It was great to get the win at Walsall last Sunday, to hear the fans chanting “United!” after the game. Then three days later to get battered at Crewe... the lack of consistency sums the season up.
For almost 40 Christmas mornings Geoff Brown has dressed as Santa and visited the Cumberland Infirmary’s children’s ward, then elderly patients. Since it opened in 1991, Geoff has added Eden Valley Hospice to his schedule.
The 1-1 draw at Morecambe last Saturday sounded like a battle. The two sides’ position in the league tells you what kind of game it was. It would have been nice to win but at least we kept that five-point gap between us and the bottom.
The next James Bond film, No Time To Die, is due to be released next April.
A supermarket is celebrating its 10th anniversary by raising funds for a paralysed former soldier from Carlisle.
Tim Stead is excitedly showing clips on his mobile phone. Roy Walker is saying: “One day, The Snots were having their breakfast. The Snots’ breakfast consists entirely of bowls of green goo...”
His running shoes and woolly hat are not the only way in which John Stevenson looks relaxed. Striding from door to door on a cold afternoon in Upperby, he seems well practiced at this canvassing business.
Things are different in a winter election. As well as her red rosette, Ruth Alcroft wears a red hat and scarf. When you campaign after 5pm, it’s dark. Hence the head torches worn by Ruth and her fellow canvassers on their way through Denton Holme. “I’d been quite blasé about campaigning in the dark,” says Ruth. “Then I fell over.”
A lot of people dream about being a pop star. It’ll be great. The money. The fame. Life must be wonderful!
