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Good job it wasn't today, the deckchair attendants will have been on strike :)

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That wouldn't have stopped HBC dave, PB would have jumped into the breech to hold the fort, with his peck cap and ticket machine:D

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I don't remember many jugglers and clowns at the seaside, but I do remember the Punch and Judy shows. Unfortunatly, these days we don't have P & J on the grounds that it glorifies domestic violence. I wander if a Britcliffe and Jones show would make a good substitute?

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Well -since PB hasnt paid the promised subsidy for Blackpool buses in May, this is his cheapscake way of compensating us :rolleyes:

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nice one margaret.

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so the torys are going to entertain us eh?:rolleyes::alright:

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This year's essential beachwear for Accrington-on-Sea. :)


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dont know about you, but im heartily sick of PBs ugly mush grinning at me from the pages of the observer every week. what a self serving lickspittle he is.:mad::mad::mad:

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I think you have been reading-
"How to win friends and influence people" :D
Keep it up - most people here think that

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i wrote the book:D:D:D

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The leader of the council does tend to be photographed re events organised by the council.

If any other business were advertising an event it is likely that the manager would be photographed.

Hope the weather bucks up for weekend.:)

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Sounds more like the Labour front bench to me
:hidewall:

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quite, but why cant they take a photo from a different angle, such as a shot of his rear, cant be as bad as a full frontal:D

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Hmmm. The papers seem to prefer faces. :rolleyes:

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NOT IN THE DAILY SPORT THEY DONT:tongueout

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No donkeys or sand but there will be

Deckchairs
A jazz band
Jugglers
Clowns
Candyfloss and popcorn

They tried to get punch & judy but they are ridiculously expensive!

Anyway, it's just to add a bit of colour to the town centre.

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I wouldn't know.

I don't read that muck. :rolleyes::D

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They tried to get punch & judy but they are ridiculously expensive!

Anyway, it's just to add a bit of colour to the town centre.

Punch and Judy will be in the cctv control centre.

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well they are a set of clowns :)

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why bother with punch and judy

get a live show of jeremy kyle if you want to watch a tale of domestic abuse , we got enough chavs to provide a full days entertainment and i would gladly sit in a deck chair and watch shows like " she left me with teh kids but stole my giro " , " your not the real father of my baby but your guess is as good as mine " and the old favourite "she dissed my tracksuit so i slept with her sister "

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Why do you get the feeling despite trying to make this a fun day for us it is going to wee it down all day and be cancelled!?

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Good. Why should he?
Take you own car to Blackpool, while you at pick up a few old dears on your way :tongueout

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I can bring you a couple of goats down. You could try and put a saddle on them. :D:D

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That is always the problem you might have when you organise an event like this months in advance.

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Yeh,but i suppose you would think in july that it would be nice weather!
On the other hand they should know better with accringtons weather being the way it is!

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Of course; as Panther said "the torys will be there to entertain us";)

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Is HBC taking a cue from Paris
BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Paris Beach' opens along Seine
instead of the Seine its the Hyndburn :eek:

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I remember when Blackburn had an event like this they held it indoors - maybe they knew someone at the met office! :D

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Not just Accy's weather Loz its more like Britains weather, but when we all stop driving gas guzzlers and Gordon and Alistair saved the polar bears, maybe the sun will shine on us again:D:rolleyes:

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What do you mean?.............Darling Alister and Chubby Brown. :eek:

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Or we continue burning fuel at a rate of knots and global warming kicks in and we end up with a sahara like climate[1] :D



[1] Actually Britain will 'cool' initially due to the North atlantic drift lessening its effect due to teh lower salt levels in teh oceans!

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Oh come on, you've got to at least give people credit for trying to organise stuff.

I know the weather's rubbish but what the heck, at least there are some people out there trying to brighten things up.

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If it wasn't for the 'Atlantic Conveyor' also known as the Gulf Stream, we would have the same climate as Siberia. If you learnt about convection currents in physics at school you will know how it works.
Global warming could turn it off.

Another climate factor which may affect us is 'Pole Reversal'
When North Becomes South: New Clues to Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flops
When (note not If) that happens it will be pot luck for everybody as to what climate they end up with.

PS that is if you survive the catostrophic natural disasters that go with it :D

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I was going to say that, Gayle.

Some people just will not say a good word about this council under any circumstances.

Organising things cannot be easy.

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he sounds like a lovely chap.....:alright:

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Gordon and Alistair can keep their bloody hands off our Polar Bears:D

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You can't really blame people for lack of enthusiasm when events like this are given the status of a PB publicity stunt with undertones of 'votecatching'. He should be told to keep his mug out of it for a while.

The real publicity and praise should go to the organisers.

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Good point, hon. Even if you live in a part of the world where, to say the least, the weather is a tad unpredictable, it doesn't mean that you have to stop organizing outdoor events.

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Is PB not one of the organisers?

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Maybe he is - but he makes sure he gets all the credit -who are the others?
Just because he very graciously :rolleyes: permits the use of our money for this purpose does not give him status as an organiser in my eyes.

PS now PB as a one man band I would turn out to see in any weather :D

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Like I said in an earlier post, he will be photographed a lot because he's the leader. When any company organises something it's always the manager that is asked for a quote or photo.

If we were a Labour led council you could be swooning over weekly photos of Graham Jones. :rolleyes:

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The practice of 'single person publicity' is wrong - gives the impression of a dictatorship.

I don't consider any politician to be 'swoonable'

I don't like the self publicist impression he provokes.
Perhaps he needs a new Google Page Ranking person because the present one is overdoing it :rolleyes:

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I don't consider any politician to be 'swoonable' /quote]

You make me smile, Margaret. :D

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"Swoonable" ... let me see:rolleyes: .... Maxime Bernier .... but it got him into a lot of trouble:eek:

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yeh n anybody that thinks that, will believe Blairs giving Thatcher one.:rolleyes:

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What a horrible mental picture that conjures up! :eek:

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Must stop going to bed early Wynonie, you stoll my thunder:D

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Yes, Jaysay, but imagine going to bed thinking about that...nightmares guaranteed! :eek:

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It would have to be conventional....The Ladies not for turning.:)

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Why after reading all your posts can't i get that horrible image out of my mind!
I was about to go to bed but think i will leave it a bit longer and try and drink to forget it!:eek:

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Hope you have your brollies and wellies to hand!!

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Can someone try to take a few pics as I won't be there. I'm going to my Mother in law's birthday lunch.

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And theres me, I've dug my bucket and spade out, got the sun tan lotion ready, the knotted hanky and the weathers the pits:D

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what times it starting?
went past earlier but didnt seem to be anything happening...

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According to the poster Gayle put up 12 >> 3 p.m.

Hope it fines up for a while ... I admire the effort too.

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What a shame the weather has let it down:(

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I might take ty for a wander down, anything that entertains him for a while is worth the walk in the rain...

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See in the poster picture, there is some rock .. wonder if they have had some made with Hyndburn through it ?

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No kate its a picture of PB:D

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don't forget your sun cream ..... is it July I forget....:rolleyes:

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been down town no DECKCHAIRS but there is a duck pond with all the water lol
and no sigh of pb

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Just had a look at Benidorms Levante beach web cam.Lovely and sunny and the beach is packed.

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Just come past it in the flesh and there's plenty of it.:)

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****** off!:D

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just got back...... there's deckchairs outside oddies, a guy doing circusy stuff (juggling, unicycle, juggling while sitting on a very tall pole thing) free face painting (ty is now spiderman) balloon modelling, a fire engine, a jazz band (they are pretty good) ......it was worth the wander down in the rain and ty loved it.

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No jazz band when we were down an hour ago, just that god awful Samaritans music outside M&S :mad:

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samaritans? you mean the guy with the pan pipes that plays a recording and pretends its him? thats who was outside m&s when we were there...

The jazz band included a double bass, clarinet, trumpet,trombone, banjo'y thing (im not a string player lol) and a snare drum.......they were really good.They were outside home bargains/new £land

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Thats the ones, every time I hear them I want to ring the samaritans :D

Following on from another thread this morning I wonder how much they declare as income from selling that crap ?

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it annoys me cos what you hear is not what he's playing!

i used to play in an orchestra so i can pick out the instrument i want to hear and ignore the rest and the pan pipe chappy is rubbish.

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Was there last week and it was too hot ( well it was then ) would be great to be back there now :D

no pleasing me with the weather ... but this rain is driving me :mad:

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Does this mean you don't want to hear about the weather in sunny Kingston on the shores of beautiful Lake Ontario, and the Thousand Islands:D:hidewall:?

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Yes.................:D

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Such a shame the weather spoiled the day, there were still quite a lot of people about on Broadway despite the rain. It was certainly more cheerful than normal:)

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I thought it was a big fat waste of time, when I went out at around 2pm there was nothing going on except 2 women valiantly trying to tie balloon animals in a force 6 gale and a load of empty wet deckchairs blowing across Broadway. Obviously not helped by the awful weather, and from what I can gather retail takings down about 6% compared to previous week. Please don't do it again, I will be out of a job !:rolleyes:

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Are you suggesting that retail takings were down because of this event?

If so, why? :confused:

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Not sure if it was the weather or the credit crunch or the fact that the good folk of Accy are scared of balloon animals but it was a very very quiet day throughout the town.:confused:

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Isn't it the start of the Accrington holidays?

Maybe a lot of people have gone away on their hols.

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We were their briefly, but didn't hang around long because of the weather.

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Oh yes I'm off to sunny Spain....:alright::hidewall:
I've heard i'ts raining in Accy and Ossy?
Go into the business of selling wellies you'll make loads of dosh.

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Funny you should say that, we ended up buying Siobhan a pair of wellies off the stall on the market, just so that she could have a splash in the puddles without getting her socks and pants wet through.

She won't go past a puddle without jumping in it.

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Snicker, snicker ... :dancedog: