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Carlisle Olympic bonfire build gets underway

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October 30, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

The community event will be based on an ‘Olympics 2012’ theme.

Building work has started on the 2011 Bitts Park bonfire in Carlisle.

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Halloween preparations – Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria

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October 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Hesket Newmarket Brewery van

Our adventures this week have taken us to a small village called Hesket Newmarket. You may remember we visited a place called Caldbeck a few weeks ago well, Hesket Newmarket is about 1.5 miles beyond this, down a narrow ‘B’ road. The village is stretched along the main through road and has a Post Office, [...]

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Bonfire update

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October 29, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

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The public bonfire display is starting to take shape. It looks like a stage like structure made of wood and many wooden pallets. After the recent rain the field is really starting to churn up now as the workmen build the great bonfire. This seems like a good time to ask humans to think [...]

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A wobbly leg

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June 24, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

Buster has had to visit the vets this morning with a sore leg. It seems after his examination by the animal doctor that he has sprained a ligament or something in his knee which makes for some twitching whenever he tries to climb the stairs or jump up. He has been feeling a little sore [...]

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