September 2018

PRESIDENT Ian Watson

SECRETARY Mike McNally

THEBORDERER

September 2018

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

As we approach Harvest Festival and all is safely gathered in, I ask myself 'is that the case' because, whereas most of the grain harvest is completed there is still an abundance of grass to be conserved, not forgetting the maize. Our forefathers, I'm sure would say that 'the good lord will provide for you' and this year he will have, I believe, however it has made farmers somewhat nervous at times with the late wet spring  followed by the long hot dry summer. Maybe when, and if, we look back and reflect on the weather over the past year should we ask ourselves the question, 'could we live with this weather pattern as the norm?’

The annual trip to The Theatre by the Lake went well, I believe, although there was an odd comment that the play at times went over the heads of a few! Perhaps that was more how dinner, rather than the content of the play. I am assured that as usual the fellowship was splendid.

I have done my first Food Bank run and I am happy say it was a 'doddle', and for those of you yet to do the task just make sure you are at Routledge's promptly at 3.15 pm to collect the goods before they shut the doors at 3.30. I felt that having a delivered 17 loaves and over a 100 bread rolls I was rein-acting the story from the Gospels only without the fishes!

It is always pleasing that we can as a club continue to support sending youngsters to gain the benefit of attending a Rypen course or a week at The Calvert Trust, and we are in the process of finding suitable candidates.

Again this month we have had a good selection of speakers. Jonquil Melrose-Woodman talked to us about her experiences in Japan. A country I went to in 1993 to an International Dairy Conference, but never saw a dairy cow, in fact I never saw any cattle. The Mayor of Carlisle, as is traditional, visited us and told us a little about her background, her role in the community as Mayor and her expectations for her year. (John) David Morton shared with us his time at the Cumberland News back in the 70's and his time with Eddie Shah in competing with the unions during that period of industrial unrest.

Mentioning the Cumberland News I must thank them for the article in the Farmers Section of the paper on September 14th. For those of you who need not see it, it was about The Farmers Choir, their background and our aim in supporting those four very worthwhile charities. The tickets are on sale now!

IAN WATSON

PRESIDENT

 SIMON STRICKLAND

Simon is one of our regular readers and he sends his best wishes to us all.

Theatre by the Lake

Saturday 1^st September.

A party of twenty of us enjoyed a pleasant pre-theatre dinner at Morrells before the play. The restaurant management were very interested in our novel approach by making the meal all-inclusive which ensured that we all got to the theatre on time.

The play itself was Single Spies a comedy by Alan Bennett, about the Cambridge Soviet spies Guy Burgess and Tony Blunt. The first half featured Guy Burgess in his flat in Moscow. The second half featured Anthony Blunt investigating an art forgery in London, a scene with the Queen as Surveyor of her pictures which was very amusing followed by an interview with the police in his office.

The acting and scene changes were exceptionally good, but the play itself was full of undertones and not to everyone’s taste, but many found it most enjoyable.

DAVID MORTON

JAPANESE EXPERIENCE

By Robin MacLeod

 による「日本の経験」レポート

私たちの8月の夜の会合では、26年間日本に住んでいた  Jonquil Melrose Woodman

ライドプレゼンテーションを通して、日本文化の謎を垣間見ることができましたJonquilは複雑な文化や信念、色彩、神社、寺院、祭り、伝統的な建物、服装、食べ物の屋台などを日常生活のより現代的な側面と対照しました。日本はイギリスより少し大きいが、人口密度ははるかに高いJonquilが住んでいた神奈川の地域は、カンブリアの約3分の1ですが、人口の8倍です。日本の67％が森林地帯であり、英国の11％である。

日本には100歳代の割合が英国に比べてはるかに多く、70〜80歳の子供が両親を世話し、若い世代の世代には、両親の世話をする。

日本は、住宅価格などが大幅に上昇した90年代初めの80年代後半に景気が好転し、90年代半ばには必然的にデフレが続き、西に帰るのは高価な経験となりましたJonquilは、日本で生活して働くことをはっきりと認識し、彼女の成功の多くをその文化を完全に受け入れ、外国人として生活しないようにしました。

彼女の講演のハイライトの1つは、結婚式での花嫁のための3つの衣服の変更を含む、日本のファッションの複雑さを説明していたことです。ここではうまくいきませんが、Frances.Pearsonの助けを借りて、着物を着る。それが間違っていると、丁寧な会話の対象にすべきではない女性の人生の側面が示唆され、誤った印象を与えることがあります。

結局のところ、ジョンキルは非常に魅力的な写真ツアーで本国で伝えられた日本での彼女の人生についての非常に明確で好都合な要約をくれました         ROBIN MACLEOD

EDDY SHAH etc.

David Morton gave us an interesting insight into the industrial difficulties faced by Cumbrian Newspapers in the 1970ies and 1980ies.

The company had gone through dramatic changes in 1972, moving to new premises and changing from Hot Metal typesetting to Photosetting and also to Web Offset printing.

The Newspaper’s offices on Dalston Road were very vulnerable to picketing as most delivery drivers refused to cross a picket line of any kind. During the Lorry Drivers Strike in 1979, picketing had prevented vital newsprint deliveries and the company resorted to organising deliveries at night and later on when there was a 24-hour picket, using their own clamp truck and delivery vans, all manned by the paper’s management from Joe Watt’s store on London Road.

David talked about the inequalities in pay between the various sections of the business and how the newspaper’s management printed their weekly papers for about 2 weeks during a dispute with the main print union.

Eddy Shah’s Sale & Altrincham Messenger and about six other titles were printedat Dalston Road until 1983 when he moved the printing to his own premises in Warrington. A serious dispute with the National Graphical Association followed.

He was a pleasant character, familiar to David and others in Carlisle.

In 1986 Rupert Murdoch moved the printing of The Times from Fleet Street to a new print factory in Wapping, staffed by printers in the electricians union and delivered by road, as the rail unions had threatened to boycott his newspapers.

The Wapping dispute seriously weakened the print unions and after this Cumbrian Newspapers was not affected by major industrial action.

DAVID MORTON

Mayor of Carlisle makes an official visit to our Club.

On Wednesday the 12^th September 2018 we had the pleasure of a visit from the Mayor of Carlisle Councillor Jessica Riddle. Since moving to Carlisle from Scotland with her husband Peter in 1972 she has raised a family of three and completed a degree in Social Sciences. During the subsequent years she devoted a considerable amount of time and energy to various organizations notably as a Director of Age Concern Carlisle, Non-Executive Director of North Lakeland NHS Trust, Impact Housing Association, Carlisle Council for Voluntary Services.

Soon after retiring she began her political career, elected as Councillor for Belle Vue in 2006 and now twelve years later Mayor of Carlisle, in fact the 432^nd Mayor of the City.

In previous years it was always the custom that one of the first engagements of the New Mayor would be to the Rotary Club of Carlisle.

Whilst on official duties the Mayor is required to wear the chain and badge of office which does not weigh lightly on the shoulders and is somewhat restrictive, being two pounds of solid gold and some 121years old it is nowhere near as old as the Ceremonial Mace and the Sword which date back to the1500’s.

Mentioning the Mayor’s Charities the Mayor appreciated the support given to the Mayor’s charity by the members of the Rotary Club of Carlisle and reminded everyone of her chosen charities for this year Age UK, NSPCC, British Heart Foundation with a link to the heart unit at the Cumberland Infirmary.

When asked from the floor as to her aspirations for the City of Carlisle she replied, “A thriving City Centre, People living in the Centre, St Cuthbert’s Village coming to fruition, and better transport links to Scotland.”

In recording the thanks of the club President Ian expressed his good wishes for the remainder of her year of office and this was endorsed by the members. DONALD EDGAR
NEPAL TRIP – A nice thank you

We have just received thanks from Naomi Wooding to whom we gave a grant of £100 grant towards a Girl Guiding North West trip to Nepal.

Before she went we received this:

On Monday 23^rd of July a group of 12 girls (including myself) and 3 leaders will fly out of Manchester Airport, destination: Kathmandu, Nepal. The first thing on our itinerary is to spend 2 days exploring Kathmandu and its culture; throughout the trip we will be shown the location inside out by our own Nepalese tour guide, Dawa. After this, we are flying into Lukla (the world’s most dangerous airport-eekkk!!) where we will begin 6 days charity work. Although we do not know exactly what this work will entail, we do know that we will be aiding the charity, Classroom in the Clouds,

When Naomi came back she sent this thankyou:

Dear Rotary,

I wanted to thank you once again for the grant of £100 towards my trip to Nepal. 

I cannot describe in words how amazing and beneficial this trip was for me personally. The actual project in Lukla, teaching in 2 separate schools about menstruation, to show the girls that it is completely normal was so rewarding and seemed to really help them. We bonded with the girls so much and it was all very emotional when we said our goodbyes. They were so inspirational and dedicated to their education that nobody could forget it. The group of girls from the North West of England were the best group, I have made friendships for life and we are planning to meet again soon.  Nepal was such a beautiful country full of the loveliest people I have ever met, I will definitely be recommending to people to visit and hopefully visit again someday.

This trip would not have been possible without your support and I wanted to thank you for allowing me to have this opportunity. 

Yours faithfully,

Naomi Wooding.

FOOD BANK COLLECTION ROTA

RESERVES JOE WATT AND JOHN CHURCHILL

ROTA AMENDED AS AT 19 SEPTEMBER 2018

THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH.. “

Seven Wonders

Slow down and think about a group of students who were asked to list what they thought were the present Seven Wonders of the World.

Though there were some disagreements the following received the most votes.

1. Egypt’s Great Pyramid

2. Taj Mahal

3. Grand Canyon

4. Panama Canal

5. Empire State Building

6. St Peter’s Basilica

7. China’s Great Wall

   Whilst gathering the votes the teacher noticed that one student had not finished her paper yet so she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. “Yes a little, I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there are so many”. The teacher said “Well tell us what we have and maybe we can help”. The girl hesitated then read “I think the seven wonders of the world are”;

1. To see

2. To Hear

3. To Touch

4. To Taste

5. To Feel

6. To Laugh

7. And to Love

   The things we overlook as simple and ordinary, that we take for granted, are truly wondrous.

Brian says that the tickets for this epic evening are now fully booked. BUT more tickets may be available!  See Brian

It promises to be an excellent evening!

JAPANESE EXPERIENCE – A translation for those who cannot read!!

Our August evening meeting afforded us an all too fleeting glimpse of the mysteries of Japanese culture by way of an impressive slide presentation by Jonquil Melrose – Woodman who lived and worked in Japan for 26 years.

Jonquil contrasted the intricate cultures and beliefs, colours, shrines, temples, festivals, traditional buildings, clothes and food stalls with the more modern aspects of everyday Japanese life.

Japan is larger than the UK but has a much greater population density. The region of Kanagawa where Jonquil lived is roughly one third the size of Cumbria but has eight times the population. 67% of Japan is forested compared to 11% of the UK.

There is a much higher percentage of centenarians in Japan compared with the UK and their culture is still very much for the younger family to look after their older relatives, with 70-80 year olds looking after their parents and, in turn, the younger generations looking after their parents.

Japan experienced an economic boom in the late 80s/early 90s when house prices etc became greatly inflated, followed by almost inevitable deflation in the mid 90s, making it an expensive experience to come home to the west.

Jonquil clearly loved living and working in Japan, putting much of her success down to fully embracing its culture and not living as an expat.

One highlight of her talk was explaining the intricacies of Japanese fashion – including three changes of clothing for brides at weddings which, hopefully, will not catch on here – culminating in a demonstration, with the help of Frances Pearson, of the correct way to wear the Kimono.  Getting it wrong can give an unfortunate impression altogether, suggesting aspects of the lady’s life that should not be the subject of polite conversation.

All in all, Jonquil gave us a very clear and favourable summary of her life in Japan illustrated by an extremely inspiring photographic tour.

ROBIN MACLEOD

POETS’     CORNER

Words of Caution .

 Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants ; Yours are the limbs, my sweeting .

 You look divine as you advance –

 Have you seen yourself retreating ?

Ogden Nash

It Can Be Done
The ones who miss all the fun
Are those who say, “It can’t be done.”
In solemn pride they stand aloof
And greet each venture with reproof.
Had they the power they’d efface
The history of the human race.
We’d have no radio or motor cars,
No street lit by electric stars;
No telegraph nor telephone,
We’d linger in the age of stone.
The world would sleep if things were run
By those who say, “It can’t be done.”

-Author Unknown 

It is a rarity to find someone who can weigh other people’s faults without putting his own thumbs on the scale.

 -Paraguayan Proverb

WISHING WELL

We collected £240 for The Eden Valley Hospice and will give them a cheque for £250. The current charity is Prostate Cancer

Future charities are, British Legion Poppy Appeal, Food Bank, Hospice at Home, NSPCC, Life Education and Macmillan Cancer Support.

This takes us to April 2019 and if any member has a suitable charity they would like to nominate please contact me.

MICHAEL PEARSON

RECEPTION DESK FOR CLUB MEETINGS

September 26             HN-W & Tony Wiseman

October     3              JV & John Churchill

                10             JV & Nick Utting

                17             D Heyes

                24             D Hoggard & Robin MacLeod

                31

November 7              HN-W & JV

                14             HN-W & JV

                23             JV & (Charter Night)

                28             HN-W & David Hoggard

December  5              HN-W & David Morton

                12             D Heyes & JV

                19             D Heyes & JV

ROTARY WEBPAGES

Rotary Magazine – current & previous editions

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EDITOR’S NOTE – The Borderer uses the free version of the same ‘issuu’ website!

Rotary Policies

Rotary GB&I Compliance Statement – 2017/18

Our Club President or Secretary have been asked to confirm that our Club has read and adopted the following Rotary GB&I documents:

 Rotary GB&I Equality and Diversity Policy

 Rotary GB&I Health and Safety Policy

 Rotary GB&I Safeguarding (Children) Policy

 Rotary GB&I Safeguarding (Vulnerable Adults) Policy

 Rotary GB&I Data Protection Policy Statement  

With grateful thanks to the Rotary Club of Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire (a long way from the Brecon Beacons - according to our Welsh Correspondent!)

Rotary Central

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

3^rd October – Visit to H&H Borderway Mart– For those who missed it last time or would like to do it again, a fascinating morning tour from 10.45 ahead of our normal club business meeting.  After an introduction to the company’s varied activities there will be the opportunity to see livestock auctions in progress on what is always a busy day at the market.

14^th October - Autumn Walk.  A comfortable morning walk starting and ending in Keswick with lunch to follow at The Skiddaw Hotel.  Please chose your meal – list in the Blue Book

23^rd November (Friday) – 96^th Charter Anniversary Dinner – Guest speaker is The Bishop of Carlisle The Right Rt Revd James Newcome. Further details to come.

   24th November - The Simon and Garfunkel Show at The Buccleuch Centre, Langholm - Tickets (£18)  have been purchased and meals booked. If any more wish to join us please let Brian know as there should still be tickets available.

19^th December – Christmas Lunch.With seasonal entertainment by ME & YU

2019

Sunday 27^th January

The Farmers Wives and Farmers Choir at The Sands.

The Club’s main fundraiser next year.  With all costs of putting on this spectacular show in the City’s largest venue covered, 100% of every ticket sold will go to the charities selected by the choir and our President Ian.

Make sure you have the date in all diaries and tell all your friends and associates about this special event.

13^thMarch - Curling at Lockerbie Ice Rink.

Club Council Meetings

Club Meetings Programme