September 7th – Car Boot Sale at Willington
8am to 12noon at Willington Power Station Social Club Site. Please support us if you are able & visit us on the day or donate items for the stall.
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8am to 12noon at Willington Power Station Social Club Site. Please support us if you are able & visit us on the day or donate items for the stall.
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The roof timbers for the Kachieng Church Community Centre were erected during July in readiness for the roof tiles which have now been purchased. In order to ensure the building would be a completely safe construction it was decided to ask the Local Council Building Control department to visit site and carry out an inspection of
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The ‘Garden Party’ held at Linsey & Chris Jones’ raised a fantastic £530.00. Those who attended were very generous, so thanks to all those who contributed & donated to PASH; also thanks to Linsey, Chris & Irene and everyone else who helped with the preparations & on the day. David Hargreaves – Patron
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During April 2013 money was found to purchase & construct the roof timbers and the photographs show the church at this stage of construction. It is now imperative that the tiles are fitted before the timbers are damaged by wet & windy weather, the amount of money required to do this is in the region
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Yippee, 11 summits in four and a half days in fair weather & foul. No injuries or mishaps. Thanks to everyone who has been supporting us. Photographs will be on the blog in next couple days. We are both looking to returning home to see all those who believed on us. Dave & Rowland
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At 19-45 we arrived back in our car at Seathwaite, having set out at 10-15 once the rain had subsided. For some reason, it seems, we were the only people in the UK who suffered rain overnight! So off we went short of sleep & attacked the steep ascent of Great End, which we had
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Thank you for everyone who has made comments, they have been really helpful & encouraging. Today we set off with the sun shining & made our way to Wasdale Head – a truly beautiful place. Huge mountains enclose this valley & we managed to reach two of the highest peaks today. The climbs proved more
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Set off in weather less settled as we had hoped. We travelled to Glenridding & from the car park had a long uphill slog to get to Striding Edge – a place most people would wish to avoid, it’s a log stretch of jagged rock which leads to a difficult final climb & scramble through
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Saturday was a very difficult day which left us feeling we had already earned any sponsorship money that was to come our way. We were kept awake by incessant rain & therefore delayed our start hoping to find better conditions. Initially the rain continued but not as heavily as during the night. We soldiered on
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Set off on time from Derby/Nottingham in bright sunny weather aiming for Scotch Corner. As we joined the A66 we also joined stair-rod rain!! which kept our driver occupied until Penrith when things brightened. Had a pleasant walk around Keswick & picked up a few last minute bargain hunting items. Arrived at base camp around
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