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Ambleside, Bowness, Coniston, Grasmere, Hawkshead, Langdale, Troutbeck, Windermere and surrounding areas.

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Don’t miss the car pull on 24th September this year, supported by Kirkstone Pass Inn and run in aid of local charities.

The charity car pull up The Struggle in Ambleside event which has been running for 40 years involves pulling a 1 ton car up 3.1 miles of Kirkstone Pass, climbing 1500ft up one of the steepest mountain passes in the UK. Last year the women’s team broke the record by completing the arduous route in 62.45 mins.

Dignity in Dementia The number of people being diagnosed annually with dementia in Cumbria is forecast at 1,800 year on year.

For those living away from the main towns such as Kendal and Barrow, gaining support can be incredibly difficult, especially as services continue to be limited. During the

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Autumn in-depth 10 hour ‘Dignity in Dementia Care’ courses run over 5 weeks.

Their next 5 week course, which aims to educate, inspire and support family carers will run in Windermere at the Marchesi Centre between 6 – 8 pm, starting on Tuesday 20th September and finishing on Tuesday 18th October.

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A big thank you to Clive, Dawn, Glenn, Phil and Tim for all the hard work on this issue.

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Play just got a whole lot better (and drier).

For more than 18 months young children in Ambleside have been pining for the return of their Rothay Park play area – a victim of the December 2015 floods which virtually swept it away.

A straw poll among the many dozens who turned out for the official launch of the new play area last month would more than likely confirm that it was well worth the wait.

The new £200,000 site is bigger and much better than it ever was, with a whole host of attractions: a zipwire, swings, climbing frames, netting, an obstacle course, minitrampolines, seesaws, roundabouts (including some apparatus that double as both) and much more.

“We love it,” said Ambleside Lakes Parish Council member Fiona Sparrow. Especially because it was paid for by South Lakeland District Council, no doubt!

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“I heard they were going to redo it after the floods but I never expected it to be this good,” he said. “There’s so much more for children to do and it can accommodate far more of them.”

Landing areas in the site have been constructed using ‘wet

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Italian Twinning Visit

In July, sixteen visitors from Coniston’s Italian twin town of Solto Collina, which is situated on the shores of Lake Iseo in the Italian Lake District came to visit.

The inspiration for twinning is based on shared things – mountains, lake, beautiful scenery, sheep farming and industries to do with stone.

The guests were taken to Torver, where they were made very welcome at Jackie Hadwin’s art studio and on to Torver Jetty to catch the Coniston Launch. After an afternoon of local exploration, and a traditional English roast at Coniston’s newest restaurant, Deano’s.

On Sunday the English hosts took their Italian guests along to the Bikers’ Breakfast at Torver Church Hall. For many of the visitors it was their first experience of a ‘full English breakfast.

At Swarthmoor Hall, there was a guided bilingual tour in English and Italian, learning all about the Quakers and the fascinating history of the building.

Some of the group attended a meditation session in the Buddhist Temple at Conishead Priory. There was also a walk down to the shore of Morecambe Bay – some of the visitors did not realise how near Coniston is to the coast.

On Sunday evening the whole group enjoyed a Jacob’s Join meal and singsong at the Sports and Social Centre in Coniston. New friendships had been forged and old ones renewed. Coniston villagers who have already been to Solto Collina are looking forward to going back next year, and others are looking forward to visiting for the first time.

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Armed Forces day celebration

The Bowness and Windermere Community Care Trust has recently been working in partnership with the Goodly Dale cottage Homes. On Saturday 1st July the residents and their families had an afternoon of music and nostalgia in celebration of our Armed Forces thanks to Windermere Town council.

Around 40 attendees enjoyed music by Becki Fishwick , local singer and by Windermere parish priest, Father Kevan Dorgan who played his accordion.

Simone Backhouse said “ We wanted to celebrate our Armed forces and have a nice afternoon tea party where the residents could come together and enjoy good company and nice cakes, whilst listening to some 1940s style music.Luckily the weather was kind to us and everyone was able to enjoy themselves outside.

Special thanks have to be extended to Windermere Town council for their support and to the people who i persuaded to help set up the event including Goodly Dale school for the loan of their furniture and to Mrs Beaty for the loan of her Marque.

Thanks also to the Windermere Air cadets who attended and socialised with the residents and to the hard working ladies of the WI for their fabulous tea. It was a thoroughly lovely event.”

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Boxes of Hope

It may be the middle of summer, but it is time to think about Cumbria’s 2017 Christmas shoebox campaign, covering South Lakeland, Eden and Furness.

The benefits of being a “local” charity are that a team from Cumbria take the shoeboxes and bring pictures and stories back of the children who receive them. As a small charity there are no staff to pay. Any surplus funding goes towards longer term educational support for these children.

Children and adults alike love to fill a shoebox – it is a simple and fun thing to do, doesn’t have to cost a lot of money, and it really does make a difference to a child who has none of the basics we take for granted.

Many of these children have never in their lives had a gift. Many have never had a toy.

Please do start looking for empty shoeboxes and shoebox bargains such as toys, games, fun items, hygiene and stationery items, warm hat/scarf/gloves/socks, sweets.

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Jack’s Rake, the toughest walkers’ route in the Lake District, will be the scene on August Bank Holiday Monday of one of the most bizarre climbs in the history of fell walking.

An ‘oompa loompa’ charity ascent is set to be staged, recreating scenes from the 1971 classic children’s movie Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and it’s all the brainchild of a man whose other charity event is somewhat more of a serious undertaking.

Richard Jennings launched the Triple Spine Lakeland Challenge walk last year, a three-day, 70-mile marathon trek starting in and revisiting Ambleside, which this year will be taking place during the Festival of the Fells in September.

Jack’s Rake, the grooved ledge across the sheer 500ft face of Pavey Ark above Great Langdale’s Stickle Tarn is, however, a somewhat different prospect.

“It’s a serious climb and, even though we’ll be in oompa loompa costume we will be

Ambleside’s Civic Trust get tough

Classic cash for charities This year’s Lakes Charity Classic Vehicle Show, staged at Grasmere Sports Field, raised £8,500 – the highest amount in its five-year history.

Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team and Blood Bikes will be the beneficiaries. The event, which was organised by Windermere and Ambleside Lions Club, attracted more than 300 vehicles.

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A set of principles, designed to make developers think twice about their plans for Ambleside, have been published by the town’s civic trust.

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giving it all the respect it deserves,” said Richard, who stressed that Jack’s Rake is classed as a grade one scramble.

“On this occasion it should only be climbed if you have experienced it before. However, the rake is optional and you are welcome to join the group that takes an easier route nearby.”

The event also marks the one-year anniversary of the death of actor Gene Wilder, who

played Willie Wonka in the 1971 movie, and Richard is looking for a willing volunteer to dress up as the character to head the walk.

Money raised will go to the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association. Meet at the Stickle Barn at 9am for a 10am walk start on Monday 28 August.

For details, go to www.justgiving/com/ fundraising/Lakelandmeet-ups

The Trust’s chairman Steve Dickinson said the move followed controversy over a number of high-profile proposed developments in the town in recent years.

“Things appear to have died down regarding these sites but we still think there will be applications – or at least we shouldn’t rule them out,” he said.

The trust believes that a historic market town such as Ambleside deserves “particular recognition” from developers as having an outstanding international value in keeping with its unique setting, character and heritage.

It says that any major proposed development should always

acknowledge, incorporate and respect: • The views of Ambleside’s community; • Historically and environmentally sensitive and significant locations in the town and its surrounding area; • National policies, principles and good practice in conservation; • Local businesses, skills and traditional craft in design, making and building; • Contexts specific to Ambleside, for example, of flooding and restricted access.

The trust meets at Ambleside Library on the second Tuesday of every month at 7.15pm.

Everyone is welcome.

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A.R. - The books

Arthur Ransome

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Arthur Ransome is best known today as the author of Swallows and Amazons, the classic children’s series that captures an idyllic Lakeland childhood on and around a fictional lake modeled on Windermere and Coniston Water – but for a decade at the start of the 20th century the top brass of MI6 knew him better as a spy, and even considered him as a possible Soviet double agent.

IN 1913 Ransome headed to Russia to escape an unhappy marriage and the fall-out from a libel action following his biography of Oscar Wilde, where he taught himself Russian and, from 1914 onwards, reported on events from the Russian front in the Great War. Armed with the language skills and a great sympathy for the people of Mother Russia, he was thus in the right place at the right time to get himself embroiled in the Russian Revolutions of 1917. He was soon working as the correspondent for two radical papers, the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian.

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Communicating via telegram pared his writing style down to the essentials: nothing superfluous, concise reports on actions and events, analysis of the emerging new politics, judicious local colour, all of which impacted on the author he became.

In the meantime, he found time to divorce his first wife and marry Leon Trotsky’s secretary Evgenia, and send reports of the political situation back to British spymasters who, because of his love of Russia, at one stage worried he might be a double agent.

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Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’ series comprises 11 completed books and an unfinished novel.

Five of the series are set in the Lake District. They are indicated in bold type.

Swallows and Amazons (1930) Swallowdale (1931) Peter Duck (1932) Winter Holiday (1933) Coot Club (1934) Pigeon Post (1936) We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea (1937) Secret Water (1939) The Big Six (1940) Missee Lee (1941) The Picts and the Martyrs (1943) Great Northern? (1947) A 12th book, Coots in the North, was unfinished at the time of Ransome’s death in 1967. It was edited and sections published in an unfinished form in 1988.

Coniston’s Ruskin Museum – From Coniston to the Kremlin: Arthur Ransome’s Russian Adventures – which opened on June 3 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Ransome’s death.

It runs until Sunday 3 September.

Away from the exhibition area itself the museum has a number of other Ransome displays, with the centerpiece being the sailing boat Amazon, once named Mavis and thought to be the original vessel which inspired one half of Swallows and Amazons.

“Sadly, Swallow has never been found,” said museum curator Vicky Slowe.

A.R. - On location A marathon reading of the classic children’s story Swallows and Amazons will be staged this summer on the shore of Coniston Water where the tale was set.

The event, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the author, Arthur Ransome, will take place on Sunday 3 September. A number of celebrity readers have already signed up to take part and it is expected that the book’s 31 chapters will take around nine hours to read.

The event is being organised by Dr Chris Routledge of Liverpool University, in association with the Lake District National Park and the Arthur Ransome Trust. It will mark the end of a summer-long exhibition at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston about Ransome, Russia and storytelling.

“It seems an appropriate way to celebrate the life and work of Ransome,” said Dr Routledge. “We are delighted that the Lake District National Park has offered their site at the Coniston Boating Centre on the lake shore. And our partners at the Arthur Ransome Trust are providing marquees to keep our readers and visitors under canvas, in true Swallows and Amazons fashion.”

A.R. - In the Cinema Until Sunday 3 September, Blackwell, Britain’s leading Arts & Crafts House, celebrates the magical children’s tale of Swallows and Amazons.

Inspired by the Lake District, Arthur Ransome’s classic novel is brought to life with an exhibition featuring props from the most recent film and objects from the Ransome archive borrowed from the Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry in Kendal.

Discover an indoor recreation of the Walker children’s campsite on Wildcat Island plus a children’s trail and craft activities for the whole family to enjoy.

Harbour Pictures have loaned the boats, Swallow and Amazon that featured in the film. They will be perched on Blackwell’s lawns overlooking the lake that was their literary home.

Wild Cat Wednesdays Every Wednesday in August, join the resident storyteller and immerse yourself in the adventures on Wild Cat Island. A Summer of Swallows and Amazons at Blackwell runs until Sunday 3 September 2017.

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Tim’s Column I know it feels like it was a long time ago but this is my first column in Windermere Now since the General Election and so please can I start by thanking everyone who supported me and elected me back as your MP? I have said many times that I think this is the best job in the world and so to be given the chance to do it for a further 5 years is really humbling. I will do all I can to justify your faith in me.

You may also be aware that I have stepped down as leader of the Liberal Democrats.

There are so many benefits to stepping away from this role, I will be able to spend more time with my children. However, the key benefit to you (or at least I hope you see it this way) is that you will see much more of me around the area as I will be spending less time in London. .I had a lovely time visiting Langdale Primary School in Chapel Stile. These visits are always great fun as I can never predict what questions the children will as. . I had the good fortune to meet with a little girl who we had helped to get a passport so she could be reunited with her family. It is things like this that remind me why this is such a brilliant job.

During August we will be running my annual summer tour of the constituency.

The final details are just being worked out but please do keep an eye out for notices telling you where and when I am turning up. I hope to visit as many places as I possibly can this year and it would be great to meet with as many of you as possible to give you a chance to tell me face to face what you think about what I have been doing and how I can do things better over the coming years.

In the meantime if I can help in any way then please do get in touch my email as ever is tim@timfarron.co.uk and the phone number is 01539 723 403.

Thanks again for your support Tim

Windermere Town Council Firstly, congratulations go to Cllrs Leith Hallatsch, who was reelected as our Town Mayor and John Saunders, who was elected as Deputy Mayor at the Annual General Meeting on 10th May. It is always a good sign of summer when the Town Council flower tubs go up in the centres of Bowness and Windermere. The 108 half tubs are attached to either fences or lamp-posts and are full of colourful summer bedding. Town Council provides the funding and arranges for them to be watered and looked after through the summer months. We are grateful to many local businesses, who contribute to the costs. They are named on posters around the town centre and on our website.

Gary, the Town Steward, has been busy filling the town centre and library gardens’ planters with flowers. This includes the bed just off the A591, near the railway station entrance, where he has planted a box hedging display that will, when grown, read “WINDERMERE.” The Ellerthwaite Square improvements are almost complete. The project took much longer than we expected, due to the complexities of getting the old electricity meter box decommissioned! John Charnley has done a lovely job of the stone walling and the bed will now be filled with attractive plants, to provide a more colourful and welcoming sight when entering Windermere.

If all this talk of flowers inspires you, calling all gardeners! The judges will be out and about in our area on Wednesday 26 th July, looking at

residential and commercial gardens and displays and assessing them for awards in the Windermere in Bloom competition. So, make sure your plantings look their best! There is no need to enter the competition - the judges will make sure they look at our whole area. The trophies and certificates will be presented on Thursday 7 th September in a ceremony at the Hydro Hotel. It promises to be a good night out, so put it in your diaries. If you have won a prize, you will be sent an invite in August.

Finally, our next Town Council meetings will be on Wednesdays 26th July and 9th August, starting at 7pm at Langstone House, Broad Street. Local residents are always welcome.

Mrs Julie Hartley Clerk to Windermere Town Council Email: clerk@windermere-tc.gov.uk Phone: 07951 402372 www.windermere-tc.gov.uk

Blue-green algae alert!

Within the last month people have been advised to refrain from swimming in certain parts of Lake Windermere, following the discovery of potentially poisonous blue-green algae in the water at Millerground and Rayrigg Meadow.

There are many different types of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria).

In fresh waters, they’re suspended in clumps within the water or attached to rocks and other surfaces.These clumps can look like green flakes, greenish bundles or brownish dots. Blue-green algae can produce toxins which can kill wild animals, farm livestock and domestic pets. Farmers and

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pet owners should keep their animals away from affected waters.

Illnesses such as skin rashes, eye irritation, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever and muscle and joint pain have occurred in people who’ve swallowed or swam through algal scum.

Not all blue-green algae blooms and scums are toxic, but you can’t tell just by looking at them, therefore if spotted it’s advisable to avoid contact with it and the water close to it. Updates are being posted on the Millerground noticeboard. Please call the Environment Agency on 0800 80 70 60 if you spot anything in any of the lakes within the area.

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Pink van man Peter loves an ice day Peter Cannon has led a very colourful life – black (when he was a coal delivery driver); white (the mountain of vanilla he has sold since becoming an ice cream van man in 1970); and pink (the shocking colour of his latest van).

If you’re a walker who frequents Loughrigg Fell and/or Rydal, you might well have noticed the little van parked just over stone Pelter Bridge; it’s rather hard to miss. It’s the pitch Peter has had for donkeys’ years. At 83 years old he might well be the oldest ice cream van vendor in the country, and he doesn’t plan on hanging up his scoop any time soon.

“What do I want to retire for?” he said. “I’d only sit about doing nothing. As long as I can last I’m going to carry on.”

Peter, who lives in Burneside, makes the

Carlisle Lake District Airport is hoping to take advantage of the national park’s popularity by launching commercial passenger flights from 2018.

The regional airport, owned by the Stobart Group, has been handed nearly £5m to upgrade its terminal and runway and is now planning links with other major cities. Flights will be operated by Stobart Air. Andrew Tinkler, Stobart’s CEO, outlined the firm’s ambitions for the airport.

“If you look at the tourism in this area, it’s massive, probably second biggest after London, so I think through the summer it’d be very busy,” he said, adding that services could start as

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Peter Cannon with his latest (very pink) van daily drive along the A591 between late February and October. Apart from ice cream itself (“I love it. I eat too much!”) he enjoys meeting and chatting to fellwalkers and tourists.

“The other day I spent ages chatting to a couple of Russian ladies,” he said.

“That was a first.”

Talking of which, on board his van he has enough storage to keep photographs of his first two vans, the second of which is now in a museum in Birmingham.

He is particularly fond of the vehicle.

“I bought it for £55 and ten years later I sold it for £1,100,” he said.

Jet Set to the Lake District?

Cumbria Tourism has new M.D.

Cumbria Tourism - the official destination marketing organisation for the county’s £2.72 billion tourism industry - has a new Managing Director.

Tom Newbould, who took the helm this July, is an experienced marketing professional and has wideranging experience of leadership, management and delivery in a variety of public and private sector posts at Director and Board level.

Tom, who has lived with his family in the Eden Valley in Cumbria for a number of years, is a governor at Asby Endowed School, Great Asby. He will take charge at a time of significant change for Cumbria Tourism, as it focuses on the delivery of destination marketing and support services for the Cumbrian visitor economy.

Chairman of Cumbria Tourism, Eric Robson, says, “This is a new era for Cumbria Tourism, as the organisation continues to support and build our thriving visitor economy. Tom is an experienced, commercially-minded marketing professional with a genuine passion and enthusiasm for the county, and I have no doubt he will be a tremendous asset to the organisation and Cumbria as a whole.”

Tom Newbould says, “I’m thrilled to be taking the helm at one of the UK’s leading destination marketing organisations. I live in Cumbria and have a family history in the area, as well as a love of the beauty and unique character of the region. ”

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early as 2018. The news comes whilst the Lake District National Park is waiting to learn whether it is to become Britain’s 31st World Heritage Site.

Unesco meets in Poland during July to make a

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decision on the national park’s bid for inclusion. If World Heritage Site status is granted this could also lead to a huge boost in tourists visiting the Lake District.

If you’ve always wanted to cycle to work, but had nowhere to keep your bike when you get there then South Lakeland District Council has some good news.

Businesses in the area can now apply for bike parking grants of up to £1,000 for the purchase and installation of Sheffield bike stands or bike boxes for employees to safely leave their cycles. The objective of the scheme is to increase the numbers of people commuting by bike, reduce the traffic on the roads, improve air quality and contribute towards healthier, happier lifestyles.

Businesses can apply for the scheme if they are currently trading and with a premise anywhere in the district. The business must be able to complete the works within six months of the grant being offered and can contribute at least 30% of the cost excluding VAT.

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ART & MUSIC

Beatrix Potter now a Musical

The Old Laundry Theatre at The World of Beatrix Potter Attraction in Bowness-onWindermere is currently hosting a mini Musical for children and adults.

The stage show entitled ‘Where is Peter Rabbit?’ brings to life some of Beatrix Potter’s most well loved characters and is running throughout the whole of the school summer holidays, until Sunday 3rd September.

The show promises a vibrant, colourful, musical extravaganza inspired by Beatrix’s world famous stories involving Squirrel Nutkin, Peter and the gang. The adventure stars ‘Beatrix Potter’ as the story teller and is suitable for all ages, young and old, from 5-150! Performances are held up to three times per day lasting around an hour . Tickets can be booked online or from the The World of Beatrix Potter direct. If you’re in the mood for a song and some lighthearted entertainment feel free to potter down there!

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That’s Marc Callan.

Well he must be. This ex-slate quarryman (whose family tradition stretches back through the Lake District’s slate mines) works all day carving this tough material into more than the usual name plates and hearths.

Working with slate needs skill and feel for the rock.

Knowledge and planning are the key aspects of producing a beautiful result. Then hard work.

And more hard work.

Marc has a workshop up Walna Scar Road, above Coniston, where he uses his skill and art to carve the unyielding rock into real sculptures. Not just pretty ornaments. His recent representation of the Bluebird K7 from a single piece of dark Brathay slate is one such work.

Using mainly hand tools with tungsten tips (and a few air tools for the heavy work) he has shaped the sculpture using the stone’s particular strengths and using his knowledge to work around its weaknesses (like splitting

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along fissures).He takes on commissions and he does produce more practical pieces, but his artistic eye and feel for the slate can be translated into something much easier on the eye than the traditional slab-like slate products. He is possibly more artist, than artisan. www.stone-age-man.uk

Windermere & Grasmere in the Great War Windermere and Grasmere in the Great War, is Author, Ruth Mansergh’s, expert account of these Lake District towns’ fascinating contributions to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the longawaited Allied victory in 1918.

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was felt during the Great War. Interesting stories include Lake Windermere’s setting as a watery runway, rumours that a German airship was operating from a secret base near Grasmere, the double life of Arthur Ransome, and Cumberland Wrestling’s post-war boom.

Overall, this is a poignant testimony to the bravery, self-sacrifice and determination of the people of Windermere and Grasmere during the Great War, who

sought to find normality in a reality so far removed from anything they had ever known.

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Leading textile artist’s exhibition Heather Belcher, one of Britain’s leading textile artists, brings her remarkable new exhibition to the Lake District Holocaust Project in Windermere this summer.

Belcher’s Hidden Threads exhibition centres around ‘The Overcoat,’ which she has specially produced, using handmade felting processes. The inspiration for her creation comes from a man called Mayer Hersh, a Holocaust survivor with deep links to the Lake District.

Hersh, who died last year aged 90, came to the Lake District in 1945 when he was just 18 after spending 18 months in Auschwitz.

He became known as one of the ‘Windermere Boys’, a group of three hundred child Holocaust Survivors who came from Eastern Europe to the Lake District in 1945.

Hersh later moved to

Manchester where he set up a very successful tailoring business.

The coat in Belcher’s exhibition is based on one of Hersh’s overcoats which he handmade in the 1960s.

When Hersh arrived in Auschwitz in 1943 he was asked what his trade was and, as his father had been a tailor, he replied that he was a master tailor himself. He was far too young to be a master tailor but this response undoubtedly

saved his life. He was then chosen to go and work on clothing in the camp, even working on the guards’ uniforms.

London based Heather Belcher’s work has all the ingredients to make a dramatic appearance at the Lake District Holocaust Project.

Heather Belcher’s Hidden Threads exhibition takes place at the Lake District Holocaust Project in Windermere Library until 27 August.

On Home Ground: Ruskin in England and Scotland Ruskin’s produced many fine drawings and watercolours on home ground in England and Scotland.

From his very earliest years Ruskin was obsessed by, and travelled in search of, landscape. At first this was with his parents and included a number of visits to the Lake District, where he became steeped in fashionably Romantic and Picturesque readings of nature.

This display will include examples from early

tours to the Lake District in 1837 and 1838 and to Scotland, the land of his parents’ birth. Ruskin continued to draw and paint ‘on home ground’ throughout his adult life.

The exhibition features studies from all of these periods, including works made as a student at Oxford to those

undertaken in and around Brantwood after he settled here in 1872.

On Home Ground is on display in the Blue Gallery at Brantwood daily until 10 September in the Blue Gallery, Brantwood 10.00am until 5.00pm and admission is included in the house ticket.

Lakes Alive arts festival is back Lakes Alive - Kendal’s fantastic arts festival - will return to Kendal on 8-10 September 2017.

The free event offers a weekend of spectacular happenings in and around Kendal and wider Lake District National Park. With the theme of ‘Cultural Landscapes’ it will showcase world class art in unexpected locations across the town and beyond.

Lakes Alive is Lake District National Park’s new flagship cultural festival which launched in 2016.

Phillippa Haynes has been appointed as festival director.

She has a track record in delivering high profile cultural events across the UK. Phillippa said: “We are excited about delivering a brilliant arts festival in and around Kendal that celebrates landscape, people and place. Lakes Alive will see world class contemporary art in locations across Kendal. We will be working with artists from Cumbria and across Europe. We want to put together a festival which appeals to families and art lovers alike.”

Last year around 20,000 people attended Lakes Alive.

Visitors experienced vibrant illuminations, digital delights, intimate performances, amazing installations and spectacular happenings.

More information can be found at lakesalive.co.uk

Ambleside and District Choral Society Monday evenings 7.30pm9.30pm at the Kelsick Centre, Ambleside. We are a friendly choir who rehearse weekly, September to May, and perform two major concerts in the year.

New members are always very welcome. No auditions! Rehearsals start 4th September. Contact Michael Corin 015394 33944 info@windermerenow.co.uk

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Improving our sewer network in Bowness-on-Windermere Keeping you updated about our next phase of work – public exhibition Thank you for your patience while we completed our first season of work to install a new 6.5km wastewater pipeline from our wastewater treatment works at Tower Wood, along the A592 towards our pumping station at Glebe Road.

Once all our work is completed in 2019 it will help to reduce phosphorus levels in Windermere - which will provide further water quality and environmental improvements.

Our project will also require some work at the pumping station on Glebe Road. This will mean the car park will be closed from January – March 2018.

Come along, meet the team and find out more Our project team will be at a drop-in event to explain our season two work in more detail and answer any queries you may have. It will be great to see you.

We understand roadworks are inconvenient, so we ensured our work on the A592 was scheduled to take place outside of the peak tourism season.

During peak season our team continued to carry out other elements of the project at Windermere and Ambleside Wastewater Treatment Works.

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National Grid have also been carrying out gas pipe diversion work on the A592 in preparation for our season two work.

You can find out more about our work at: unitedutilities.com/Windermere

Season two Our second season of work is due to start in November 2017 and will run into March 2018.

From November we will have a lane closure and traffic management in place which will move along as our work progresses. This will be removed in time for the Christmas period.

After the New Year break there will be a road closure from the Beech Hill Hotel to the property called Moor Crag. During our season two road closure the same diversion route will be in place to direct traffic around our work via the A590.

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On the Level

This year is the 300th anniversary of the foundation of modern Freemasonry.

An exhibition, ‘Into the Light’, celebrating Freemasonry in Westmorland, is running at Kendal Museum until 30th September.

Freemasonry, as we know it today, grew out of the esoteric traditions and ancient mysteries that can be traced back for thousands of years through many different cultures.

Many prominent men have been Freemasons; inventors, politicians, soldiers, explorers, scientists. Princes and Kings amongst them.

In Westmorland for instance, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, co-founder of the National Trust, was an active Freemason. William Heelis, husband of Beatrix Potter, was a member of Ambleside lodge.

Nationally; Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton, Robbie Burns, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Conan Doyle and Peter Sellers are a few of the many whose names are widely recognised.

Yet among them are also many more, ordinary citizens, those who lived and died unremarked in the flow of our nation’s history. Modern Freemasons give financial support to many local organisations and Charities, with money from their own pockets. They do not seek to raise funds from outside the Order. They are keen to inform and educate the wider public as to who and what the Freemasons are.

Despite common assumptions Freemasonry is not a ‘Secret Society’, although there are secrets in the rituals.

The present wish is to be totally open and transparent. It is hoped that the exhibition will go some way towards achieving that.

Museum opening times 10am to 4.00pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday

Teddy Ferguson wins national sailing title A local student, Teddy Ferguson, has become a National Sailing Champion following his victory in the RS Feva Inland Championships.

He was racing with Ewan Wilson against 45 other crews.

Teddy, who attends Windermere school, was absolutely thrilled with the result, saying, “Today was tough and we were pushed hard all the way, but it’s a fantastic feeling to be the Inland Champions.”

Graeme Rowe, Royal

Yachting Association Principal and Chief Sailing Instructor at Windermere School, was understandably thrilled with these results.

Expertise beyond expectation Progression welcomes its newest solicitor, Ben Lowe, who joins the private client team.

Ben has over two decades of experience and is available for appointments in our Windermere and Grange over Sands offices.

Whatever your concern, rest assured that Ben can offer advice and assistance whether it might be making a will, power of attorney, drawing up a trust or if you need help following the death of a loved one.

Fellow students Pierce Harris and Alfie Cogger were runners up while Theo and Felix Stewart finished in a very respectable twenty third place.

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NATURE & WILDLIFE

Coniston water wins with Lotto South Cumbria Rivers Trust has received confirmation of a grant of £763,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to manage the Conserving Coniston and Crake project for the local community’s Coniston and Crake Catchment Partnership.

Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players, the project will work at supporting the landscape and wildlife of the area by improving the catchment’s water quality, habitats and biodiversity through conservation. It will also be working in partnership with volunteers, local people and organisations on a wide range of practical conservation projects and community events. Coniston Water and Crake Valley is home to some of the rarest and most loved species including animals such as Arctic Salmon, Arctic Charr and bats and otters.

Unfortunately problems such as poor water quality, an influx of non native species and man made changes to the area have resulted in the wildlife at the lake and rivers being under threat.

Conserving Coniston & Crake Project Officer Charlotte Hall commented: ”We’re delighted that we’ve received this support thanks to National Lottery players. The Coniston and Crake Valley is a beautiful place to live, and very popular with visitors. However, the lake, river and becks are under threat. This local community project will help raise awareness of the issues and make sure that we have the clean water and habitats to support our native plants and wildlife for the years to come.”

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This has been an unusual year as far as the weather is concerned.

Holehird Gardens

There have been hot dry spells when the main concerns of the volunteer gardeners at Holehird have been to ensure that the plants had enough water. Then came cooler weather and lots of rain.

However unpredictable the weather, it is certain that when visitors pass through the electronic gates at the bottom of the drive, their first glimpse of colour will be the Hydrangea collection on the right of the drive where a mass of blue, white and purple flowers are on display.

This is a favourite place for visitors to take photos once they have parked in the main car park at the top of the drive. The best route back to the hydrangeas is to meander through the woodland walk passing behind the huge leaves of the Gunnera maniculata planted next to the pool.

Alternatively, visitors may want to walk up from the

car park to admire the bright flower spikes of the National Astilbe Collection planted in curved beds next to the wild flower meadow. Usually at the end of August or the beginning of September the grassy meadow is cut back. This late cutting allows time for the wild flowers to set seed.

Most people enter the

walled garden at some point in their visit where a new display house in the far corner exhibits plants that need extra protection from the weather but which could grow well in a conservatory.

Richard Leafe, said “This is a fantastic deal for us. It means we’re going to have an extra £50,000 to spend on crucial work in the Lake District. Resources can be diverted to footpath repairs, which after Storm Desmond have been a major issue for us.

It will also give us extra funding for our apprenticeship scheme, another important area of our work.

This deal with Columbia gives national parks the opportunity to spend more looking after our county’s spectacular landscapes for everyone to enjoy.”

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Columbia Sportswear has become the official outfitter of the National Parks’ rangers and staff – the people who protect and promote some of Britain’s best-loved landscapes - including the Lake District National Park.

Columbia has committed to outfitting upwards of 2,000 National Park staff for five years, including 300 rangers, providing high quality clothing that’s ‘tested tough’ and designed to keep them warm, dry, cool and protected in Britain’s toughest conditions.

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CHURCH NEWS

Major restoration at Grasmere Church Grasmere’s iconic St Oswald’s Church, final resting place of William Wordsworth, is undergoing long awaited restoration.

Six years ago, the tired, century old cement render started to fracture and come away from the church tower. A serious hazard for local residents and visitors, the fallen pieces of render left the underlying stonework exposed to the harsh Cumbrian elements. The Diocese of Carlisle, advised by Heritage England and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, decided that the way to prevent further structural damage would be to completely re-render the tower. Conservation architects, Crosby Granger of Kendal, are managing the project and the repair works are being

carried out by UK Restoration of Burnley, specialists in conservation work. Elaborate scaffolding has been erected and the intricate removal of old render and pointing is now well underway. The thirty week long project is due to continue until November, 2017. Once completed, the tower’s new coats of lime render will protect and preserve the fabric of St Oswald’s for the benefit of future generations.

If you would like to make a donation to the tower fund, this can be done via St Oswald’s JustGiving page: www. justgiving.com/GrasmerePCC, or by sending your donation to: Grasmere Church Tower Fund, PCC Treasurer, 16, Benfield, Grasmere, Cumbria, LA22 9RD. Thank you.

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Jane Eyre comes to Windermere.

The Yorkshire-based company Baron Productions have actually adapted Jane Eyre, a tale of the defiance and determination of an orphaned young Victorian girl, and are touring it, beginning in London and finishing in Haworth, home of the literary Bronte sisters. This is the tale that will delight you at St Mary’s in Windermere on Friday 18th August .

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aunt, Jayne is abused and bullied until she takes a job as a governess and falls for her employer, Mr Rochester. But society is not kind to them.

The play is adapted and directed by Yorkshirebased Ali Morgan and acted by a York-based cast.

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Grasmere church induction

The Rev Gill Henwood has been installed as the priest in charge of two parishes in a service at St Oswald’s Church in Grasmere. The service, in front of a large congregation, was taken by the Bishop of Carlisle, the Archdeacon and the Rural Dean. Rev Henwood was previously rector at the parish of Ribchester in the Ribble Valley north of Blackburn.

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CHURCH NEWS

Carver Uniting Church (URC and Methodist) We welcome everyone to any of our Services or social events.

Sunday 10.45am: Morning Worship (followed by refreshments and fellowship in the Church Hall.)

Wednesday: 10.00-11.30am Coffee@ Carver every week.

Thursday : 9-11am Carver Tots (in term-time.)

Thursday: 12.30-1.30pm. Bible Fellowship.

1 st Sunday in the month: 12.30pm Carver Walking Group.

Events in July and August.

Saturday 29 July: 3pm Strawberry Tea. Lake District Summer Music concerts in August.

Friday 4 August 11am: Consone Quartet concert.

Friday 4 August: 2.30pm: String Quartet and Cello Masterclass (Robert Cohen). Robert Cohen, a leading chamber orchestra performer, will be coaching the Consone Quartet.

Tuesday 8 August 7.30pm: Kabantu Concert. Kabantu bridges countries and cultures to create exuberant and joyful sound. Its repertoire unravels new marriages of different types of music and involves all the performers using their voices to sing alongside their instruments, which include percussion, double bass, cello, violin, guitar and banjo.

Thursday 10 August 11.00am: Fitzroy String Quartet Concert. This concert is given in thanksgiving for the life of Doris Hancock.

St. Mary’s Church Thursday 3rd August – Encore Opera Group Concert – 7pm (Doors open at 6.30pm) Entrance £10 per person, includes refreshments - pay on the door Gilbert and Sullivan, Mozart, Verdi, Strauss and many more.

Saturday 30th September – Kendal Big Band Concert – 7pm (Doors open at 6.30pm) Entrance £10 per person, includes refreshments – pay on the door.

An evening of swing and popular music.

The Poverty Swap

Helen Faulds at the school she founded in Ethiopia,her first POVERTY SWAP achievement.

In 2010, Helen Faulds visited missionary friends in Ethiopia, at their drop-in clinic for HIV and AIDS victims.

Seeing the desperate need, Helen returned home to Cockermouth and started what is now an international charity which coordinates the sharing and distribution of skills, knowledge and resources to support the poorest people on earth. POVERTY SWAP was born!

engineer, working in the nuclear industry in Cumbria, have an astonishing story to tell of determination overcoming despair and transforming lives. Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Europe … they’ve brought

blessing where there was desperate need.

We were delighted to welcome this vibrant Christian couple at the MARCHESI CENTRE in Windermere and to hear the stories of their life-transforming work.

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York-based theatre company Baron Productions are bringing their new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ to St. Mary’s, Windermere on Friday 18th of August as part of their Summer tour.

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SCHOOL REPORT

Langdale learns about Uganda

Pond Life!

South Lakes Housing joined forces with John Ruskin School Year 10 pupils to build a pathway around an ecology area at the school.

A joiner and builder from SLH were joined by enthusiastic pupils who dug out rough ground to create a useable walkway. The hugely successful day showed what can be achieved by working together. Rachel Mallett, Teacher, John Ruskin School said “A great day was enjoyed by the environmental and land based science GCSE group working with South Lakes Housing.

Pupils learnt new skills and accomplished a finish product, a new path around the pond. With new additions each year to the ecology area it will be a great resource for John Ruskin pupils to use with amazing views to inspire learning.’”Dave Harris, Joiner, South Lakes Housing, said, “The pupils came together and each one of them worked really hard to dig out and then spread gravel to make the path.

It was good to show them how to use saws and other pieces of equipment. There were kind donations from the Joinery Shop in Kendal who provided stakes for the backing boards and Plumb Centre in Kendal who provided the backing boards.”

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The Early Years class took part in International Dough Disco Day this month. They had a fantastic time joining in with thousands of children around the world, making shapes out of dough to the sound of their favourite tunes and thereby developing their finger manipulation. There were lots of great strengthening exercises to help their writing but the best bit was how much fun they all had!

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Beth Henderson was welcomed into the school recently, having just returned from Uganda.

She had a wealth of knowledge to share with the children about life in Lira in Northern Uganda as she had been working in an orphanage out there.

She also worked in Lightforce day nursery and primary school where children are sponsored to attend.

Beth shared information about food, community projects, what life is like for children and how far children have to travel for water!

It was a fantastic insight for the pupils and the school has decided to try and raise funds to sponsor at least one child for a year by doing a sponsored water walk; carrying water

on everybody’s heads.

The Ugandan children had sent some letters for those in Langdale, who have in turn written back. The aim is to establish a lifelong link. The school have also welcomed their friends from a primary school in Daveyhulme, Manchester. On a beautiful, sunny day, the children spent time

enjoying getting to know one another, exchanging stories, playing games and having a picnic in the forest together. The Langdale pupils shared letters and learnt so much about life in a city compared to living in the Lakes.

Tennis on Tour St Martin and St Mary Church of England Primary School was selected to host the Andy Murray Trophy Tour roadshow in June.

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champion as a memento of the Gentlemen’s singles trophy which is permanently kept at Wimbledon. St Martin and St Mary School felt very privileged to be selected as the only venue in the North.

Mrs Gore said, “the children had a wonderful time, this tour was very inspirational for them.

The children were so excited at seeing such a beautiful trophy and proud of Andy Murray for winning it.”

Windermere School recently unveiled its brand new, state-ofthe-art all weather pitch as part of the school’s ongoing programme of improvements.

The pitch covers an area of just over 6000 square metres and, impressively, meets the standards required for National Premier Hockey Competitions. The new pitch was officially opened by former student, Jenny Broomby, who left the school in 2013. The weather on the day of the opening certainly gave the new pitch a thorough test; the heavy overnight rain continued right up to the start of the scheduled match between current and former pupils of the school. Cheered on by enthusiastic pupils, parents and staff, the former students quickly took the lead and progressed to a onesided looking 5-2 lead at halftime. However, the current students had other ideas and came back strongly in the second half, levelling the scores at 6-6 with

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Head of PE and Sport at Windermere School, Daniel Reid, who took part in the game, said, “This is a fantastic new facility for the school, one which gives the students the chance to enjoy sport all year round. As a school, we do emphasise the need for the students to lead healthy lives, whether on the sports pitch, on the lakes or on

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Ian Lavender, Headmaster at Windermere School, thoroughly enjoyed the match, adding: “We are committed to our programme of improvements and to see one of this size come to fruition is just wonderful.”

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Summer term is particularly full of these experiences. Over the last four weeks the children have enjoyed: Westmorland wrestling, open-water swimming, a triathlon, a running tournament, a cricket tournament, mountain

expeditions, geography/ science fieldwork (full fortnight for upper juniors) from the source of the school beck to the sea, overnight residential visits in youth hostels, a live debate, drama workshops with a professional theatre company, sailing, canoeing, visits to a farm and a visiting Swiss teacher.

Maths and literacy are intertwined with all these activities. It’s has been great fun. Grasmere are providing the new 30 hours offer for nursery aged children from September.

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Behind the rebirth of the Castle Dairy Chris O’Callaghan is Head Chef at The Castle Dairy, one of Kendal’s oldest and most characterful buildings.

The Castle Dairy is a unique model in that Chris leads a kitchen team of mostly young apprentices who combine their employment with studies at Kendal College.

Chris took up the role last summer whilst the Dairy was still closed - after being extensively flooded by Storm Desmond - but is now firmly settled into the brand new state-of-the-art kitchen that he helped design. The Castle Dairy reopened in May and Chris, who has been cooking professionally for almost 20 years, is enjoying serving up his contemporary style food in such a historic environment. Chris joined the Castle Dairy from the 3AA rosette Linthwaite Hotel in Windermere and has big aspirations of similar accolades and more from his new team. Originally from Chatham in Kent, he moved to Cumbria in 2012 after spells at 3AA rosette and Michelin-starred restaurants across the UK and the Black Forest in Germany.

Crop for the Shop Low Sizergh Barn are looking for home, school or allotment growers who have an overabundance of fresh produce and want to avoid wasting any of their harvest by bringing spare fruit, veg, herbs or flowers to them. And it doesn’t have to be huge amounts, it could just be a couple of cabbages.

In exchange for their lovely produce they’ll give them a gift card, which means a well-deserved break from digging and the chance to enjoy a treat from the farm shop shelves or a cuppa and a slice in the café. It’s a great way for local shops like Low Sizergh to source even more fresh, seasonal produce that’s grown right on our doorstep.

And there are other benefits to the scheme too:

Chris is a master at recreating modern takes on traditional dishes; from the Herdwick hogget lamb leg, braised neck, spring cabbage, kohlrabi, parsley, and truffle, to the Dairy’s weekly changing interpretation of ‘Fishy Friday’ with Halibut en papilotte, potato scraps, capers and parsley, with sides of chunky chips, brown bread and butter, peas and herb butter available.

The Castle Dairy Restaurant & Art Gallery, Wildman Street, Kendal is open for lunches and dinner from Wednesday – Saturday each week. To book a table, call 01539 733946. www.castledairy.co.uk

1. Cutting down on garden wastage and seeing even mis-shaped vegetables put to good use

2. We can offer our customers a wider range of the freshest possible produce on our farm shop shelves and café menu 3. Food miles are kept low and there are no chemical sprays on the veg due to a growers’ agreement 4. Hand grown crops are often far more exciting than commercial crops - unusual or heritage varieties are sure to appeal to our customers

Those who would like to get involved as a grower can contact Rachel on 015395 60426 or email rachel@lowsizerghbarn.co.uk.

Please note: They may occasionally have to say no to your produce. If there are already high quantities of something they will politely refuse it in order to avoid any unnecessary food waste – Rachel is the key contact, and is happy for you to email or ring to check what is needed.

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Perfect picnic places on Windermere Summer is here and with it, the chance to pack a picnic and head out for a bit of al fresco dining.

From one end of Windermere to the other, there are plenty of delightful spots to spread out the rug, unpack the wicker basket, lay out the salmon canapes and pop the prosecco.

Fell Foot Park With easy access, Fell Foot Park, at the southern end of Windermere, has grassy slopes to run around on plus lots of seating to enjoy fantastic views down the lake. There’s an Adventure Playground, a café and a little boat to take visitors across to the Aquarium of the Lakes, Windermere Ferries and the Lakeside and Haverthwaite steam railway.

Cockshott Point Wander through the woods by Bowness Bay Marina to Cockshott Point, a small promontory just begging to be enjoyed by picnickers of all ages.

There’s plenty of space for a kick about, a little café nearby and a great view of pretty Belle Isle in the middle of the lake. It’s ideal for stone skimmers and sunset lovers.

Millerground and Rayrigg Meadows One of my favourite picnic places on Windermere is Millerground, just outside Bowness. From the car park walk through Rayrigg Meadows, which has a children’s playground, and down to a rocky shoreline with a couple of jetties and log seats by the water. On a hot summer’s day the crystal clear water can be very enticing.

Skimming bounces back to Windermere One of the most quirky competitions in English sport, the All England Stone Skimming Championships, will take place on Saturday 19th August at Fell Foot, Newby Bridge. This year’s championships hopes to make another splash, (well actually a few splashes) on England’s largest lake.

The championships, which are held each year at Fell Foot Park, will see regular competitors and complete novices battle it out by skimming stones across the lake.

The rules are that the stone must skip across the water at least three times, keeping within a lane, after that, it’s all about the distance travelled by the stone.

Regular competitors will no doubt already be practising their skills however the much coveted prizes are up for grabs as absolutely anyone can enter, young or old, singularly or within teams. In the past, unknown competitors have turned up, remarkably thrown a

great skimming stone and won the contest only to be extremely surprised to find that their name has entered the official record books. Many people may have been rather good at it throughout their childhood but never really viewed it as a sport, until now... their chance to shine!

The event will be supported by a variety of outdoor related activities and stalls. Money raised will be used by South Cumbria Rivers Trust and the National Trust to assist conservation in the South Lakes.

Contestants can turn up

The gloves are off

Waterhead Ambleside One of the loveliest views of Windermere, and the Lake District fells, is from Waterhead, Ambleside, overlooking the swans, ducks, ferries and other water craft that shuttle back and forth around the lake. Round the corner is Borrans Park and the ruins of Galava Roman Fort.

I hope this has inspired you to get outdoors to enjoy a summer picnic in the Lake District.

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and register on the day but are advised to leave their dogs at home (dogs tend to view flying stones as frisbees!).Those who are tempted to have a go at this alternative sport may actually find it rather addictive. They will also no doubt be spurred on by the thought that they can leave their humdrum job on a Friday and return to work the following Monday as nothing less than an English sporting champion with rapturous applause from their colleagues singing “For he/she’s a jolly good fellow!”

Windermere Boxing club’s season came to a successful end at the annual charity tournament at Kendal town hall.

Windermere’s first female boxer, Karina Rose, had her first ever contest losing on a close points decision against a more experienced opponent. Karina is a student at Cumbria University in Ambleside and attends the gym twice a week.

The club’s second boxer in action was Ukranian born spanish resident Ivan Kublakov who stopped his opponent in the third round of a thrilling contest.

Ivan joined the club this season and has had seven contests, winning five.

The photograph shows both boxers with head coach Gary Tomlinson.

They are available at the gym Monday and Wednesday between 6-8:30 pm

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Celebrity dog Max leads festival line-up Fell dog, Max, and his young sidekick, Paddy, have become Facebook and internet celebrities as they have been promoting the fantastic experience of walking in the Lake District.

Now owner Kerry Irving is bringing the pair of springer spaniels from their home in Keswick to take part in The Great Ambleside Dog Walk, just one of the attractions of the town’s second Festival of the Fells, which takes place from Thursday 21 September to Sunday 24 September.

The walk aims to raise money for the charity Freedom Wizard, which helps wheelchair users enjoy the great outdoors. It will also mark the official launch of the Ambleside Dog Friendly Scheme, which will encourage local businesses to show they are dogfriendly by putting an eye-catching sticker in their windows.

Freedom Wizard will be staging wheelchair test drives at the festival, which this year is bigger and better than ever with extra speakers and more events than the inaugural event in 2016.

The line-up of speakers comprises: mountaineers Alan Hinkes and Simon Yates, film-maker Terry Abraham, environmental photographer Ashley Cooper, The Wainwrights in Colour author Andy Beck, polar explorer Craig Mathieson, Fellranger author Mark

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Richards, mines expert Mark Hatton, fell warden Sarah Anderson and legendary fellrunner Wendy Dodds.

Activities on offer include guided walks, guided wild swims, ghyll scrambling, abseiling, Nordic walking and electric biking. There will be a Trail Race, craft fair, an open-air food market, a free ‘Worn Wear’ walking gear repair session, mountain cinema and much more, including a repeat of last year’s popular Duck Race and, for three days of the festival, the charity walking marathon Triple Spine Lakeland Challenge will criss-cross the area.

There will also be a comedy night and two free town-centre concerts featuring Room Full of Mirrors, Scrogan’s Run, The Mojo Band and Phil Saunders & Friend. www.festivalofthefells.uk

Sheep dog trials... a Lake District tradition One of the fabulous things about the Lake District summer calendar is that there are still a number of traditional events which have taken place for generations.

The agricultural shows and summer fairs have been celebrated within the farming communities for centuries.

A traditional event, which has been held since 1891, is the The Lake District Sheep Dog Trials.

There is evidence to suggest that sheep dog trials were actually held as early as 1877 on Belle Isle but it was perhaps quite an exclusive event as all participants and spectators had to travel by boat to attend!

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Sheep dog trials give shepherds and sheepdogs an opportunity to showcase their skills and talents.

The dogs round up the sheep through sets of gates into a pen to the sound of the shepherd’s whistle. The dogs aren’t just judged on their speed but also their accuracy and style (no dancing involved but plenty of crouching!).

In the summer months the Lake District days are long, and one of the best ways of enjoying the glory of the fells is to make them even longer.

So here’s a suggestion: set the alarm for 90 minutes before dawn breaks (yes, I know that could mean 4.00am!) to give you time to get up, do your breakfast thing, then head out for a walk to arrive at the starting point before the sun is up.

Take it from me, there is nothing to match the splendour of early morning’s golden light creeping slowly across the crags, especially if enhanced by ethereal mist floating on the valley floors. Walking at this time of day invariably means you will be alone, which is all the better to experience the sights and sounds of nature uncluttered by the babble of human voices. Even Helvellyn is quiet (ish) at this time of the day.

During June’s heatwave, I set off from the infamous Gale Road car park high above Keswick at 4am to venture into the ‘back o’ beyond’ behind Skiddaw – this was a 12 mile walk and my idea was that I would miss the hottest part of the day. Wrong. On the long climb up Great Calva it was so hot at just after 7.30am that I had to have a rest; some rest it was, too; I slept in the morning sunshine for a good hour before resuming my journey!

The rest is now history.

Cumbrian shepherdess, Katy Cropper, is the only woman to have won the much coveted national One Man and His Dog competition.

The annual Lake District Sheepdog trials are to be held at Hill Farm, Ings, near Windermere on Thursday 10th August.

The Rydal Sheepdog Trials and Hound Show is scheduled for 17 August.

Dawn breaks near the Gale Road car park.

Clive Hutchby, who contributes to Windermere Now, is revising Alfred Wainwright’s seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. Books One, Two, Three and Four (the Eastern, Far Eastern, Central and Southern fells) have already been published. info@windermerenow.co.uk

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ON-GOING EVENTS Chair based exercises: Every Tuesday 10 am at Nine Oaks Trust, Phoenix Way. The exercises are safe, gentle and benefit circulation, flexibility, muscle strength and mobility - with an emphasis on enjoyment. For men and women.

Further details from 015394 44436.

Breastfeeding Support Groups: Thursday mornings 9.30-11.30am at Ghyllside Neighbourhood Centre, Gillinggate, Kendal Friday mornings 9.30-11.30am at The Phoenix Centre, Phoenix Way, Windermere No need to book, just drop in. You can find the groups on Facebook: Kendal and Windermere Breastfeeding Support Groups. contact ann@ cumbriabreastfeeding.org.uk Hola. U3A advanced Spanish sessions. 1st and 3rd Monday of the month 10 am. This small friendly group meets at one another’s houses, and examine Spanish material taken from the recent Spanish press or from Spanish literature. New members are welcome. Contact Tony Lonton on 015394-31345.

Modern Jive Dance Night & Class: Mondays: 7.30pm - 10.30pm Weekly modern jive classes for beginners & improvers with dancing to variety of music genres. Fun, easy to learn & suitable for adults all ages & fitness levels, singles/couples. Great night out in relaxed & informal atmosphere.

Bar & on-site parking. Kendal Golf Club, The Heights, Kendal. Special loyalty discounts available - £6: Pam Furness, 07770 954 359 dance@ furnessjive.com Ambleside and District Choral Society Monday evenings 7.30pm9.30pm at the Kelsick Centre, Ambleside. We are a friendly choir who rehearse weekly, September to May, and perform two major concerts in the year. New members are always very welcome. No auditions!

Rehearsals start 4th September.

Contact Michael Corin 015394 33944

AMBLESIDE PARISH CENTRE Cedar Counselling Cumbria: Mon-Fri: Free and confidential counselling available . Call 075021-06582 or email help@ cedarcounsellingcumbria.co.uk

Gentle chair-based exercise: Friday, : 11-12 pm. Age UK. 01539 728118

All Together Now: Tuesdays: 3.15 - 5pm. Call the parish centre on 015394-34172.

Computer ‘Games for Men’ group: Thursdays 10am - 12.30pm, offers the opportunity to develop computer skills as there are PCs available. new members are welcome. Games include dominoes, cards, pool, table football table tennis and backgammon.

Bereavement Support Group: First Thursday of each month: 2.30-4pm. Call Judith Shingler on 015394-34640.

The Evergreen Club: Wednesdays: 2pm to 4pm

A weekly opportunity for the older members of our community to meet together for activities/talks/trips etc. New members welcome. . Call Betty Potts on 015394 31851 betty. potts@btopenworld.com Foodbank: Thursdays: Food boxes distributed 11am-1pm.

Collect vouchers during office opening hours.

BRATHAY CHURCH Coffee mornings: Thursdays: 10am to 12 pm noon Follow the smell of fresh scones!

SKELWITH BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE U3A Bridge group; Fridays: 2pm.

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MARCHESI CENTRE Monday: Social Club 55: 10am Short Tennis 10am U3A: 2pm (2nd Monday of the month) U3A Local History: 2pm (3rd Monday of the month) Slimming World: 5.30pm & 7.30pm Windermere Bridge School: 7pm Rummikub Club - 7.30pm (3rd Monday of the month) Tuesday: Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Café 1.30pm (2nd Tues) Exercise Class for the Over 50’s – 1.30pm Trefoil Guild 2pm (2nd Tues) Wednesday: Windermere Scottish Dance

Group. 10am. (1st Wed) U3A Reading Group 2pm (1st Wed) Windermere Bridge Club 6.50pm Thursday Art Class 10am Bowness W.I. 12 – 4pm (2nd Thursday) Windermere W.I. 7pm (1st Thursday) In the Moment Windermere Lakeland Arts (every Thursday, except the Last) Filling Station 7.30pm (3rd Thursday) Friday Social Club 55: 10am U3A Bridge 2pm Windermere Bridge Club 6.50pm Saturday Coffee Morning (10am 1st Saturday each month)

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EVENTS AT AMBLESIDE LIBRARY Knitting & Craft Group, meeting Tuesdays 10am - 12pm. Gettogether for Knitting, Chat, Coffee (or Tea) & Cake. A friendly social group to share ideas & knowledge, beginners welcome.

Games Group 1st & 3rd Tuesdays each month 4:30pm 6pm. Informal games playing Cards, Scrabble, Chess etc.

Everyone welcome.

Wednesday drop-ins with SLDC advisor, 10am – 1pm.

Lakes Parish Council Meeting, Wednesday 9 August, 18:30.

Latest planning applications to view from 6pm.

Ambleside Songsters, for all who love to sing including those with dementia, followed by coffee, Fridays 11am - 12pm.

Little Beasties Animal Encounters Children’s Activity, 15th August, 14:00, booking essential.

Reading Group, 16th August from 7.15pm.

Ambleside Child & Baby Clinic, 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month, 10am till 11am.

Public PCs available for internet, scanning and printing. Wifi is free, visitors welcome to join.

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Manjushri Meditation: until 13 July. 6 - 7pm Tea and coffee provided after each session. £5 per session South Lakeland District Council drop in session every Tuesday and Thursday in Windermere library from 9.15 am – 12.15 noon Story Time Tuesday 2pm - 2.30pm 0- school age Baby Clinic and Crèche August 14 10am - 12 noon Windermere Library Reading: We meet on the 3rd Monday of each month at 3:00pm. Windermere Library. refreshments.

21 August 3 – 4:30pm We will be discussing Snobs by Julian Fellows. Refreshments provided From Auschwitz to Ambleside Exhibition Threads by Heather Belcher, Fine Art Textile by one of Britain’s leading artists Until 27 August. Opening Times: Daily 9.30am - 5pm (closed Monday afternoon, Wednesday and Sunday)

WHAT’S ON

SUMMER SHOWS CUMBRIA STEAM GATHERING: Saturday & Sunday, 29-30July Colourful fun weekend event on Cark Airfield, Flookburgh, near Grange-over-Sands. Times, 9am-5pm each day. www.steamgathering.org.uk

BEAUTIFUL BIRDS OF PREY: Thursday 3 August Family event at Brockhole Visitor Centre on the edge of Windermere (off the A591 between Windermere village and Ambleside) with Silverband Falconry. Children must be accompanied. Times: 11am; 12pm; 1.30pm; 2.30pm www.brockhole.co.uk

LAKE DISTRICT SHEEPDOG TRIALS: Thursday 10 August 119th annual sheep dog trials at Hill Farm, Ings, near Staveley, 9am-3.30pm. Admission £5, children free.

Tel: 015394-33826.

THE LAKE DISTRICT FOLK WEEKEND: Friday - Sunday, 11-13 August Festival of folk music in Staveley, with events at the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley Village Hall, Roundhouse Theatre, Wilf’s Café, Café Eclec and the Eagle & Child pub. thelakedistrictfolkweekend.com

THE LOWTHER SHOW: Saturday & Sunday, 12-13 August In the picturesque grounds of Lowther Castle: driving trials; Taste of Cumbria & Beer Festival; fishing island; demonstrations; main arena shows. www.lowthershow.co.uk

RYDAL SHEEPDOG TRIALS AND HOUND SHOW: Thursday 17 August The 114th show takes place, as usual at Rydal Park, about a mile north of Ambleside, and features novice and advanced sheepdog trials, hound, beagle and harrier shows, a gun dog demonstration, puppy and open hound trails and (from the humans!) a shepherds crooks and sticks competition. £6 adults and £2 children. Parking free. The action starts at 8.30am. www.rydalshow.co.uk

LAKELAND COUNTRY FAIR: Saturday 20 August Family-friendly event in Torver featuring the traditional skills and activities of the region. Starts at noon.

WESTMORLAND COUNTY SHOW: Thursday 14 September

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HAWKSHEAD SHOW: Thursday 22 August Lots to see and do at this traditional show held at the picturesque working farm of Hawkshead Hall a quarter of a mile from the village. Adults £7, children £3, free parking. www.hawksheadshow.co.uk GRASMERE SPORTS AND SHOW: Sunday 27 August

One of the largest shows in the whole country; venue is Lane Farm, Crooklands. Free parking, and Stagecoach will operate a free shuttle bus return service from Kendal and Milnthorpe to the showground between 9am and 6pm www.westmorlandshow.co.uk

Bank Holiday Sunday of fun and competitive sporting challenges featuring traditional Lakeland contests for children and adults. Show Field, Stock Lane, Grasmere. Gates open 10am. www.grasmeresports.com

FESTIVAL OF THE FELLS: Thursday to Sunday, 21-24 September The second such festival held in and around Ambleside, following the success of last year’s event.

It’s a cultural and outdoor-activity festival featuring mountain talks, a trail race, ghyll scrambling, abseiling, guided walks, guided wild swimming, a food fair, live music and comedy and much more. www.festivalofthefells.uk

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The Old Woodyard R E C L A M AT I O N & S T O R A G E

Vintage Items bought & sold House Clearance, Home & Garden Furniture Bricks, Slabs, Stone, Timber, Fireplaces & Much more

Extensions & Renovations New Builds - Ground works Maintenance - Windows Roofing - Fascias - Gutters Kitchen & Bathroom fitting Plastering & Rendering

Derek 07725 014 873

St Georges Square, Barrow. LA14 2JQ

NO VAT

( 07534 280 012

ACCIDENT REPAIR SPECIALISTS Moor Lane, Flookburgh

First left after Cumbria World Adventure Farm

015395 58329 www.evansautobody.co.uk

ROOFING

ars in domestic and industrial flat roofing placements and overlays • Green Roofs backed warranties • Insulation specialists ved products with a life expectancy in 0 years fer phic Surveys y • Condition Reports

• Repairs, replacements and overlays • Green Roofs • Insurance backed warranties • Insulation specialists WE ALSO OFFER • BBA approved products with a life expectancy in l 40Thermographic Surveys l excess of years Welalso offer Consultancy l Condition Reports l • Thermographic Surveys • Consultancy • Condition Reports

01524 730666 or 07772 884690

01524 730666 or 07772 884690

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730666 or 07772 884690 www.westmorlandflatroofing.co.uk info@westmorlandflatroofing.co.uk

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W.G.BROWNLIE

Ltd.

Joinery & Building Contractors

All high quality Bespoke Joinery.

Extensive local experience in holiday homes & second homes since 1999.

IGLS. 29 Greengate, Levens, Cumbria. LA8 8NF

nnComplete roofing services;

natural slate, tiling, leadwork, chimneys & velux installation nnExtensions & renovations nnLoft Conversions nnRefurbishments nnConservatories, windows & doors in uPVC or Timber nnHardwood Flooring Specialists

Tel: 015395 60673 Mob: 07810 602999 email: wgbrownlieltd@gmail.com

• Chimney repairs • Fascias, Soffits • Guttering, cleaned and sealed

Windermere: 01539 897 892

Low House Business Centre Windermere

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OFFICES TO LET

Why not get in touch?

015394 45756

l Over 25 years in domestic and l industrial flat roofing l Repairs, replacements and overlays l l Green Roofs l l Insurance backed warranties l l Insulation specialists l l BBA approved products with a life l • Overexpectancy 25 years in domestic and industrial flat roofing in excess of 40 years

• Slating • Tiling • Pointing • Lead work • Flat roofing

Next Deadline 1st September

AUTOBODY REPAIR

info@windermerenow. co.uk or on 015395 35454

Specialists in all aspects of roofing

OFFICE TO LET & SITUATIONS VACANT

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For further information contact Chris Plumb:

ROOFING LTD

info@windermerenow.co.uk

4 star 84% AA hotel with a 2 AA Rosette restaurant now requires a

Chef de Partie or Commis Chef Salary £19000 - £20500 CDP and £17500 - £18500 Commis dependent upon experience

Chefs Whites provided & laundered Good single accommodation available within village.

Maximum 45hrs. per week A kitchen brigade of 7 typically serving 40/50 dinners, little lunch trade and 50 breakfasts with trade sustained throughout the year.

Experience in a similar quality establishment preferred, however ongoing training will be given.

Please remit CV by email for the attention of Elliott Waugh, Hotel Manager stay@rothaygarden.com Rothay Garden Hotel Broadgate, Grasmere, LA22 9RJ

info@windermerenow.co.uk

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