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AD Plant has never been “appealing” – Episode 45

January 24, 2016 by Lee

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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, your podcast for Ramsbottom and the surrounding area, but generally Ramsbottom.

I hope you’ve had a great week, we’ve had some strange weather again, a cold start to the week with Snow last sunday and subzero temperatures followed by a week of mild weather and rain. I won’t claim to understand it, but it’s strange is all I know.

This week has seen a couple of news stories regarding our favourite town.

Do you want to build a snowman? – Episode 44

January 17, 2016 by Lee

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Welcome to another episode of This is Rammy, you might be aware I’ve been feeling pretty crappy this week as I’ve been struck down again with flu.

We’ve been fortunate enough to have had another week of being visited by the Flying Scotsman and I know that some of you listening have been lucky enough to even go on it, Anne Lockett and Christine Gillies to name just two.

If you took a trip on the famous Flying Scotsman, I hope you had a truly magical time.

As of when I’m recording this, which is just before midnight on Saturday the 16th of January, we have snow. There is currently around 3-4 inches on the ground, and it’s still snowing, only lightly, but snowing all the same.

If you don’t need to drive anywhere today, don’t, even though roads have been gritted, well at least my road has been, they can still be icy so please take care.

I know I’ll be out today with my son, freezing and still ill, but it’s worth being pelted by snowballs to see the enjoyment on their face, then snuggling up under a blanket watching TV with some steaming hot chocolate.

So as it HAS finally snowed, I thought I’d give you my top four activities you can do in the snow. You should know at least two of these.

“Bar” Humbug! – Episode 40

November 29, 2015 by Lee

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Literary and arts festival round up.

Last weekend saw the first Literary and Arts Festival to hit Ramsbottom.

Regardless of what you think with regards to the volume of festivals taking place in Ramsbottom, celebrating the arts in the way that was achieved on the 21st of November was hugely important, not just for the town but for our younger generation too.

Far too often I hear how our attention span is decreasing, it’s currently reported to be around 8 seconds

Events such as the literary festival that took place is a nice change from the usual food based events in Ramsbottom. It helped to fuel reading and poetry amongst other things. [Read more…] about “Bar” Humbug! – Episode 40

Finding your place in the community – Episode 38

November 15, 2015 by Lee

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This week has been terrible, a terrible week of weather! Even this weekend it’s been a rare occasion for it to have stopped raining.

Hopefully you’ve not been too negatively affected by the weather. I saw lots of photos of flooded roads, but not too many of flooded houses. I think we all probably saw that stranded Ice Cream van. Who’s buying Ice Cream from a van in November?!

Ramsbottom Literary and Arts Festival – Episode 36

November 1, 2015 by Lee Leave a Comment

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This week I went down to the Hare and Hounds where they were hosting, for the second time an Open Mic night as a precursor to the Literary and Arts Festival that is due to take place in Ramsbottom on the 21st of November.

It was a great night, I met a lot of people I hadn’t met before and listened to a lot of great poetry. Many people think that it’s stuffy to listen to poems and get in touch with feelings, to those I say come down to the Literary and Arts festival and relax, you’ll enjoy it, I promise.