Seems like it might be our first real opportunity of the year for a family barbecue today! Our brother-in-law is from South Africa, and his life is built around barbecues, which down south in hearty Herefordshire he fires up every…
Category: Event
The Challenge is on!
On this the 30th anniversary of the Allendale Challenge, staging and preparative work will have begun at Allendale Village Hall on Friday afternoon, and registration for the fell runners/walkers/participants will be taking place from 7:00 early morning today. I’d bet…
The lecture/sharing circuit
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…
Mothering Sunday
I know that the secularisation of this day is all around us, since most things Americana get here eventually, but the significance of this day is possibly not known to many people. Certainly I didn’t know where the term came…
Dulcimer Workshop Weekend
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…
Scheduling conflicts . . . surplus of venues . . .
It’s not a new problem, and as Allendale becomes ever more vibrant and fun to live in, more and more events and venues will jostle with each other to attract the attention of possible participants. This past Tuesday evening, for…
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…
The Drama Group AGM
I promised I’d get back to chat about the Drama Group in time for their AGM, and I’ve kept the lovely Sleeping Beauty programme from this year’s show close to hand for this past month and a half, all ready…
It’s snow, Jim . . .
It did snow up in Sparty Lea and beyond into the ‘heeds, on Sunday morning, as predicted, but at 1:00pm there was nobody staffing the rope pull at Ski-Allenheads, and my foray, on what was probably the last snow day…
Allendale Brewery, a local treasure
It was a rainy, drizzly afternoon, but nice and warm in Allendale Brewery‘s offices upstairs at the brewery, and I settled down to have a quiet chat with Tom Hick, Owner/Director, who founded the business with his father Jim well…