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| ly? Oh yes, Ikea. Not that I’m all that both-
I ered by the Swedish furniture company that has gone global thanks to its huge range of oh- so-moderriproductswithun-
I pronounceable Nordic names. I’ve only been to its vast
I retail barns three times in my life and, frankly, I’d rather do
| headstands in a slurry tank. No, what’s bugging me is
I how you’re supposed to pro- | nounce the name. For years, I’ve been pro-
I nouncing it /Eye-kee-ya” to rhyme with “idea”, and so have
| mostotherpeopleinBritairi. ■ ■ Even the voice-overs on .
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“ALTHOUGH LESS THAN 24 hours notice had been given of the meeting of women called by the Mayoress, andalthoughthehourwasnottobe
considered suitable for a large attendance, the Mayor’s Parlouratthetownhallwas filled to excess last Fridayafternoon. Women inallgradesof society attended, and the one desire prevailing the whole meeting was to do something to assist Britain in
the war. What can women do to help our soldiers '
and the country?’wasanswered completely,an admirable scheme being formulated and willingly accepted by the women assembled. The Mayoress expressed her desire to have all efforts centralised to avoid the overlap by all the organisations involved."
Following a meal at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Sawley, the club’s retiring presi-. dent, Ron Driver, handed the chain of office to Raymond (pictured on the right) and wished him well for his year in charge, which will end on June 30th, 2015.
This will be Raymond’s sec ond year of presidency of the club, as he was also the presi- dentin 2002/2003. He said that he was looking forward to his second term of office and was proud to be president again of this long standing Lions Club. An unofficial “Mr and Mrs”- type contest between retir ing president Ron and his
wife, Elizabeth, followed and we will discreetly say it was won by Elizabeth!
Following the handover, the club’s Geoffrey Braithwaite Award presentation took place. This award is pre sented annually in memory of Geoffrey, who was a much loved member of the club. It was given on this occasion to Whalley Scout leader Paul Barlowin recognition of
his 20 years’ service to local Scouting.
He has also been selected to accompany a contin gent of Ribble Valley Scouts to the next International Scout Jamboree in Japan. The award and a cheque for
£200, which willgotoachar- ity of Paul’s choice, was pre
sented by Diana Braithwaite.
Michael Beckett on one of his pre vious runs.
LOOKING BACK
50 YEARS AGO Bestkeptvillage
“TH E HISTORIC V IL LAG E of Chipping, with its
ancientparishchurchandnarrowmainstreet,has ^efu chosen as best-kept village in Lancashire, 1964
by the Community Council of Lancashire. This is the second time the village has been thus honoured the first occasion being in1961. Chipping, which'
won the champion’s class, for villages which had previously won the competition, will receive an oak presentation seat to be retained, presented by the CivioTrust for the North-West The village will also
S ? D C!Tlfi^ e,presentedby^ eLancashir8 pntoreH and PrestonGuardian. Chipping has
entered the competition every yearsince it began and has always been congratulated on the church
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
25 YEARS AGO Simottinjinal
“LOCAL MIMIC SIMON Entwistle takes part in the final o f the 'Blow Your Own Trumpet1 competition tomorrowonthe BBC Radiol Gary Davies Sfjow. Simon (33), of Waddington Road, mimicked hisway to the final after winning by a landslide of popular votes during a preliminary phone-in competition. He polled 3,192 votes of the3,500votes phoned in during the 20 minutes allowed for listeners to make up their minds. Hejoins a line-up of eight finalists ina
broadcast live from Broadcasting House in London. Earlier this year, Simon gave a demonstration of his
talents on US Armed Forces Radio and also fulfilled his long-term ambition of performing o n all the local radio station's in Britain." .
“e live in a busyworld.
.The pres sure is on to perform
ell at work, in our leisure , me and in our relation- lips. Much is demanded ^u s .
‘ No wonder we often hear
iecryfor“metime!” We get irritable and snap-
’ arid we know we haven’t t the work/life balance
?ht. Yet it is hard to change ings, to make more space.
One of the ways we could
find more space is to watch less television. It might sound trite, but apparently on average we watch about four hours a day. My eldest son, who is an
outdoor sort of guy, calls TV the “preferred drug of the nation”; and he is right, of course, that ifyou are tired it is so easy to simply sit down/ switch on and switch off from life I I’m not a telly addict how ever - and I watch very little;
I’d rather be listening to the concertsffomtheAlbert . Hall during the summer or . out in the garden pottering. Both these things allow me to “be” not “do”.
“Being” is the antithesis to a busy life. It’s the opportuni
ty to simply (really) look at a flower, a butterfly, a spider’s web.-
Or maybe to drink ina
fantastic view or sunset - the sort of visuals which
turn our hearts away from the creature in us to ponder
the “Other” the Creator. It gives us time to reflect
on life, to think, ponder and wonder.
And in turn, this time of
pondering will energise us for the tasks ahead. All faiths encourage us to be still. , Jesus said: “Come unto
me and I will give you rest.” Let’s find some space this week to simply “be” and know the true refreshment oftheheart.
REV. GILL DYER Whalley Parish Church i MfMMM Wastf
I their telly adverts used to pro- „ | nounce it thus. Seenis reasonable doesn’t
| it? Go to Ikea for ideas? But I’ve now noticed - and
I maybe you have, too-that the voice-over chap is extolling a retailer called “Ee-kee-ah”.
As I See It... by Eric Beardsworth
It’s the Swedish way, appar
ently. I ask you, “Ee-kee-ah." What’s the big Ee-dee-ah? : . •. So, I checked on t’internet. Here’s one bit of advice I
found: “Ikea is a Swedish firm so therefore this word should be pronouce (sic) in Swed ish...” So says a Swede, I pre- ■ sume.
Another says: “In Russian,
wesayee-KEY-ya.” Well, bully for you, Sven
and Ivan, but you must un derstand that we’re British and we’ve always pronounced foreign place names however we like. We aren’t comfortable
with foreign words in case we embarrass ourselves by mis pronouncing them, so we use anglicised versions; hence
• our holidays in “Eye-bee-zah” rather than “E-bee-tha” or “Mecks-i-co” instead of “Me- hee-co.”
' Feeble attempts at native
pronunciation smack to me of the abandonment of quaint old British obduracy.
■ IblametheBBC.who start-'
ed the rot years ago when the wars started between the USSR and the Taliban. Then, the Afghan city we’d
been calling “Ka-bull” since Kipling’s day became a set of variations: “Kar-bool”, “Kaw- buU”and“Karble.” Similarly, the Dutch footy.
team Ajax - as in the scouring powder and the Greek war rior we always pronounced A-jacks - became “Ah-yacks”. Why? We still refer to Turin and
Milan, not Torino and Mi lano, and Moscowrather than “Mosk-va”. Trying to do foreign names
like a native may be an at tempt to sound smart, but it
can makeyou sound likea twit instead. ' I seem to recall a BBC DJ
(was it Johnnie Walker or Tommy Vance?) introducing tracks by the Spanish star Julio “Ee-glay-thi-ath,” lisping diligently over “Iglesias” and ignorant of the fact that Span
is “Lpndres”, Dover is “Dou- vres” and Scotland is “Ecosse”.
: > It’s their language, their
words and they won’t use the English versionjusttopander
tous.Goodforthem!
And if the Americans wish to refer to wars in “Eye-rack”
and “Eye-ran” - even if we do snigger at them for it - it’s up to them,
So for me, it’s “Eye-kee-
ya” .. even though I’m still un likely to go there.
Jason Sheard (left), of Total Foodservice, with staff and children from Blackburn Youth Zone.(s)
A seven strong team of char ity fundraisers, including staff and retired workers from Total Foodservice, Barrow,- and some of its suppliers have raised£5,OOOforthe Black burn Youth Zone.
the popular facility keep its Imgthecoast-to-coastandcy- “We chose Blackburn a dm m a t j i is t s o p a visit, , clingtheYorkshirehills. We’re Youth Zone, as the facility pro-
gruelling Lancashire Loop ice,said:“Overtheyearswe’ve allydidgiveustheaddedmoti the ionu l3
ni m d r a cross B?ackb u rn ^ h*p R fhh l” fJellghtedtohave raised such a videschildrenfromthe^der s p s : : s s s s Marathon man Michael defies odds tel*
A chronic osteoarthritis suf ferer from the Ribble Valley will take part in the first Ches ter MBNA Metric Marathon thanks to double hip replace ment surgery. Michael Beckett (58) spent
years adapting his lifestyle after being diagnosed with the debilitating condition and eventuallyunderwentsurgery in November, 2009. Michael said: “I was a very active person and so when I
. was diagnosed with the con dition, I was devastated.
“My condition got progres
sively worse because I was in so much pain. A few months , before I had the hip replace
•
ment operation, I couldn’t even walk 100 metres.” After recovery, Michael
was able to start low impact exercising.
“After the surgery, I was de termined to lose weight and
get back into exercise. I started going to the gym and running on the treadmill, something I didn’t think would ever be possible,” he said. After being able to final
ly take up running again, Michael has lost four stone and completed two mara thons.
He will now take part in
Chester’s first metric mara thon, which sees runners take
on a distance of 26.2 km (just over 16 miles). •
• The metric marathon aims
to give runners the same race day experience as thefiillmar- athon, takingin the best parts of the longer route. Michael concluded: “I’m
really looking forward to tak ing part in the first metric
marathon as the distance suits me perfectly. Running has changed my life and I nowhave goals to aim for and something to dedicate my time to. “Everyone used to tell me
about the running bug and it’s not until I started doing long distances that I knew exactly what they meant."
h6!P raised over £*4,ooo by tack- vation to get up the steep hills,
iards do that charming lisp on the letter C, not theS. For a Frenchman, London
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