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Access and Inclusion Education Environment Event

The PTFA at Allendale Primary School

LarryWinger
October 4, 2019

Today’s the Beetle Drive at the Primary School, from 6:30-8:30pm and everyone is very welcome! I asked Charlotte Robson Reid for some more information about the PTFA, and she sent in a lovely set of notes: “A brief outline of…

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Anecdote Education Environment

A memento for the grands

LarryWinger
September 2, 2019

For over a year now, I’ve sat myself at our kitchen table, looking through the big window out over the garden, thinking about things, life, the universe — you know, thinking. While I’ve been sitting, I’ve been watching the birds,…

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Access and Inclusion Community Cultural Life Education Health

Susie Tate, dancer

LarryWinger
August 22, 2019

In an earlier item, I promised to feature Susie Tate’s work in the diary, and I’ve spent a delightful half-hour chatting with her on the phone for this piece today. Recall that Susie was featured on Look North for her…

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Anecdote Education Healthy Living

Getting things ready for the job . . . and doing it

LarryWinger
July 11, 2019

It’s beginning to feel like a crescendo of anticipation here, with the stuttering arrival of the various components required for a couple of jobs around the place. But first came the planning, putting the new systems together in my mind,…

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Education

Last of the summer term at Allendale Primary School

LarryWinger
June 3, 2019

It wasn’t until, as a substitute teacher, I was finally assigned a whole half-term in one place, that I realised more or less how the school year is organised into six, six week half-terms, or three full terms with a…

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Access and Inclusion Education Services

Babies & Toddlers Group(s)

LarryWinger
May 24, 2019

I had a lovely chat with Kelly Murray the other day, about the Babies and Toddlers group(s) in the Allen Valleys. MONDAYS: Catton Village Hall 10-11:30ish £1.50 contribution per family TUESDAYS: Whitfield Village Hall ?times and contribution? WEDNESDAYS: Allendale Fire…

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Cultural Life Education Organisation

Allendale’s oldest Book Club

LarryWinger
May 18, 2019

Liz Sandison writes to chat about the Book Club at Arnison Close: “I believe there are several Book groups/ book circles flourishing in the area but this one was the first! It was begun in 1981 by Sue Bates who…

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Education Environment Organisation

North Pennines Smallholders Association

LarryWinger
May 3, 2019

Founded about five years ago now, and coordinated to a large degree from a smallholding in Carrshield, the North Pennines Smallholders Association grew out of a series of workshop events held by the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty…

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Community Education Event

The lecture/sharing circuit

LarryWinger
April 3, 2019

This diary entry goes out on the morning of the heaviest snowfall of the year, up in Sparty Lea! Awakening to the snow, I wondered if I shouldn’t create a special diary entry about the winter wonderland! It certainly deserves…

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Cultural Life Education Event

Dulcimer Workshop Weekend

LarryWinger
March 30, 2019
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Liz Conway writes to chat about the Dulcimer Workshop Weekend she invented quite a few years ago now, that took place this year at Deneholme over this past weekend, the 22nd – 24th of March. “This is an annual event…

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