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Helping the homeless in Bury with WiNS

January 21, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

Freedom Church – Home of WiNS (Google Street View)

Tonight I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Lucie Holland, one of the members of WiNS (Winter Night Shelter) for Bury.

This all came about due to me having a bit of a clear out of a few bits and bobs (two bluetooth speakers and a wireless photo frame). No longer any use to me, but if anyone could make use of them, they were welcome to them.

I listed these on a Facebook group and Lucie replied indicating that they would be very useful for any homeless people that are being rehomed to help to make their new place a little more homely.

Naturally, I was more than happy that these items could go on to be of some use to someone in need. I didn’t know much about WiNS at the time, but have since discovered more about it so thought I’d share it.

WiNS is based out of Freedom Church in Bury, if you’re not aware of it, you’ve almost certainly driven past it at some point. It’s located next to Wickes on Walmersley Road, across the road from the old bury fire station.

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Ramsbottom United do it again – Episode 123

January 21, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

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It’s difficult not to dedicate this whole episode to Ramsbottom United given their recent amazing and well publicised win over Weymouth, but I will keep the regular format and you can hear more about that in the Ramsbottom United section.

There has been several bits of news recently for Ramsbottom that I want to talk about. One of them regards the proposal of 200 car parking spaces being made available for Ramsbottom. Surprisingly, this hasn’t had quite the expected response. It does seem to be a bit of, you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t. Nobody would argue that there isn’t a parking problem in Ramsbottom, you just have to visit during various times of the day, it really is pot luck if you find a space. So you’d think 200 spaces would be welcomed. Not quite.

Ramsbottom set for month long freeze

January 18, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

Ramsbottom is to be hit with snow and ice which will last a month as temperatures plunge to what could feel like -17C!

At least, that’s what some sources would have you believe.

Yet again, tabloids are making audacious claims that we can expect to be in for freezing snow which will last up to a month.

Headlines such as this from the Mirror:

UK weather forecast: SNOW to cover Britain ‘for a month’ as deep freeze hits

and

UK SNOW: Arctic weather system sparks HEAVY SNOW today as Britain set for COLDEST weekend

from The Express (which lets face it, they have this headline every other week).

The Guardian went with the simple:

UK weather: snow and ice warnings as cold snap forecast

It’s certainly gotten colder but I don’t think we’re about to need to stock up on food or anything. However, we are a community led….community, so do please look out for your elderly and vulnerable neighbours.

Keep warm and enjoy winter as it should be.

Ramsbottom United progress to last 16 of The FA Trophy.

January 15, 2019 by Lee 1 Comment

After a monumental win over Weymouth, Ramsbottom United have tonight done what they’ve never done before, progressed to the last 16 of the FA Trophy.

This was a second leg of Saturday’s match where we hosted Weymouth at The Riverside. This ended in a 2-2 draw in dramatic fashion after a last minute equaliser from substitute Iyrwah Gooden. After the long journey down, where some of the Ramsbottom United players drove themselves down, the Rams had the perfect start with an own goal by Weymouth after just 32 minutes from a cross by Tom Kennedy.

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Rubber Ducks and Free Books – Episode 122

January 14, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

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As you may very well know, Sunday the 13th of January was “Rubber Duckie Day”. I obviously didn’t need to tell you that, you knew already, but assuming you didn’t, you do now.

So what’s that got to do with Ramsbottom? Well, not only is there the giant duck rubber race every year with Ramsbottom Rotary Club, it also happens that this year, Ramsbottom and podcast regular Paul Jenkins is on a mission. That mission is what he’s called “The People Who Celebrated Everything“.

Paul Jenkins taking part in National Cut Your Energy Day

Throughout the year, Paul will be taking part in whatever day event it happens to be, for example he’s already had National Trivia Day – January 4th, National Cut Your Energy Day – January 10th and now National Rubber Duckie Day.

Noticing that it was Rubber Duckie Day coming up, I offered to loan out my giant duck.