The weather auguries are good, this year, for Catton Fair. As I recall, from happy memories of a delightful perambulation around the stalls scattered all around the green, the Fair is such a pleasant surprise. It all felt quite informal,…
Category: Fundraising
Allendale Golf Club . . . a match in the wild
According to the website of Allendale Golf Club, there’s to be a Seniors Match between Allendale and Bellingham at home to Allendale, today, if enough members from each club can be recruited. Apparently the required five pairs from Allendale are…
The film club . . .
Liz Sandison sends me a few notes about the Allendale Village Hall Film Club, to which I’ve added some reminiscences of my own . . . The film club has been in existence for nearly fifteen years. It was started…
Easter break: what to do?
I’m afraid that I remember school breaks mostly as another series of normal work days, personally, but the other family members of course were ensconced at home, wondering what on earth to do? By the time we were both working…
Allendale Sports Club
Nestled into the fields at Allen Mill, just on the boundary with Catton, the Sports Ground looks as if it’s always been there, but in fact it’s only a little ways off its fifteenth birthday. I remember some of the…
Crowdsourcing impact . . .
Today’s, Sunday’s, diary entry is a somewhat longer-than-usual meditation on contemporary strategies towards raising funds for good causes . . . It’s intriguing, what people care about. Or what they say they care about. I had thought that the Dalek…
The charity shop . . . Crafty Allsorts
I’ll be honest, I had to think a bit when I saw someone on Allendale area notices asking about the opening hours of the charity shop. I’d never thought of Crafty Allsorts as a charity shop. But it is, of…
Getting older with the Lions
Of course it was meant to be the first Monday, but every February the final rehearsals for the Pantomime take precedence for several members, shifting the monthly Lions Club business meeting on a week. So the 167th meeting of the…
The joy of singing together
I asked members of the Dale Singers for a reflection on what this community choir means to them, and after a period of cajoling, I managed to prevail upon Carrie Winger to write something about her experiences . . ….
Care award at Thornley Leazes . . . apprentice sought
It’s just down the Peth and up from Bridge End, but as Linda Charlton, manager of Residential Care, says, sometimes it feels like Thornley Leazes is a million miles away from the buzz and activity of the village centre. I’m…