Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Coniston: Sweet Shop etc.


The sweet shop window above, in Coniston, always catches my eye, with the dolly mixtures, fruit salads, rhubarb & custards, and especially the jelly babies taking me back to my childhood (on the corner of Shaw Street/Gladstone Street in Bury, there was a shop selling all such sweets).

Another thing that caught my eye was the free food items offered by St. Andrew's church, for those possibly in need:


And as usual, I spent a little time at John Ruskin's grave:

And caught a quick look of the lake before our almost whistle-stop tour of Coniston was over:

Things didn't exactly go to plan in Coniston as we kind of ended up wild camping there, this time round.

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