Kendal – FIONA GLASS

Two go to a country show

Country Fest, to be precise. This sweet, slightly old fashioned show happens once a year on the Westmorland County Showground near Kendal. We try to get there whenever we can…

Art…

Easy peasy printing

For a complete change yesterday I went to an art workshop at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal. I'd seen it advertised a few weeks ago and booked a ticket…

January newsletter – ghosts galore!

My regular monthly newsletter is due out in the next couple of days and this month it includes lots and lots of ghosts. For starters there's a snippet from the…

Two walk by the river

It's a Bank Holiday here in England and we thought the traffic in the Lake District might be horrendous, so we went the opposite direction and ended up in Kendal.…

Two go to an event

9 Jun 20219 Jun 2021

This title doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But actually, it was a lot more special than it sounds - because this was the first event we'd been to in…

Lockdown blues…

Thanks to my good friend Jay Mountney for this meme, which I've cheerfully stolen from her blog. Thankfully, the lockdown blues are just starting to ease as we're all allowed…

Architecture…

Beasts, cemeteries and sepulchres, oh my

What do you do on a damp drizzly morning in the Lake District? Answer, in our case, go and explore a bit more of Kendal's rich tapestry of history. This…

Architecture…

Up T’crack

Don't worry, I'm not being rude - this is the delightful name for a small alleyway off Kirkland in Kendal, which we explored for the first time yesterday. The name…

Monday mystery: garnet(t)s and leprosy

13 Jan 202013 Jan 2020

Thanks to this interesting snippet of local history in the Westmorland Gazette, I now know that Kendal had a leper hospital in medieval times. According to the article it was…

Kendal’s oldest lanes?

7 Jan 20207 Jan 2020

I spotted this brief but interesting piece in the Westmorland Gazette a few days ago, which delves into the history of some of the old paths, lanes and back alleys…