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Welcome

uring our early childhoods, we’ve picked up most of our day-to-day habits and even some weird things from our parents, learning to adapt to the world by observing and mimicking our surroundings. Most of the time, those routine practices are universal, so it’s small wonder that people just assume them to be normal and expect everyone to be on the same page.

However, there are times when your world suddenly collapses as you realize you’re the only person in the room to call the remote control a ‘flicker’ or that you were the only crazy kid in the world to eat bananas whole, skin and all.

On long road trips, my parents would tell us kids that if we closed our eyes, we’d get there faster. Believing them, we would close our eyes and eventually fall alseep. Incredibly, when we woke up we were almost there, and parents got a nice quiet drive with no kids fighting! Well played parents.

Well played. How about you? Did you have any weird stories from your childhood, or realisations that you’d been lied to by the people you trusted the most? We’d love to hear them.

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When Electric Light came to Tullie House - leading to a fatality

he Tullie House Committee gifted the house and contents to the City Corporation on 11 August 1890 (City Minutes).

Plans for extensions were advanced by 1891 but there was a wish to open “as soon as possible” and a temporary reading room was opened, which proved very popular.

On 20 November 1891 the Carlisle Journal reported on the physical changes being made and published a plan for the building adding, “preparation has been made for lighting the whole building by electricity, if that mode of illumination should eventually be decided upon in preference to gas.”

The Council chose electricity (very new at the time) and two years later (10 November 1893) it was reported, “the buildings are lighted by electricity. The engines, dynamos, and other plant are placed in the basement

1891 ground floor plan Tullie House

of the northwestern wing of the building [under the Museum] and are under the charge of Mr Tom Duckworth.

Two Tangye horizontal 16 horsepower gas engines powered two dynamos. Extra heavy flywheels, each weighing 22 cwt, were used to ensure steady running and to prevent any fluctuation of the lights. The output was to drive up to 419 Edison-Swan type lamps, from 8 to 16 candle power each.

The introduction of electricity unfortunately led to a fatality. On 13 March 1894 the Carlisle Journal reported “the accident to Mr Tom Duckworth at Tullie House on the

evening of Monday week terminated fatally in the Infirmary on Saturday evening. Mr Duckworth, in charge of the machinery generating the electric light for the Reading Room and School of Art, was cleaning the oil from a revolving drum with a piece of cotton waste. His left arm was accidentally caught between the belt and the drum.

In an instant he was thrown violently to the ground by the rapidly revolving machine.

His left arm was mangled, and his skull fractured. He was removed to the Infirmary, where his injured arm was amputated, but the fracture to the skull was serious. He expired on Saturday evening, leaving a widow and two children.”

With the introduction of mains electricity in 1900 there was no further need for the turbines and the cellar was used for other purposes.

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Mouth-watering inspiration from food editor Jane Ferguson

hen did Put 568ml ordering a double cream, 250g coffee get so mascarpone, 75ml complicated? marsala and 5tbsp There are times I’m glad golden caster sugar there is a queue in front in a large bowl. me as I scan the board and Whisk until you try and make a decision on have the consistency what to have. On average, I of thickly whipped probably change my mind cream. Pour 300ml about three times by the strong coffee made time I order. I mean, what with 2tbsp coffee exactly is a ‘flat white’. I’ve granules and 300ml had one, I’ve had baristas’ boiling water into a try and explain it to me, shallow dish.

I’ve even googled it, but if Dip in a few sponge I am being completely fingers at a time (you honest I still don’t get it.

The most we will need about 175g pack of My husband and I are often knew about sponge fingers in all) turning reminded of the time we first coffee was, for a few seconds until they are met our Canadian son-in-law do you want nicely soaked, but not soggy.

Nic on our very first visit to it black or white! We still laugh Layer these in a dish until Canada. Coffee is a big thing in about that first encounter with our you’ve used half the sponge Canada. On a trip out one day son-in-law who has since become fingers, and then spread over Nic wanted a coffee and pulled a dear member of our family. half of the creamy mixture. into a Tim Horton’s, which is a I feel like England is becoming Grate over about 25g dark popular coffee chain over there. more like Canada as more and chocolate. Then repeat the As my husband was sat in the more drive through coffee houses layers (you should use up all front and was nearest to the are appearing all the time. the coffee), finishing with the person taking the order, Nic ask Who knows, maybe one day I creamy layer. Cover and chill for him if he could order for him will become proficient in ordering a few hours or overnight. This ‘a one shot decaf and two shots a complicated coffee and finally will keep in the fridge for up to regular, extra hot, no foam latte get to grips with a flat white. two days. To serve, with whip and one sugar’.

The recipe I am going to share dust with some The look of sheer panic on with you in this issue is my ‘go to’ cocoa powder. my husband’s face was Tiramisu recipe which I found on hilarious as he had absolutely the Good Food website.

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Feeding wild birds Finches love seeds is a popular pastime for such as wild bird seed many people throughout the UK. Different species and sunflower seed.

Woodpeckers and of birds into the garden Nuthatches love can be easily achieved peanuts. by feeding them in the Robins & Blackbirds way that they need. love softer grains, When mealworms and should you All wild fruity seed feed wild birds enjoy because they birds? have softer bills. energy Birds No-grow wild need our help balls & bird seed is all year round, suet ideal for Robins but especially & Blackbirds bepellets between cause the seeds March and are already June due to the increase in chicks at de-husked or cracked which makes it easier this time. for them to eat.

Check on your bird All wild birds enjoy feeders regularly. If your energy balls and suet feeders are not empty within 10 days, lower the pellets so remember to keep your garden well amount of food in the stocked with these. feeders to attract more Here are some more birds to them. Wild birds handy tips: don’t like to feed from Only half fill the seeds which are wet and feeders to start with damp.

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Income Tax Planning • If you are a higher rate or additional rate taxpayer, consider taking action to reduce taxable income, particularly where income falls just above one of the thresholds. There are various options to achieve this, including pension contributions, gift aid donations to charity or investments in EIS, SEIS or VCT schemes.

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Happy gardening! WITH GARDEN EDITOR David Fletcher MCIHort

y last article focused on great gardening books. As the weather continues to be a little cheerless, I thought I might continue the literary theme by looking at how the ‘garden’ itself has featured historically in the novel.

My shelves are full of not only practical guides to gardening, but lots of other things too: biographies, topography, history etc, but also novels. And of the novels I have read, reread, lost, and borrowed it is remarkable just how many feature the garden as something intrinsically valuable.

In historical terms the garden is often something of beauty; something mysterious. More often than not it has deeply romantic or even tragic connotations.

I must admit to liking Dickens, and having read most if not all his novels, the garden would seem to play quite an important role. Writing as he did during the Victorian period, gardens were something many aspired to own. Gardening as a pastime became popular, and the creation of beautiful gardens inspired by the past grew. Dickens himself was very interested in gardens and gardening and suggested that England itself was ‘the one great garden’. I am not sure if he was much of a gardener himself, but certainly owned one at Gads Hill Place.

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ences to gardens, and horticulture such as in Hard Times where even flowers are seen very much as an escape. The character Sissy Jupe who lives in an industrial ‘wilderness of smoke and brick’ loves to be amongst flowers (albeit ones merely seen in the fabric of a carpet). Escape to a garden also for David Copperfield who runs away from the awful conditions of factory life and finds himself in a beautiful oasis. Other examples include the notion of greenspace, if not actually a garden a place to escape the courtroom for Miss Flite in Bleak House.

In other literature, Lewis Caroll, in his sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, sees Alice climbing through a mirror and into Wonderland. Alice enters a magical (though slightly disturbing) garden of talking flowers. In a more romantic frame Jane (of Jane Eyre) is to be found in the grounds of Thornfield Hall, where Rochester reveals to her his true feelings and they become engaged.

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tree, becomes a metaphor for stormy times ahead when it is later struck by lightening and splits in two.

Interestingly gardens represent both an oasis to escape to, and a means to tame nature. Somehow though there is a realisation that nature isn’t quite so easily tamed, and that she has a power outside of our reach and understanding.

There is often a mystery attached to the garden. In perhaps the most famous of all works centred around a garden, the classic children’s novel The Secret Garden, the garden becomes a means to rejuvenate the life of a young girl.

The garden continues to this day to play an important role in literature. I remember reading Phillip Pullmans His Dark Materials and being struck by how significant the the garden is in the conclusion to his fantastical trilogy. In a dramatic end the characters Will and Lyra separated by parallel worlds to avoid the destruction of humanity, take an hour each Midsummers Day to sit together on a bench in Oxford Botanical Gardens.

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