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And New Year’s Day, once again . . . whew!

LarryWinger
January 1, 2020
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These images from Stephanie Atkinson of this morning’s great clear-up of the square remind us of last year’s similar images. Thanks Stephanie! Today the diary turns the corner into another year. Stephanie, who is always up early to walk her…

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Anecdote Education Reminiscence

Allendale’s Evacuee Stories

LarryWinger
December 24, 2019
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And Linda Beck promised one from her daughter Anja as well. Allendale Primary School Year 6 class have been studying the local history of evacuation to the rural countryside during WWII. The diary has also featured another evacuee story which…

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Anecdote Business In-Between Times

Last-minute shopping

LarryWinger
December 23, 2019
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Today somehow feels like the last convenient opportunity to get out to the local shops and snap up the critical stocking stuffers that you know will be especially appreciated by your beloved on Christmas morning. At least, that’s what I’ve…

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Anecdote Community Reminiscence Sports

The Pub Leagues

LarryWinger
December 20, 2019
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Long long ago, when I was rather younger than I am now, I learned how to hoie quoits at a target of a stubby post that barely stood proud of the soft squishy clĂ©-ay pit in which it was ensconced….

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Anecdote Business Services

A hymn of praise to local builders

LarryWinger
December 13, 2019
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It would be remiss if we missed out on a small window of opportunity to offer up a hymn of praise to local builders currently working throughout these valleys. We might not be able to fit every tradesperson in the…

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Anecdote Community External Funding Healthy Living Institutions Organisation Reminiscence

The Tea Dance

LarryWinger
December 4, 2019
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Mary Gibson invited me specially to drop in this afternoon to chat with the regulars at Wednesday afternoon’s Tea Dance Society in Allendale Village Hall. So I’ll certainly have more stories and information about this beloved institution in Allendale, later…

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Anecdote Event Institutions

Making the Christmas cake

LarryWinger
November 21, 2019
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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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Anecdote

Willow whips in the boggy bit

LarryWinger
November 18, 2019
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I guess just about everyone around here knows what to do with that old bath that’s come out of the renovated bathroom: put it in the field and run a field drain into the fellside where the spring is emerging,…

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Anecdote Travel

Escape back home from the south

LarryWinger
November 13, 2019
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Eee but it’s great to be back home away from the hustle and bustle of the south. When the M6 moves on from Manchester, the traffic thins dramatically, and from there on past Lancaster, Tebay services (the best motorway services…

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Anecdote Services

The hands fall off . . .

LarryWinger
November 12, 2019
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I know there’s a metaphor in there somewhere. The minute hand especially keeps falling off our big kitchen clock. I take it all apart, screw the little round nut back on, on top of the minute hand, and set it…

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