A new stall on the market

It's great to have a new stall on Ulverston market.They will be here every month on the first Saturday.

This project could be good for them and good for us :we need to build up stalls selling quality products:
We have got the French  bread stall,  David's garden plant stall from Jane Lane nurseries and now one very welcome addition selling smoked food of different kinds:spiced meats and cheeses: you can taste them free if you wish.

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The market stall in action, lots of interested customers (Photo kindly taken by Mike Townsend of Birmingham who happened to be passing and promptly delivered my email 30 minutes ago)

More of the Smokery with Mary proudly in charge:

This is a relatively new project for Haverigg Prison. Here's a couple of articles on the project:

First food smokery installed at Haverigg Prison

Haverigg prison to Build on Smokery's success

Here's a photo from their article:

SMOKIN’ HMP Haverigg’s smokery, with prison officer Morag Hopkin checking the trays of prawns and fish half way through their smoking process

Please read the above Evening mail article from which the following is taken:

Tony Corcoran, the new governor said: “It has been incredibly successful and I want to build on that success.

“I want to use that as a pathway for prisoners being relocated into the community – there is an opportunity to expand into real work.”

The Cumbria Life gold awards follow caterer Morag Hopkins being named as a recipient of the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s New Honours list for her services to the rehabilitation of offenders.

Ulverston's Roads

We are experiencing more and more traffic bottlenecks in Ulverston:our narrow streets where never built for this amount of traffic.

It therefore makes no sense to allow any further house building in the town until our roads and streets are sorted out.

I suggest that Ulverston is not a suitable place for further house building until this is done. The proposal that substantially more houses are built here is surely ludicrous until our roads are sorted out.

Folk Weekend

The 16th Furness Tradition Festival 11 - 13 July Here are some videos of  festival performers to whet your appetite for the weekend. Horizontal Sunday no ratings yet 151 views The Wilson Family  17 ratings 4,167 views Rachel Hair and Jenn Butterworth no ratings yet 52 views JFK-B  1 ratings 105 views You can check prices and order your tickets by clicking here Check out our website for more information and videos about the artists.  Camping is available at Ford Park. Click here for more information. Ulverston Car parking is only £1.20 for a full day on Saturday. Thank you very much to  all of our sponsors. However, we still need to raise more to secure both this and future festivals. You can find out more on our website.   Furness Tradition thanks the following for their support:- Ulverston Town Council  Xanado Ltd   Keys Letting CGP Books Furness Morris The Hope and Anchor The Farmers Arms Natterjacks Coffee House Town House Tumbling Tom Ceilidh Band Andrew Moir Letting Agency Gillam's Tea Rooms Arnside Highlights And a special thank you to all our individual sponsors and friends - you know who you are. Looking forward to seeing you all at the festival Email: info@furnesstradition.org.uk Tel:    01229 588290 www.furnesstradition.org.uk

Furness Tradition · PO Box 25 · Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 7UN · United Kingdom

Furness Tradition Programme

You'll find even more information here

Encouragement

Encouragement is one of the most powerful motivators for us all.

We would all benefit from more of it.

I know two families here in Ulverston we are very encouraging to their children. The result is that the children are full of confidence and show respect in a natural way to others.Both families have children that are very open and confident  to strangers.

One three year year old has just sailed into nursery school and loves every minute of it.   She always has a big grin on her face and is liked by all those around her.What a wonderful start in life she has had. Both parents give all their children lots of cuddles and praise wherever possible.

They are rarely critical and negative.This does not mean that the children become 'spoilt brats'. On the contrary the are shown clear guidance of how to behave. They are encouraged to show kindness to others and take care of things around them. They have a naughty bench and undue cheekiness to adults is immediately corrected.They are reliable when out in public to follow safe rules.

What a brilliant start in life these children are being given

Showing understanding and being forgiving

What is happening in Israel and other parts of theworld is horrendous.

We all need to learn that retaliation leads to increasing bitterness.

We need to face up to the  problems that face us all.

It could happen here in ten to twenty years time if we allow bitterness to escalate.

Here in Ulverston we are lucky to have a lovely surge of positive energy coming from Dave, Mister , Monster Crossley who has a Facebook page here. Lets all build on it and support this amazing guy.

Beware: The crooks are at it again

Over and over again crooks are trying every gimmick they can to invade our computers.

To most people this can be quite frightening but if you follow a simple rule this will help.

Never open a zip attachment or for that matter any attachment at all that comes from an unknown source.Just delete it. It has done no harm if you delete it  and it is harmless if unopened.  Even so delete it just in case you were to open it by accident.

Here's one doing the rounds at the moment appearing to come from amazon:

National Good evening, Thank you for your order. We’ll let you know once your item(s) have dispatched.You can view the status of your order or make changes to it by visiting Your Orders on Amazon.com. Order Details Order R:131316 Placed on May 28, 2014 Order details and invoice in attached file. Need to make changes to your order? Visit our Help page for more information and video guides. We hope to see you again soon. Amazon.com

here iswritten :"order id .zip (70.6 kB


Another giveaway is that If you look at precisely who sent it  you will see it is Not from amazon at allbut from:Amazon.com- someone else

If ever in doubt do asearch on Google with the subject anf sender. Here"  Order details amazon" which leads to this page

What a great idea

Sarah McNichol organised Abi's 5 year old party in Mill Dam Park.

We had lots of parents and children there and lots of fun :some one brought a cricket set andplasyed cricket whilst the rest used the equipment.

What a wonderful idea

The park is just the right size for this kind of activity: Howabout having another, soon.

Being kind

There is s phrase that really grates with me:

"That was so kind"

Me kind?

Never.

I am always totally selfish.

I do things because I want to and get a kick out of doing.Helping someone else makes me feel good.It's very important to each one of us to feel needed in some way by others.If we're honest this is why ewe are 'kind'.

I heard someone I knew from way back, thirty years ago, no longer could drive her car and was planning to walk all the way home with her shopping from  Booths so I offered her a lift home. It was something I enjoyed doing and I enjoyed being in a position to help. For me it didn't feel that I was being kind.
I'm growing sweet peas specifically because I like giving them away : I get the buzz from receiving the thanks from others and surprising them with them.I don't see this as being kind.

Conversely I love receiving gifts and helpfulness from others. but never feel that they are being kind.

Does anyone else feel the same?

Our sad local leaders

None of our local elected representatives will get involved with the plight of the new residents of Hoad View , the newly built houses at the end on Union Lane.

The reason for this,  for the keener ones, will be that they have their hands full dealing with issues that are important to the town itself.

After six months they are still with out phones despite repeated promises made to them by the house builders Persimmons. They are left to battle  individually with BT without support  to get these phones.

The following councillors have been approached to help without any response on this issue:Colin Pickthall, Margaret Hornby, Helen Irving and James Airey.

We should all beware of allowing Persimmons to build if they cannot fulfil their promises  and no one is there to help when needed.

I have come to the conclusion that most of our politicians are very disappointing kind of people and only wish to deal with one or two of them who I find are exceptional.

It's great that we have others in the townwho inspire action.People like Dave, Monster Monster Crossly who promoted and persuaded others to get involved withe the unusual  knit bombing are far more value to our community than fifty of our old style politicians who can be so negative to other people. Dave uses Facebook to communicate.