Now published, and also appearing the same day in the shops, every Thursday, the Hexham Courant has been the local paper of record for many decades, having amalgamated papers from the surrounding towns and villages into its fold throughout the…
Month: October 2019
Langley Furniture Works
What a lovely piece on the 40th anniversary of Geoff Jackson’s Langley Furniture Works, in this week’s Hexham Courant! Between this item, and the information at the firm’s delightful website, in particular the individual photographs of team members hard at…
A word, or two, about meetings
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve heard, or heard of the phrase: ‘I’m happy to do something, but I won’t go to meetings.’ And then the listener nods sympathetically, and wonders, silently, “Well, that’s fine, but how…
Langley Castle’s Hallowe’en
Not a view locals are used to seeing, of this iconic 14th Century castle, this is Langley Castle from the rear, with the new dining room extension. Wikipedia notes that Langley Castle’s most remarkable feature is included in the south-west…
7 Meditations on Autumn
I Sunrise is the best; the hot pink hues Illumine crispy autumn mornings. The frost coats swathes of garden grass In rough hewn patches of fast fading white. My wispy grey-white beard still fails To cover where the surgically stretched…
Very slow sloe gin
Okay, it could have been even slower, had we planted sloe berries, rather than the lovely saplings that came to us as a delightful Christmas present a few years ago. But just waiting for the first fruits to emerge from…
Rave on again!
Tonight it’s specifically the turn of the under-18s to experience the rave dance scene. The concept, developed I believe between Anna Harrison and David Porter, has followed on from August’s successful DJ-driven disco. Arriving as the half term finishes out,…
New goods lift at the Co-op!
So it’s a stock photo, because the Co-op’s new goods lift assembly and installation is all shrouded in plywood hoardings, that you can only just see from the deli counter if you look down the steps. I thought, ‘What’s that…
Some thoughts on domestic finances
Sure, it was hard in our day, but I wonder if it was quite as hard for us, then, as it is for young struggling families nowadays? I thought, since we do try to consider those parts of a year…
Surely, surely the cobbles will be sorted by now . . .
We’re expecting to be back from our little jaunt to the Highlands & Islands today, ready to resume live diarising again. The past ten entries have all been facilitated by the blog schedule, having been pre-written over a conscientious five…