When I arrived at the Tea Rooms for a little meeting with representatives of the Garden Society, who were eager to help feature their group in the diary, Emma Harrison ushered me into the side dining room with a table…
Easter Sunday
It was the late Bishop of Durham, the Reverend David Jenkins, who opined that the resurrection which encapsulates Christianity was “not just a conjuring trick with a bag of bones”. Blunt, but frank, at least. How he loved controversy, yet…
Barbecue Saturday!
Seems like it might be our first real opportunity of the year for a family barbecue today! Our brother-in-law is from South Africa, and his life is built around barbecues, which down south in hearty Herefordshire he fires up every…
The film club . . .
Liz Sandison sends me a few notes about the Allendale Village Hall Film Club, to which I’ve added some reminiscences of my own . . . The film club has been in existence for nearly fifteen years. It was started…
Colin Potsig, photographer
Photographs, rendered in monochrome, from portraits by Colin Potsig, used by kind permission of the artist I had a lovely chat with Colin yesterday afternoon, after he got back from retrieving a form at the Post Office. Colin used to…
Local housing . . . a work in progress
I’m going to try something different with this piece, and that is to try to leave it quite open-ended, as I’m waiting for feedback on my facebook query in Allendale area notices, about local affordable housing. So today’s entry might…
Tweet-a-pedia to the rescue!
I could not quite believe it, upon interrogating Google to find out some useful information about our resident cock pheasant and his cheerful harem of three hens, expecting to be pointed towards a Wiki-pedia entry, only to find that ‘Tweet-a-pedia”…
Easter break: what to do?
I’m afraid that I remember school breaks mostly as another series of normal work days, personally, but the other family members of course were ensconced at home, wondering what on earth to do? By the time we were both working…
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is so-called because of the heraldic procession as reported in the Bible’s Gospels, of a triumphant, but humble Jesus through the streets of Jerusalem in great acclaim, with palm branches being strewn in the path of the new…
Allendale: 101; 10; 1
So, which is it for Allendale, newly noted in the Times/Sunday Times top 101 best places to live in the UK, in the top 10 of places identified in the Northeast? Look North covered the story at 6:30am yesterday, and…