So I bustled out, after a lovely dinner, in the freezing cold (-3ºC by the little Fiat’s thermometer), venturing down the icy track to The King’s Head for a small informal meeting called by Jane Pryde of Higher Ground who’d…
Category: Event
Through the tunnel of doom
Margaret Stonehouse, current President of the Allendale Lions Club, asked me to light the fire this year, to my great delight and slight queasiness. What if the thing took off with a whoosh and a roar, and I was still…
Bonfire Night!
The Allendale Lions haven’t seen a better photograph of the annual bonfire and fireworks than this one, but who knows, tonight’s event may yield up another. But it was a wet miserable day yesterday to be finalising all the details….
Building the bonfire on Baynes field
I’d never have believed it, if I hadn’t helped out on the work in previous years, what a long and laborious procedure it actually is to create the Bonfire Night. But usually I’ve started to help with the shifting of…
The Farmers’ Masquerade Ball
The Farmers Masquerade Ball (you don’t have to be a farmer) is tonight the 12th of October at 7pm at Allendale Village Hall. The tickets at £30 have all been dealt out (food reservations meant that ticket sales were finished…
After the auction frenzy, the long dispersion
It was such a long day at the auction yesterday . . . we left at about 6:00pm (with a few more bids for various desiderata left in capable hands), but there were still a couple hundred lots left to…
The Charity Auction!
By Friday evening, Allendale Village Hall was filled to the gunwales with everything that’s anything under the sun. It felt like more amazing stuff than ever, more than the last couple of years certainly. Some decided treasures, some dross naturally,…
The PTFA at Allendale Primary School
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…
A Festival of Angels
From Seraphic Sopranos and edible Biscuit Angels, through Angelic Choirs, Angel Mosaics, Angels Amongst Us, and Angels from South African HIV Clinics, these few photographs represent some of the most moving submissions at the Angel Festival held in St. Cuthbert’s,…
The Allendale Wolf . . .
Wikipedia recounts the story from 1904 of the Allendale Wolf, also reprised in the pages of the Allen Valleys Folk Festival programme. The creature was the ‘large black cat’ of its day. [From early in 2000 until at least 2012,…