Welcome back to Nigel, Gwyneth and family who have returned from a good holiday in Italy. Nice to have you all back. Hopefully the computers and the internet will all behave themselves now the boss is back!
Welcome back to also to Julia who has had a sunny week in Wales – only one bad day apparently. [...]
Once again apologies to all for the inconvenience caused by the breakdown in our internet service. We are hoping that we will have no further problems as the BT engineer can’t find anything wrong with our system.
Must have been gremlins ……. or of course the rain!
ORGANISERS of the first ever Kendal Festival of Food have whipped up such interest in the event that more than 50 businesses have come forward to take part.
The feast of events and special dining discounts for the week (October 24 to 31) was 124 at the last count and includes food tastings at Baba Ganoush [...]
CALLS of ‘come by’ and ‘that’ll do’ will be heard when shepherds and their trusty four-legged friends descend on Cumbria this weekend for an extravaganza of sheepdog trialling.
Thousands of people are expected at the International Sheepdog Trials 2009, which will take place at Thrimby on the Lowther Estate, from Friday until Sunday. And with Princess [...]
A TEAM of investigators will scour Windermere in a hunt for a legendary monster that is claimed to lurk in its deep waters.
The search follows years of reported sightings of a big creature in the lake, the most recent being in July when Lake District hotelier Thomas Noblett was hit by a three-foot wave as he [...]
THOUSANDS of race enthusiasts poured through the gates at Cartmel racecourse over the bank holiday weekend after ground staff pulled out all the stops to ensure the race meeting went ahead.
The course saw more than 50mm of rainfall during the week leading up to Cartmel’s final meeting of the year. However, after pumping more than [...]
You know I said our broadband connection was working again? Well I spoke too soon!
By Wednesday morning it had disappeared again. BT are ‘working on it’ and hopefully we will be back in touch with everyone soon. Apologies to everyone who’s waiting for a reply to an e-mail – just makes you realise how much [...]
NEARLY 2000 girls and grown-ups are expected to converge on the Westmorland County Showground on Saturday night for south Cumbria’s celebrations to mark the guiding centenary.
‘Cumbagig’ – which kicks off at 4pm – will feature The Greatest Take That and Abba Vision tribute bands – and the girls and their guiders are being encouraged to [...]
TV VETERAN Griff Rhys Jones has revealed how a long-standing theatrical friendship keeps drawing him back to the Lake District.
Although the actor, comedian and traveller has visited the area to make documentaries such as The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome and Mountain, it his friendship with the Bowness-based theatre owner Roger Glossop that has provided [...]
Apologies to those of you who have sent e-mails to us over the Bank Holiday weekend.
Unfortunately our internet connection went down and we were unable to restore it until this afternoon, but normal service has now been restored and we are working our way through the 95 e-mails that came through as we were re-connected [...]
