After about ten years of rarely going for a meal because the choices in the area and even as far as Lancaster were poor (please put we right if you know otherwise): we have found a fantastic place.
You will remember that I wrote here that I'd had the best meal of my life here at their French evening. I wrote it because I meant it. You'd therefor expect me to be back as it's right on my doorstep and we've already been back for their Spanish evening and now - tonight and tomorrow- they got a Greek evening and we've already seen the menu.
I've mixed feelings - I have this trait that when I've found something good I want to share it - which close friends think is stupid : the prices will go up and the place will get packed. My reflection is that they deserve it and I aim to eat my full before that happens; disappear from the scene and leave the place to you guys. I've managed without meals out for ten years - I can do it again!
Friday, 17 May 2013
Thursday, 16 May 2013
This is a wonderful community event
Many of you will know Clare Clarke who his working her socks off together with her many friends to organise this event on May 31st for her friend,
In October 2012 our friend Paul Gorman, aged 38 had a heart attack which left him brain damaged. This has resulted in his wife Karen and daughters Jessica aged 7 and Ella aged 4 with financial difficulties. We would like to ease the worry of this situation as much as possible. On 16th March 2013 at 10am we walked from The Strawberry, Barrow to Ulverston via the Coast Road and back to The Strawberry. If a to join us and/or donate, a family would be very grateful. Please donate to anyone involved or pop into Highfield Dental Practice. See the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/491136097610420/
In October 2012 our friend Paul Gorman, aged 38 had a heart attack which left him brain damaged. This has resulted in his wife Karen and daughters Jessica aged 7 and Ella aged 4 with financial difficulties. We would like to ease the worry of this situation as much as possible. On 16th March 2013 at 10am we walked from The Strawberry, Barrow to Ulverston via the Coast Road and back to The Strawberry. If a to join us and/or donate, a family would be very grateful. Please donate to anyone involved or pop into Highfield Dental Practice. See the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/491136097610420/
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
There are some gems that you wouldn't want to miss
That is if you realised what was on offer.
Sarah McCormack is sharing her considerable knowledge of how plants grow in a course at her domain in Ford Park this next Saturday. You will get very good attention: if you came you would be increasing the numbers up to three ! Sarah tells me the course will definitely run albeit maybe for the morning only.
Sarah McCormack is sharing her considerable knowledge of how plants grow in a course at her domain in Ford Park this next Saturday. You will get very good attention: if you came you would be increasing the numbers up to three ! Sarah tells me the course will definitely run albeit maybe for the morning only.
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Hard times when I was young
As an oldy, trying to communicate about what life was life with young people when I was their age, I'm reminded of the Monty Python sketch:
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
This Friday 10 pm in The Gill
The magic of the Dancing Gill Flags by 'candlelight'in the dark.
Twenty Four Flares actually one for every flag.
The flags in this lighting look fabulous - a fresh Gill attraction!
Photos coming up tonight:
Twenty Four Flares actually one for every flag.
The flags in this lighting look fabulous - a fresh Gill attraction!
Photos coming up tonight:
Labour - and others - yuk
It might help Labour if their web site was up to date!
Wrong voting day and no mention of their County candidates. Are they as indifferent as the rest of us?
Mind you the Conservatives and Liberals are totally complacent - They don't even have web sites.
In fact if you put Ulverston Liberal Party into Google you get the Ulverston Green Party!
Go to their web site and you'd never know there had just been an election. All they advertise is their none existent 'debates' where they argue against themselves.
Conclusion: No one in Ulverston cares a toss about politics.
No wonder we get rubbish councillors and the town continues its downward spiral.
There's only one that I have a good word for.
The door is wide open for some good Independent candidates for our next election on May 7th 2015
Two years to prepare.
Mind you the Conservatives and Liberals are totally complacent - They don't even have web sites.
In fact if you put Ulverston Liberal Party into Google you get the Ulverston Green Party!
Go to their web site and you'd never know there had just been an election. All they advertise is their none existent 'debates' where they argue against themselves.
Conclusion: No one in Ulverston cares a toss about politics.
No wonder we get rubbish councillors and the town continues its downward spiral.
There's only one that I have a good word for.
The door is wide open for some good Independent candidates for our next election on May 7th 2015
Two years to prepare.
Monday, 6 May 2013
Work on the cobbles finishes this next Sunday
It's taken a long time. The result is nowhere near perfect but the people from Colas have worked very hard. Some have been coming all the way from Newcastle every day, others from Wigan.
The last stretch along the front of the shops at the bottom of Market Street will be done next Sunday.
Wouldn't it be good to give these workers a good send off - they have worked hard travelling long distances to complete the work. Their attitude has been a vast improvement to the guys from Amey who did the top stretch and insulted the public and shopkeepers with their casual approach to getting the job done.
How many people realise the work should never have needed doing in the first place and shouldn't have cost us a penny?
It was our county councillors back in the early 2000s who didn't keep tabs on incompetent work of supervision by the Cumbria Highways Department under the arrogant Nick Raymond. Contractors where allowed to dig holes in the cobbles without doing a good job of back filling the holes with good quality hardcore (gravel). The soil below then settled, created depressions which attracted water leading to a a chaotic road surface. Later on in this story (after their knuckles had been rapped) United Utilities showed us that quality work could be done so that a year later one couldn't tell there had been any activity,
The contractors who accessed services under the street weren't made to come back to do repairs as they were legally bound if called back within two years to make good by the Highways Department. Our councillors ignored or were ignorant of what was happening.
It was only when a campaign was run in 2008 by Geoff Dellow because of the extremely poor work done by Balfour Beatty, the contractors for United Utilities, when laying a water main down Market Street in 2005 that the problem was highlighted. Even then our local councillors took no interest and our petition was ignored. Fortunately one of the people signing the petition was Roz Harris, formerly from Ulverston, who now worked away for United Utilities. She went up to the top of her company and pointed out what had been happening.
United Utilities then apologised and agreed to do repairs in spite of the fact that their legal contract to do repairs had expired in 2007. The full story has been documented in full, here on this blog using this link
Could the same thing happen all over again ? Yes, with the quality of councillors we are still electing. The public continue to vote according to national trends and take little interest in the kind of person they elect and what our councillors actually do. At election times their literature is full of half truths and slagging off the opposition. As a result the councillors feed the public deceitful and irrelevant information and once elected do a poor job of keeping the public informed - which is why when planning to run for council, this blog was started . We need councillors who will keep us in touch with what they are doing from week to week: for instance running a blog so that we can vote intelligently at our next election. (Which will be in 2015)
The last stretch along the front of the shops at the bottom of Market Street will be done next Sunday.
Wouldn't it be good to give these workers a good send off - they have worked hard travelling long distances to complete the work. Their attitude has been a vast improvement to the guys from Amey who did the top stretch and insulted the public and shopkeepers with their casual approach to getting the job done.
How many people realise the work should never have needed doing in the first place and shouldn't have cost us a penny?
It was our county councillors back in the early 2000s who didn't keep tabs on incompetent work of supervision by the Cumbria Highways Department under the arrogant Nick Raymond. Contractors where allowed to dig holes in the cobbles without doing a good job of back filling the holes with good quality hardcore (gravel). The soil below then settled, created depressions which attracted water leading to a a chaotic road surface. Later on in this story (after their knuckles had been rapped) United Utilities showed us that quality work could be done so that a year later one couldn't tell there had been any activity,
The contractors who accessed services under the street weren't made to come back to do repairs as they were legally bound if called back within two years to make good by the Highways Department. Our councillors ignored or were ignorant of what was happening.
It was only when a campaign was run in 2008 by Geoff Dellow because of the extremely poor work done by Balfour Beatty, the contractors for United Utilities, when laying a water main down Market Street in 2005 that the problem was highlighted. Even then our local councillors took no interest and our petition was ignored. Fortunately one of the people signing the petition was Roz Harris, formerly from Ulverston, who now worked away for United Utilities. She went up to the top of her company and pointed out what had been happening.
United Utilities then apologised and agreed to do repairs in spite of the fact that their legal contract to do repairs had expired in 2007. The full story has been documented in full, here on this blog using this link
Could the same thing happen all over again ? Yes, with the quality of councillors we are still electing. The public continue to vote according to national trends and take little interest in the kind of person they elect and what our councillors actually do. At election times their literature is full of half truths and slagging off the opposition. As a result the councillors feed the public deceitful and irrelevant information and once elected do a poor job of keeping the public informed - which is why when planning to run for council, this blog was started . We need councillors who will keep us in touch with what they are doing from week to week: for instance running a blog so that we can vote intelligently at our next election. (Which will be in 2015)
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Friday, 3 May 2013
What : no flags to welcome Printfest ?
Basically the Coro manager strongly recommended that we carry Public Liability Insurance (it could cost a hundred pounds for three days). We couldn't find anyone to cover us. (Printfest themselves, the Ulverston Town Council or the main Flag Festival on the shops in town were all approached).
In reply to a letter sent on Friday 26th April we finally get reply on Wednesday 1st May (after a verbal reminder) .
Ralph Spours (Chair of the latter) wrote:
Hello Geof.
Thank you fro your email.
Peter is dealing with this insurance matter.
The flags all look good and the heavy winds have now subsided. I hope they stay that way.
Regards,
Ralph
Sadly we have heard nothing from Peter (Winston) their secretary.
The Flags will therefore enjoy an uninterupted stay in The Gill around the Cumbria Way Monument.
In reply to a letter sent on Friday 26th April we finally get reply on Wednesday 1st May (after a verbal reminder) .
Ralph Spours (Chair of the latter) wrote:
Hello Geof.
Thank you fro your email.
Peter is dealing with this insurance matter.
The flags all look good and the heavy winds have now subsided. I hope they stay that way.
Regards,
Ralph
Sadly we have heard nothing from Peter (Winston) their secretary.
The Flags will therefore enjoy an uninterupted stay in The Gill around the Cumbria Way Monument.
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Elections - A None-event ?
Finding out who the Ulverston Candidates are,is difficult enough. The answer lies here.
The choice is:
13 Church Road, Great Urswick Ulverston Cumbria LA12 0TA
Clough, John Victor - (LABOUR)
23 Soutergate Ulverston Cumbria LA12 7ES
Loynes, Christopher - (GREEN PARTY)
7 Ainsworth Street Ulverston Cumbria LA12 7EU
Martin, Paul Joseph - (UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY)
16 Dorchester Crescent Ulverston Cumbria LA12 9LP
Nicholson, Maureen Frances - (LIBERAL DEMOCRAT)
12 Canal Street Ulverston Cumbria LA12 7JZ
Of all these, I recommend Andrew Hudson for Ulverston East, not for his party but for the kind of person he is.
I'm now about to vote in a very angry mood - the candidates I have to choose from are either lying bastards that will bend the truth at the drop of the hat or they are trustworthy but inactive when it comes to getting involved with local affairs. The one who is the least suitable - James Airey - is the one I expect to get voted in just because "We always vote Tory".
When will people start voting for the person?
East ward: you have a great guy in Andrew Hudson but how many votes will he get? 200 would give me some hope for the future!
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The choice is:
Ulverston East
Hornby, Peter - (CONSERVATIVE)
26 Meeting House Lane Ulverston Cumbria LA12 9ND
Hudson, Andrew - (LIBERAL DEMOCRAT)
25 Monument Way Ulverston Cumbria LA12 9SY
O'Hara, Robert - (GREEN PARTY)
34 Queen Street Ulverston Cumbria LA12 7AF
Wilson, John Mark - (LABOUR AND CO-OPERATIVE PARTY)
7 Parkfield, Swarthmoor Ulverston Cumbria LA12 0HW
26 Meeting House Lane Ulverston Cumbria LA12 9ND
Hudson, Andrew - (LIBERAL DEMOCRAT)
25 Monument Way Ulverston Cumbria LA12 9SY
O'Hara, Robert - (GREEN PARTY)
34 Queen Street Ulverston Cumbria LA12 7AF
Wilson, John Mark - (LABOUR AND CO-OPERATIVE PARTY)
7 Parkfield, Swarthmoor Ulverston Cumbria LA12 0HW
Ulverston West
Airey, James - (CONSERVATIVE)13 Church Road, Great Urswick Ulverston Cumbria LA12 0TA
Clough, John Victor - (LABOUR)
23 Soutergate Ulverston Cumbria LA12 7ES
Loynes, Christopher - (GREEN PARTY)
7 Ainsworth Street Ulverston Cumbria LA12 7EU
Martin, Paul Joseph - (UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY)
16 Dorchester Crescent Ulverston Cumbria LA12 9LP
Nicholson, Maureen Frances - (LIBERAL DEMOCRAT)
12 Canal Street Ulverston Cumbria LA12 7JZ
Of all these, I recommend Andrew Hudson for Ulverston East, not for his party but for the kind of person he is.
I'm now about to vote in a very angry mood - the candidates I have to choose from are either lying bastards that will bend the truth at the drop of the hat or they are trustworthy but inactive when it comes to getting involved with local affairs. The one who is the least suitable - James Airey - is the one I expect to get voted in just because "We always vote Tory".
When will people start voting for the person?
East ward: you have a great guy in Andrew Hudson but how many votes will he get? 200 would give me some hope for the future!
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