gillw747 Carlisle, United Kingdom 41 Reviewed September 9, 2018 via mobile Family dinner In Hove for a family funeral & having come down from Cumbria needed to book for group of 8 including 90 yr old Mum! Had a perfect meal, service was good and we were very well lo...
But that dream could not have been further from the reality when, at the age of 45, I finally moved to Cumbria — and my life steadily fell apart. Instead of the "happily ever after" I'd envisaged for my family, living in the countryside cost me my marriage, robbed me of precious f...
In the fields, the new grass is grown enough for the cows to have been put out to pasture a few days ago. Every morning now we spy another calf, born in the quiet of the night. The swans are building a nest on the lochan; the oyster-catchers are digging scrapes in the garden urn...
In Appleby, Cumbria, many of the residents are also angry. Appleby was flooded by Storm Desmond on 5th December and then again by Storm Eva on 22nd December, when 40 properties were deluged by up to five feet of water. The people I spoke said that the dredging of the river Eden had ...