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Who remembers these, liquorice pellets?

#Nipits #LiquoricePellets

a black, white and gold tin which says Simpkins Est 1921 Clarifies the voice NIPITS and clears the throat pure liquorice pellets a.l. simpkins & co limited chemist confectionery works sheffield, england
#Nipits #LiquoricePellets

Blackburn could have brought some fans!
Preston North End Vs Blackburn Rovers
#PNEFC #BRFC
away fans filling the allocation of approximately 5,000 seats
#pnefc #BRFC

Went for a quick walk this morning to the local small nature reserve, took a couple of photos that I would like to identify the plants/moss or whatever it is.
The second photo reminds me of Rod Hull's emu (for those in the UK of a certain age).
Any help appreciated!

a light green,/grey hair like moss growing on a roadside side tree, similar coloured lichens can also be seen on the branch.

this photo, the hair like moss sits on top of a small branch, lichen underneath the hair looks like an eye and to the right it resembles a birds beak

#Plant #Moss #Identify

#moss #plant #identify

We are out tonight, to see ( and hear) our Granddaughter at an open mic night at The Ferret in Preston and this young lad came on to play the drums, excellent and he is just 9 years old!

#9YearOld #Drummer #OpenMic #TheFerret #Preston

a young boy sitting behind a set of drums, fully engrossed in his playing.
a young boy playing the drums, head turned firthe away from the camera
#Drummer #openmic #Preston #9YearOld #TheFerret

I've known that the local supermarket has done boxes of vegetables, past their best but still edible) for £2 but I've never seen them before.
Now I know why - this is what we got today!

#TooGoodToWaste #Vegetables #VegetableBox

a small cardboard box full of vegetables, lettuce, lemon, grapefruit, bulb of garlic, parsnip, shallot, potatoes, swede, aubergine, apple
this is the box content lay down on the countertop, from left to right we have a lettuce, apple, potatoes, turnips, swede, aubergine, bulb of garlic, parsnip, grapefruit, iceberg lettuce, lemon, shallot, tenderstem broccoli. not shown are four salad tomatoes
#vegetables #TooGoodToWaste #VegetableBox

The Banks were

To big to fail?
But they still needed pulling out of the doodoo

#AltTex
A BBC article, showing the star with the headline How Tailor Swift made herself too big to fail!

#AltTex

Not mushroom between them!
Two large groups of tightly packed mushroom, and a smaller group, the groupings are roughly triangular in shape, various shades of brown. There are on bare earth, with a few fallen brown leaves.
This is the alt text
#FediFunghi #LongtonBrickcroft
#LongtonBrickcroft #FediFunghi

Stagecoach bus services across Preston and Lancashire are set for disruption as strikes loom.

The strike centres on a difference in pay rate for Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire drivers compared to rival Arriva with two week-long strikes planned.

– Blog Preston

blogpreston.co.uk/2025/09/stag…

a double decker bus, painted in the company red, yellow, orange, white and blue colours on a bus station apron. other buses can be seen in the background.

As still as a mill pond

The pond of a small nature reserve reflects the trees at the far edge of the pond, there is very little movement on the water, above the trees is a clear blue sky, in the foreground is green vegetation.

#LongtonBrickcroft #Reflections #Lancashire

#reflections #Lancashire #LongtonBrickcroft

I've bottled my first kombucha, first taste is delicious!

Now to start getting the second batch ready.

#Kombucha

#Tea

a glass bottle, containing a brown liquid, of kombucha tea. on a light brown table.
#tea #kombucha

On my walk around the local nature reserve this morning, I saw a lot of wind fallen pears, I was going to call them crab pears, but apparently crab pears are very similar in looks to crab apples.
I didn't pick any of the windfalls up, as they are very hard and bitter to taste (tried this a couple of years ago!)

#LongtonBrickcroft
#NatureReserve
#Pears
#Windfalls

a few pears hanging on the tree
windfall pears scattered on a muddy path and in the grass to the side.
#pears #naturereserve #LongtonBrickcroft #Windfalls

I've just been for a quick walk around the local nature reserve, picked up some free pears, and I saw a few mushrooms.

#FreePears
#FediFunghi
#LongtonBrickcroft
#Lancashire

a box full, with a blue liner) of pears, with a white notice on the front which says free - free (both underlined) please help yourselves (underlined)
a brown mushroom, showing its underside, there is a brown acorn at the bottom of the photo
#Lancashire #LongtonBrickcroft #FreePears #FediFunghi

A leading Lancashire Reform UK councillor calls on a council to make flags on roundabouts official.

Or as I think, he says it is OK to drive roughshod over the flag!

BBC News - Lancashire Reform councillor calls for 'official' roundabout St George's flags - BBC News

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq521…

A white mini roundabout with a red x (supposedly a St George Cross) painted as thin lines, when a real cross would have thicker lines! Tyre marks cross the white roundabout Dishonour the flag, or go round the mini roundabout - which nobody usually does!

Preston’s university name change: From the Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge to the University of Lancashire

blogpreston.co.uk/2025/09/pres…

A sign says 1828 has a stylised red rose of Lancashire on a white background University of Lancashire Welcome to Preston Campus the sign is on a tree lined street with a car passing.

Have these sunglasses been mistakenly left on this bench, or is an invisible person sitting there and watching the reaction of passersby?

#LostProperty
#Sunglasses
#InvisiblePerson
#InvisibleMan
#InvisibleWoman

a pair of sunglasses on a brown wooden bench
#sunglasses #invisibleman #LostProperty #InvisiblePerson #InvisibleWoman

So the headline from BBC News - Consultation to look at closing children's A&E unit in Ormskirk

The NHS says moving a children's emergency unit from Ormskirk to Southport is its "preferred option".

Or does the final paragraph explain

"With increasing population aging and complexity in care needs, maintaining duplicate services across two sites is unsustainable," it said.

Do they want to move a children's A&E to a hospital that hasn't had a Children's A&E for 20 years or does local NHS want to move ONLY children's A&E or close Ormskirk A&E

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8g5j…

generic picture of the front of Ormskirk hospital

Hmm,
A self service Dog wash machine has recently been installed outside a local dog friendly pub.
I wonder if the dogs think their human pets are friendly when they put them into it?

#DogWash
#DogFriendly
#Pub

a large machine, proclaiming it is a Dog Wash, stands Infront of a white wall extension of a pub. t There is a cartoon drawing of a dog on the right hand side, above instructions and prices for using the machine. On the left hand side is a stainless steel area with an adjustable perspex front where the dogs are placed for their washing experience.
#Pub #dogfriendly #DogWash

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