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Good Morning Blog fans!

The talk of the town today is bunting - who would have believed something so trivial could cause such ructions?

If you have been reading our recent blogs about the impending arrival of Le Tour de France in our North Yorkshire market town of Masham, then you will have read about the fabulous (tiny) knitted jerseys that have been strung up around the town as bunting.

Yesterday North Yorkshire County Council came and removed the bunting!  Why?  Because "We noticed that the lighting columns were leaning and in the interest of safety we asked for it to be taken down and not to be hung from lighting columns", a spokeperson from the Council has said.

Apparently, if the (tiny) knitted jerseys were to get wet the weight of them might pull the lamp post over.  If you check out the link to BBC news you will see just how tiny these jerseys are, and you will also see one of the offending in the picture.  Now if this is all it takes to make a lamp post lean enough to be a safety issue, then I would think that North Yorkshire County Council need to come and ensure that the posts are secured a little better.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-27919262

We have also hit the local news on Stray FM!

https://twitter.com/search?q=bunting&src=typd

Residents and businesses like ourselves now have the bunting strung up on our walls (let's hope these are slightly less likely to fall over than the lamp posts!!!)

Why don't you have a drive out to Masham this weekend and see for yourself?

Pop into Bah Humbugs and browse our shelves for your favourite sweets.  Strawberries & Cream, Refresher Chews, loads of Liquorice, Sherbet Pips, scrumptious Toffees and delicious Fudge, a fantastic selection of hard boiled sweets.

Bah Humbugs Traditional Sweet Shop......... stocks all your favourite retro and traditional sweets so even if you can't get here you can browse our website and order your sweets online.

Visit the Masham Tour de France website if you're thinking of visiting for the event

http://www.mashamevents.co.uk/

Today has been a nostalgia filled day.  The sunshine has brought visitors to Masham and they have brought requests!  These are just a few of them:

A couple who have a elderly friends asked them if they could remember Kali and also if you can still get it? They popped in to ask..... and the answer is yes!  Kali is sherbert crystals and we sell it as Rainbow Crystals.

One young lady asked for 'Wilko' mints - also known as School Chalk or Mint Liquorice. Happily we were able to supply.

Popping candy was on a gentleman's shopping list for his grandson - I remember this as space dust, and today we sell it in the form of Fizz Wizz.  Another happy customer!

Quite a few customers have also come in for 'a quarter of' various old favourites - Midget Gems, Rhubarb and Custard, Yorkshire Mixture, Pear Drops and scrummy Lemon Sherberts.

What sweets do you feel nostalgic for? Are they still making them?  There are some long forgotten names that appear on our Jigsaws that bring a smile to the faces of many bringing to mind happy memories of childhood trips to their local sweet shop. Why don't you have a think and see what you remember?  Maybe let us know and see if we stock it?