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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FXDRYJ - Halloween sweet packets in orange Aldi seasonal display boxes. Brightly coloured bags of Halloween sweets are stacked inside orange cardboard promotional display trays. The cartons prominently say HALLOWEEN SWEETS while spooky packaging artwork and orange tones reinforce the seasonal theme. Orange cardboard display trays carry large HALLOWEEN SWEETS labels and are filled with brightly coloured bags. Black and red packaging and seasonal graphics give the products a deliberately spooky presentation. The bags include novelty confectionery presented for Halloween shoppers, with the tray fronts repeating the same seasonal message. The view documents Aldi's in-store display strategy for an autumn event, specifically confectionery associated with trick-or-treating, children's parties and Halloween celebrations. Packaging, shelf-ready cartons and the unusual colours of novelty sweets are all significant visual details. Orange trays are stacked in rows, with their cut-out fronts allowing shoppers to see several bags of novelty confectionery. The packaging is red and black with bright seasonal illustrations and confectionery names that evoke fright-themed treats. Shelf-ready retail cartons repeat the words HALLOWEEN SWEETS across the foreground. The conspicuous promotional colouring makes a small part of the supermarket aisle appear dedicated to the October celebration. The visible products can illustrate shops preparing for Halloween, the marketing of seasonal sweets to families, trick-or-treat purchases and the use of temporary cardboard display stands to sell themed confectionery. This photograph should be indexed as packaged Halloween candy at Aldi, with its distinctive orange cartons and hanging product bags. Rows of shelf-ready cartons occupy most of the shot, showing the scale of the seasonal confectionery promotion. The boxes are designed to be opened and placed directly on retail shelves. Seasonal packets are tightly stacked in large orange trays.
United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K967KB - Pick-your-own pumpkins offer diversified income channels
The market for pumpkins in the UK has seen a huge growth in the past decade, with the public increasingly looking for an on-farm experience and to buy directly from producers.
Pumpkins can offer significant additional income for farmers if done well, especially when accompanied by other value-added extras such as refreshments or attractions.
There are two main markets “ either selling direct to the consumer or wholesale. Each has its benefits and challenges.
When growing for wholesale, there are often extra costs for grading, on-farm storage and transport. The labour-intensive harvest process for wholesale at scale will also need seasonal labour, stock-photo/gotonysmith-Which.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>which can be difficult to find.
Selling direct to consumers poses other challenges, including public access to the farm.
Pumpkin seeds can be planted indoors from mid- to late April, however it is more common to plant seeds and seedlings outdoors from May to early June.
Lack of fruit can be an issue and diseases include powdery mildew and grey mould. Pumpkins can also suffer in very wet seasons and may need irrigation during a dry summer.
Will John and Chris Creed, consultants at agricultural adviser Adas, say that the market is becoming saturated in some regions of the UK. However, businesses can still be profitable if they are able to market effectively.
What are the essential requirements and costs?
Mr Creed says: To be successful, you have got to have infrastructure, hard car parking, booking systems, strong social media campaigns and good road access.
A potentially less risky option is to grow for an existing business, which may have already invested in the infrastructure to cater for the public.
Some farm shops and garden centres have very good infrastructures to accommodate the public, but they haven't got much ground. So they may be able to grow some and then stock up from a local grower, which can be a win-win situation for everybody,
Massey Brook Lane, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0EG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Massey Brook,Massey Brook Lane,Cheshire,England,UK,WA13 0EG,Pumpkin Bowling,pumpkin,at,Lymm,Farm,retail,entertainment,amusement,sign,field,attraction,sweatshirt,profitable,search,to,buy,buying,patch,plants,carving,fun,family,event,destination,Pick-your-own,PYO,income,channels,growing,trick or treaters,spooky season
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K967KM - Pick-your-own pumpkins offer diversified income channels
The market for pumpkins in the UK has seen a huge growth in the past decade, with the public increasingly looking for an on-farm experience and to buy directly from producers.
Pumpkins can offer significant additional income for farmers if done well, especially when accompanied by other value-added extras such as refreshments or attractions.
There are two main markets “ either selling direct to the consumer or wholesale. Each has its benefits and challenges.
When growing for wholesale, there are often extra costs for grading, on-farm storage and transport. The labour-intensive harvest process for wholesale at scale will also need seasonal labour, stock-photo/gotonysmith-Which.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>which can be difficult to find.
Selling direct to consumers poses other challenges, including public access to the farm.
Pumpkin seeds can be planted indoors from mid- to late April, however it is more common to plant seeds and seedlings outdoors from May to early June.
Lack of fruit can be an issue and diseases include powdery mildew and grey mould. Pumpkins can also suffer in very wet seasons and may need irrigation during a dry summer.
Will John and Chris Creed, consultants at agricultural adviser Adas, say that the market is becoming saturated in some regions of the UK. However, businesses can still be profitable if they are able to market effectively.
What are the essential requirements and costs?
Mr Creed says: To be successful, you have got to have infrastructure, hard car parking, booking systems, strong social media campaigns and good road access.
A potentially less risky option is to grow for an existing business, which may have already invested in the infrastructure to cater for the public.
Some farm shops and garden centres have very good infrastructures to accommodate the public, but they haven't got much ground. So they may be able to grow some and then stock up from a local grower, which can be a win-win situation for everybody,
Massey Brook Lane, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0EG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy PYX9BA - Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of Hallows' Even or Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.
It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain
that such festivals may have had pagan roots
and that Samhain itself was Christianized as Halloween by the early Church. Some believe, however, that Halloween began solely as a Christian holiday, separate from ancient festivals like Samhain.
Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration. Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows' Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain vegetarian foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.
Northwich,Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: pumpkin,pumpkins,shop,halloween,orange,farm shop,cheshire,UK,England,Hollies,The Hollies
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4575478451 - 'If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5128313336 - 'The Sea - 'Morcheeba' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
A track to enjoy with a drink in your hand or a bar of quality chocolate, this one.
The word 'morcheeba' is meant to indicate 'the way of cannabis'. This originated from 'MOR'(middle of the road) plus 'Cheeba' (informal name of cannabis).
Morcheeba mix pop, hip-hop, rock and electronica and are based in the UK. They have consisted of Paul &
Ross Godfrey, Skye Edwards and recently Daisy Martey, among many guests. Their debut album 'Who Can You Trust?' on China Records was released in April 1996.
This track comes from 'Big Calm' the second album which was more mainstream and pop-ey.
This is the best album to start with Morcheeba, if you check it out, tell 'em I sent you :-)
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This is meant to be a slightly spooky image in keeping with Halloween. I have avoided the usual Halloween cliche's of ghosts, ghouls, pumpkins, trick or treat etc. Last years very normal Halloween carved pumpkin with an ipod headphone can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4083459935/
NB: Like all the images on this stream, full size images are available, Check my profile for how to contact me.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4083459935 - 'A carved orange pumpkin (Squash) ready for use at the festival of Halloween as a lantern. Lighting provided by a sparker to produce yellow hair.
Pumpkins are commonly carved into decorative lanterns called jack-o'-lanterns for the Halloween season in North America. Throughout Britain and Ireland, there is a long tradition of carving lanterns from vegetables, particularly the turnip, mangelwurzel, or swede.
Not until 1837, however, does jack-o'-lantern appear as a term for a carved vegetable lantern, and the carved lantern does not become associated specifically with Halloween until 1866.
Although every modern chronicle of the holiday repeats the claim that vegetable lanterns were a time-honored component of Halloween celebrations in the British Isles, none gives any primary documentation. In fact, none of the major nineteenth-century chronicles of British holidays and folk customs makes any mention whatsoever of carved lanterns in connection with Halloween. Neither do any of the standard works of the early twentieth century.
In the US, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween
Another use of a sparkler here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4059561024/
More festival things in my photostream-
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Keywords: halloween,haloween,biscuits,treats,treat,cookie,cookies,home,made,food,sweet,sweets,iced,icing,baked,oven,seasonal,autumn,scary,ghost,ghoul,ghouls,pumpkin,derek,acorah,hunter,365days,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4058830349 - 'Some homemade halloween biscuits.
(c) baking credit to Jo/Joe Parkin
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
