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Ramsbottom Pie Festival, Oct 19th 2014

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Update: Pie Festival is today!!

It starts at 10am outside St Paul’s Church and also involving the local shops and businesses.

Enjoy it, and we hope to see you there, I’d get there early to avoid being dissapointed, I plan on eating many pies.

It’s Pie Festival time again at St Paul’s Church on Bridge Street.

Come along, buy some pies, you’re sure to see some interesting flavours, as well as old faithful choices. Many local butchers and bakers will be supplying pies as well as a giant pie in the “guess the pie weight” competition.

The Ramsbottom Pie Festival is going to be flan-tastic, ok, that’s not really a pie pun, most of my puns are a bit CRUSTY, alright alright, I’ll put a LID on it. Either way, it should be really ex-PIE-TIN (exciting, get it?).

What’s your favourite pie?

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

Glorious Day in Ramsbottom

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Despite the weather reporting terrible weather this weekend its been a lovely day for getting out of the house and having a good walk around. It’s been a truly glorious day in Ramsbottom.

Me and my family popped in to Hearth of the Ram and we enjoyed a lovely lunch.

I had the burger with bacon and blue cheese. Perfectly cooked medium as requested and a reasonable bill. You’d pay more for less in Manchester City Centre.

A quick reminder too that it’s Thomas the Tank Engine weekend next weekend (3rd-5th of May) so get down and have some fun. Keep an eye out for the Fat Controller (or does political correctness mean I have to say portly controller?)

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