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Month: November 2019

Business Services

Jill’s Catering, Jill’s Catering

LarryWinger
November 30, 2019
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It was the chorus of the sing-along Pantomime song some years back, accompanied by framing hand gestures, that we all sang along to with great gusto. That was back in the time when Jill Wilkinson was parking her little van,…

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Community Services

The quieter village halls

LarryWinger
November 29, 2019
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Amongst the six village halls in this patch, there are three that are really very busy, and three that are quieter. Still sustained by the faithful, still solvent, just quieter. Langley Village Hall, for example, sometimes hosts an evening with…

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Business Community Environment Institutions

The Elk’s Head and Whitfield Estate Partnership

LarryWinger
November 28, 2019
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I seem to have spent some time traversing the West Allen valley over the past week or so, trying to make this diary a more comprehensive recapitulation of the entities in the whole patch. The Elk’s Head is the last…

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Business Services

Whitfield Village Pantry

LarryWinger
November 27, 2019
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I dropped into Whitfield Village Pantry the other day to deliver the new (October) update to the Allendale and Allen Valleys Pocket Directory. While I was there, Janet Marriott graciously (it was lunchtime!) answered a few of my questions, so…

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Cultural Life Education Healthy Living

Music in the key of life . . .

LarryWinger
November 26, 2019
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I had a lovely chat yesterday with June Welch who embarked on a life-changing career shift in her mid-forties, to embrace the learning and teaching of music. As she says, “For me, teaching is always about learning, both for the…

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Communications

The message in the medium

LarryWinger
November 25, 2019
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There aren’t that many famous Canadians, but Marshall McLuhan is one of them. He it was who in 1964 coined the phrase: “the medium is the message”. A salient sign of the times, in that he meant that the study…

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Communications Community Cultural Life Education Institutions

Allendale Bell Tower

LarryWinger
November 24, 2019
1

Shirley Brown writes in with a lovely and fulsome description of the bell ringers at St. Cuthbert’s: “An article in the Hexham Courant in September 2019 was headed ‘Tower of Friendship and Team Spirit’.  I think this sums up nicely…

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Access and Inclusion Community Fundraising Institutions Services

The High Forest Community Centre

LarryWinger
November 23, 2019
2

Just about on the road coming down from the ‘heeds into Sinderhope, the High Forest Community Centre has become rather a busy hall over the past few years. Rescued from its near-derelict state by a combination of significant and timely…

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Environment

Remediation works on the West Allen at Carrshield

LarryWinger
November 22, 2019
3

Throughout this entire year, but scheduled to be completed by Christmas, the work of the Environment Agency and the Coal Authority in reducing the absorption of lead, zinc and cadmium from the Carrshield tailings dam into the tumbling waters of…

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Anecdote Event Institutions

Making the Christmas cake

LarryWinger
November 21, 2019
1

Apparently we’re a week late on this lovely kitchen task; you’re supposed to make your family’s Christmas cake some six weeks ahead of the day itself, to give it time to mature, and also, of course, to soak up even…

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