Blue Badge Guides gather for Annual General Meeting

Sixteen Blue Badge Guides met at Cumbria Tourism's Staveley Offices on Thursday, 6^th November 2008.

Cumbria Tourist Guides, Registered Blue Badge Guides for the Lake District and Cumbria, have had a busy year showing a variety of visitors, from all over the world, the beauty of the landscape in this unique corner of England.

Alan Heppenstall was unanimously elected as Chairman of Cumbria Tourist Guides.

Published by Faber and Faber

Quote from Sarah Hall:  Being brought up here (Cumbria) has such an effect.   I love it all.   The practicality, reticence and the belligerence.  The old fellas standing up in pubs and bursting into tears unabashed.

I love that combination, that's here in the culture and the rocks.   I feel like I'm having a dialogue with it all the time.

Published by Penguin.

Nature - the physical world in terms of landscape, plants and animals as distinct from human creations.  

Definition - The Penguin English Dictionary.

A congenital student of natural history, Beatrix Potter is as frequently underestimated today as she was during her lifetime.   Born on 26th July 1866 at Bolton Gardens, Kensington, London, Beatrix lived her 77 years in nature and for nature.

Until 2007, when this hefty and expensive tome was published, it has been both arduous and complex to find the annals relating to Beatrix Potter, her friends and her family.

This new biography probes into the family history of an inquisitive, interested woman.   The book goes someway to explain her ancestry.   However, a diagram showing genealogical descent would be useful and is a worthwhile exercise for readers to understand this modest woman of unquestionable genius.