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Transitions

LarryWinger
January 8, 2022
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It seems to have been seamless, the transition of these Allendale Diary pages from a fee-based web hosting service to an independent platform within the family, as it were. The serving of individual pages and everything associated with the online…

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Communications Fundraising Notes from Afar

More than small beer or potatoes!

LarryWinger
July 25, 2021
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May the potatoes rise up to meet you . . . Our potato plants are doing very well this year. It’s hard to believe that it’s been just over two years since I wrote somewhat lyrically about preparation and anticipation…

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Access and Inclusion Communications In-Between Times

Proofs accepted; printing in process

LarryWinger
January 10, 2020
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Well, let’s see . . . a fair bit of work has gone into the compiling of all the components for the big ‘book of the blog,’ but it’s all finished now, and the proof came back by 1st Class…

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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
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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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Communications Community Education Organisation Reminiscence Transitions

Allen Valleys Local History Group

LarryWinger
November 15, 2019
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Yesterday evening I spent an intriguing hour with the Local History Group as Paul Mingard explained the fascinating story of some old glass plate negatives delivered over a decade ago into the hands of Margaret Stonehouse, then District Councillor. I…

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Business Communications Services Those We Have Lost

The Hexham Courant, our local weekly paper

LarryWinger
October 31, 2019
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Now published, and also appearing the same day in the shops, every Thursday, the Hexham Courant has been the local paper of record for many decades, having amalgamated papers from the surrounding towns and villages into its fold throughout the…

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Access and Inclusion Communications Community Organisation

A word, or two, about meetings

LarryWinger
October 29, 2019
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I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve heard, or heard of the phrase: ‘I’m happy to do something, but I won’t go to meetings.’ And then the listener nods sympathetically, and wonders, silently, “Well, that’s fine, but how…

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Anecdote Communications Notes from Afar Reminiscence

A Tea Set’s Journey

LarryWinger
October 18, 2019
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Richard Skinner from Allenheads was stimulated by my musings on crockery in an earlier diary piece, to pursue a developing story that began for him when he and Barbara met Dick and Hilary Dorward during a holiday last year in…

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Access and Inclusion Business Communications Community Event Faith and Worship Organisation Tourism

Planning for the last third of the diary’s year . . .

LarryWinger
September 11, 2019
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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…

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