The programme for this year’s folk festival is the biggest ever, and the weekend looks like an exciting jaunt through contemporary folk music. The festival workshops are an annual component of the festival, as led by local tutors, and the…
Category: Community
Shifting things for the auction . . .
Every year, the annual charity auction re-appears at Allendale Village Hall. There’s junk galore, it’s true, but there are treasures amongst the dross that the cognoscenti are actually very keen on, though they always profess nonchalant disinterest. More on the…
Rounding out the season . . . The Allen Valley & King’s Head Leek Club Show
Offering that extra bit of time for the super vegetables to increase in size, the Allen Valley & King’s Head Leek Club Show entries are on display tomorrow late afternoon, some three weeks after the ‘Allendale Flower Show.’ I may…
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…
Whitfield Village Fair!
Always the second Sunday of September, Whitfield’s Fair usually clashes with The Great North Run, the world’s largest half-marathon, that twirls around the bridges of the toon. But here in the Allen Valleys, Whitfield Village Fair is such a lovely…
Up at the High Forest . . . it’s show day!
Yes, after gathering up all our possible vegetables that could just conceivably make a showing in the local agricultural show, worrying about the scab on the potatoes, wondering how woody the radishes are, and will the beetroots withstand the obligatory…
New Wood Chippings for the Play Areas
The announcement went up a week or so ago: new wood chippings are expected [I’d thought, from Kielder Forest Products, but see Comments below]; the park will be closed while the delivery and spreading is accomplished; volunteers would be very…
Weird stuff: trashing things
And car petrol caps opened all along Allenfields, Lonkley and Leadgate. What’s going on? It all sounds like a case (or two) of mental health, to me, rather than anything more insidious, though that’s challenging enough. By now the begonias…
Roman Wall District, 1932
I emailed Liz Conway, local bookbinder, to chat about preservation binding of this valuable old, and very tattered guide to the Roman Wall District, that came to my attention recently. Yes, she said, she could do it nicely in either…