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.
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A democratic duty
Date: Monday 9th December 2019
CANDIDATES standing for election in Penrith and the Border have come face to face with voters at a series of hustings events this week. In addition, they make a direct plea for your votes on Page 12 of this edition.
Wishful thinking?
Date: Monday 2nd December 2019
POTENTIAL conflict between cars and bicycles on Eden’s roads has come into focus.
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.
Pay heed to road safety calls
Date: Tuesday 26th November 2019
HIGHWAYS managers are under pressure on two fronts to make changes which, it is claimed, could save lives on Eden’s road network.
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.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 4th November 2019
ISN’T it time we all, media and public, cut Prince Harry and Meghan a bit of slack?
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 28th October 2019
FIVE phone calls, £4,000 saved. And all just by questioning an elderly uncle’s household bills.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 21st October 2019
THE soon to retire speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has done his bit to bring Parliament into disrepute during his nine abysmal years in office.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 14th October 2019
PARLIAMENT has lost one of its honourable, intelligent and reasonable voices with Rory Stewart’s decision to quit the Tory party and stand down as Penrith and the Border MP at the inevitable forthcoming general election.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 7th October 2019
“WHEN you are not here, please ensure the door is locked.” Yes, think about it. A sign I once spotted in a local village hall.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 1st October 2019
I KNOW exactly what I would choose to bin in TV’s Room 101 programme — all those books and CDs and videos under the general title of “wellness”.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 23rd September 2019
TREASURE has come to me this week in the shape of a small, dog-eared book, published in 1967 and sold at the princely cost of five shillings. It contains a collection of the columns penned in the period between 1935 and 1967 by the Daily Mirror’s Cassandra — William Neil Connor, later to become Sir William.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 17th September 2019
THE Latin has come in handy from time to time. It has its applications in the words business. But I can’t say the hours spent in class at school have been much benefit in my subsequent life.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
I’M all for saving the planet. Doing our bit for the environment. Cutting harmful emissions. Why, I even take my own plastic bags to the supermarket when I go shopping.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 27th August 2019
NEVER accuse me of failing to look after the interests of my valued readers.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Tuesday 20th August 2019
“’ERE now,” as nefarious spiv Private Walker might have said in Dad’s Army, “I can make you a few quid, easy.”
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 12th August 2019
WHENEVER I’m about to start having a go at modern day popular music — so much better in the 60s, I moan — I look back to some of the cultural classics of my youth, such as My Old Man’s a Dustman and Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight, and promptly shut up.
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