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Think Local and have an Appleby Creamery Christmas With so much happening around us, we sometimes miss some of the good things that are happening right under our noses. This article is in three parts. My experience is followed by some technical bits by Maurice Walton. Then we have an introduction to Appleby Creamery’s new venture, Cows and Co by Pete Crouch.
It was in November 2012 when I was sourcing local products for what was then the Penrith Co-operative Society, that I first visited Appleby Creamery early one morning to catch up with the team making Brie ready for Christmas. I met the founders, all born and bred old Applebians and expert cheese makers - Maurice Walton, Alan Mandle and Bob Parmely. The trio came together in 2007 with a view to utilise the yield of the small traditional dairy herds which survive in the remote uplands and on which the fragile rural economy and communities still depend. I must confess the Brie and the Black Dub Blue have been firm favourites in the Quinn household since we discovered them about 5 to 6 years ago. My return visit to Appleby this month on 4th December was equally up there with the first time. The team has grown; Tom Jackson who is now head cheese-maker, I remember being the apprentice on my first visit. They have a new apprentice now. The facilities, once in the end unit of the row, are now all three units. Much investment has been made in the preparation, production and store areas. I spent about an hour and a half with Maurice and one of the things I wanted to find out more about was pricing.
produced. Our larger compatriots in the industry use the whey and/or its constituent parts for food ingredients, protein powders and many other high value products, meaning that they don’t have to rely quite so heavily on the price of their cheese. You can be assured that the cheese we do produce has been made totally by hand using the best quality milk and ripened to perfection. The Eden Chieftain, for example, usually takes over 18 months to mature and can be held in store for up to two years. Most cheese factory accountants would be pulling their hair out at this and its impact on cash flow and stock holding!!’ Maurice Walton Introduced and alongside the 14 products already available at Appleby Creamery, we now have Cows and Co. One of the founder members of this range and drivers of this side of the business is Pete Crouch, who explains the development and innovation of the new product range.
I let him then write up a few notes about the industry.
‘Cows and Co is a group of like-minded artisan food producers, farmers and entrepreneurs who are passionate about developing a brand of high quality premium food and drink products and making them available to a wider audience.
‘Our cheese is made from whole pasteurised milk. We use milk from Ayrshire cows that has the perfect ratio of fat and protein for cheese making and, unlike large scale cheese factories, we don’t take any of the cream away to sell for a profit. Our process is very labour intensive both for hard and soft cheeses and we just don’t have any economies of scale; this is reflected in the price.’
We are already underway and have launched with our exciting range of delicious cheeses. We are soon to launch a Kickstarter crowd fund campaign to help us expand our operation and develop our brand even further. We have just had our first foray into export with a shipment going to a firm of family butchers in Gdansk, Poland and a little closer to home with some cheese being sent to Islay.
‘The other aspect of our small scale processing is that we are unable to utilise the whey that is
Our first range of products is the result of a collaboration between Mark our Dairy Farmer and
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The ultimate Cheesecake Maurice our Cheese maker. Mark is the 4th generation of Callanders to farm at Crofthead, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and has spent the last 20 years developing and nurturing his Ayrshire herd with great skill and expertise to produce the best possible milk from which our cheese is made. Maurice is an artisan cheesemaker and currently produces a range of cheeses from the creamery in Appleby, Cumbria in the North of England. His expertise and experience combined with the highest quality ingredients, makes the Cows and Co cheese an amazing range of products which we are hugely proud of and we know you will enjoy. Cows and Co is the brainchild of Stuart MacLennan, an agricultural consultant with many years of experience in supporting and working in the farming community, who saw a gap in the market to bring together food and farming specialists. He brought Mark and Maurice together then to develop a wide appeal and create a great brand presence with significant marketing exposure. The team then brought in Pete Crouch, a marketing specialist with over 20 years’ sales and marketing experience and the Cows and Co brand was born.
www.applebycreamery.com As a collective of mature and experienced business people, we have a passionate desire to build a platform that is honest, transparent and will benefit all involved. It will create jobs and secure employment and will open up opportunities for skilled and experienced producers, as well as fledgling artisans who may otherwise struggle to market their products. As a commitment to our belief and confidence in this project, Cows and Co will also establish The Cows and Co Trust and 1% of all profits will go to the trust, which will have a prime focus
on supporting the development of young farmers and food producers. We will fund college placements and training courses for young people wishing to develop their career in the food and farming industry and help support the development of startup projects. Here are some independent suppliers of Appleby Creamy Cheeses In Appleby you have Local butchers, bakers and the deli restaurant Taste of Eden. In Penrith you have Carleton Farm Shop, J & J Grahams and Cranstons
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Welcome to the December/January edition of you
Contents
Christmas at the Creamery
Pages 2 – 3
Introduction & Contents
Pages 4 – 6
It Will Happen
Page 7
New Year dear
Pages 8 – 9
Christmas Brioche Doughnuts
Pages 10 - 11
The Efficiency of the Flame
Page 11
Don’t Put Off Your Dream Career
Pages 12 - 13
Marketing 2016
Page 14
The Best Experience in Finding a Holiday
Page 15
Cumbria Oak Jan sale starts?
Pages 16 - 17
Volunteers Needed, Volunteers Found
Page 18
New Years Eve Mystery
Page 19
Win an Evening with Howard Jones
Page 20
Weathering Well under one roof
Page 21
A History of Music Part 2
Pages 22 - 23
December Thacka Watch
Pages 24 – 25
Pizza anybody?
Page 26
12 days of Christmas
Pages 28 – 29
Wainwright Exhibition
Page 29
Cumbrian Local and Eden FM Sport
Pages 30 - 31
A Cleaner Greener 2016
Page 32
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ur Cumbrian Local Are you ready for the big day? The decorations are up and presents are ready under the tree. Yes it is a time for joy, but this year more so than many, it is a time for sharing. It’s a time for sharing in Cumbria and other parts of the country also. This Christmas might not be the best for some, but nothing stops Christmas. Nothing stops the faith behind Christmas and nothing can stop us celebrating in communities across Cumbria what has been witnessed and evident of just how good humanity can be and how strongly people can work together. It has reminded us again just how much can be achieved by people being brought together through a disaster and who show themselves to be strong people, with new friends. This Cumbrian Local is dedicated to all those brilliant people. Those affected by the changes forced upon their lives, their families, their friends, their homes, their possessions and their businesses during Storm Desmond. It is dedicated to all those emergency services, volunteers, helpers from outside the county before, during and after the events of the storm and I feel whilst we will look back at this time which was not good, we will think back to how it came right and continued to get better. To those people and businesses that have given so much, it has been appreciated by so many. It’s unfortunate that bad news still does sell papers and it wins audiences on TV. I used to remember that at the end of the news on the TV they always used to have a happy story. I don’t even notice if they still do these days. At Eden FM Radio we shared every bit of information we could find about events as they happened via live reports on air and via social media. We shared everything and we tried to get other media to link and share, because for the good of the people, they just needed to know what was happening and why. Now people need to know what comes next and what is being done to prevent it from happening again. I just hope the news of the recovery, the importance of the support and the needs of Cumbria and its people are also given this exposure in local and national news in weeks and months and years to come. This is my second attempt at an opening editorial. Recent events meant a re-write and
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Continued from page 5 some businesses had a re-think. Just a couple of bits to chase and we are off to print! In many ways I feel that I’m fortunate because the Cumbrian Local isn’t reliant on another business to deliver the magazine. This means we are in a position to send our magazine off to print when we need to and it is back inside 3 to 5 days for starting the delivery. As a publication, we do have a scheduled plan as far as March 2017, but the advantages we have over many publications with similarities to ourselves is we are not beholden to dates with print and we don’t have to lock ourselves into 12 month contracts to make sure we have the same delivery slot every month. We offer our customers flexibility. Those working with us long term have a say in the areas that we deliver to. We like commitment from our customers, but we also work with what the customer needs as part of our commitment to them. We do work with whatever budget a client has, so a price is there always to be negotiated, because we are independent. Our prices do have some flexibility because every customer is different and needs some flexibility. Now, for you at home or work, once again reading your free Cumbrian Local, I hope it wasn’t too wet coming through the door! Even the larger distribution companies posting through doors can’t always guarantee ‘dry’ deliveries. They can’t guarantee a set day for delivery either so in the whole production of a magazine style publication, you could be allowing for a week of design work, a week at the printer, a week of being sorted into bundles at a distribution centre, which is then sent to its final delivery hub or sorting office. It then starts its local journey to your door. Many of you may have noticed, towns and villages do grow around here, but rarely do sorting offices. In the small print of most delivery companies contracts working door to door, it states they cannot guarantee 100% deliveries, so going back to that post room, just how many pigeon holes can a mail room have? So potentially after 3 weeks from design to delivery you then have your distribution week. I don’t envy the posties task, because they won’t know what weight they have until their post has arrived so to speak. With Health and Safety as it is, they probably have to calculate the additional weight of door to door mail, i.e. leaflets, brochures, cards. It has taken Cumbrian Local a good five years to move away from a 4 week process, to ensure that the stories you get to read are fairly current and the information still quite relevant. Some magazines have banked articles and for some publications unfortunately, things can
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A huge thank you to all our advertisers, volunteer writers, photographers and the team that is Cumbrian Local and Eden Fm from design to delivery. Front Cover & pages 4 - 6 Lee Quinn
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Clients who give instructions to prepare Wills often fall into one of two categories: those who regularly ensure their Wills are up to date, and those who do not really want to consider their own mortality, but who are keen to get something on paper to make sure that their loved ones are not left completely in the dark after their death. People who have not made a Will also often fall into two categories: those who think they do not need a Will because they think they have nothing to leave to loved ones, and those who think they do not need to make a Will because they are confident of their estate passing to their spouse or children in any event. However, it is not always that straightforward. For example, did
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Happy New Year! The 31st December is the last day of the year and around the world the end of one year and the arrival of the New Year is celebrated in a range, of often surprising, ways. Here are a few of the more unusual New Year traditions that can be found around the world.
Godt Nytår In Denmark all the unused plates and dishes are collected together and on the 31st December they are smashed against the doors of family and friends!
Ecuador In Ecuador they celebrate by burning scarecrows at midnight, not only that but photographs of the previous year are also burned, all to bring more good luck for the coming year.
Feliz año Nuevo A tradition that some of you may have experienced, if you have been in Spain for the New Year, is the eating of 12 grapes at midnight to ensure good luck for the next year.
Manigong bagong taon Money is the main focus in the Philippines they believe that everything should be round – food, fruit, vegetables anything at all that is circular is considered lucky as it represents coins and will bring wealth!
Stranger still In some South American countries it is considered lucky to wear coloured underwear at New Year – the colour will bring luck in different areas of your life – red will bring love, gold will bring wealth and white will mean a peaceful year ahead!
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Akemashite omedetô gozaimasu Japan has a much more peaceful approach to bringing in the New Year. Bells are rung 108 times to bring cleanliness and it is also considered to bring good luck to smile as the new year arrives to ensure luck for the next year. In a lot of countries making noise seems to be a way to bring in the New Year over the years. In ancient Thailand guns were fired to frighten away demons while in China firecrackers scared away the ‘forces of darkness’ The early American settlers fired their guns in the air - nowadays the Americans sound sirens and party horns to say good bye to the old and welcome in the new, while Italians peal the church bells and the Swiss beat drums. Perhaps variations of these traditions continue with the abundance of fireworks that are set off at midnight here in the UK? In Poland New Year’s Eve is commonly known as Sylwester and it is usually celebrated with parties, balls or big get togethers, traditionally held indoors it is now more common to have a party outside with lots of dancing and plenty to eat and drink!
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Food is also a key feature of welcoming in the New Year. In Dutch homes fritters called olie bollen are eaten while the Irish enjoy pastries called bannock. Swiss homes must be very messy places as they drop dollops of whipped cream or ice cream onto the floor to symbolise the richness of the year to come! Closer to home many people continue to follow old traditions. In the North of England and Scotland the first person over the threshold on the 1st January should be a tall, dark man (being handsome is optional!) or considered lucky in other ways perhaps a new bride, a new mother or someone whose birthday is on the 1st January. It is also traditional to give a gift at New Year when visiting or ‘first footing’. Coal to bring warmth to the house, shortbread to ensure there will be enough food to eat in the coming year and in some instances money and greenery are also brought to ensure wealth and a long life. In Wales a Calennig is a gift given on New Year’s Day – this is an apple with three twig legs, stuck with dried fruit, cloves and a spray of evergreens stuck in the top. By placing the Calennig on the windowsill luck will come into the house.
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Using a piping bag fill the doughnuts with your Christmas flavoured jam.
Place the doughnuts into a pre heated oven for 10 minutes at 180c to finish cooking. When the doughnuts are cooked, remove from the oven and roll in sugar. When they have cooled a little use a sharp knife to make a hole in the side
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Tackling the weather is never easy in Cumbria. We may struggle to reach some remote areas and subject to road and bridge closures, there could be delays. To overcome the problems experienced, past and current during the winter months, with short days and rubbish weather, as we do every year, extra copies of the December, January and February publications will be available at community hubs, including local shops, garages, pubs, restaurants and high footfall locations. If you are missing a Cumbrian Local, we also carry spares. You can contact Cumbrian Local via 01768 862394, 01768 899107-101, via email lee@ cumbrianlocal.co.uk. Remember via www.cumbrianlocal.co.uk/previousissues every issue is available to read online.
We do have new people helping with deliveries, but we can always do with more; the more we have the quicker the deliveries go out. Same contacts if you can help, even if it’s just 50 magazines a month in your village, an estate in your town or a few roads in the town or city (Carlisle), please drop us a line or give us a call. The January issue of your Cumbrian Local which reviews highlights of 2015, will be available to read on line from 24th December and distribution commences around 28th/29th December, weather permitting! Booking in advertising for February 2016 must be complete by 22nd January and stories/articles need to be sent in by 5th February.
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From situations recently witnessed, we can pull out so many positives. As chairman of the community radio serving Penrith and the Eden Valley, it has been quite overwhelming the support and kind words of thanks for the efforts of the team who have put in many hours delivering local news and views, pushing important information out across the community and it would seem via social media and internet streaming far beyond our transmission area on 107.5 FM. Based on stats available, a reach of 140,000 people. Of course we are just one voluntary group placed in the centre of so many committed voluntary organisations and fantastic people serving the community. It is important that Eden FM isn’t there just for bad news. As local media, since it switched on it has always provided free air time and advertising to all voluntary groups, charities, clubs, societies and not for profit organisations like ourselves. Some of these voluntary groups and charities have included all of the mountain rescue teams and all of the emergency services. Some think radio is older media, but our stats on mobile phone listeners is a growth area. Maybe that is because the range of ages our team covers is from 16 to 82 years of age. For some of you, new to helping out in the community and those of you who can spare two to three hours a week or per month, you might want to consider joining the Eden FM community radio team. You can find
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AN EVENING WITH HOWARD JONES Solo (The Songs, The Piano & The Stories) Announces February 2016 UK Tour and comes to MANCHESTER – Royal Northern College of Music on Thursday 18th February! It was in 1983 that Howard Jones first burst upon the contemporary music scene with his very English songwriting, pioneering synthesizers and thought provoking lyrics. He set out his manifesto in his very first single ‘ New Song’. The lyrics called on the listener to challenge their preconceived ideas, to see both sides and ‘throw off your mental chains’. New Song was recently used in a pivotal scene in ‘Breaking Bad’ where Aaron Paul’s character Jessie Pinkman questions if he wants to ‘play by the rules’. New Song peaked at number 3 in the UK singles charts. CumbrianLocal
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The Story of Big Band – Part Two. By Martin Cowin In the previous article, we explored the roots of Big Band music, looking at the heritage of Ragtime and Dixieland, from inception at the beginning of the twentieth century to the formation of Big Bands around a century ago, as their popularity brought them to prominence in the 1920s. The leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, Paul Whiteman, produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the “King of Jazz”. Some of the most popular recordings of The Paul Whiteman Orchestra were ‘Whispering’, recorded 1920, was number 1 for eleven weeks that year; ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, an acoustic version recorded 1924, arranged by Ferde Grofe, with George Gershwin on piano; and the 1928 recording of ‘Ol’ Man River’ with Paul Robeson on vocals, was recorded on March 1, 1928 in New York and released on Victor Records label as Victor 35912-A. With the advent of network radio in the mid-to late 1920s big bands became the predominant force in popular music. By the end of the 1920s, as radio became more and more popular, bands were beginning to add more higher-calibre jazz influenced musicians and brought about the rise of virtuoso bandleaders such as Benny Goodman, some of whom achieved great fame and celebrity as performing and recording artists. As a musician, Goodman made his professional debut in 1921 at the Central Park Theatre on Chicago’s West Side at the age of twelve and by the age of 14 was in a band that featured Bix Beiderbecke. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. When Goodman was 16, he joined one of Chicago’s top bands, the Ben Pollack Orchestra, with which he made his first recordings in 1926. Goodman made his first record under his own name for the Vocalion Records label two years later. Goodman recorded with the regular Pollack band and smaller groups drawn from the orchestra. In 1928, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller wrote the instrumental ‘Room 1411’, which was released as a Brunswick 78 RPM record. By the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most CumbrianLocal
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popular musical groups in America. Goodman’s bands launched the careers of many major names in jazz. During an era of segregation he also led one of the first well-known integrated jazz groups. Goodman continued to perform to nearly the end of his life, while exploring an interest in classical music. With the advent of motion pictures including sound in the late 1920s, big bands could easily be exploited in films and as such, Hollywood movies became important engines of creating popular music, and as the big bands began to dominate the music business, Hollywood motion picture producers were quick to capitalize on their popularity. Big bands began appearing in movies in the 1930s and continued to do so into the 1960s. Many films made in the early 1940s that featured big bands were made for the sole purpose of putting the biggest popular music stars of the day on screen, with little regard for storyline or plot.
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As the big bands receded in general popularity, there were up and coming composers and arrangers who were very much a part of the big band tradition though, and many became bandleaders and integrated the performance of various styles of music not typically associated with swing with traditional big band instrumentation. After World War II many of the musicians who had been featured in the most popular bands before the war settled into lucrative careers freelancing in recording studios for movies and television as well as playing in studio orchestras and bands backing other artists on records. Many of them and remained employed that way well into the 1970s. Benny Goodman worked through the 1970s into the 1980s with his small groups as well as Artie Shaw who had quit the music business as a performing musician altogether in 1954. In the late 1990s, swing made a slight comeback in the United States. In any event, a sustained resurgence has never happened to any great degree.
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The number of winter visiting thrush species around the Thacka area continued to increase during November and early December, with flocks containing up to 200 Fieldfare and 100 Redwing. Blackbird numbers were also good, with 20 plus birds feeding on the berries in the hawthorn
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hedge on Thacka Beck Nature Reserve. The British Trust for Ornithology suggest 4.9 million pairs nest in the UK, and outside of the breeding season this number can treble with birds from mainland Europe coming to overwinter. Try cutting an old apple in half, putting it on the ground in your garden. Blackbirds love to eat apples, especially when the ground is frozen making it difficult to extract earthworms. If the weather freezes during December, there is a higher chance of seeing Kingfisher on the reserve. Using binoculars, look at the tree branches which over-hang the water of the original flood defence pond (accessed just off Bowerbank Way) where the drainage inlet flows in. Last winter a small area of water did not freeze around the inlet, and this was enough to allow a Kingfisher to catch small minnows on a daily basis from late December until the following spring! Have a great Christmas, and if you get fed up with sitting in front of the television watching repeats, why not consider going for a family walk in the countryside to look at nature’s television! Thacka Beck Nature Reserve is managed by Cumbria Wildlife Trust, for more details www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk
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Is your roof suffering this winter? Is your guttering leaking? At DC Building and Roofing, we are working all year around whatever the weather. Whether it is replacing the odd tile, fixing a leaky roof, upgrading or replacing a roof, we also clean a lot of roofs. Storm damaged roofing is a priority at this time of year. Firstly we’ll stop a leak and make your home safe; it’s a temporary measure that is needed immediately. There is no charge for this temporary fix. We will then give you quote that cannot be beaten. The quick fix is free, so you don’t need to worry. With the immediate problem in the short term solved, DC Building and Roofing will work out the best long term solution for your permanent long term repairs. We are a family run business that has been established for over ten years, working for both commercial and domestic clients. At DC Building & Roofing, there are absolutely NO hidden charges. After the survey is complete, the quotation will always be given in person, with a clear outline of all the work required.
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12 days of Christmas sa Just as much as a Partridge is unlikely to perch in a Pear tree, you’re unlikely to enjoy the New Year in debt. The truth is, Partridges actually prefer the ground, so don’t believe everything you hear – especially when it comes to buying your way to the perfect Christmas. Here are twelve top tips for a cash saving Christmas: 1. Manage expectations - Talk to your family early on about how much you can realistically afford to spend this year, then set a budget and stick to it.It’s also worth sitting down with your kids and being honest about your situation to avoid disappointment. 2. Gifts in kind - Time is sometimes worth far more than money, so make your loved ones special vouchers to be exchanged for things like babysitting, cooking or a foot massage. 3. Treasure hunt - It can be tempting to buy lots of presents to extend the excitement of opening them on Christmas morning. Instead, prolong the fun by hiding presents around the house with clues to find them. You can even give a small chocolate for each correct clue to add to the reward. 4. Handmade crackers - They’re really easy and cheap to make, plus handmade ones look far better! All you need is some toilet rolls, a pack of cracker snaps (Hobbycraft sell a pack of 12 for less than a pound) and some tissue/wrapping paper and ribbon. You can write your own jokes, make paper hats and pop in a small chocolate as a gift. 5. Help others - Often the greatest gift is the one we give to others in need. This year, suggest doing something for charity instead, like making a shoebox for a child in poverty, or serving Christmas dinner to the homeless. The experience can often be far more rewarding than receiving a present. 6. Bring Secret Santa home - Offices love secret Santa because it’s a simple, cost effective way of doing gifts, so why not try it with friends and family? Add creativity by writing a poem or riddle for the person to guess whom it’s from. 7. Bring and share dinner: If you have a big family, suggest they all come over and bring a dish. That way you can spread the cost, and effort! If you don’t have lots of family, invite the neighbours and share a bit of festive spirit within your community. 8. Free church activities - If you’re looking for CumbrianLocal
entertainment, churches tend to put on a variety of free events around the Christmas period including concerts and nativities. Have a look in the local press, or noticeboards and websites to find out about what’s going on in your area. 9. Buy what you need Decide to only buy presents you’d need to buy anyway. For example, if your kids are about to grow out of their clothes buy them new ones from Christmas instead of waiting until the New Year. 10. Hold a swish - Need a new outfit for a work’s Christmas do? Before you hit the shops, host a clothes swapping party with some friends and see if you can create a brand new outfit for free. 11. Club together – For bigger gifts ask others pitch in. It works well for relatives who were struggling to think of what to buy your kids, and means you are able to buy them something you couldn’t afford on your own. 12. Remember what it’s really about – Money may bring you happiness but it’s only ever short-lived. Taking some time out to think about what’s really important helps put things back in perspective. Looking for some peace and quiet? Carols by candlelight and midnight masses are great escapes away from the mayhem. When was the last time you slowed down and reflected on the true meaning of Christmas? If you’re struggling to pay your bills today and are worried about debt, don’t panic help is at hand. The local Eden District branch of Christians Against Poverty offers free advice regardless of age, gender, faith or background. Visit capuk.org or call 0800 328 0006. We also run free money management courses to help you budget those bills and save for the future. Visit www. capmoneycourse.org to find a course near you. Merry Christmas Jon Cook Centre Manager
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The Wainwright Exhibition This year, a major exhibition about the life and works of Alfred Wainwright was staged at the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition, titled: A Love Letter to the Lakeland Fells, opened on 23rd May, exactly fifty years since the publication of Wainwright’s first published book, The Eastern Fells and closed on 8th November.
The Wainwright Society was one of a number of sponsors that enabled the Exhibition to take place. The Exhibition featured a number of artefacts from the archive, which is housed in the Archive Centre at Kendal: sketches, drawings, letters and Wainwright’s notebook of field notes compiled before he began writing his Pictorial Guides. Visitors could view excerpts from Wainwright’s television series made during the 1980s by the BBC. A replica desk was set up where visitors could try their hand at producing a sketch in the style of Wainwright using the same kind of ink pen used by Wainwright to produce his drawings. There was a presentation showing how Clive Hutchby is using computer technology to bring Wainwright’s original Pictorial Guides up-to-date in the latest revision of the books. The Exhibition was a huge success with over 15,000 visitors, double the number in the same period during 2014. During the period of the exhibition the Museum won Cumbria Tourism Small Visitor Attraction of the Year and Cumbria Life Museum of the Year awards. Eight Family workshops were well-attended and three adult workshops attracted 110 people. Museum staff were delighted with the positive feedback received from visitors. The Exhibition has also had positive benefits for the Society, bringing a raised awareness of Alfred Wainwright’s life and work to a wider public audience, attracting new members and raising funds for our beneficiaries through sales of the Society’s charity calendar. If you missed the Exhibition this year, then I understand that Keswick Museum is planning to stage a further Wainwright Exhibition in 2016. If it is as good as this year’s Exhibition, then it will definitely be worth a visit. If you would like to know more about the Society, log on to the website at www.wainwright.org.uk or email publicity@wainwright.org.uk Derek Cockell Press & Publicity Officer, The Wainwright Society. The best rates in advertising, with the best distribution for local business
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Blues Update By Karl Collinson The Bonny Blues remain unbeaten since 29th September after impressive performances throughout a rain swept November.
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Frustrating November for Penrith AFC Ladies Penrith AFC Ladies started the month off with a crucial victory against title favourites CMB Ladies. The Bolton based team had previously boasted a 100% record however Penrith ground out a hard fought 1-0 victory thanks to an opportunistic goal from their 16 year old striker Sarah Smith. Having previously had back to back victories against Carlisle United Ladies (5-0 and 6-0 respectively), Penrith were hoping to keep their momentum going however the poor weather intervened. Penrith were forced to go for 3 weeks without a game and lost out on valuable match fitness. Eventually Penrith AFC Ladies returned to pitch with a tough away fixture at Kendal Town Ladies. Penrith looked rusty and produced a lethargic performance as Kendal Town ran out deserved 2-0 winners. Penrith now go into December with a tough run of fixtures which begins with a trip to NW Premier Div side Birkenhead Ladies. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Penrith AFC Ladies
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