MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Big Kev]

I'll keep quiet, I know where it is, I've driven past it.

[Gloria]

Gisburn? Been through that on a toot

[Stanley]

Yes you've got it Gloria, bit too easy perhaps. It's at Gisburn Park. (LINK)
Next one?

[plaques]

Where can you see this rather magnificent lion? Estimated guessing time 10 minutes.

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[Tizer]

In your front garden?
(That's not so far fetched as it sounds - one of my cousins brought a bronze camel back from Egypt -althoug it wsn't quite as big as the lion appears to be!)

[plaques]

Front garden! I wish, Mrs P loves lions. Most folk on OG will have driven passed this one hundreds of times.
Lasting longer than I thought.

[Stanley]

It's got me beat. Perhaps I don't drive past the places you do!

[plaques]

The M65 now means the delights of the A56 to Burnley are bypassed. The Lion has been there for around 100 years hiding in plain view.

[Wendyf]

Brierfield War Memorial?

[plaques]

Excellent Wendy. It would appear that not many on OG have traveled to foreign parts of Pendle.

[Stanley]

Or perhaps we're keeping our eyes on the road!

[Tizer]

It's a long time since I've been in the `foreign parts of Pendle'. They probably still had witches then!

[Wendyf]

I wouldn't have got the answer without the big clue about the A56, except it doesn't seem to be on the A56! I arrived in the area after the M65 so I don't know what it was like before....

[plaques]

Now the A682. but was the A56 in my yoof.

A google screen shot of the Lion War Memorial from the main road.

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[Big Kev]

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How about this one?

[plaques]

As Jake Thackray said.

Well I know it sounds ridiculous, I know it's awfully odd,
But I suddenly felt like giving that little hole a furtive prod.
So I popped my finger in and then I waggled it about.
But once I'd got the bleeder in, I couldn't get the bleeder out of the hole.

[Stanley]

Is it the inside of a heart monitor that clips on the finger?

[Big Kev]

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That didn't last long, measures pulse and blood oxygen levels. Mine's currently 97%

[Stanley]

Sorry Kev..... (And I didn't Google it!)

[Big Kev]

Sorry Kev..... (And I didn't Google it!)

you wouldn't have found that image on Google anyway...

[plaques]

Last week we set out to buy a thermal body temperature gadget that you poke in your ear. Arrive yesterday had to give it a try straight away. The funny thing was I saw this strange red light on the opposite wall.

We saw quite quite a few of the 'pulse. oxygen' thingies during our search.

[Stanley]

"The funny thing was I saw this strange red light on the opposite wall"
I like that.....

[Tizer]

They're oximeters and we bought one too. They were recommendend for if you get covid-19 symptoms. The virus can send you suddenly into serious blood oxygen deficit without it being obvious but it shows up on the oximeter. A very low reading is an emergency.

[Tizer]

Where is this and what's going on?

[Stanley]

Modern refurbishment of a medieval beacon? Perhaps used originally as a lighthouse?