Paul Mingard writes in to chat about his sleuthing adventures into the realm of beekeeping: “If you had to choose the perfect area in which to keep honeybees, you wouldn’t choose Allendale. It is well above the warm and fertile…
Category: Environment
Bridge End Farm Camping Field
At least three camping, caravanning or motorhome groups hold private rallies on the big Baynes Field at Bridge End, during the clement months. For example, the Dunelm Caravan Association were there during this year’s May Fair, as shown in the…
Pulling the nettles
It’s not my favourite job, I can say that! But somebody has to try to keep the nettles at bay, and now that it’s relatively dry, and yet with damp ground in near-perfect conditions to release the root tangle, it’s…
Buddy rides too!
I could have picked any of numerous photos from the BuddyRider website, as kind of a holding image for when I capture a photo of dear Doris, the cocker spaniel who lives next door, safely perched on her own Buddy…
The glorious 12th?
Apparently it’s anybody’s guess whether the shooting season really will start today; not only has the weekend weather been terrible, but grouse numbers are expected to be quite curtailed, compared to better years. Grouse moors are all around us, up…
Cobbling it all together
Cllr Dave Crellin, Chair of Allendale Parish Council, shared this notice with ‘Allendale area notices‘ facebook group: “It’s nearly 20 years ago that work to relay the cobbles in Allendale Market Place was started. Funds were then not sufficient to…
Leaving so soon?
Not quite 48 hours by the sea, and now it’s time to return home. This mini-break was really only conceived as a test run, in relative safety and proximity to home. There are pets to feed, garden to tend, and…
A walk on the seaside
Minding Northumberland Guide‘s admonition not to attempt to walk across the mouth of the bay, with its wide expanse of sand, we’ll carefully skirt the edges, possibly venturing out to the water as long as we can safely keep ahead…
Mr Robin is back
I’m no ornithologist, but I kind of suspect that the crowds of finches that gathered around the bird feeding pad, along with assorted jackdaws, collared doves, the blackbird family, and Earnest the pea cock shaking his tail feathers, might have…
The dangers of dead helium balloons
I felt so sorry for John Davison, now close to, no, past retirement he says, when he popped up on the BBC’s evening programme Look North, yesterday evening, to chat about the loss of his 15 month old calf due…