The phrase “screaming parties” may conjure up toddlers’ birthdays, but nature provides us with a creature that hurtles round faster, and more noisily, than any jelly-fuelled three-year-old. Summer brings swifts to our skies and never was a bird better
It’s been a bit of a wet start to June – welcome, though, particularly when I been planting out the garden with my summer bedding displays. It’s always nice to plant out something then to watch nature water it in for you, and plants seem to establish
A woman living with a terminal brain tumour is determined to make her experience positive by helping others – and her church has rallied round to support her in one of the most active ways possible. Jayne Douglas has been living with cancer in
WHEN in 1728 he was first referred to as Mr Read, he knew he had arrived. For in that era only gentlemen of some standing were given this title. Mathias Read had started out painting and varnishing church pews when he first arrived in Whitehaven
My youngest has started nursery. It’s bittersweet watching them grow up – you’re proud that they can navigate their way around an iPad better than you, but you kind of miss the dependency. I miss that my youngest used to cry for me when she was
We all remember the tale about the ugly duckling that turned into a swan and there’s a grape that fits the story perfectly. Mourvedre, best known as a Southern French varietal but also known as Mataro in Australia and Monastrell in Spain, has often
Excited youngsters were covered in a rainbow of colour as they raised money for charity. Bookwell School in Egremont hosted a mini colour run in aid of Hospice at Home West Cumbria last week. Children ran laps of the school field while volunteers
