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…
Year: 2019
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…
Solar panel slump
Apparently, with the demise of feed-in contracts, the installation of photovoltaic solar panels across the country has come to a shuddering halt; numbers have crashed by 94% since the hey-day of the big subsidies, and the industry here in the…
Ok, let’s have some sunshine
I was taken by a vox pop comment the other day about Chernobyl, the new holiday destination; one gentleman opined that he preferred natural sunshine to the radio-active kind! But it’s almost getting to the point that we’d settle for…
75 years on from hell
This week the country, and much of Europe, Canada and the USA, have been commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on Normandy, which heralded the end of WWII’s war in Europe within the following nine months. Many of…
Yoga with Val
Val Duncan sends in a few words from her mobile phone, laboriously keyed in and dictated as well for a second time, about her Yoga sessions: Allendale Yoga Group meets every Friday morning at 10 -11.30 in the well-appointed purpose-built …
Dreams of a rural idyll
As the long and slow process of my recovery continues apace, I find myself thinking intermittently of just what sort of rural idyll I’d imagined we’d find ourselves in, at this point in our lives. You don’t usually plan ill…
The disappearing speed bumps
Back around the end of October last year, while we were away enjoying ourselves in sunny Portugal, the county council roads department came into Allendale Town and laid down speed bumps that quickly became a cause célèbre. Apparently the Parish…