Historic move for local press
Date: Monday 29th June 2020
IN a historic move, Cumbria’s two remaining independent newspapers came together this week under the ownership of engineer Andy Barr.
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Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 29th June 2020
WORKINGTON Man. Remember him? The northern caricature labelled by the media as the type of person the Tories needed to win over if they were to triumph at the ballot box in the general election.
Time to back local businesses
Date: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
MOVES by Cumbria County Council to limit the amount of traffic flowing through Penrith, with a temporary order allowing for more effective social distancing for pedestrians, are causing concern among the town’s busi- ness community.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 15th June 2020
DESPERATE for a holiday to help you recover from all those grim weeks spent watching daytime TV, growing your hair and wearing pyjamas all day? Book a caravan because that could be your best hope in Cumbria this summer.
Everyday pressures on pause
Date: Monday 15th June 2020
WE are coming out of hibernation. The forced lockdown of the last three months is at last beginning to ease — families and friends can meet again in small groups, shops and other businesses are beginning to reopen.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 8th June 2020
THE new normal? I’m not sure the old normal was that great.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 1st June 2020
THIS week, but for the infernal COVID-19, I would have been writing reviews for two theatre productions. Sadly Boeing, Boeing has gone, gone, while Wilt has wilted. Two productions which would have formed part of the summer season at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. A season lost in its entirety.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 26th May 2020
REVEALING and disturbing. Cumbria police checked, ticketed and despatched whence they had come a number of drivers heading this way prior to the easing of the lockdown regulations.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 18th May 2020
AFTER eight weeks climbing the walls I’ve radically revised my pre-release bucket list. You can forget your Taj Mahal and your Great Wall of China. Forget the idea of flying for 12 hours in a germ ridden tube full of recycled air.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 12th May 2020
LAZY Sundays. Months of them. Not your 21st Century Sundays. These were the Sundays of my childhood. Those long-ago Sundays of terminal boredom. What was it the Small Faces sang? “Close my eyes and drift away”.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 4th May 2020
IF I asked you to name me some of the talismanic figures of this pandemic crisis I guess you would include the remarkable Captain Tom Moore and the Queen. Their deeds and words have inspired us. One is 100, the other a mere 94.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 27th April 2020
IT’S the silence. That’s what makes our current predicament seem all the more strange and eerie.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 20th April 2020
FORMER Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett refers to it as “the daily sermon on the mount”.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 14th April 2020
IN 1962 the world was a scary place. I was 14, at school, when the Cuban missile crisis broke. The real prospect of worldwide nuclear war. I remember thinking, as our teacher meandered through a history lesson, tomorrow we might all be history.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 6th April 2020
CONFESSION time. I’ve been overdosing on daytime telly during my period of self-isolation.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 30th March 2020
SATURDAY 3pm. The shrill blast of the ref’s whistle and the game is under way.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 16th March 2020
WHAT on earth has Penrith done to attract Jeremy Clarkson’s disparaging remarks in a Sunday Times feature article about, of all things, home cooking?
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 9th March 2020
EVEN if you positively hate football, the presence of VAR — Very Annoying Repetitions — cannot have escaped your consciousness.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 2nd March 2020
SOMETHING former Penrith and the Border MP Rory Stewart said struck a chord with me. He said it seems wrong to use the words “ordinary people” which are so beloved of our political rulers.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 11th February 2020
I SUSPECT that most viewers of the BBC film The Windermere Children, especially when it reached that poignant ending as the young actors merged into real life survivors, were like me — hankies at the ready to dab at moist eyes.
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