.

It did look faintly ludicrous, but I'm sure there was Butterbeer involved.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2665 on: 11 November, 2021, 12:12:37 pm »
Gloucestershire police stake out man with bins as suspect in Roman murder case!
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/19708314.not-exactly-peyton-place---kemble-reacts-discovery-human-remains/?ref=rss
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The bones have been sent to be tested and carbon dated, although the location is close to an ancient burial site and the layout of the bones is consistent with Roman burial.

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"The police are still driving around now. I was putting my neighbours bins away and the police were watching me."
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2666 on: 11 November, 2021, 12:34:50 pm »
BIIINNNSSS!!1!
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Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2667 on: 11 November, 2021, 04:40:57 pm »
Ah yes, it’s bin day. Thank you Mr L, a timely reminder
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Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2668 on: 11 November, 2021, 04:45:37 pm »
Gloucestershire police stake out man with bins as suspect in Roman murder case!
https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/19708314.not-exactly-peyton-place---kemble-reacts-discovery-human-remains/?ref=rss
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The bones have been sent to be tested and carbon dated, although the location is close to an ancient burial site and the layout of the bones is consistent with Roman burial.

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"The police are still driving around now. I was putting my neighbours bins away and the police were watching me."
My cousin (2nd) put the remains of his girlfriend in the bin after he failed to flush them down the loo. She was called Kirby though, not Kembly as I’d first misremembered when seeing this story.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2669 on: 11 November, 2021, 05:26:01 pm »
 :o
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2670 on: 13 November, 2021, 03:14:10 pm »
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19713100.grandparents-anger-family-friendly-mcdonalds-100-parking-charge/

If you have a problem child on your hands, Maccy D's is not the best place for counselling, it transpires.
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ian

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2671 on: 13 November, 2021, 07:30:47 pm »
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19713100.grandparents-anger-family-friendly-mcdonalds-100-parking-charge/

If you have a problem child on your hands, Maccy D's is not the best place for counselling, it transpires.

There's something of sublime brilliance to

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But after a lengthy process of getting her to open up about her issues, during which they purchased food and drink, the Rodbourne couple stayed thirty minutes longer than they were allowed, earning a £100 parking charge.


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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #2674 on: 17 November, 2021, 10:55:41 am »
Even without the handbrake gaffe, is a tank appropriate at a Remembrance Day service? Seems to me that remembering the dead is becoming more like those May Day parades of armoury beloved of Soviet, Chinese and North Korean leaders.
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