Hot diggety.  We’re going to have three mayors at our Birthday Party – the Mayors of Copeland, Allerdale and Millom have all said they’d be delighted to attend.

Preparations continue at breakneck speed.  The Police have been informed and are trundling along with POLICE SLOW signs for the road between the Centre and Muncaster Car Park.  We’ve hired two cars and drivers for the day from a local taxi firm to run the ‘Park and Ride’ service to and fro;  the birthday cake’s been arranged (courtesy of one of our volunteers who’s a dab hand at freehand cake decoration); we’ve put in our dibs for the live music;  Bishop George Hacker, retired Bishop of Penrith, is working on the service;  we’ve got all our regular cake-bakers revved up and ready to go – all we need now is some half-way decent weather.

As if.