Overwhelmed in Oldham

I’ve headed north and arrived in glorious Oldham.

Followers of this blog will have gathered long ago that we travel on a pretty tight schedule here at Smokefree Northwest and our regional tour would have limped along without a little technological assistance. So we’d like to say a big thank you to our team of boffins back in Antarctica. They’re the folk who developed our GPS (Global Penguin Support) thingamajig; a paper-based device which looks like a traditional map and can be used in the same way.

As per, I digress. Oldhamers have been uncommonly warm in their welcome today, particularly the student chappies above, and they all seemed awfully keen to stub out the ciggies. After all, last year an astonishing 1,653 people became smokefree with help from Oldham Community Health Services Stop Smoking Service.

If you’re equally keen to stop smoking but you were unable to get to Oldham this aft. please do call my Penguin Stop Smoking Hotline on 0800 032 7252.

I’m being urged to visit Gallery Oldham, the hi-tech art gallery, while I’m here in town. The curator-types have a fair few exhibitions installed at the moment, and it’s a well known fact that flightless birds are high-brow when it comes to this sort of thing. That whisper you may have heard about ‘culture’ and ‘vultures’ is a myth; all carrion birds are terrible bores.

See you tomorrow in Salford!