WHILE watching the World Cup rugby I was wondering how players managed to jump so high in the line-out.
Having now seen this picture taken by Gazette photographer Paul Bramham during a Kendal match the mystery is explained. I am sure that sort of agonising lift would urge any man to new heights of endeavour.
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Flowery solution

COUNCIL proposals to sweep away the free parking area on New Road at Kendal and replace it with riverside gardens were welcomed by a friend of mine who regularly uses the car park.
“I don’t mind losing a space to park my car providing that the council complements the riverside improvements with a nice rooftop garden - the top storey of New Bank Yard car park, where they all park their cars would be ideal,” he said.

Aquatic distraction

REMEMBRANCE observation at Grange-over-Sands is usually a model of decorum, as one would expect from such a genteel town – but on Sunday heads turned as the silence was shattered during the wreath-laying at the war memorial in the Ornamental Gardens.
Stuck in my place as a member of Flookburgh band I couldn’t get close enough to investigate the cacophony on the other side of the duck pond, but it appeared that a small dog took it into its head to have a bit of a yip at a swan.
The swan took offence and apparently grabbed the dog by the neck, dragged it into the pond and tried to drown it.
Then there was a tremendous splash as the dog’s fully-clad owner jumped into the pond and began wading through hip-deep water, clouting the fleeing swan with a stick.
The half-drowned dog meanwhile dragged itself on to the island where the owner followed, but appeared not to able to persuade the cowering canine to come out from under the bushes.
Sadly there was nobody to be seen by the time the Remembrance ceremony ended for me to get more details, but it seemed to me that the traditional silence lasted a mite longer than usual, as everyone was too absorbed with watching to time it.

Just A wheel too far in this case

BEWARE of the zealous traffic wardens of Grange-over-Sands.
On Monday a community nurse on duty parked her car in the Hampsfell Road car park, paid her parking fee and put the ticket in the window. Returning well before time, she was astounded to see a parking fine notification on her car.
It turned out that she had not turned in quite exactly and her rear passenger side wheel was just over the white line – enough to earn her a hefty fine for “not parking correctly within a parking bay.”

Figgy pudding goodwill gesture

LANGDALE Christmas Pudding Race organiser Rod Berry’s failed attempt to buy 300 puddings to handout to competitors was detailed in this column last week.
When he asked at Morrisons about a mass purchase and if there was any chance of a discount, he was referred to the company buyer at head office, who told him no – presumably because they suspected he was going to buy the cheap puds and sell them on at a higher rate.
Kendal Morrisons ‘phoned me on Tuesday and said: “We don’t know who he spoke to here, but if he rings our manager Michael Parkinson he can have the puddings and a discount.”
It’s nice to know the season of goodwill is upon us again.