In A Kells Garden: Spring returns

Gordon Nicholson reports on the birdlife in his Kells Garden

Last updated 4 March 2010
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Beauty with Julie Morgan

Senhouse opens doors for taste of well-being

Last updated 4 March 2010
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Flower arranging tips

Step one: Select a vase to work with and cut the oasis to fit. Soak the oasis in water to keep the flowers from drying out.

Last updated 3 March 2010
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Exercise that’s where the heart is

Q I’m looking to add a resistance programme to the good amount of cardio I perform. I would like to keep my heart rate up throughout the resistance workout rather than resting, but I’m not sure what to do. Can you help?A It’s great that you want to keep this intensity up. So many people concentrate on either cardio or weights rather than both.

Last updated 3 March 2010
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Mustn’t crumble!

UNFORTUNATELY many of us have been put off eating rhubarb from an early age when, over-boiled and sloppy, it was served up with equally awful bright yellow, lumpy custard in schools across the country.

Last updated 3 March 2010
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Rich history of this quintessential village

IT is the quintessential English village with a church (two actually), a pub (two again), a school and a village green. No post office, sadly, gone the way of most rural POs, some time ago.

Last updated 3 March 2010
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Bath-vroom

THE bathroom is probably the second biggest project you are likely to undertake in your house.

Last updated 3 March 2010
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Ralf’s carving a niche for himself

Last updated 3 March 2010
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Follow these golden rules

Last updated 3 March 2010
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Ralf uses ancient skills to turn trees into furniture

A FURNITURE-MAKER has set up home on the edge of the Lake District and aims to preserve and revive our ancient woodworking skills.

Last updated 26 February 2010
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Footnotes

A CUMBRIAN walking guide is hoping local midwives, health workers and other women will join her on a sponsored walk up Latrigg next month.

Last updated 24 February 2010
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Countryside lanes, great views and the chance to spot some fairies . . .

Last updated 24 February 2010
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The four-week schedule starts now

As mentioned, start the first four-week schedule off nice and steady, it’s all about getting used to the new footwear and deciding where you can run.

Last updated 24 February 2010
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The search for West Cumbria’s holy wells

ST Catherine’s Well in the magnificent Eskdale Valley appears to have been the host of an annual fair known as the Dogskin fair, held on the Saint’s day (November 25). Further details have proved elusive, but there may be some connection with the Catty Fair held at St Catherine’s Church on the same day. Then, yarn used to be hung on the churchyard wall. The well is less than quarter of a mile from the church, and it is unlikely the area supported two fairs on the same day.THE well at Gosforth is still visible today. It is situated about half a mile from the church.STANGER Spa, near Cockermouth, is perhaps the most prominent spring still surviving thanks to some restoration work by the Cockermouth And District Civic Trust in 2000, which preserved the building surrounding it.REFERENCE is made in Frizington Remembers by residents of Greenvale Court of a holy well near the village. “Walks to Dub Beck at the foot of Steele Brow or to physical or physika well were popular during the summer holidays” the book relates.

Last updated 24 February 2010
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Quintessential castle of our imagination

Last updated 24 February 2010
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Fields become a winter wonderland

ALL the hills and fields of the Melbreak Vale are a winter wonderland, crisp with snow, as I travel out passing Loweswater to just before Scalehill.

Last updated 24 February 2010
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Our mining heritage

As the 100th anniversary of the 1910 Wellington Pit disaster approaches on May 11, The Whitehaven News will be looking back at the most devastating time in the town’s history.

Last updated 17 February 2010
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