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ANDREW CORRIE Editor EDITOR’S NOTE Apparently most people who read the word ‘yawning’ will yawn? Be honest, did you.... I forced myself not too. January is an utterly miserable month. It’s estimated that up to a third of British adults feel the depressing effects of ‘Seasonal Affective Disorder,’ which may be connected to the lack of sunlight during the winter months’ (which is probably why we are so miserable throughout the rest of the year too). I’m not sure it’s this with me, more just that MasterChef The Professionals has finished. (My wife felt the same at the end of Downton). The series has taught me to cook everything ‘3 ways’ - which I put into practise with the potato which I chipped, mashed and roasted. Over the past years, our Village Link Magazine has built a reputation for being a regular, reliable and readable publication and we are are really humbled by our enthusisatic readers, many who so kindly drop us an email saying how much they enjoy it. We do work hard to produce an entertaining magazine so that the current issue stays on the coffee table until the next one arrives. This gives our advertisers the exposure they need to get the results for their business. After all it is our advertisers who make the magazine possible! We will continue to offer ‘value for money’ advertising throughout the year, with professionally designed artwork included in the advertising cost. The latest issue is always published online, along with a store of back issues, and we now have a following of international readers each issue too! Check it out for yourself and visit: www.village-link.co.uk

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NAME James and Katharine Goode Marital status Happily married for almost 15 years with 3 beautiful childrem, Elliot 8 and twins Skylar and Freya 5. LIVES New Mills Trout Farm & Fishery, Brampton

Our family motto in life Trust in God; Be honest; Keep promises; Work hard; Try new things; Don’t whine; Laugh out loud; Always say ‘I Love You’; Be kind; Do your best; Be grateful; Be proud of yourself; Say please and thank you; Remember you are loved. We admire people who give of themselves generously and actually DO things to make the world a better place. Our life would be easier if we had a magic wand to take care of the laundry, washing up, tidying and cleaning! Our hobbies We don’t have a lot of time for hobbies as such, but what time we do have is spent travelling with the family. With James’ family in the USA, we all try to meet up every couple of years. Favourite Books [Katharine] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou. [James] Lord of the Rings, Tolkein Favourite Films [Katharine] It’s a Wonderful Life [James] Ferris Bueller’s Day off. How we met We were both living and working in London - James in HR for Esso and Katharine in Marketing for British Airways. We were engaged exactly 100 days after we met! Achievements [Katharine] Overcoming a fear of heights and jumping out of a plane at 1500 feet over Lake Taupo in New Zealand. [James] Overcoming a fear of fish to own a fish farm...just kidding! Actually, I’m rather proud of my 47 metre bungy jump off the Kawarau Bridge in New Zealand. Front Cover picture courtesy of Jesse Knibbs [nature_boy33@hotmail.co.uk] DESIGNED & PRODUCED BY: Michaela Corrie Design [m.corrie@virginmedia.com] PRINTED BY: H&H Reeds Printers, Penrith, Cumbria

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History Matters A look into Carlisle’s past with history editor David Ramshaw

Crosby Lodge Birthplace of an early Australian pioneer and botanist

avid Kennedy (1778 – 1819), owned and built Crosby Lodge. The house was built between 1807 and 1808 for £1100, but did not follow the original plans. A watercolour of the house as built was part of a survey of the property in 1810. Well respected in the district David Kennedy was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Cumberland in 1810 and thus became a keeper of the peace for the county. In 1800 David, originally from Craig in Ayrshire, married Elizabeth Dalton, of Abbey Street, Carlisle. The Kennedy’s had five children of whom the most notable was Georgiana, their second born, who later became famous as a botanist in her adopted home of Western Australia. Georgiana’s interest in botany began at Crosby Lodge where she and her mother kept a large garden. She might have lived a less eventful and less famous life if her father had not suffered a fatal riding accident in 1819, aged 41. Two years later her mother decamped to Rugby to stay with friends and put the lodge out to rent. Georgiana could not settle in the noise of the city and in 1827 went to live with Scottish friends, the Dunlops, on their estate northwest of Glasgow. Here she met John Molloy,

25 years her senior, who she married in 1829. John was a heavily decorated second lieutenant who had fought in all the major battles of the Peninsular War and who was seriously wounded at Waterloo. Two months after the marriage the couple sailed with eight servants and their household possessions on the emigrant ship ‘Warrior’ to the new colony at Swan River (later to be known as Perth). Life was hard for those early pioneers but Georgia found relaxation with her gardening. She was fascinated by the new indigenous flowers of Australia. She gathered, pressed and catalogued these meticulously and soon she was sending back seeds to a friend in England. These were distributed to various botanical gardens and propagated so that the plants could be classified. Geogiana became known for the precision of her plant mountings, her descriptions and the freshness and careful packing of her seed and plant samples. Had she lived longer she might have added to her botanical fame but that was not to be. She gave birth to five daughters and a son in Australia, two of whom died very young. Georgiana herself died, aged 38, shortly after the birth of her sixth child. For more local history of Cumbria visit http://www.p3publications.com

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by CAROL WESTMORLAND

s I write, my dogs - Mischa our big and bouncy black Labrador and Truly Scrumptious our delightful Cavachon - yes, yes, one is a ‘designer dog’, are snoozing at my feet. TS is snoring. They are curled together – a perfect fit. Both will perform a ‘dance of happiness’ when I return from teaching evening classes. The door flung open (by my husband, not them) sets off a whirlwind of tail’s and legs hurtling down our garden path, I’m a direct hit, in the anticipation of their evening carrot. TS sharing the last bit of hers. They both then join me on the sofa (well only TS) to watch whatever I deem suitable on TV. Content. TS recently had a procedure and to attend she wore her Thunder Jacket. All concerned agreed it did the trick and although it could be argued it was diminishing, so be it. She took it all in her speedy stride. TS will never say ‘you go out without me, I’ll be fine at home on my own’ and she will never say ‘just drop me off, I’ll cope’. We will do anything for our beloved dogs. This is not a one way street. People with dogs live longer, have fewer minor ailments, lower blood pressure and recover from illnesses faster. Dog owners are fitter. On average a person with a gym membership, remember I said average, will spend two hours a week exercising. A person with a dog(s) will exercise eight. I do more. Cumrew is a doggy paradise. Playmates galore. Where else could there be two Cavachons? Name check – Honey Bee. A pooch, like TS, that lives each day to the full and, also like TS, is bright as a button and has just the thing for a nose. When we humans look at each other our eyes wander left, falling on the right hand side of the persons face. This is because it is the side of the face that shows our emotional state. Dogs do the same. They understand. They adore us and we adore them. They miss nothing. TS and Mischa will never say ‘you look busy, shall we skip that walk today?’ Never. Similarly I will never say ‘you two stay put while I head off without you’. We are a team and I would have it no other way. NEW

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VILLAGE LIFE SARAH BRIGGS I was cross, as much with myself as anything else, and absolutely sure that the Speed Awareness course would be led by patronising do-gooders

was hoping to have a real rant in this edition. I got caught speeding. Not surprisingly it was in Warwick Bridge, where I’m normally so careful. One lady on the course had been clocked going 32 mph, so beware: there’s a zero tolerance policy nowadays. I was cross, as much with myself as anything else, and absolutely sure that the Speed Awareness course would be led by patronising do-gooders. “At least”, I thought, “I’ll be able to fume about it in Village Link”. But no – the two course leaders turned out to be decent folk and the first guy was in fact a reformed boy racer himself, so I immediately sensed a kindred spirit. And I grudgingly admit the course was actually quite interesting. Some of my friends suggested that I should write, Jilly Cooper-style, about awful neighbours, but the truth is we don’t have any: partly as Mr. Better-than-EveryoneElse moved away. He thought the public highway was his own so complained about other people’s visitors parking in front of his house. I felt like telling him that when I lived in London I was lucky if I could park two streets away; and asking why he never used his garage for his cars. Instead I’ll probably have to be effusive once more about how much I love living here. ‘Village’ life is good (let’s face it, Brampton may be legally a town but it’s about the same size as the village in Somerset I grew up in). My children are growing up surrounded by countryside; the oldest can walk down to Off the Wall for a hot chocolate without my worrying (too much) about him; the air is fresh and the schools

Freelance writer Sarah Briggs writes for The Mirror, Top Sante, Cumbria Magazine, Somerset Life, Essentially Midirs and Running Free amongst many others. She is a regular interviewee on Radio Cumbria and is currently writing three books. If you want to tell ervice, from herinitial any local stories, then she can quite often be found in her favourite ion & commissioning. 8 535944. café – Off the Wall in Brampton – or you can catch her manning the s.co.uk Hallsford stall at Brampton ay 9am to 2pm to see market. And of course Farmers’ bathrooms, bedrooms you can always contact her on budgets. Full design sarah@village-link.co.uk your requirements.

are small. Nativity plays are called just that, and on sports day they’re allowed to have winners. Cumbria may be behind the times in some ways but isn’t that a relief after the rush and pressure of a crowded big city (I exclude Carlisle from that category. Are there any other cities in the UK where cows and sheep graze so close to the city centre?). Despite the rural idyll, Brampton is showing rather pleasant signs of becoming a little more urbanised. We now have a Bistro and a Brasserie: interestingly harking back to Parisian France rather than the rural France I keep comparing Cumbria to. In case you’re wondering what on earth the difference is, a bistro is a small restaurant serving homely food at moderate prices whereas the word ‘brasserie’ is the same as the French for ‘brewery’ and infers a more professional restaurant – with table cloths and menus. As Brasserie 23 is some sort of relation to the Geltsdale Brewery the choice of name is entirely appropriate. The great thing is that there are now places in Brampton which I hope will be good to go to for a Kir and a chat with a friend in the evenings (I’m not really a pub sort of girl). It will be interesting to see how they do over the next year. I hope they last.

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realised she meant ‘Google’. That really y Mum recently said that she made me laugh, but soon came to the recan’t believe the world she now lives in is the same place alisation that that will soon be me if I fail to keep up with technology. I really must from when she was a young girl, and technology must rate high among try harder. Anyway, going back someone of the biggest changes. Take mobile thing I am a lot more comfortable with phones for example, they just weren’t and that is food. This recipe has now around when my mum was young, or even become one of my favourite dishes for when I was young for that matter, and yet the weekend because (1) it is quick (2) they are such a big part of our lives now. it is so tasty and (3) it If I forget to take my is a little bit indulgent. I’m not quite as phone with me it is a bit of an inconbad as my Mum though, It is called ‘Creamy venience, however, Cajun Chicken Pasta’. who recently asked if for a lot of people it Place two boneless I could ‘Doodle’ is, simply put, the chicken breasts (which end of the world. something for her! have been cut into thin My poor mum still strips) in a bowl and hasn’t really got the hang of them and I coat with 2 teaspoons of Cajun could write several blogs on some of the seasoning, then sauté the chicken in a fiascos we have had with my mum and her large frying pan in 2 tablespoons butter mobile phone. I have room to talk mind as I have very limited knowledge when until tender (about 5 – 7 mins). it comes to keeping up with technology Reduce the heat and add, two sliced (probably because it doesn’t really interest spring onions, 450mls double cream, me that much!) I recently had to get my 2 tablespoons chopped sun dried phone fixed and when it came back I had tomatoes, ¼ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon lost all my settings (which my daughter had put on for me in the first instance, but dried basil, 1/8 teaspoon ground black she has since gone back to Canada). I did pepper, and 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder. Heat through. Serve over cooked try to get them back but sadly failed, and in the end had to ask my friend’s son to linguine and top with grated parmesan help me. If you need to know anything cheese, oh and don’t forget a nice about mobile phones just ask a young per- glass of wine. son because they know everything there is to know about them. Another problem I A lad came home from school and have with technology is the terminology; I excitedly told his dad that he had a part just get to grips with some technical term in the school pantomime. when it becomes old and out of date. I He would be playing a man who had simply can’t keep up. I’m not quite as been married for 25 years. bad as my Mum though, who recently asked if I could ‘Doodle’ something for The dad says, ‘Never mind son, maybe her!! A strange request I thought as I next year you’ll get a speaking part”. am not very good at drawing, but then

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Garden Feature Life and the odd gardening tip from garden editor Jason Hindmoor

’ve been thinking that whilst I’m a bit quieter with gardening work over the winter, I should maybe apply to appear on the ‘Apprentice’. I’d clearly be no good at any of the tasks, but I’d just like to stop Lord Sugar ringing the contestants house at 5am. I’d like to turn up at that big house in London, unplug the phone, order a Chinese and a bottle of wine and have a good lie-in. If I get fired the next day so be it. I’ve at least had a free weekend in London. I don’t know why Sir Alan Sugar insists on ringing the house so early. I know he’s an older gentleman and may be up and down a few times in the night but it’s no reason to start ringing people at that hour. If he rang me at the house at 5am I’d call the Police and tell them a pensioner was harassing me with nuisance phone calls in the middle of the night, demanding that I meet him at deserted London landmarks. If anybody else did that, they’d get arrested, or a restraining order placed on them at least.

I was thinking that the other option was when I was in the house I could ring BT and get the number changed. I think it’s free if you’re getting funny phone calls, anyway that would fix him. The show would probably be a lot shorter and not as interesting but at least those poor contestants all having to share a bedroom could at least get a decent night’s sleep. I’m starting on my business plan now.

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by DARREN TURNBULL CFP, DMS, MCIBS Certified Financial Planner

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expectations. In effect they have an income shortfall that needs to be met. Many people at retirement do not take any he first of the baby boomer generation began to retire in 2005/06 advice and purchase their pension income with the company they have held their and the number of those hitting retirement age will continue to grow pension with. As a result in many cases they do not get the best income they possibly each year. With an ageing population comes could in retirement, especially if they have the need for more and more people need medical issues that may qualify them for an to seek advice on the annuity details they impaired annuity. This is where their health have received from their pension provider is considered when calculating the income or indeed in respect of retirement planning they will received in retirement and things altogether. like height and weight, blood pressure, and Clients should be seeking out the services other ailments can all push up the level of of Independent Financial Advisers because income received in retirement. One of the annuity rates are particularly low and they other potential solutions for those who own should be seeking advice for the best rate of their own home is to consider using equity return available to them on the market. release to secure the income they need and By using a Chartered Firm of Financial Planhelp achieve their goals. ners people can be sure of obtaining the best If you wish to consider this option it is advice at retirement age or indeed planning for their retirement, which the earlier you start important you have a strong relationship the more likely you are to be able to maintain with a specialist equity release adviser with whom you can discuss this with total the same standard of living in retirement. confidence. It may not be suitable for all Significant numbers of people may, for the first time, be coming to terms with the fact the people but it can certainly be an option for those without enough cash to maintain their income they can source from their pension, lifestyle into retirement and those who want via an annuity will not meet their ongoing

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to hit that annual income target. I am delighted to advise that Financial Concepts Chartered Financial Planners were awarded the prestigious Chartered Financial Planners designation by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) in April 2011. This is the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gold standard for firms of financial planners. It confirms that we have satisfied rigorous qualification criteria by retaining highly-qualified staff who subscribe to the membership conditions of the CII. It also involves a commitment to continuing professional development and adherence to an industry standard Code of Ethics. You can view the Code at www.cii.co.uk/code. Financial Concepts were the first firm to achieve this in Cumbria and as a valued client of our firm we are writing to share this news with you and to reiterate that you will continue to obtain the highest level of service from us and that our firm is committed to continuing to improve and enhance our client proposition in the future. When you use a Chartered firm you are dealing with proven professionals. The CII is empowered by the Privy Council to award Chartered status, and the award is only made in deserving cases and while Chartered titles are steeped in history, they remain the benchmark of professional excellence and integrity. *Source: Government Actuary Department. **Source: Department for Work and Pensions.

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On Your Bike Cycling tips and advice from sport editor Gary Dickson

Winter Riding needn’t be an endurance test!

t’s a fresh crisp winter day. The sun is shining and all you want to do is get out on your bike and enjoy the fun, freedom and fresh air. Is that too positive? After reading that first sentence perhaps you looked out the nearest window and thought “wet & cold” would be more accurate. Or it might even be snowing and you’ve got to cycle to work tomorrow! Whatever the weather when you use your bike in winter it doesn’t need to be an endurance test. The choice is yours. Wear the right kit and you’ll be warm, toasty and protected from the elements. If not, you might be able to identify with comes next… Aaagh! My hands are freezing! If this is the problem you are having, get the right gloves. There’s plenty of choice, designed specifically for bike use. They look and feel great while excelling in features that ensure you are windproof waterproof & warm. Cycle specific designs prevent loss of circulation at your fingertips when gripping handlebars. You will notice the difference compared to ordinary gloves. I got soaked! A good jacket is essential for winter riding. Unless the jacket is designed for cycling, when you bend forward to hold the handlebars it will ride up on your back leaving a gap between your pants and the bottom of the jacket. The key words to describe this gap are “Wet and Cold”. That’s the second time those nasty words have come up in this article. But remember, just because the weather is wet and cold you don’t need to be. A cycling jacket will have a longer back panel to compensate. Like everything these days with so much choice and technical

terminology it can be confusing to discern exactly what you need. The main things to understand are waterproof, windproof, warmth, weight and breathable. Also, when cycling at night you want to be seen so make sure the jacket you choose has built in reflective bits. Especially if you are a commuter and rain is a regular feature in your cycling experience overtrousers are money well spent. For those that like doing research there’s hours of work you can enjoy. If not, simply describe your type of riding to the sales assistant at your local bike shop. He can quickly explain the reasons and help you find the most suitable products. I think I’ve got hypothermia! It’s bad enough when your hands are freezing but if your whole body is freezing right to the core it’s no fun. With gloves and jacket covered a big chunk of this problem is already sorted. Getting your clothing layers right is very important for warmth and comfort. A merino wool base layer is a great place to start, but don’t stop there. There is a big choice of product to make the riding you enjoy extra comfortable. My poor feet! Your whole body can be warm and dry but if your feet are wet and

cold how joyful do you feel? Not much! There are shoes for all the different types of bike riding including MTB, Road, Leisure, Hybrid, BMX, etc. The right shoes not only add to your comfort but have designed in performance and safety features. And don’t forget cycling specific socks. I’ve already mentioned overtrousers to keep your legs dry but for your feet what you need is overshoes. As you’ve probably guessed keeping your feet cosy requires a visit to your local bike shop too. Helmet. People don’t complain much about their head but it’s the most important part of our anatomy that needs protection. It’s rare, if ever, we will call on our helmet to protect us but if we do no one ever complains about the few quid they spent. Although many helmets come in at well over £100, starting at £25 - £30 will get you a quality branded helmet that looks and fits great and provides valuable protection. All in all it could be said that “Wet & Cold” is more of a choice than an affliction. So, insulate yourself from the elements and always enjoy endurance free riding.

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