4 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, February 12th, 1998 V alley Matters weekly look at local issues, people and places, compiled by Ben Carlish*


Daniel’s dogged determination


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the dog, woof-woof-woof," so the song goes, but not if the success of the enterpris­ ing business run by Clitheroe's Daniel Hermon


"Ei ____[body's walking


is anything to go by. Daniel (28) is inundated


with calls inquiring about the service he provides, taking people's beloved pooches for walkies. "It's a full-time job; I


(VERYBODY'S doing it, every-


AdmtberandTlme 0 1 ^ a rA fA c & a $ f AXt^sme^abttrmurjswnitttmusM could act as a lead to others


Suddenly, English - as spoken in these parts - becomes


quite clear AS a Brummy who has spent more than 10 years living in the North of England, I have frequent­ ly been asked the ques­ tion: "What’s it like com­ ing from a city where three million people have got a speech impedi­


I fit," Daniel tells me, as I stroll up the road with him accompanied by Chloe and Sammy, two delightful Shih-Tzu pedigrees, who look the height of canine fashion dressed in their tar­ tan overcoats. Sammy and Chloe's


usually end up doing it for as long as seven hours a day, seven days a week. Still, it certainly keeps me


ment?" Of course, on such occa­


sions my genteel Midland mild manneredness has


prevented me pointing out that the Lancashire dialect is, to outsiders like me, as clear as as a chalkstream in


spate. But now, thanks to this


owner was Daniel's first customer when he started the business 18 months ago, having seized the lead (excuse the pun) from an ex-work colleague, who suggested the idea to him. Since then, he has not


gem of a book which land­ ed on my desk recently, help is at hand. Lancashire English - Lankykshire as it is Spoken, (Abson Books priced £1.99), compiled by Wigan's Fred Holcroft, is the ideal companion for "foreigners" like me, listing over 450 words and phrases with definitions. Now, with the help of


looked back and now has a pack of happy hounds, each one of which he can be easily spotted with, in his distinctive fluorescent yel­ low coat, pacing up and down the streets of Whal- iey and Clitheroe. Of course, he is wise enough to only attempt walking one or two of the dogs at any one time, as more than that


I can prove to be too much of a handful. Even those with the most ferocious reputa­ tions can run off faster than a distressed gazelle when alarmed, as Daniel found out. ”1 used to walk this Alsa­


IT'S A RUM DO %]lloq1<f& tIqcal\


this little volume, I know I'm in trouble if a red-faced Lancastrian (wearing clogs and a cloth cap no doubt) says to me : "Ah'm reet chawved by thi harpin' and meitherin' yo juggins. Sithee don’t moggy off. I’ll be brastin' to peyl yo a purler, ya stone jug egg wapl" Which, for those of you not fluent in the lingo means: "I am somewhat irritated by your persistent banter and pestering, you simple-minded person. Should you not retreat, I shall feel a powerful inclina­ tion to strike you with the utmost force, you intellec­ tually challenged moron."


tian who was frightened of sheep as well as other dogs. On more than one occasion, when a small dog came yapping at him and he was off the leash, he'd turn tail and run off home," says Daniel, prompting me to muse, do such highly- strung hounds provide the origin of the express­ ion,"Doggawn,” as in Deputy Dawg's "Doggawn


varmets"? I t is a good job for


I eyebrows when he takes the dog out for walks around


Daniel that one of his other pooches is not so prone to such timidity - at nineteen- and-a-half stone it would take a small tank to stop it bounding off into the sun­ set. The spectacle of Daniel and Poppy, the outsized Belgium shepherd in ques­ tion, certainly raises a few


| the area, or is it the other way round? "It's built like a Shetland


IT’S a dog's life: Dog walker Daniel Hermon with his client's well-heeled Shih-Tzu pedigrees, Sammy and Chloe. (050298/16/2a) . . . .


such muscular mutts, Daniel likes his work; he says he enjoys the fresh air and chatting with the other dog owners he meets on his


Hard as it is exercising


"rounds." "Some days when I wake


up and it's pouring down, I'm not so keen to get out there, but then I think there are a lot worse jobs. It certainly beats working in a factory," he says. Of course, he has also


pony. Some people don't believe it when I tell them how big it is and I don't blame them. You could mistake it for a bear when it's up on its haunches," chuckles Daniel.


built up special relation­ ships with his doggy pals, which, Daniel says, are all different in their own inim­ itable way. In fact, in one case, one of his "flock" was so overjoyed to see him in public th a t it led to a rather embarrassing situa­


tion. "One of my customer's


dogs was this Doberman called Tyson - he was a bag of nerves, he would bolt off


at the sound of a car back­ firing. He was a big softy and he would get really excited when he saw me. One night, about four weeks ago, I nipped in the pub for a drink. I was standing at the bar when there was this really loud howling and barking. I turned around and there was Tyson. He obviously couldn't understand why I wasn't taking him for walkies. A lot of the regu­ lars in the pub, who knew I took Tyson for walks, were in hysterics," recalls Daniel." While some people, espe­


what is a genuinely useful service. This is especially so, when one considers, through the DSS, he takes dogs out belonging to dis­ abled people, who would not be able to otherwise keep a pet needing con­ stant exercise, thus missing out on much-welcomed


companionship. "It is a community ser­


cially those who have never had the pleasure nor the stamina to look after a dog, might see Daniel's profes­ sion as an unusual one, he should be given full marks for his initiative and dogged effort in providing


vice when all is said and done. A lot of people, for one reason or another, can’t walk their dogs during the day. If they want some one to do it for them, that's where I can step in." If the happy yapping


and enthusiastic snuffling of Chloe and Sammy are anything to go by, Daniel’s customers are leaving their canine friends in capable hands at that.


SOME of the country's t leading jazz musicians are


Top line-up for tribute concert


Clitheroe pianist Stan Barker in a special concert to be held next month. Taking part in the Man­


o pay .tribute. to_thelate


chester concert are Digby Fairweather, who recorded the album "Let's Duet" with Stan in 1984; John Barnes, Roy Williams, the Jazz College All-Stars and the Royal Northern Col­ lege of Music Big Band. As well as being one of Britain's greatest jazz


pianists, Stan was also an educator and director of the Jazz College, which is promoting the event along with the RNCM. The tribute concert will


take place in the Sema Group Concert Hall at the Royal Northern College of Music on March 27th from 7-30 p.m. Admission is £7.50, with concessions. For more information,


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POPULAR Read and Simonstone vicar the Rev. Alan Reid retires


at the end of the month after 42 years in


the ministry. Mr Reid (66) and his


wife, Muriel, will be mov­ ing from the vicarage in Read to The Sands, Whal-


ley. Mr Reid's retirement ser­


vice takes place at St John the Evangelist Church on


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There is so much to be really thankful for, if we could only recognise the many


T


hose who lack appreciation are to be pitied the most of all people.


I blessings we have. To lose but one of our senses is bad enough.


I If you can contemplate the loss of good eye­ sight to the extent of realising how you would be affected by its loss, it will help your appre­ ciation. People afflicted by blindness assure me that they are compensated by more highly


■ developed senses of hearing, for instance, and | this is often a very obvious occurrence. It is a


................................i f ■ pity some of us do not fully appreciate our


blessings until we lose them. We can be slow to realise the gradual loss of


our eyesight. Losing the sight of one eye can be a most traumatic experience when it happens suddenly. There is also a lack of focus, as I found it taking the ping out of my pong at table tennis, and I began to lose abilities I used to take for granted. We do not always appreci­ ate the possession of good health until we lose


it suddenly. 1 used to ponder over a phrase in a solo I


used to hear sung in church; "God who took away my eyes that my soul might see." I decid­ ed that a seeing soul was more important than physical eyesight. So many people, who are


spiritually blind, are unaware of this sad lack in their make-up and, thus, they miss out on a wonderful asset. Our Lord grants us a blessing when He restores our spiritual eyesight, as so often, as we know, he restored physical eyesight to blind people in the days of His flesh. Sudden painful experiences sometimes trigger off a sense of need so necessary for Jesus to be able to help us to see where we were once spiritually


blind. ' No matter how this happens to us, we can often he thankful later that the experience helped us to fully appreciate the new life th a t:


can be ours. Joe Stansficld t


I It marks the end of a dis­ tinguished 42-year career with Blackburn Diocese - including 19 years in Read - but Mr Reid has promised he will help out


Sunday.


Whalley's clergy. "I will still be doing some


work from time to time when called upon because of sickness or in vacant parishes," said the father- of-two.


Reid has a big job in front of him - taking apart his prized model railway and re-building it in his new


Before he can move, Mr


home. He also plans to spend m o re t im e w i th h is g r a n d ­


children Emma (six) and M a rk (two) . He said: "I don't think I


have had more than 20 Sundays off in the last 40


yearsl" Mr Reid was born in


Burnley in 1931 - almost directly opposite St Cuth-


bert's Church. He attended Heasand-


ford Primary School and later Burnley Grammar School before starting work at 16 as a clerk in the trea­ surer's office at the then Burnley Corporation. Five-and-half years later,


ministry and it made me realise the clerk's job was not my vocation. "I got involved with St


"I just felt the call to the


Cuthbert’s Church just after the Second World War at a time when there was a shortage of men in the ministry. I thought this was my vocation and I've never regretted it." After being ordained on


contact the RNCM box office on 0161 907 5278 or


May 27th, 1956, at Black­ burn Cathedral, he took the curate's post a t St Mary's Church, in Pen- wortham, for seven years. While there he met his


Mr Reid went to King's College in London to study theology.


wife, Muriel, who was a member of the church choir, and the couple were married in 1959 by former Read parish priest, the late Canon Tony Schofield, who also baptised the cou­ ple's children Helen and Michael. Mr Reid then became


vicar at St Luke’s Church, in Brierfield, between 1963 and 1972, before moving to Wharton near Lytham. In 1979, Mr Schofield


died suddenly from a heart attack, and by popular


demand Mr Reid (pic­


tured) took the post of vicar at St John the Evan­ gelist Church in Read. Mr Reid's successor has


not yet been appointed. (050298/7/21A)


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