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Walking the circuit . . .

LarryWinger
February 16, 2019
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Yesterday I alluded to ‘the circuit’ and wondered if anyone might comment on that somewhat obscure reference. Maybe it’s one of those things that everybody knows about, which often feel like the most fun sort of things to comment on…

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Anecdote Awards and Honours Community Cultural Life Farming

‘My life as a farmer’

LarryWinger
February 13, 2019
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I was so hoping to be there, at last night’s crowded event in the Sinderhope Community Centre where Robert Philipson chatted about his life as a farmer in this valley, for the Allen Valleys Wildlife Group’s regular meeting. Unfortunately for…

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Anecdote Business Services Transport Travel

Station Garage keeps us moving

LarryWinger
February 11, 2019
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If it weren’t for the perspicacity and patience of Howard Pringle and Thomas Robinson at Station Garage, early last autumn, we’d never have got away on our extended holiday in our ancient motorhome. First there was the matter of the…

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Anecdote In-Between Times

Time itself . . .

LarryWinger
February 2, 2019
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Since we’re on the subject of Dr. Who and the timelords anyway . . . why not a short discourse on time itself? Trudge through any field around these parts, in the snow, carrying a plastic bag full of groceries,…

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Anecdote Community Cultural Life Event Fundraising Organisation

Burns Night Supper . . .

LarryWinger
January 27, 2019
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A couple of months in the preparation, last night, Saturday the 26th, was the night for the Allendale Lions Club special Burns Night Supper, which is usually an annual fund-raising affair. Burns Suppers come in a vast variety of shapes…

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Anecdote Business Tourism

Eviction Notice for Dalek & Shed

LarryWinger
January 24, 2019
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The shed housing the Dalek stands inconspicuously enough beside the basement Museum of Classic Sci-Fi. Could you, could you really make it up? I wonder. The idea of a Museum of Classic Science Fiction, in the heart of Allendale, when…

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