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Dandaran   (130 messages)   Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:24:16 +0200
Dandaran daran daran -- 6 more days to go Dandaran daran daran -- 6 more days to go Edith. ...

proposed congestion charge   (30 messages)   Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:00:54 GMT
Hi all. Just considering the proposed congestion charge for motorists. I for one will think twice about coming up to the Lake District - a round trip of about 350miles on the A1 and similar trunk roads - if the charge comes ...

In memorium: The Baron Glenbuck, Caruthers Carstairs-Mackracken.   (1 messages)   Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:41:16 +0100
In memorium: The Baron Glenbuck, Caruthers Carstairs-Mackracken. This is to announce that The Baron Glenbuck Caruthers Carstairs-MacKracken died today at his ancestral home Glenbuck Castle in Lanarkshire Scotland. He ...

ah seh marra   (10 messages)   Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:28:53 +0100
whats the history behind that laal castle thingy & 2 nearby chimneys just outside the Ellis sports ground in wurkinton? ...

Sounds Familiar   (2 messages)   Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:09:21 +0000 (UTC)
Now that someone has won the cash on CFM, does anyone know what the phrase is, not the word that is missing the phrase that comes before it. I have missed it the last couple of mornings and would like to try and see if i can ...

here   (8 messages)   Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:06:23 +0200
We're allowed to cycle on the pavements here. It sound hilarious but it works. Some pavements are broadened and there is a change of colour in the tarmac to make a lane for cyclists and with a black silhouette of a bicycle marked ...

Suggestions please?   (34 messages)   Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:14:31 +0100
A friend from Scotland is coming to visit with her 2 youngest children (primary school age) one day in July, and I'd like to take them somewhere nice. They're country folk, so they're not afraid of a bit of walking/hill climbing ...

Ian   (6 messages)   Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:07:42 +0200
Come on now Ian. I know you are lurking. Get in your penny's worth. I promise not to answer you rudely. Edith. ...

Vaginal warts, Genital herpes & Rectal Erosion cured. FREE 10 day trial pack.   (1 messages)   Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:04:30 +0100
Look My Friend, see a reputable Dr. Replying to posts like this could be the equivalent of putting your life into the hands of the village idiot, at best. At worst God knows what could happen. This ng is full of strange ...

testing   (19 messages)   Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:45:47 +0100
My last message was rejected to I'm trying another one. Please either ignore this one, or turn it into a really pointless long list of replies - whatever.... ally ...

:)   (1 messages)   Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:53:18 +0200
>> Barbara Walters of 20/20 (USA-ABC Television) did a story on gender roles > > in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. > > She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands. > ...

For Fans of Lakeland Dialect   (99 messages)   Date: 5 Jun 2005 10:19:50 -0700
IT'S NOBBUT ME John Richardson (1817-1886), St Johns in the Vale Ya winter neet, I mind it weel, Oor lads 'ed been at t'fell, An', bein'tir't, went seun to bed, An' I sat by mesel. I hard a jike on t' window pane, An' ...

Interested in canine scatology? Visit uk.local.southwest . . . before it visits you!!   (2 messages)   Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 17:07:39 +0100
I really had to share this with you. Lurk in this news group and read carefuly all of the threads. Some are boring mundane stuff. But, others will have you pissing yourself no end. Posting there is a very very dangerous practice ...

I wonder a lot   (1 messages)   Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:31:28 +0200
I wonder who's kissing her now I wonder who's telling her how I wonder who's looking into her eyes Breathing sighs, telling lies. The girl who once filled me with joy Malcom ...

Tony's Cumbria   (1 messages)   Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 12:07:11 +0200
http://www.lakelandcam.co.uk/ The air broke into a mist.....(Browning) 1800s Meks yuh wunder what wuz gar'n on in them theer days. Noo the' just smoke pot fer a kick oop fantasy, ah think. Edith. ...

I like Cumbria because...   (4 messages)   Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 23:44:00 +0100
It's got "cum" in it. ...

Theband's back   (11 messages)   Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:21:08 +0200
eheheheh. They all came home like run out dish cloths, especially Orly. They went 24 hours without sleep. They left rumours lingering on the Farsund grape vine that that was the best party Farsund has ever had. There were 40 or ...

Drizzle over Loughrigg   (1 messages)   Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 10:08:39 +0200
Light drizzle falling softly This Loughrigg morn The beast of a man, calmed now in breast Sits quietly alone The smell of wool grease from the fleece A tired shepherd's path to peace A farmer's comfort, a farmer's toll A ...

Hot Spots   (17 messages)   Date: 3 Jun 2005 16:49:13 -0500
Hi there, Where are the Hot Spots in Cumbria for Wireless Internet? Please leave details. Thanks ...

No 2 Mill, Clydesdale   (4 messages)   Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 22:37:24 +0100
Number Two Mill was a leviathan. You could feel her raw power surging through your feet with every hammer blow into the billets that would spew out a mile of red hot pipe. With every bang, the whole hundred tons of machinery ...