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Apparently, joy is the new bleak

LarryWinger
January 21, 2022
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Perhaps we don’t think that writing follows trends, but according to @thebookseller (yes, I’m gradually getting my head around the twittertariat) the zeitgeist is moving towards joy. Agents and publishers are looking for manuscripts that deal with that particular emotion….

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Community Cultural Life Environment

A series of novels about Allendale

LarryWinger
May 1, 2021
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Haddaway man! But, well, aye. Really. There are some parts of village life that a reportorial journal/diary simply cannot reach. So to try to encompass the missing gaps, a series of fictional novels is now live and available on the…

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Cultural Life Environment Reminiscence Transitions

A timely, contributed poem

LarryWinger
January 19, 2020

I’m so delighted to provide Marjorie Anderson space for her lovely poem, a piece of work that set our Creative Writing class a-tingle last term. This poem, for me, develops the whole sense of the year ahead, and the year…

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Cultural Life Event Faith and Worship

Nine Lessons and Carols

LarryWinger
December 22, 2019

It may not quite be up to the musical standard of the choristers at King’s College, Cambridge, but the annual carol service at St. Cuthbert’s this evening at 6pm is still a delightful highlight of this festive season. The church…

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Cultural Life Welcome

Ageing: a work in progress

LarryWinger
December 16, 2019

These past two weekends, the 7th and 8th and 14th and 15th of December, three local artists presented a gallery full (the ACA Gallery in the Allenheads Heritage Centre opposite the Armstrong engine building) of art on the subject of…

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Access and Inclusion Community Cultural Life Organisation

Rehearsals for the ‘Peter Pan’-tomime in full swing

LarryWinger
December 6, 2019

One of the things I always thought this diary could document is the cyclicity of events: how things are developed one year, and then re-developed on and into the coming year. The cycle of life in these parts, essentially. So…

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Cultural Life Fundraising Organisation

Rural Touring: Highlights North, at Allendale Village Hall

LarryWinger
December 5, 2019

In what must be a truly remarkable tour de force, a one-person show arrives at Allendale Village Hall this evening, courtesy of Highlights North, the Rural Touring facilitator which contributes a great variety of arts and culture to remote village…

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Cultural Life Education Healthy Living

Music in the key of life . . .

LarryWinger
November 26, 2019

I had a lovely chat yesterday with June Welch who embarked on a life-changing career shift in her mid-forties, to embrace the learning and teaching of music. As she says, “For me, teaching is always about learning, both for the…

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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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Anecdote Cultural Life Transitions

The Joy of Editing

LarryWinger
November 4, 2019
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I don’t come by editing naturally. Rather, I fall in love with the words as they emerge, and feel loathe to mess with them thereafter. Always have done. But I learned, as a graduate student in the biomedical sciences, that…

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