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Welcome

on't you just hate changing the clocks - why do we have to go through this every year? The clocks have changed and, while computers and phones usually update themselves, we have to manually adjust the time on the microwave, our wristwatches and on any traditional timepieces on walls and mantelpieces. You would think we would be used to it by now. But no, every time, we react as if it has literally never happened, greeting it with a mixture of shock, resentment and downright despair. Our house becomes a weird world of twin time zones. Alarm clocks say one thing, but the microwave says another for weeks (because we can't remember how to alter the time or just can't be bothered). It's dark before you leave work. In fact, it gets dark mid-afternoon, so we feel like we're still working in the dead of night. All thoughts of going to the pub later and sitting out in the beer garden just disappear. Instead, we just feel like rushing home as quickly as possible to switch on the central heating, eat comfort food and binge on Netflix. The whole clocks changing thing is the main topic of conversation for a long time before it actually happens. Some people go on about it for weeks, even months, before we actually need to do it. As if we need reminding that winter gloom is coming. Still, it could be worse. You could have decided to fly for some holiday sun only to be onboard the plane and hear, "This is your pilot speaking. I’m working from home today”. As this is the last issue of 2021, our 10th anniversary year, I would like to thank all of our advertisers, contributors, competition winners, distributors and printers, but most of all, you, our reader. Congratulations to Lauren who won a gorgeous 'Winston' and to Iris who received £25 when she Andrew Corrie found Bear by EDITOR Wetheral Viaduct.

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1. Thomas Bushby's watercolour of the lane in 1895 2. The Sportsman in State Management days 3. Tithebarn before renovation 4. In 1909, a joiner and undertaker occupied the barn

t the northern end of Blackfriars Street in Carlisle is Heads Lane leading to West Walls and the Sallyport Steps. The Sportsman Inn is on the south side and the Tithe Barn on the north side. Heads Lane took its name from the landlady of the Sportsman many years ago, Bella Head. Isabella Warwick married Thomas Head in 1757. Over the years the name was shortened to Head’s Lane. With dissoluton in 1540 the Tithe Barn of the former Priory of St Mary

was redundant and was let to various tenants for the storage of carriages. Then in the 19th century it was put to other uses, one end becoming the Carlisle Dispensary, and when that moved in 1851 it became a cottage. The building was threatened when the west gable collapsed in 1875. Then, in the 20th century, to prevent the roof falling in, the roof was stripped of its sandstone

slabs. Demolition was called for in the early 1960s but a restoration trust was formed and work began in 1969, providing a parish hall for St. Cuthbert’s; opening in 1971. Much more about this historic area in our city can be found in a new book written by Denis Perriam and to be published by me in time for Christmas 2021. The book will be available on my website p3publications.com , Bookends, Tullie House and Carlisle Visitor Centre.

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anting to lose a few pounds before our holiday, I came up with the ‘Gin and Rich Tea Diet’ for my husband and me. Let me explain. Overall, I would say we eat quite healthily in that we don’t eat processed food, everything is cooked fresh, plus we eat a lot of ‘greens’. However, it would appear that our main downfalls are a glass or two of wine at the weekend, and a biscuit with a cup of tea. Firstly, the wine. Do you know how many calories there are in a glass of wine? You may be surprised. In a 250ml glass of wine, there are about 228 calories, which is the equivalent of a standard mars bar. On the other hand, in a 210ml serving of gin and slim line tonic there are 115 calories. Now we are by no means alcoholics, but come the weekend it’s so nice to have a treat and wind down with a drink, so we swapped a glass of wine for a small G & T. Secondly, biscuits. Apparently, one of the signs of getting older is that you always have to have a biscuit with a cup

of tea, and yes, we do fall into that category. A cup of tea is just not the same without one. Therefore, I decided that the only biscuits we would have in the house would be Rich Tea. Boring I know, but a biscuit nonetheless. And there began the ‘Gin and Rich Tea Diet’. Did it work you may ask? Yes it did. My husband lost more weight than I did, which was very annoying, but we both lost weight. So overall, a big thumbs up for the ‘Gin and Rich Tea Diet’. Talking of biscuits, one of my

most favourite biscuits is the ‘Empire Biscuit’, which obviously has been off the biscuit list recently! After much searching, I found a great recipe, so here it is. Pre-heat your oven to 160°c. Cream together 225g soft salted butter and 125g caster sugar until light and fluffy, then add 1 beaten egg and mix in. Gradually mix 325g plain flour in (if possible use a mixer as it will be hard by hand). Do not overmix. Turn the dough onto a floured board and roll out to ¼” thick. Using a 4” round cutter, cut out 14 biscuits (this will make 7 finished biscuits). Bake for 12-15 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely. They should look very pale. When cold, spread one biscuit with jam and place another biscuit on top. Mix some icing sugar with water to form a thick consistency (so it won’t drip off the biscuits). Coat each biscuit, and top with a fruit jelly sweet. Now where’s my cup of tea!

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t has variously been described as a ‘treedemic’, and a national tragedy. The subject is the loss of Britain’s trees to a variety of diseases, pathogens, and pests. From Phytopthora, to Ash Dieback, Horse Chestnut Bleeding Canker, and Plane Wilt (to mention a few) our trees are being assaulted as never before. Add to this macabre list a host of destructive insects – well you get the picture! Most will have heard of Dutch Elm Disease that swept the country in the 1960s and in to the 70s. I remember as a child growing up in the leafy suburbs of North Leeds crying over the felling of a favourite street tree and wondering how many more would have to be felled. We all know how that turned out, but perhaps it wasn’t until Ash Dieback reared its ugly head that we all came to realise that Dutch Elm Disease wasn’t a one off. In fact, since Dutch Elm Disease there have been some 20 odd serious tree diseases recorded in the UK. In Cumbria you don’t have to wander far to see some of the effects of these diseases. Across Dumfries and Galloway, large areas of Larch have been felled, and will continue to be felled. The range of trees effected by disease is sobering. No longer can we look at single species of tree such as Elm and Ash, but rather a range,

Already organisations like the RHS actively discourage certain plant groups that are susceptible to notifiable diseases being exhibited at their shows unless grown in the UK. The same thinking should be extended to trees. Everyone has a role to play, as gardeners and landscapers, Local Authority managers, and garden designers. of native and cherished trees. There are other aspects to Across the whole of the UK the effects of tree disease are being seen, this too. The way we grow trees within woodlands, and plantations, needs rethinking: large swathes and in parks and gardens. For some of single specie plantations once infected are literally wiped out. In the effects are seen as gradual, for others rapid defoliation and death. the case of Phytopthora in Larch plantations the effects are rapid It all seems rather bleak, and and devastating. The planting of raises the question how on earth mixed woodlands is more natural, has this all come about? The answer to this question stems from more interesting and can be more resistant to disease. Much research the way our world has changed is being carried out on the natural since the early days of Dutch Elm resistance that some trees display Disease. No longer is it certain with the intention of propagatthat a sapling you buy has been ing from them, and in the case of raised in the UK, but possibly, insects work is being done to find actually quite likely that it began biological control agents. its international journey in the Keep an eye out for disease in Netherlands, was grown on in Italy trees when out and about, and if and then arrived via Germany to the UK. Such globalisation cannot in an area where disease has been identified and there are signs be seen to come without risks. explaining this, exercise caution. Rather, I would argue it has the If you think you have spotted a potential to introduce pathogens. tree disease, contact the Animal In a previous article I suggested and Plant Health Agency (APHA). that one outcome of Brexit could The Plant Health Portal www. be to strengthen controls and checks at the border, but whilst this planthealthportal.defra.gov.uk is a useful resource for identifying can help, I believe firmly that we must get back to growing our own pests and diseases. Happy gardening stock and rely far less on imports.

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