What if someone invented a service where the tea has just been finished, the kids are all relaxed, the dishwasher is loaded, the doorbell rings, and a friendly hairdresser walks in and proceeds to take care of the whole family’s…
Category: Business
Pots in the Byre
I dropped in to Steph Jamieson‘s annual ‘Pots in the Byre’ show at Broadwood Hall Studios, yesterday, just before the heavens opened and the rain came down in a deluge, to see some of the pottery displays. The day before,…
Langley Dam: Fishing and Glamping
Today at Langley Dam Lake it’s the Freddie White Memorial Macmillan Day, from 9am as noted on the business’s facebook page, with donations going to Macmillan Cancer Support. The Langley Dam enterprise has recently added a diversification component to its…
The Garden Station, Langley
These Allen Valleys, East and West, are blessed with the most idiosyncratic, and lovely, places for events. And sometimes, because the places are so fetching, the events grow up around them. Something like that has happened at The Garden Station,…
The Spice Mill: Indian Takeaway
Early in July, on the 10th actually, the Spice Mill posted a succinct notice in Allendale area notices: effective immediately, the business was consolidating into a take-away enterprise only. There was some consternation, but mostly folks were glad that the…
Planning for the last third of the diary’s year . . .
Suddenly, we’re into the last third of the year, as a kind soul reminded me just as we turned into September. And since it’s a work term, maybe a prospective look at what’s coming up in this last big slice…
Allendale Caravan Park
On the site of the former railway spur line from Catton to Hexham, which once hauled lead out of the Allen Smelt Mill nearby, and latterly milk from the valleys’ dairy herds to Tyneside, stands Allendale Caravan Park, a static…
Bridge End Farm Camping Field
At least three camping, caravanning or motorhome groups hold private rallies on the big Baynes Field at Bridge End, during the clement months. For example, the Dunelm Caravan Association were there during this year’s May Fair, as shown in the…
The Dalek wins a reprieve . . .
The news came through yesterday afternoon about 4:00pm from the Hexham Courant as Breaking News after the Tynedale Local Area Council (ie the West Northumberland subsection of Northumberland County Council) had voted for a year’s reprieve, but was then featured…