Although the Cricket Club is thriving once again, apparently it was in dire straits some four years ago, according to their recent promotional video tweeted and presented just at the moment on their official website. It’s certainly true that the…
Month: April 2019
The new season of Baynes Tours . . .
For well over a decade now, building on the excellent reputation that Fergus Sandison established in a carefully honed niche within Baynes Travel for friendliness, cheerfulness, and a frisson of adventure in every offering, the Baynes Tours, this year concentrating…
New science . . . and engineering
Things impact on our conversations, from the external world, only briefly, transiently, and almost incidentally — it often feels to me as if we live in an enchanted bubble, lost in time and space. But new wonders do sometimes crop…
Not just on Sundays
Ann Potter writes to chat about some of the services on offer at Catton Chapel: ”Catton Chapel was built in 1882. Over the years it has undergone some major changes like removal of the spire. In 2003 major renovations created…
The Challenge is on!
On this the 30th anniversary of the Allendale Challenge, staging and preparative work will have begun at Allendale Village Hall on Friday afternoon, and registration for the fell runners/walkers/participants will be taking place from 7:00 early morning today. I’d bet…
Knit & Crochet, or Natter if you like
Allen Valleys Knit & Crochet Group Meetings: Every Friday 10:00am to 12:30pm at Catton Village Hall Christine Downie, Secretary, writes to chat about this friendly group: ‘It’s hard to define what makes a good social group, but I hope the…
Allendale Parish Council
Allendale Parish Council is comprised of 13 ‘elected’, or co-opted, councillors, who put their names forward for a term of four years and who are all neatly listed on the Northumberland Parishes website, as ‘People‘. The current chair is David…
The lecture/sharing circuit
This diary entry goes out on the morning of the heaviest snowfall of the year, up in Sparty Lea! Awakening to the snow, I wondered if I shouldn’t create a special diary entry about the winter wonderland! It certainly deserves…
Allendale Sports Club
Nestled into the fields at Allen Mill, just on the boundary with Catton, the Sports Ground looks as if it’s always been there, but in fact it’s only a little ways off its fifteenth birthday. I remember some of the…
First Quarter Thoughts
So that’s the first 90 days gone now — maybe it’s time for a bit of reflection on where we’ve come from, and where we’re going with this effort. Well, a bit of statistics first I guess: 90 individual entries;…