In a great publicity coup, Higher Ground entertained the new mayor of the combined North of Tyne authority, this past Friday at their garden space. Jamie Driscoll, the successful Labour candidate at the 3rd of May election, is in charge…
Category: Communications
Getting ready for the family’s return . . .
It’s one of the recurring themes of this diary: the diaspora of our young people out from this rural idyll to the greater metropolitan centres of the world, and then, when we’re lucky, the return for a family visit. We’re…
Sidelights, or less, in the f-f-f-fog?!
Stuttering with impotent rage over the fecklessness of some country drivers yesterday morning on our way in to the ‘toon for a hospital appointment, as we peered through the near-impenetrable fog to make out, just, a grey vehicle in front…
Click-bait, gaslighting, going viral . . . these new words!
Apparently, photos of cats being cute are the most clicked items in all of social media. Not that we’re looking for a viral response here today amongst the regular daily entries of Allendale Diary or anything, just saying. . ….
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…
The things we don’t talk about . . .
We have them, all right, but we don’t talk about our emotions very much. We don’t talk about being angry, or being sad, or being so glad that our hearts swell up and we’re in kind of an exalted state…
Welcome Pack: good idea or not?
I was ruminating on a post in Allendale area notices, as you do, and wondering whether the enquirer, newly arriving in the area, could use the services of a friendly Welcome Pack. As far as I know, nothing like that…
Old and getting older
There’s something about the ‘Valuation Evening’ at Allendale Village Hall tonight that’s frightening. Not in the sense of ‘family treasures’ . . . nah, that’s just a hoot — nothing we own could be said to have any more intrinsic…
Too much wind . . .
Obviously, it’s not Cyclone Idai, for which a great Disasters Emergency Committee fund has been set up to help the millions (millions! — millions and millions!) of people in Mozambique around the metropolitan area of Beira who have been flooded…
A Valentine for local logistics
This is a kind of lateral-minded Valentine, but it still comes straight from the heart. Today I’m writing about the small, informal, unobtrusive, almost secret and yet perfectly open, logistics network that works throughout these valleys. It’s not the same…