Cockermouth is home to some of the county’s finest pubs and outside the pages of the trade press, like the indispensible Morning Advertiser, the loss of so many in the recent flooding has attracted little attention so far*.
Thankfully, all the decent pubs in Keswick and Workington are on higher ground but most pubs in Cockermouth are [...]
Entries from November 2009
November 30, 2009
Pub closures
November 25, 2009
Spain is nice at this time of year
Slow on the uptake for the second time recently, how did I miss reports of Nick Griffin’s recent trip to Spain?
It’s already been picked up in several places though these reports have focused on the fact that a rival fascist mob turned up at the Democracia Naciona Party event Griffin was attending, tried to force [...]
November 24, 2009
Housing shortages and immigration
A couple of brief reports have caught my eye in the last week that demonstrate pretty clearly the link between two contentious political issues, housing shortages and immigration.
In Cumbria it’s pretty obvious that there is a real shortage of social housing and affordable housing. The waiting list for homes in Cumbria was 12,900 in 2008, [...]
November 20, 2009
Washed out
The scenes over the last 48 hours in Cumbria have been unbelievable.
We’re no strangers to bad weather but the rain over the last couple of days has been unreal. I don’t see what sort of preparation there could have been for an event like this. Large areas of the county are still underwater and at [...]
November 14, 2009
Advert break
A regular reader has an event some readers may be interested in:
Poles Apart is about when me and my mate Mark went to Poland last year to get a job, in an effort to single-handedly reverse the immigration trend.
We spent 2 weeks as immigrants and ate a lot of lard, we came home and made a show [...]
