Staffordshire yarn bombing

This strange manifestation is an example of guerrilla knitting, aka ‘yarn-bombing’. Certain anonymous people knit these coloured 'granny-squares', and then – under cover of night – attach them to street furniture, from phone-boxes to street signs. Or to telegraph poles, as in this instance.

Quite why they do it is a mystery.

The small village of Cresswell has recently had a spate of these up its length and breadth.. Does the village have a secret yarn-archist in its midst? Or was it the action of a passing activist? We may never know.
There is an underground group called the Stoke Guerilla Shoopers, but Cesswell is well outside Stoke-on-Trent.

Link: Yarn Bombing

Smashing conkers

The annual conker tournament, fifteen years old this year, took place again at The Red Lion pub in Boundary (near Dilhorne) today.
If you think it looks a little low-key, then you don’t know that the winner’s name is inscribed on the shield that hangs in the pub. Yes, the winner gets a guaranteed posterity!

Oddly, the winning conker also hangs there...

See: The Red Lion