Editorial
Holiday time is here, the schools have broken up, it's the Crier's last edition before its summer break and the Editor-in-chief is already on her travels - which is why I get to write this! Yesterday it didn't seem too bad a deal, lovely and sunny here, absolutely tipping it down up in Scotland where she's off walking. Today though, sunny there and drizzling here - hey, ho!
Quite a lot of this issue has a distinctly autumnal rather than a summer holiday feel to it with traditional September events like the Harvest Show (early warning to get those fruit and veg ripening!) and the "World's Biggest Coffee Morning" for Macmillan cancer relief - a very worthy and deservedly well supported cause.
On a more summery theme, there's a reminder, thanks to our excellent photographers, of a couple of events earlier this summer: the Jazz evening at the Red Lion and the Village School's Fete. We'd welcome more photographs to illustrate articles in the Crier or, as here, just to tell a story of their own. We'd also welcome contributions from local artists for the front cover. Our cover editor, Alastair Everitt, will twist arms but it's not always that easy and he;s had to go outside the village for this month's artist. He's also been looking rather further back, to the 24th June 1604 to be precise, with an article commemorating the 400th anniversary of someone's death - now I wonder who that might be (hint: the Harvest Show and Coffee Morning aren't the only topics making a reappearance).
But August, this year and here, isn't completely forgotten. There's an evening at the Red Lion right in the middle of the month celebrating the history of Foster's Mill and its millers (some familiar family names there?) following on from the Open Day on Sunday 15th August. There will also, I suspect, be the continuing road works and traffic lights on the road to Bulbeck. Am I alone in reacting in a grumpy old man fashion to these? A new cycle path might be an excellent idea but is widening the footpath by a about a foot really worth the effort and expense? Especially when thereีs no safety zone between the path and the road to protect young and inexperienced cyclists? Happy holidays!