While I was writing up some of the text for the little photo album we’ve been creating for our grandsons, Carrie shared a nursery rhyme with me that she learned as a child. No doubt older readers will remember the…
The Farmers’ Masquerade Ball
The Farmers Masquerade Ball (you don’t have to be a farmer) is tonight the 12th of October at 7pm at Allendale Village Hall. The tickets at £30 have all been dealt out (food reservations meant that ticket sales were finished…
Jake the donkey
There’s not a lot to say about Jake, who lives next door, and sometimes gets out into the field behind us, except that he’s been adopted from his previous home in the hills above Wooley, and he has the normal…
2nd Thursday evenings: traditional music session
Jos Mahon writes to Allendale area notices to announce the regular traditional music session, now being held on the second Thursday of the month at the Golden Lion (they had been held at The Crown in Catton, before it closed)….
Electric Vehicle Charging Point?
I can’t remember a time since it was installed, under the auspices of the Allen Valleys Landscape Partnership administering a £2.4million Heritage Lottery grant secured by the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty quango, that the Electric Vehicle Charging…
Keeping the little wild birds happy
I didn’t know that there was more than one genre of wild bird feeder, but it seems there are four basic feed offerings of special interest to the smaller wild birds: seed; nuts; fat; suet. Quite what the difference is…
Grapes of delight
Not something one usually associates with the bleak North Pennines, grapes can be grown in south-facing polytunnels, as long as the fermenter (us!) doesn’t depend solely on the natural sweetness of the fruit, but is prepared to add in extra…
After the auction frenzy, the long dispersion
It was such a long day at the auction yesterday . . . we left at about 6:00pm (with a few more bids for various desiderata left in capable hands), but there were still a couple hundred lots left to…
The Charity Auction!
By Friday evening, Allendale Village Hall was filled to the gunwales with everything that’s anything under the sun. It felt like more amazing stuff than ever, more than the last couple of years certainly. Some decided treasures, some dross naturally,…
The PTFA at Allendale Primary School
Today’s the Beetle Drive at the Primary School, from 6:30-8:30pm and everyone is very welcome! I asked Charlotte Robson Reid for some more information about the PTFA, and she sent in a lovely set of notes: “A brief outline of…