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his year has been a huge challenge so far: Brexit shenanigans ensued, we nearly had WW3, Australia was on fire, the coronavirus pandemic shut down the world, racial tensions over police brutality in the US reached a breaking point and Village Link Magazine shut down in March.

It’s been rough.

With all the stress of the world at the moment, we have been encouraged to find a relaxing hobby, one which gives some calm amidst the storm, and even help with your mental wellbeing.

You may have taken up gardening, growing vegetables or painting. I wish I had of. At the start of lockdown, EON installed an electricity smart meter to read our daily energy consumption, and ever since, I've been on a wattage warpath!

It's literally taken over my life. This small sat-nav syle screen revealing how many kilowatts (ie: money!) is being used at any given minute, is driving me into a smart meter mortal combat.

Who knew how much energy was being used to boil the kettle, to have the TV on standby .. don't get me started on electric toothbrushes.

I feel it’s like a beat-the-clock game — can we spend less today than yesterday? And I’m disappointed it’s only me who has risen to the challenge. My kids think I'm suffering from some form of middle-aged mania, but they are draining the National Grid every day with phones, computers, hair straighteners, computers and TVs often left on 24 hours a day. As I'm typing this, with the warm flicker of candle light I'm very happy with my new obsession - I just wish the dishwasher would hurry up and finish!

Congratulations to our previous issue winners – Mr Murphy for winning the 'Book Review' prize and little Archie, age 4, for finding all the hidden Winston's. We have suspended our popular 'Where's Bear' competition hopefully just for this issue, as we look to restrictions being lifted further.

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CARLISLE’S PAST THE TULLIE HOUSE MURALS

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isitors to the Tullie House function room today may wonder about the five murals adorning the walls. In 1931 a series of ten murals were prepared by students of the ‘School of Art’, based in Tullie House, for the Reference library. These are currently not on display.

However in March 1955, selected students of the re-named ‘College of Art’ were asked to execute large panels to replace the existing murals which had been there since 1932. The murals were to “depict the life of the community in and around Carlisle as it is today.” The first replacement panel was by William Cowper of “agricultural interests surrounding

the city”. Another seven panels followed between 1955 and 1961.

Five of these eight murals are still on display in the Function Room, formerly the Reference Library. They are evidence of the quality of work carried out by art students at Tullie House around the time they moved out of Tullie House to the new ‘College of Art’ on Brampton Road.

The topics were:- 1. Cumbrian Farmyard *(1955) by William Simpson Cowper 2. Carlisle Brewery *(1956) by Max Shepherd. 3. Stead McAlpin & Company Ltd.* (1957) by Joan Weightman 4. Cumbrian Landscape (1957) by Donald Wilkinson 5. Carlisle Covered Market *(1961) by Margaret Harrison 6. Carlisle Station (1961*) by Raymond Higgs 7. Carlisle Market Place (1961) by Michael Mohamed 8. Workington Steelworks (1961) by Conrad Atkinson.

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Mouth-watering inspiration from food editor Jane Ferguson

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think we can all safely say that the last few months have been life changing in many ways. For many of us it made us slow down and stop, giving us time to do the things that we have always wanted to do but never had the time for.

Suddenly time was all we had.

For example, I’ve heard of ones planting vegetable gardens, sewing, crafting, bike riding, painting and of course not forgetting the all important baking which appears to take top billing.

How do I make this assumption? Because you could not buy flour for love nor money for weeks in the supermarkets. It seems that the whole country was baking which I thought was great.

There is nothing like having freshly baked bread, cakes or biscuits and I really hope this trend keeps up. In all of this, however, we do not forget those keys workers who kept everything going during this time and to who we will be forever grateful. - The recipe I am going to share today I came across during lockdown while looking though some old notes. I used to make this when my children were small and it is a great one for kids to get involved with. It is called ‘Singin Hinny’ and stems from Northumberland.

The story goes that they were a

quick snack for children, and as they cooked they sizzled (or sang).

When they were nearly ready the mother would shout ‘they are singin hinny’ (hinny being a term of endearment for a child in Northumberland) meaning that they were nearly ready. How true this story is I do not know, but I like to think it is and I am going to stick with it. They are cooked on a griddle and the other good thing about this recipe is that they are sugarless.

Rub 110g butter into 225g SR flour. Add 75g currants or raisins (I personally prefer currants) and then enough milk to bind together, approx 1 or 2 tablespoons. Roll out to about ½ inch thick and cut into rounds. Lightly

butter a griddle pan (or frying pan will do) and gently cook for 5 mins each side or until cooked through.

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July 12th • J Balchin & What did we Son, Carlisle • 10-2pm. do……start a new Thornaby Moor business!

Dairy, Thursby • The 12th Deli at Number 4, century mill has Hexham • Alston undergone an Wholefoods. extensive refurbishOur future ment by its owners, and includes completion of a Community Benefit the bakery making Society has set up a bread and other products business in the mill to available in local ensure a viable retailers/ markets, as long-term future. well as expanding the Plans were to set flour range to include about milling flour and strong white bread flour establish a bakery on site, to open in the early and plain flour too.

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TRAVEL GUIDE

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TRAVEL editor JANE SEDGWICK HELPS TO TAKE THE HASSLE OUT OF YOUR TRAVEL

irstly, my heart goes out to anyone who has been bereaved through this horrible illness.

When this really took hold in early March, the speed at which COVID 19 raced from Asia across into Europe was just unbelievable.

My main priority was for my clients who were overseas on holidays and business trips; I was in touch with every single one every day, until I knew they were home safely. I had to persuade one business client in Australia to come home early as I could see that if she didn’t, I couldn’t guarantee when I would be able to get her back. Having access to live flight systems here in my ‘office’ I held off a seat for her, while she decided what to do.

Fortunately she listened to me, and returned on one of the last flights out of Melbourne to Dubai, then back to Newcastle.

The financial implications of this global pandemic have just been phenomenal. If everyone wanted cash refunds, there would be no airlines, travel and tourism sector left. As it is, at least one well known company has collapsed and thousands of people have lost their jobs, or have been furloughed as companies try their best to manage their way through this storm.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been very encouraged by the positive signs which are emerging. Since the restrictions have started to ease, and there is light

Check out my ‘Travel from Home’ zoom sessions over the coming months at the end of the tunnel, my inbox and my phone has been filled with new enquiries, rather than cancellations or rebookings, so things are on the up again.

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As of 4 July, pubs, restaurants and hotels in England can re-open.

This also applies to self-catering cottages, lodges, glamping pods, campsites. Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland will be opening later in July. I’m just waiting for the FCO advice and quarantine laws to change in the next few weeks to allow some summer holidays to take place to popular European countries such as Italy, Portugal, Spain and France.

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BOOK REVIEW

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Happy gardening! WITH GARDEN EDITOR David Fletcher MCIHort

hilst I have been a gardener most of my life, both as a professional and an amateur, there are many people who perhaps through force of recent circumstances have discovered their gardens only now during the lockdown.

In a way I am envious of the discoveries they are going to make, even the enjoyment that sometimes comes from trial and error. Growing plants is an adventure, though sometimes it can be frustrating when your prize plants are ravaged by every type of sap sucking insect, or your waking hours are spent picking up slugs and snails, and wonder whether it is morally right to stamp the slimy life out of them under your heel.

One important aspect of learning about gardening is the naming of plants. At first the task of learning long Latin names seems onerous, and often gardeners can name the contents of their borders with a mixture of Latin and common names. Some plants it would seem are always known by their correct 'scientific' name, whilst others are invariably known by a variety of 'common' names. And here lies the problem.

Common names it would seem are not common to everyone, and regional differences let alone the difference between countries can can cause confusion. As an

plants are named consists of two names: the first which is like our surname is the generic (genus), or group name. The second, the specific name (species) whilst it is only given to one plant of the same genus, like a christian name in a family, it can occur in many different genera. What I find more interesting, is the derivation and apprentice working for Leeds Parks meaning of plant names.

Behind every plant name is a Department we were always taught history – it is often a mixture of Latin names, and this training has languages too as both Greek and remained very firmly with me.

Latin are apparent, and the species To give an example of this a name describes the plant in terms bluebell in Scotland is commonly of colour, form or habit. The speknown as a harebell in England. cies name can also be derived from Other examples might be plants the name of a person, or place. that have a range of common As to pronunciation....I'll leave names depending on where you this fascinating subject with a live. Pulmonaria is known as Jerusalem Primrose, Jack and Jill, quote on 'cyclamen' from a very old gardening book. as well as Soldiers and Sailors.

How shall we sound its mystic name I believe that Gaultheria has as Of Greek descent and Persian Fame? many as 32 common names!

Going back centuries each plant Shall 'y' be long and 'a' be short' was known by long descriptive sen- Or will the 'y' and 'a' retort? tences; an extremely unwieldy way Shall 'y' be lightly rippled o'er to name a plant. Not until the great Or should we emphasise it more?

Alas! The doctors disagree, Swedish naturalist Linnaeus came For 'y's' a doubtful quantity. along determined to classify the living world “from buffaloes to but- Some people use it now and then, As if 'twere written 'Sickly-men', tercups” was a dual name system But as it comes from kuklos, Greek, for plants established. So successWhy not 'kick-laymen, so to speak? ful was it that it became univerThe gardener, with his ready wit, sally accepted and your common dandelion when correctly named as Upon another mode has hit; Taraxacum officinale would be rec- He's terse and brief – long names dislikes, ognised and understood whether And so he renders it as 'Sykes'. you were in Cumbria or Umbria!

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1. A man is four times as old as his son. 10 years later, the man will be three times as old as his son. What is the man’s current age?

2. What is a straight line touching a circle called?

3. Three men do a job in 7 days. In how many would five men do the same?

4. In a box, there are four apples and six oranges. What is the probability that the first fruit picked is an orange?

5. Triangles with 2 sides equal are called …?

6. A parallelogram with all sides equal is called a … ?

7. Someone with anosmia is lacking what?

8. What, after oxygen, is the second most common component of the earth’s crust?

9. What is the square root of 225?

10. ln Einstein’s famous theory E=mc2, what does the ‘c’ represent?

11. What word is given to the part of a fraction above the line?

12. It used to be called quicksilver — by what name is this element now known?

13. Where, specifically, did the first moon landing take place?

14. The stirrup, the smallest bone in humans, is found in which part of the body?

15. The mobile-phone operating system Android was developed by which company?

16. Which four planets of the Solar System have rings?

17. What is the hard, set polymer used in old-fashioned telephones and electrical insulators?

18. True or false — more than a quarter of the bones in the human body are in the hands?

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ove them or hate them, here in Cumbria trees are everywhere, from the most modern urban estates to the oldest country house. Living with them can be hard at times. They can block out the rise of the morning sun, give us the unending task of clearing up after them all autumn and we lie awake on long stormy nights waiting for yet another branch to crash through your greenhouse.

But let’s remember what we love about them. The amazing varying shades of colour, the way in which they purify our air, the homes they provide for our wildlife and not forgetting the natural shields they form for our houses to keep out unwanted interest.

As an Arborist (a tree surgeon to you and I) I’m regularly asked to remove a particular tree which is causing a problem. Many don’t necessarily want to ‘remove the tree’ but don’t feel they have much of a choice for instance, it may be blocking sun light, growing too close to bedroom windows or simply causing a headache (or more likely back ache) from picking up the mess it leaves (see what I did there). I try to explain there are ways in which we can manage our trees and perform mainte-

nance on them to reduce all of the problems associated with having a tree in your garden or grounds.

On carrying out the maintenance work we find people are left feeling happy that the tree is still a feature of their garden but at the same time they have overcome a problem it has been creating.

Shown to the right are pictures and terminology used for some of the regular tasks we perform.

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Crown thinning is the removal of a percentage of the branch structure without changing the outline of the tree. Crown thins are usually conducted to allow more light to pass through tree but may also be conducted to reduce the sail area of vulnerable trees or to reduce water uptake. Heavier limbs may also be removed during this operation providing the form of the tree is not damaged or the tree is left in an unbalanced shape. It is also an opportunity to remove dead, dying, diseased, rubbing or crossing limbs.

Crown Lift

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Crown lifting is the removal of the lowest branches of the tree to give a uniform height above ground level. This practice reveals a clear stem which is often more pleasing to the eye.

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Crown reduction is used to reduce the height and/or the spread of the crown of the tree.

This is generally conducted for aesthetic reasons but may be carried out to remove dead wood, “stag horns”, at the top of a mature tree. crown thin

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4. At which battle in 1916 was there said to be a million fatalities?

5. The German attack on which country caused Britain to enter the Second World War? 6. Whose presidency was known as " the businessman’s administration"?

7. In which country, in 1989 was opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi placed under house arrest for her outspoken attacks on the country military rulers?

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here can’t be too many fellwalks that are aborted due to the fellside being on fire but that very circumstance occurred on Sunday 15th July 2018. We were driving towards Thirlmere from Keswick, fully intending to climb Raven Crag that towers high above the lake, when I noticed smoke rising from the trees below the summit. Many of them were well alight; the blaze was making its way down and across the crag.

We consulted a fireman who was cordoning off the road. He left us in little doubt that the fell was out of bounds. On that occasion we opted for High Pike in the Northern fells instead.

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Thirlmere was once two lakes, Leathes Water and Wythburn Water actually set foot on it but climb alongside it on the right hand side. It’s an easy ascent from the road beyond the dam at the North end of the lake.

Thirlmere was once two lakes, Leathes water and Wythburn Water, joined by a little bridge in the narrow -waisted centre.

A 104 foot tall dam was built at the top end in the Victorian era, raising the level by 56 feet, to supply water to Manchester 100 miles distant, carried in two large pipes and gravity fed, at a gentle gradient, all the way down. Two villages, Armboth and Wythburn, were submerged in the flooding of the valley. 50 million gallons have since flowed out, every day.

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I have always considered Thirlmere a somewhat sinister lake but its appearance has improved over the years, the felling of many of the trees opening up the views along its Eastern shore.

We returned after the fires in September. Fallen charred trees were everywhere. The path directly up from the dam was closed. We took a circuitous route up and down, there were plenty of obstacles still to be cleared. It was quite a tough proposition on what was once an easy ascent. This was a day of sunshine and showers. The first half of the walk was bone dry, the second half sodden wet. There is now a well-structured staircase to the summit with anti slip treads and chicken wire. The precipice itself is fenced off, a viewing platform seeming to imply “no further please!”

The rain began, hesitantly at first then becoming more persistent. My jacket was waterproof but my trousers weren’t. The distance back to the car wasn’t far, but there was no way we could hurry, the gradients being too steep. You can either laugh these things off or be thoroughly miserable.

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