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‘Melt’ into National Chocolate Week 13th – 19th Oct

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This week is National Chocolate Week here in the UK.

According to the Oracle (wikipedia) the word “chocolate” comes from the Classical Nahuatl word xocolātl(meaning “bitter water”).

The chocolate we eat today is a million miles from “bitter water” though and since sugar was added to this original Aztec luxury in the 16th century its become a popular treat growing companies such as Cadburys into around a £12bn business.

One such business taking a more traditional approach is the ever popular Chocolate Cafe in the heart of Ramsbottom.
Although they say they’re doing “nothing special” for chocolate week, they quite rightly say “it’s always chocolate week at The Chocolate Cafe”

Which is as good a reason as any to visit I would say.

http://www.chocolate-cafe.co.uk

Bury Estate agent ‘shopping their property listings

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Could a Bury Estate agent really be photoshopping their photos?!

Update: It looks like these images I linked to in this post have been removed, as a result I’ve removed them from here too.

Recently, it has came to our attention that a popular estate agent either has mystical powers to control the weather, or they’re touching up their photography, the most obvious being fake sky, here are some examples from RightMove: 

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-31443849.html

You’ll see that the clouds there look very familiar, maybe it was just that they were able to take the photo from the front, there was little wind, and run through to the back and the cloud formation is the same? Oh, you doubter you 🙂

So, here is another photo, from another property, using that very same cloud formation:

To give them some credit they do actually tweak the clouds a little, here they have changed the blue to make it a little deeper:

To highlight what we mean, see here 🙂

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The sky, sure, it’s nice to show what an area would look like on a lovely day, and living in Britain, we all know that this is less and less likely to happen, unless all housing photography was taken no the one sunny week we get.

One of us wondered what the sky was actually like on that day, and several examples were found:

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Ramsbottom Festival Weekend

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The time is nearly upon us, from the 19th to the 21st of September the Ramsbottom Festival will be in full swing as it’s Ramsbottom Festival Weekend!

This takes place at Ramsbottom Cricket Club but expect it to spill out a little into local pubs and restaurants as the festival feeling gets fully underway.

Gates open at 5pm on Friday and they close at 10:45. For more information see here:

http://www.ramsbottomfestival.com

Looks like the weather should be good though:

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I believe you can still buy tickets too, they’re available here: http://ramsbottomfestival.ticketsolve.com/mobile/shows

The full line up of artists over the three days are here: http://ramsbottomfestival.com/artists/

Have a good time and enjoy the atmosphere, should be great.

Doug Scott Lecture – Ramsbottom Theatre Royal

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On Thursday the 2nd of October there will be a very special guest providing a lecture in Ramsbottom. (see link) It’s a Doug Scott Lecture on climbing some specific mountains including K2 and Everest.

Non other then Douglas (Doug) Keith Scott CBE  will be providing the talk in the Theatre Royal in Ramsbottom.

Doug has climbed many mountains and his talk on the night will focus around his previous climbs of K2, Everest and Kangchenjunga.

Start time is 7:30pm and tickets cost just £15 and are available here

Proceeds of the ticket sales will go towards Community Action Nepal

Phlok comes to Ramsbottom.

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In this day and age if you don’t have an app, you’re not worth considering. This will be why we’ve seen that Phlok comes to Ramsbottom.

Well, Ramsbottom now has an app. What I mean is that Phlok, a popular cross platform application that aims to get people shopping locally has launched in Ramsbottom.

Phloks developers states on their website:

” Local businesses have to battle large shopping centres, expensive rent and the Internet – they get it tough.

Phlok helps you help them. By shopping local you support your local town, keeping it a vibrant and fun place to go.”

This is perfect for Ramsbottom where we have a tight knit community of shoppers and retailers.

Phlok has two main functions, a points system and a friends system. You simply install the app (links at the bottom) and if you don’t already have an account choose your method of sign up:

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Screenshot of Phlok android app Sign up Screen

Once signed up and logged you can search your contacts, connect with Facebook etc and fins your friends.

Then signed in you are walked through the setup. Essentially, visit a shop, scan a QR code, checkin and earn points.

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Simple. You get rewards and you help maintain the local Ramsbottom community and economy.

So, what are you waiting for? Install the apps below and sign up and start Phlok-ing to Ramsbottom.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phlok.android&hl=en

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/phlok/id481715216?mt=8