Time to help each other
Date: Monday 23rd March 2020
THESE are extraordinary times. Coronavirus has taken hold — bringing fear and confusion to communities around the world.
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Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 23rd March 2020
FORMER Cumbria director of public health Professor John Ashton still has a head of hair, which is just as well as he says he’s been tearing it out for weeks now over the Government’s response to the coronavirus crisis.
Time for a change
Date: Monday 16th March 2020
A CUMBRIAN school closed this week — the first in the county to do so as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, after two cases were confirmed there.
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?
A rural institution
Date: Monday 9th March 2020
THE future of Newton Rigg College, at Penrith, is uncertain, with a strategic review under way to determine its future operation.
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: Monday 24th February 2020
PICTURE it if you will. You live in a small country village, perhaps somewhere on the East Fellside of Cumbria. You’ve given up the petrol driven motor. You’ve done what the Government and eco-warriors ask of you. Quite reasonably you want to do your bit for the planet. So you’ve paid over the odds and gone electric. Now where do you plug the thing in? And how much more is it costing to run, assuming you can ever get out of your village to go to work?
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 3rd February 2020
RESEARCH on official sentencing statistics published by the Onward think-tank has found that criminals with long records get softer sentences than first-time offenders. Perversely, it’s a case of “more crime, less time”.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 27th January 2020
IT’S the age of protest and, for what it’s worth, I registered mine at the Morrisons store in Penrith last Friday. I ordered the full English breakfast — with extra black pudding, just for emphasis.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 13th January 2020
MANY of you would fancy a job like that I know, but what kind of work place is it that freely dispenses pints of beer, good wines and champers during office hours?
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 6th January 2020
SNOBBISH, sneering, patronising, shouty, Twitter obsessed, an intractable Leftie, a luvvie. Apparently I’m all of these things.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 23rd December 2019
THERE was only one drawback about getting into conversation with David Bellamy — you didn’t need to have any urgent appointments because he simply wouldn’t stop talking once he got going.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 16th December 2019
IF it was a test of the audience’s fortitude just think what it was like for those who came to perform at Keswick’s old Blue Box Century Theatre.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 9th December 2019
OLD Jock could not be called, by any stretch of the imagination, a handsome-looking fellow.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 2nd December 2019
MAYBE it’s the grey whiskered ageing process. That time of life when growing hair from the ears becomes easier than retaining it on the top of head. An old codgers yearning for lost youth.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 26th November 2019
I’VE a strong suspicion that William Wordsworth was no fan of tourism and that he would have been four square behind talk of restricting traffic in busy parts of the Lake District.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 18th November 2019
“WOW, bet you had a great time at the festival”. That was one comment I got this week while I was out shopping in town.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 11th November 2019
DURING a search for some old documents the other day, up popped my long-lost exam certificates from the 1960s.
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