Hey everyone, I’m supposed to arrive to Luton airport in the middle of the night on Dec 20th. Should be a bit before 2 am.

I’m a tourist and don’t know the UK transport system at all, so I’d really appreciate someone helping me figure this out 🤞

I’m also traveling on a budget and taxis seem to be crazy expensive.. Do you think I have other options?

I can wait at the airport if it’s open of course.

Thanks in advance! 🙏

Hello everyone I'm m23 in to rugby and cooking just looking to meet and talk to new people in the area! Drop me a pm if you're interested!

Hello everyone! I’m going on a trip to Oxford soon and booked bus tickets through Omio.

It says that I have to take the first bus at the Town Centre bus stop, however, when I looked it up on Google Maps it showed me different stops and I’m not sure which is the right one. 😔

I hope you can help me figure this out. 🙏🏼 I’m a foreigner and I’ve already asked a couple of friends but got different answers.

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Played before? Sound

Brand new? Lush

Love drinking? Even better

Old Northamptonians are looking for players. We play National League 2 but need players to improve and be the best we can be.

We are awesome and the best bunch of gals

Come along

Old Northamptonians, Billing Road 1930 - 2100

Lauched boxes for christmas www.currentcravings.co.uk

I decided to make and sell cookies and brownies this christmas any suggestions on the flavours. also can you go to my website and have a look www.currentcravings.co.uk

I think penetration into the Uk market is tough, because it has giants in the markets and people are so used to them so anyone starting a new business will take alot of time to penetrate? Any thought? Or suggestions?

The train station is under water in case you missed it

I'm creating a Lego group we don't yet have a meet up area though

I have a few old laptops with dead or almost dead batteries (18650 style), I use them about once a week or so and some have car diagnostic software, so it there any shops that can recell the batteries?

Hey guys,

Just wanted to ask if the drop off and pick up is free or if there is a grace period at the northampton railway station?

I have some friends visiting tomorrow so wanted to pick them up from the railway station so I thought I will quickly visit the car park today to see what's it's like and where to pick them up from.

However, they had automatic number plate reognition, so now im worried if i might get fined? Could anyone shed some light please? I was literally only there for under a minute.

Edit- thank u all for ur replies, very helpful...and yes I managed to find saba (parking company) does do a 20 minute grace period as mentioned by some people. Thank u all for reassuring me

Hi all - me again!

Forgot one question on my survey --> 'How long do you typically spend at Rushden Lakes?'

Here is the link to the survey with just the one question above: https://forms.gle/PPkshbSfYBHgXJFj8

I'm originally from Northampton (Well, out in the boonies, but it's the closest city) but I currently live in America. Is there anywhere I can watch Northampton FC games for free? Thank you in advance if you have an answer!

Hi, I'm new in Northampton and was wondering where the best places are to watch the current Autumn Series England rugby games. Can anyone recommend good spots in town centre where they show the rugby? Pubs, bars etc.

Where would you recommend getting a good sourdough from?

What's the best place around here to try and buy makeup from?

Hello, I'm a 30 year old male looking to find someone to play tennis with on a weekly basis. I'm of a decent standard and can hold a rally. Hit me up if anyone fancies playing!

I have just moved to the area and I am looking to meet new people and make friends!

26yo, like sports, not a big drinker, enjoy countryside and hiking.

Please let me know you know of any good groups or places to start making friends in the area!

Hey, I am doing my A-level coursework on Rushden Lakes and I was wondering if anyone who has visited it at all could fill in this quick Google Form. The results are completely anonymous and I will only use the data for this project. Thank you! Link: https://forms.gle/1ByvEa1twm1wFYZY7

EDIT: I have collected enough responses so I have closed the survey. Thank you to all who took part! <3

Anywhere in town do these?

What's the uni like

How it's for Indian in the area

How about part time job opportunities

I heard pretty dodgy stuff about the place even though I am not sure about it, like drug problems

Is there racism towards indians

All of the things are gonna be better than here( india ) but just wanna clarify

And please tell me if there is anything I need to know

Thank you Vishnu

Hello everybody!

This post is an update of my previous publication after another week exploring this country. For this second week, I explored another county in the Midlands: Northamptonshire!

Two reasons for this choice: it seems to be quite a not so known county like Rutland and as a French I can't pronounce the name correctly (NoRdAmToNshEeR) lol.

Anyway, there is one live cam working in the county town of Northampton powered by the YouTube Channel National Lift Tower. It's situated on the tallest building in town, and you get a nice overview of the place. You can even see people playing rugby on the field down there, stranger to the fact that at least one supporter is watching them.

This tower is one of UK's tallest facility for lift development and testing. Concerning testing, they also do free fall test to rate the security of the lift. If you crave strong sensation or just like "everyday near-death experience", you can ask to be in the lift during one of these experiments. Theoretically you shall be bruised but all right. Of what I read on Reddit, the centre of Northampton at night also offers other kind of vivid experience, but you may get more than haematomas.

This wonderful piece of architecture even have two Instagram pages: an official one and a troll one. Whereas the first page features a simple overview of the tower, the second one contains pictures of it getting wasted and surrendered by chicks.

Leaving Northampton, I checked for some of the other towns of this county and stumbled upon this video from Alex in Great Britain named "Top 10 PRETTIEST Towns in NORTHAMPTONSHIRE". His video is really worth watching and coming from a small town myself, I laughed in pain at the similarities, like the non-existent transportation system or the bizarre names.

Now to the cooking part. Online I found some recipes from the Victorian area, which, in a way, seems to be connected with Northamptonshire and I tried to make two of them: Cattern cakes and Clangers.

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Cattern cakes are very simple cookies with caraway seeds. Because I couldn't find these seeds, I put fennel instead.

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For those of you who do not know what Clangers are, let me explain it in one word: Efficiency. This pastry were eaten by workers in the 19th century and lunch had to be quick, so the filling is 2/3 main and 1/3 dessert. The salty part is filled with savoury pork meat and the sweet part with cooked apples. It seems very strange but taste very good.

All right guys, this is it for the second week. It was very interesting to explore England this way, and if there is one thing that I will keep from this "virtual trip" it's the buttery pastry. It's so simple and the result is so delicious. The trick to blind bake a pie before putting the filling is also a clever thing.

Even though both Rutland and Northamptonshire are quite lost, I really liked to explore them, although only virtually. Next year I may even plan a trip to England to visit the Midlands by myself, we will see.

Next week I will cross the Atlantic (again) and will be posting in !

Now this sounds mental, but I assure you I’m serious.

Obviously the lift tower is a grade II listed building (and rightfully so, it’s gorgeous, as we all know), meaning it cannot be modified physically in any way, so no painting it or anything like that. It’s already used as an abseiling tower during the day, as well as something of a beacon for all of us lost on the way home.

However, it has also been used as a kind of giant information board during the night before, usually via the usage of projection lasers (which, unlike paint, doesn’t leave a mark and thus violate its grade II listing). A majority of times it has been used for projecting positive messages onto, such as praising the NHS during COVID, or for VE Day in 2020.

However, it has also been used by big companies as a form of advertising board, such as when Cinch plastered their logo on it for some reason and when Carlsberg had some anniversary or other and felt the need to bring out the big laser pointer. We can do better than this blatant abuse of our most sacred piece of architecture by corporate greedbags.

Imagine an East Midlands derby on a cold winters night in which the entire western side of the pitch were overshadowed by a massive green obelisk with a saints logo on it, the Leicester hooker wouldn’t land a single line out on that side with that kind of support. Or imagine the horror facing a Peterborough supporter walking from the bus station, as he sees a giant claret monolith in cobblers colours greeting him as he walks through the west of town. Both of our sports teams would become invincible on their respective derby days.

It wouldn’t get in the way of the abseiling, as that only happens during the day, and it would add extra usage to our most sacred landmark, as well as bringing in money for the town, and if covered well enough by the media, a decent amount of public interest and fame too. Even excluding the sports teams surely we could stand to bring out the big laser projector more often anyway? The lift tower is just sitting there existing at the moment, begging for a good lasering.

This sounds mad but what do you guys think?

Hi I’m from Northampton and I am wanting to use a sauna however cannot afford a home one, does anyone know what would be the cheapest way for me to access one on a 3/4 week basis?

Hello , I just recently moved to Northampton from hospital after a spine iniury that kinda left me pretty disabled , I can kinda walk but not far or for long, and well sadly after it my friends and family have pretty much ditched me so I'm in a new town alone and was wondering where I could go to meet people and try to actually build a social circle since currently I'm just at home doing nothing but playing pc games.

I didn't manage to snap a pic, but roughly an hour ago I saw the 2007 film truck drive along Welli' Road towards weston favel.

Anyone else see this?