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Date: Monday 9th November 2020
AS we head into another government-imposed coronavirus lockdown, Eden’s retailers have been left wringing their hands over the loss of a key trading period in the run-up to Christmas.
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Enterprise deserves support
Date: Monday 9th November 2020
AS we head into another government-imposed coronavirus lockdown, Eden’s retailers have been left wringing their hands over the loss of a key trading period in the run-up to Christmas.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 26th October 2020
IT is like waking up after some sort of dystopian nightmare. A Lake District where the 50 per cent not filled by holiday and second homes is covered in trees — and I can’t find my way out of a dark and sinister wood populated by wolves and bears.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 12th October 2020
OH the relief at not having hours of tedious speechifying on TV during the party conference season which, this year, has gone virtual due to the coronavirus.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 5th October 2020
WHEN editor of the Northern Echo newspaper in the 1960s, Harold Evans was made aware by readers of a terrible Teesside niff, akin to the Penrith pong only worse, so he sent his photographers out, with a £5 bonus to the person discovering the source of the smell.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 21st September 2020
WELL, you asked for it. Christmas is cancelled. But hey, hang on a minute, there is consolation in our darkest hour. No need for “Here’s To You, Merry Christmas”. Not even Bing, droning on about White Christmasses on those endless music loops in the shops.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 24th August 2020
YOU won’t believe this I know, but I have become a Taylor Swift fan, and not just because of those improbably long legs. The American singer has brought out a new album, Folklore, with a bonus track dedicated to the Lake District, which she visited with ex-boyfriend Harry Styles in 2012.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 10th August 2020
CORONAVIRUS comes with some pretty awful consequences for those who suffer its worst effects. But I’m beginning to think it conceals another symptom, one that’s affected millions of Brits — collective madness.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 3rd August 2020
WHAT with the weather and the holidays, plus the pesky virus, the demolition of Hadrian’s Wall is probably too big a job for a bunch of socially aware snowflakes to attempt. Unlike a few dodgy statues of imperialists and slave traders it’s also a bit long, 73 miles long, and rather heavy to shift.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 20th July 2020
ANOTHER traditional Lakeland show bit the dust last week. At least in real live format. Some enterprising show organisers have gone virtual this summer in a display of defiance to the virus.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 13th July 2020
“BRITAIN is smiling again” proclaimed the headlines at the weekend as the pubs opened and thousands took advantage of the easing of coronavirus restrictions to enjoy a warm beer in a damp car park.
Nobbut laiking: Ross Brewster
Date: Monday 6th July 2020
“THERE can be no summer in England without cricket.” Thus wrote the incomparable cricket correspondent Neville Cardus.
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.
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.
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