Cumbria Cat

The roads in Cumbria are appalling – FACT.

Any walk around a Cumbrian town or cemetery and you will find numerous monuments commemorating those who fell in “the...

Speaking to a farmer friend the other day and he was telling me that he gets up around 4.30am to...

Watching politics unfold isn’t something new for Cumbria, after all, we are hundreds of miles from Westminster Village where most...

In recent weeks, Cumbria Crack has covered two stories where builders have tried to remove planning restrictions in relation to...

Many followers of social media may have missed the recent online discussion of railways in Cumbria and while much is...

Oft forgotten Cumbria was in the news quite a lot last week.

Organising waste is, well, a waste.

I like trains, especially when they run on time and have seen how lines closed in the so-called Beeching cuts...

On November 30 last year, Cumbrian Cat, on finding out that both Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness councils had expressed...

The old proverb, a cat may look at a queen, dating back hundreds of years but less used now, shows...

Are you Storm Eowyn ready?

In December, to much fanfare, the Prime Minister and Home Secretary announced that there would be more bobbies on the...

Having been out all night protecting the adult ones, I am sat in front of the fire listening to BBC...

Waking up this morning I found a light sprinkling of snow which, if the temperature gauge in the paws is...

While cats don’t, normally, welcome the new year as it is a time when the skies are lit by fireworks...

This cat knows, for sure, I will be having a good Christmas. 

Traditionally, Christmas is the time for giving, with lots of children waking up on Christmas morning with an expectation that...

Hand up all of us who isn’t missing the avalanche of Black Friday emails that have hit the inbox in...

I might only be a cat, but that puts me in prime position to smell a rat, and that rat...