The Rossendale Rambler

Editorial, September 1999

Did anyone spot the deliberate mistakes in the last issue of The Rossendale Rambler? I didn't and neither did my most excellent (usually) team of proof readers. It seems I was in a time warp when I compiled the last issue and slipped back into 1998 - for that was the first mistake, right at the top of the first page - June 1998, it proclaimed! My apologies. The second bloomer was a little less obvious but those with a keen sense of filing bits of information away, will have been overcome with an eerie sense of deja-vu when they noticed the cartoon on page 2 - this was last used on page 5 in June 1998 - there goes that time warp again! Perhaps I ought to run a competition of 'Spot the Bloomer' or even go into competition with the 'Grauniad'.

My little book about the Ireland Holiday finally made it off the printing press by the beginning of July. I have been very busy at work just lately and not being able to take my lap-top to Ireland meant that I had to write everything in long-hand. This was bad enough in itself, as it is some time since I last had to write stuff the 'old-fashioned way', but then it all had to be typed up into the word processor and it was really finding time to do this that delayed the print run. Anyway, all those that were on the holiday have had their copy and the grand sum of Ł65 was raised-almost everyone contributed and some generous souls even gave Ł10. This means that funding for The Rossendale Rambler is assured for another year or so. If anyone else wants a copy of the little book, cross my palm with Ł5 and I'll run one off for you - there were some that said it was a jolly good read.

This edition of the Rambler is jam-packed with walks, news and poems. It seems many of you have been struck by the muse and though you will all get published at some time, I may not have room to do it all in this issue. We are also blessed by several accounts of walks from as far apart as Cornwall and the Southern Highlands. There is also an account, from the Daily Telegraph no less, concerning our own 'Round the Hills Walk' which I have had permission reproduce here and also an account of a new circular walk around Rochdale from Richard Catlow of the Rochdale Observer Group. Anything that is not published this time will be looked at for publication in the future, so keep the contributions coming.

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Walter Waide
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