“LET’S get a goldfish,” I announced out of nowhere. “They’re low-maintenance pets.” Canvassing support, I turned to the Mother Superior. “They’re very calming…. and it’ll teach the kids about death.” Continue reading
I’M full of a new respect for the Keswick to Barrow walkers today. We often hear a lot about the worst in humanity, but some of its best was up Continue reading
AS parents, you encourage your children to tell the truth. But it reminds you of the lies you told your Mum and Dad. The biggest childhood whopper I spun was Continue reading
I’VE not been to Leeds for 20 years and went on a stag weekend recently. It’s an amazing city to photograph with some impressive new buildings and colourful citizens. Enjoy Continue reading
IT’S not long until our holidays, which means it’s not long until we become good old English fault finders. There are three things we have to inspect on arrival Continue reading
SO, there’s a rift in the coalition. We’re getting a new carpet when there’s nothing wrong with the old one. We don’t need it. It’s just carpet. It just sits Continue reading
I’D like to know what’s being done about the budgie crisis? That’s right, the budgie crisis. Everyone used to have a budgie when they retired, it seemed. Yet when I Continue reading
THE place to drool over nearly 100 vintage cars in Cumbria today was “checkpoint 20” on The Flying Scotsman London To Edinburgh Rally. Checkpoint 20 is better known as The Continue reading
IF there’s a big row going on in this country, it usually has national standards at its heart.Those defending their fall versus those shoulder shrugging, asking: “What’s the biggie?” Ten Continue reading
THE British Class system is alive and well, so says the BBC. It should know. Nationally, the beeb couldn’t be more middle class if it pranged its 4×4 struggling to Continue reading
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IF YOU want to stop kids being overweight, they need to start making computer games rubbish again – then they’ll get outside more. I speak from experience, having become the Continue reading
BEATLE LENNON IN THE LAKE DISTRICT In the Lake District this has been a week for eye-rubbing, star-gazing and autograph hunting. On Wednesday, guests and employees at the Waterhead Hotel Continue reading
WHEN I started this blog, I didn’t want to focus exclusively on ‘postcard Cumbria’. Cumbria is a Wonderland, but lives have been lived here, industries lost. This brings me to Continue reading
THE GREAT FROST: THOUSANDS ENJOY SKATING ON WINDERMERE IN the north during the week-end the Lake District has been the centre of which has drawn skaters from many counties to Continue reading
I DON’T get invited to too many weddings, which is good because they’ve become a bit too ‘Hollywood’ for me in recent years. Too much fuss. Too much what Mam Continue reading
OPERATION BIRKDALE – ISOLATED FARM RELIEVED AFTER having been isolated for three weeks by the heavy snowfall over the Pennines, Westmorland’s most easterly farm, known as Birkdale, at the head Continue reading
A danger of living in the Lake District is having it all on your doorstep, promising to ‘do it one day’ but that day never coming. It’s been a couple of Continue reading
Orrest Head is the quickest and easiest Lake District walk you can do for maximum view, I’d say. It’s HD heaven showing Windermere, the Coniston fells, Langdale Pikes and Kentmere Continue reading
WHAT does 50p buy these days? Not a lot. But it did buy entry to this weekend’s Art Exhibition at Natland and Oxenholme Village Hall, featuring over 100 acrylics, oil paintings, Continue reading
