You always know that the Food and Drink Festival is just around the corner when you start to see bunting fluttering all the way down the High Street and banners stretched above the street. Well, keep your eyes open because it will all soon be going up.
Yesterday I popped over to Ami Creative at Longton who do all our printing and banners. We checked and altered all the banners and they should be ready by the end of the week. Dave Smithwick and I also recovered boxes of bunting from out of storage (and other hiding places!) and then took them all up to the Washtub launderette on Pirehill Lane. Last year, the bunting was just put back into boxes and not cleaned. So we were curious to see whether we could put it into a large washing machine without causing any damage to the bunting or the machine!
Well, as always happens in Stone, the delightful lady manager took pity on us two helpless middle-aged men and told us to leave the bunting with her. She'd sort it out and, provided we took her a bacon and egg bap from Lee Walkers for her breakfast we could collect it this morning!
So, at the crack of dawn at 9.30 we went up with the bacon butty and, true to her word, all the bunting was there waiting for us! All beautifully cleaned and ready for action!
So all that needs doing now is to encourage the Bunting Team to find the ladders and cable ties and to get out and bring the town to life! Any volunteers?
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