As if the Easter weekend were the dam holding back the waters of activity, this week has flung open the sluice gates and there are things galore to be doing, starting, participating in, enjoying, throughout the Allen Valleys. It’s more…
Author: LarryWinger
The first mowing, and again
Down in Allendale, I’m sure folks started mowing their lawns some weeks ago now, but up on the fellsides of Sparty Lea, the week running up to this past glorious weekend was the first opportunity for mowing this year. I…
AVH&RG: AGM notes
Catherine Stirling-Hill sends some notes our way to chat about the charity’s Annual General Meeting, scheduled for today Wednesday the 24th of April, 7:30pm in the Main Hall (while the Gardening Society holds their quarterly meeting in the New Hall):…
Letting go . . . finding more
I was told how to trap monkeys at a very early age. Not that we had many monkeys in Canada, but still, even then I knew it was an object lesson, and naturally I would be smarter than any monkey,…
The Dales Gardening Society
When I arrived at the Tea Rooms for a little meeting with representatives of the Garden Society, who were eager to help feature their group in the diary, Emma Harrison ushered me into the side dining room with a table…
Easter Sunday
It was the late Bishop of Durham, the Reverend David Jenkins, who opined that the resurrection which encapsulates Christianity was “not just a conjuring trick with a bag of bones”. Blunt, but frank, at least. How he loved controversy, yet…
Barbecue Saturday!
Seems like it might be our first real opportunity of the year for a family barbecue today! Our brother-in-law is from South Africa, and his life is built around barbecues, which down south in hearty Herefordshire he fires up every…
The film club . . .
Liz Sandison sends me a few notes about the Allendale Village Hall Film Club, to which I’ve added some reminiscences of my own . . . The film club has been in existence for nearly fifteen years. It was started…
Colin Potsig, photographer
Photographs, rendered in monochrome, from portraits by Colin Potsig, used by kind permission of the artist I had a lovely chat with Colin yesterday afternoon, after he got back from retrieving a form at the Post Office. Colin used to…
Local housing . . . a work in progress
I’m going to try something different with this piece, and that is to try to leave it quite open-ended, as I’m waiting for feedback on my facebook query in Allendale area notices, about local affordable housing. So today’s entry might…