The diary entry today owes its provenance to several comments and notes: i. Our own challenges with our private water supply and sewage system; ii. Peter Armstrong’s comment about dealing with the waste after the Sparty Lea Poetry Festival; iii….
Month: June 2019
Allendale Golf Club . . . a match in the wild
According to the website of Allendale Golf Club, there’s to be a Seniors Match between Allendale and Bellingham at home to Allendale, today, if enough members from each club can be recruited. Apparently the required five pairs from Allendale are…
The compulsion to fix things
I saw, maybe a month or so ago, news in Allendale area notices of a repair clinic over at Nenthead, where folks were encouraged to bring their domestic items that had stopped working, for a bit of attention from other…
Click-bait, gaslighting, going viral . . . these new words!
Apparently, photos of cats being cute are the most clicked items in all of social media. Not that we’re looking for a viral response here today amongst the regular daily entries of Allendale Diary or anything, just saying. . ….
What is it about older folks and wild birds?
I suppose the wild bird thing isn’t exclusively the territory of older folks, but it’s certainly a truism that the two somehow go hand-in-hand. I wonder why that is? On Father’s Day, it does feel fair to wonder why ageing…
The River Path
In the first of a new Saturday series featuring free activities to enjoy throughout the Allen Valleys, based loosely around the activities described in the Allendale and Allen Valleys Pocket Directory, Joan Morgan writes about her love of Allendale’s River…
So, the FIFA Women’s World Cup
Earlier on Allendale area notices, someone asked which pub was best for viewing of the footy. I don’t know if they were after the FIFA Women’s World Cup or not, but I have to say that the current action is…
George Newman, 1929-2019
It’s the funeral today of George Newman, beloved pillar of the community and renowned builder of much of Allendale, actually. We’ve traced some of George’s building projects in an earlier item (19th April) in the diary, but this piece today…
All services crashed, all at once
Okay, not quite all: the electricity is coming in just fine on our side (though the repercussions of the seized transfer pump in the water system are shorting out the neighbour’s electrical supply on a daily basis), but it feels…
Community posts on facebook
As I’ve mentioned before, we ignore the contemporary communications going on online, at our social peril, because there are so many announcements of events, happenings, notes and queries and photographs and really, a lot of communications busily filtering through various…