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Could everyone keep very quiet, please? 22 Aug 2013 | 03:34 pm
I’m about to start writing the Autumn Newsletter. My notes employ precisely 39 words (plus arrows, underlinings and punctuation – especially exclamation marks) and take up one quarter of one side of ...
It’s all go here, I’m telling you … 20 Aug 2013 | 03:10 pm
There’s precious little point waiting for that famous ‘spare minute’ around these parts … the major qualification for working here is the ability to keep three balls in the air at the same time – with...
Paula: The Magic Continues … 5 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
On the 6th of October over 50 people will be taking part in the Great Cumbrian Run to raise money for the Centre in memory of Paula Roberts. Calling themselves the Dragonfly Runners, many of them will...
The Kindness of Strangers 16 Jul 2013 | 03:20 pm
We’ve had a really extraordinary and touching response so far to our slideshow presentation and its reach has been quite amazing. The hits on blog were in 4 figures, and a combined total of 20,000 peo...
Same song, different page … 4 Jul 2013 | 09:10 pm
This is a real learning experience, you know. Today we have had: Turning Powerpoint Presentations into YouTube videos - and here is the result, which you may find easier to share: The YouTube versi...
We have a favour to ask … 3 Jul 2013 | 04:26 pm
We haven’t exactly been making a secret of the fact that the Centre is facing funding problems – it has, after all, been in the Whitehaven News as well as on Radio Cumbria – but neither have we been m...
A little silent film show for you … 1 Jul 2013 | 08:55 pm
On the 27th of June, representatives from Centre (being Gretchen Dominic, Bernard and Andrea) attended a corporate glad-hander at Whitehaven Civic Hall. We were invited to submit a five minute slide s...
Helloooo … 20 Jun 2013 | 09:09 pm
*Peers around the door, coughs nervously and sidles in* Sorry. Been a wee bit otherwise engaged – mostly with end-of-the-financial-year stuff. Something had to give, and it turned out to be the poor o...
Paula’s Walkers – Keswick to Barrow 10 May 2013 | 08:26 pm
Spare a thought for – and send out some good vibes to – Andrea and her friends, who are tackling the 40 miles of the Keswick to Barrow Walk tomorrow, starting at – as they occasionally say around the...
The Keswick to Barrow Walk–Saturday the 11th of May 23 Apr 2013 | 04:19 pm
Andrea and a group of friends are taking part in the Keswick to Barrow Walk on May the 11th – all 40 miles of it. Up and down hills. Lots of them. On roads. Whatever the weather. Oh yes. They’re doing...
