Join us here, for lunch- bring your own and share, on Sunday July 18th between 12:00 and 14:00.
A chance to make some pottery for the park at 14:00.
Sweet Peas galore!
Anyone want to bring a Barbecue?
Keep your fingers crossed about the weather - an 8ft square canopy and two more picnic tables will be in place.
Geoff
Friday, 9 July 2010
The setts in the Gill are dangerous.
James Airey promised a response to this video by yesterday :
" I am pushing for work to be done on the setts and will have an answer to timescales etc with you before Friday. "
So far , I've received nothing.
Admittedly getting blood out of a stone would be easier than getting a commitment from Cumbria Highways Department.
Who's in charge?
Us - through our councillor or the County Council who appear to be a law unto themselves.
Steam is building up here in the Gill to do this job well ourselves. Work is planned to start in August 2010 . . . . .
Other authorities are being consulted on how the technique of laying the setts without cement is done from experts in Dublin where this is their practice.
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An email just received from James Airey:
From: james.airey@cumbriacc.gov.uk
Subject: setts the Gill
Date: 9 July 2010 07:53:50 BST
To: gd@tygh.co.uk
Dear Geoff
The setts on the Gill were looked at by Highways on Wednesday after I chased them again, a works order has been placed and the work will be done within 6 weeks. Hopefully as soon as possible but no longer than 6 weeks.
Regards James.
(That's by the 20th August)
My reply:
"Many thanks,
What work do they plan to do when they do it?
Will you be supervising/checking it?
Best wishes
Geoff"
A result :
Well done:
What mark out of 10?
Bear in mind the difficulties involved!
Hosepipe ban - it's official
Feel free to report any sprinklers being used, etc to this site.
If they are in Ulverston, I shall go out and film this, give a polite warning and if they continue, publish video on this web site.
.
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Worth watching on iPlayer
One of our readers has posted this comment:
"A program been on this week bbc 1 at 9-15 am called The Estate We're In its about a women who took on the council to sort a run down estate who got nothing done by the council.Now you should be able to watch the other episodes on iplayer"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t1f4w
We have 6 days left to watch it.
I've been watching back episodes of Tribal Wives which Chris Loynes alerted me about. only managed three episodes before they ran out - which was yesterday.
If anyone comes across anything else of interest on TV or in an online newspaper - let's have it!
"A program been on this week bbc 1 at 9-15 am called The Estate We're In its about a women who took on the council to sort a run down estate who got nothing done by the council.Now you should be able to watch the other episodes on iplayer"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t1f4w
We have 6 days left to watch it.
I've been watching back episodes of Tribal Wives which Chris Loynes alerted me about. only managed three episodes before they ran out - which was yesterday.
If anyone comes across anything else of interest on TV or in an online newspaper - let's have it!
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Adult education courses
The new 2010 -11 brochure has been published and can be obtained at the Library and Town Hall.
A very professional job has been done by the team based at Cartmel School led by Jude Godden who has rescued our ability to attend a variety wide variety of courses.
The on-line version is not yet quite ready.
One can enroll at :
Victoria High School this next Friday, July 9th 9:45 - 12:00
or in September on Thursday 9th 2010 12:00 til 14:00 in the Library.
These limited times, I suspect, reflect the low budget available for running this service.
Mind you this brochure probably catches only a fraction of what goes on in Ulverston.
If you wanted to do Egyptian Dancing at 11:00 on a Saturday morning would you know where to go?
A very professional job has been done by the team based at Cartmel School led by Jude Godden who has rescued our ability to attend a variety wide variety of courses.
The on-line version is not yet quite ready.
One can enroll at :
Victoria High School this next Friday, July 9th 9:45 - 12:00
or in September on Thursday 9th 2010 12:00 til 14:00 in the Library.
These limited times, I suspect, reflect the low budget available for running this service.
Mind you this brochure probably catches only a fraction of what goes on in Ulverston.
If you wanted to do Egyptian Dancing at 11:00 on a Saturday morning would you know where to go?
Sunday, 4 July 2010
Our Monday morning interview - Mr Chirpy
Each week, someone from Ulverston will appear here.
Here's our first one - a little early!
Don't we all look forward to seeing him here every Thursday and Saturday Market Day?
Here's our first one - a little early!
Don't we all look forward to seeing him here every Thursday and Saturday Market Day?
Saturday, 3 July 2010
South Ulverston - flood meeting at the Coro last Monday
I have delayed writing about this as I was so disgusted with the outcome.
The 'officials' made a mockery of the purpose of the meeting by hardly offering any new information. Their presence, sitting there to provide explanations and field questions showed severe contempt for the public by avoiding giving any useful answers.
The politicians were for the most part absent.
The Mayor , Phil Lister tried to do a good job of chairing the meeting, ex-mayor Norman Bishop-Rowe helped proceedings by being friendly and carrying the mike to members of the public that wanted to speak. Only one Town Councillor, apart from Lister and Bishop-Rowe, - Jack Rice spoke up in concern for what had happened.
Despite the key SLDC Councillor Mark Wilson being present he offered nothing of note.
John Woodcock MP sent a representative who offered nice words and an offer of involvement- which remains to be seen.
Where were the other SLDC councillors, and why were the County Councillors totally absent?
Heather Shepherd, a representative form a National Flood Forum organisation whom had come to the meeting specially from the Midlands was very helpful giving advice on obtaining insurance.
David Myers a representative for a new South Ulverston Flood Action Group was a welcome breath of fresh air, presenting challenging facts.
In the end , the only way to obtain information as to the precise cause of the flooding in people's houses was for Dr Geoff Dellow to offer explanations and ask Mike Fell of the Environment Agency whether he agreed - he said the explanation that Was offered was quite probable.This was that because of the sandy soil in the area (similar to that to be found on the adjacent allotments)this allowed to water to travel underground through the soil as a result of the pressure from the lake behind the defense and up through cracks in peoples concrete floor.
Similarly Paul Whitby of United Utilities came totally ill equipped not knowing anything about the existence of the drains in the area. He in turn agreed with Dr Dellow that the surface water drain from South Ulverston to the sewage works by the sea was inadequate which was why the extremely high volumes of water coming from the town instead of taking water away from So Ulverston actually acted in reverse resulting in drain water actually coming out of downstairs toilets into people's houses.
Only trivial agreements were given to the public for the future.
SLDC said that the problem was highly complex and offered nothing more - they showed no sign of caring either. No undertaking was given to clear any of the 14 (out of 15) blocked drains in the area.
Looks like we can expect exactly the same if flooding occurs again in the next five years.
The new flood action group have certainly got thier work cut out.
Heather Shepherd of the Flood Forum commented afterwords that it was meetings like this that totally turned people off that democracy made anything better.
Why did the Mail reporter offer such a poor article in the paper?
Again a second flood meeting with what Officials and Councillors do best : respectively - avoid clear answers and taking on any commitment to sorting a problem out.
Why bother going?
The 'officials' made a mockery of the purpose of the meeting by hardly offering any new information. Their presence, sitting there to provide explanations and field questions showed severe contempt for the public by avoiding giving any useful answers.
The politicians were for the most part absent.
The Mayor , Phil Lister tried to do a good job of chairing the meeting, ex-mayor Norman Bishop-Rowe helped proceedings by being friendly and carrying the mike to members of the public that wanted to speak. Only one Town Councillor, apart from Lister and Bishop-Rowe, - Jack Rice spoke up in concern for what had happened.
Despite the key SLDC Councillor Mark Wilson being present he offered nothing of note.
John Woodcock MP sent a representative who offered nice words and an offer of involvement- which remains to be seen.
Where were the other SLDC councillors, and why were the County Councillors totally absent?
Heather Shepherd, a representative form a National Flood Forum organisation whom had come to the meeting specially from the Midlands was very helpful giving advice on obtaining insurance.
David Myers a representative for a new South Ulverston Flood Action Group was a welcome breath of fresh air, presenting challenging facts.
In the end , the only way to obtain information as to the precise cause of the flooding in people's houses was for Dr Geoff Dellow to offer explanations and ask Mike Fell of the Environment Agency whether he agreed - he said the explanation that Was offered was quite probable.This was that because of the sandy soil in the area (similar to that to be found on the adjacent allotments)this allowed to water to travel underground through the soil as a result of the pressure from the lake behind the defense and up through cracks in peoples concrete floor.
Similarly Paul Whitby of United Utilities came totally ill equipped not knowing anything about the existence of the drains in the area. He in turn agreed with Dr Dellow that the surface water drain from South Ulverston to the sewage works by the sea was inadequate which was why the extremely high volumes of water coming from the town instead of taking water away from So Ulverston actually acted in reverse resulting in drain water actually coming out of downstairs toilets into people's houses.
Only trivial agreements were given to the public for the future.
SLDC said that the problem was highly complex and offered nothing more - they showed no sign of caring either. No undertaking was given to clear any of the 14 (out of 15) blocked drains in the area.
Looks like we can expect exactly the same if flooding occurs again in the next five years.
The new flood action group have certainly got thier work cut out.
Heather Shepherd of the Flood Forum commented afterwords that it was meetings like this that totally turned people off that democracy made anything better.
Why did the Mail reporter offer such a poor article in the paper?
Again a second flood meeting with what Officials and Councillors do best : respectively - avoid clear answers and taking on any commitment to sorting a problem out.
Why bother going?
What kind of butterfly
Gladys writes in
"We thought we knew what it is but it does not match up with official photographs."
A lovely mutation don't you think?
Click on the picture to get an enlarged version.
When does one kind of butterfly become a new one?
"We thought we knew what it is but it does not match up with official photographs."
A lovely mutation don't you think?
Click on the picture to get an enlarged version.
When does one kind of butterfly become a new one?
Friday, 2 July 2010
This month's gorgeous photos from Allan Wilson
See the full collection at his Gallery in Brogden Street - some lovely cards.
Thursday, 1 July 2010
The New Mural
People's comment on the new mural designed and painted by Gill Barron with help by local children.
A more complete version with comments from people who happened to be passing.
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