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tlSs when after several days, still nothing appeared to be something of a farce. ^ ‘


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■'^onground to an almighty halt due to the snow. T • disruptioawas inevitable,


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Pnrt^^’ “7 * *7 having lived fora number of years in' I ' “1 ®°“'h coast where I recall a memorable


’""'vplough fleet (rumoured “‘ .“'eir cameras to capture ' LMOSTassoon as last


our first lamb, but as usual, the other sheep seem to be looking on and saying, “Not me pal, I’ll just stay in the comfort of this


bam for a bit longer!” so it looks like tlie early Iamb should


be available for baby-sitting be­ fore we have a few more. Many of you seem to have


been watching the Victorian Farm series currently on TV, I have been asked a number of times how things differ today.


; cian, it is not intended to be. As a farmer, my main func­


tion is to produce food, and


many of the old methods still prevail, it is in the machinery department that there has been most change. The tractors and


machines are bigger, faster and less labour intensive but they


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Success for gardening society 6


Humble column 7 of marmalade 8


Life Gardening with Chris


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still perform the same function to collect the harvest. Milk ’ from the cow, or grain from the rield It IS still a harvest and has been going on since man added gathering to his hunting abili­ ties millennia ago.


The answer is, m principle it hasn’t but in fact it has. Now that answer may seem evasive enough to be worthy of a politi-


February. ?nna A couple of weeks


ago the programme cov­ ered lambing, here very little has changed. The shepherd on the pro­


gramme knew to leave his ewes,


to get on with their lambing, unless they had a problem and then he was there to help. When he did liavc to intervene, he told the novice shepherd to be gentle and feel what was


going on, not to look. It is just what I do every year; help any of my ewes that need it and check that all is well with the others.


As soon as the Iamb is bom


themothcrstartstolickit.this IS to remove the ‘cleaning’ or


birth sac and to stimulate the breathing. If I am there at the birth and the lamb is a little slow in getting going, the re­ vival methods are still the same, rub tlie chest with a wisp if hay


or straw and clean the nose and


mouth of any mucus that has collected there. One thing I did


learn was to pinch the lamb’s ear to make it shake its head expel the gunk that way; I


shall be putting it into practice on this year’s Iambs.


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ewe, pull a little milk on both teats to check that, not only is


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there milk available on both sides, but that the wax seal has been broken. This seal is to


keep infection away from the nevvly swelling‘bag’(udder)


and to make sure the milk duct IS open for the sometimes frail


new bom lamb to suckle. Final­ ly I will also check, with my


hand, whelhershe has another lamb still to come. Dependine


on where it is I know to bans around for the few minuicsit will take before it appears, or wait a while and do somethin?


•else before I go back and check


some snowdrops and on the way I looked in on a sheep that had been kept in bccau.se she was a bit lame, I was very pleased to find that she has pre­


on her. Earlier, I was sent to cet


sented me with two fine lambs. M it is supposed to be raining


in a few days 1 bet this will start a msh of lambing. As to the vegelabic garden, it


looks very sad, the winter veg has a ‘can’t be bothered’ look


about it; the frail bushes seem


to be saying “Don’t think you will get much of a crop from me this year!” and the watercress and rocket just look dead. How different in the ornamental gar­ den. Snowdrops everywhere' daffodils showing they mean business and the beans coming through in the greenhouse. Makes me realise what a differ­ ence a few more weeks will make to the other plants.


February, 2009


A Joy to behold


By NATALIE COX A


t ten t io n to detail is artist Joy Cockle's signature style.


There is something magical about the pictures she draws of


buildings such as these of Clitheroe Castle and her base at Backridge Farm, Waddington. Every tiny detail of her drawings tells a story, hints and clues can be found in the illustrations as to the lives of the inhabitants whether the image is of a private house or a business. After leaving school Joy ful­


filled an early ambition by at­ tending art college. A month after graduating from Bath Academy of Art she married her husband John - the couple who had met at school have been together for 28 years. Joy was lucky enough to be a stay-at-home mum raising the couple s three children; “I didn't go into a career I wanted to be


. at home to bring up the


children and John’s work


enabled me to have the luxu­ ry of being at home.Dme


moved into the town and accord- ine to Joy have not looked back


since. Her son joined the grammar


school, while her daughters went to Pendle Primary where Joy of- ferd to paint murals in the recep­ tion and Year One areas and corridor. She went on to become an art and technology technician


at Ribblesdale High School Technology College in Clitheroe where she also mentored art stu­


dents and was trained to use woodwork machinery. After rupturing her achilles


tendon and being in plaster for 12 weeks, Joy had plenty of time


to reflect on her life and at that point decided it was time to do something different. After seeing an advert in the Clitheroe Adver­


Ct'itheroe Castle. •yj


tiser and Times for a part-time carpentry workshop as­ sistant in a unit at Back­ ridge Farm, Waddington, she successful­ ly applied for the post and had “great fun” going home covered in sawdust. She was also able to use her drawing tal­ ents to create visuals for cus­ tomers and design her own pieces of


However, Joy kept herself busy training to be an antenatal


lidliimg lU ail uiiiyiiMv^A teacher for the NCT; she set up and ran a mother and baby group, joined a carnival commit­ tee and the school PTA, In fact


ICC aiiu iiic she took up any creative outlet


she could find. When the family moved to Marlborough her cre­


ative outlet became the family home which she decorated with


murals and pictures; she also made books for her children which she Illustrated. In 1995 she sciiient one of these books to a pub


fishing house and a year later The second moment came when e l s and was trying to emulate Sal-


ut _________r — would have two sides and a roof.


‘The Happy Tree’ hit the shelves, she was studying for her 0-Lev- J o y and her family moved to


the Kibble Valley in 2000 when vador Dali’s style. Joy tried to her husband’s company relocat- create her own abstract pictures ed to the North West. After dis- of long streets going nowhere, covering Clitheroe the family


until her art teacher said that al- furniture,


40th birthday, Joy drew her a pic­ ture of her house and with her amazing attention to building de­ tail discovered she had created her unique style. She clearly re­


calls two defining moments which led to the creation of her particular artistic style - the first was being taught to use perspec­ tive as a five-year-old by her fa­ ther who was a cabinet maker. From then on all her houses


....... Backridge Fam.


though her imagination was great, she needed to pay much more at­ tention to her observational dra\y- ing by studying roof fixtures, drain­


pipes and lamp posts. Having discovered her own style,


Joy decided to set up her own com­ pany. For the first 18 months she worked from home before being of­ fered the chance of her own unit at Backridge Farm. Initially she


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moved into the former milking par­ lour and set up her studio.


Designs As well as working for some well-


known local businesses including Moorhouses Brewery and Paul Heathcote, of Heathcotes restau­ rant, Joy also designs wedding and


business stationery, greetings cards, as well as murals and panels. Her


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business has continued to go from strength to strength and in Novem­ ber last year Joy moved her creARTivity company into a bigger unit at Backridge where she plans to open her own gallery. • Joy’s unit is open every Wednes­ day, Thursday and Friday between 10am and 4pm and on any other day by appointment, just ring 01200 429337 or 07989 632503.


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