While I was writing up some of the text for the little photo album we’ve been creating for our grandsons, Carrie shared a nursery rhyme with me that she learned as a child. No doubt older readers will remember the…
Category: Healthy Living
Hadrian Clog in the Allen Valleys
Georgia Shorrock, who recently moved into Allendale, has been active in the Hadrian Clog Dance group for some time, and sends us this fulsome report on their activities: “Hadrian Clog has become a familiar sight around the Allen Valleys over…
New Wood Chippings for the Play Areas
The announcement went up a week or so ago: new wood chippings are expected [I’d thought, from Kielder Forest Products, but see Comments below]; the park will be closed while the delivery and spreading is accomplished; volunteers would be very…
The traditional Sunday lunch vs the World Diet Plan
This entry started life as an idea of writing about the cooks, mostly mothers it has to be said, who live their lives sustaining the family, who patiently work at cooking the family meals: breakfasts; packed lunches; dinners; day in…
Working towards pleasure
Sometimes, probably most of the time, we work for survival. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, we work for pleasure, for the sheer delight of work, and then it doesn’t feel like work at all, of course. But there are times, and…
Bank Holiday Monday
We drove back from Yorkshire yesterday after a week of interesting workshops to stimulate our brains, and on the way home we marvelled at the delight of folks enjoying the sunshine in all the towns and villages on our journey….
Zumba!
Joan Morgan has recently started attending the Zumba classes at Allendale Village Hall, and sends us a report: “Although ‘Zumba’ sounds like a character from ‘The Lion King’, it is in fact a fitness programme created by Columbian dancer and…
Buddy rides too!
I could have picked any of numerous photos from the BuddyRider website, as kind of a holding image for when I capture a photo of dear Doris, the cocker spaniel who lives next door, safely perched on her own Buddy…
Leaving so soon?
Not quite 48 hours by the sea, and now it’s time to return home. This mini-break was really only conceived as a test run, in relative safety and proximity to home. There are pets to feed, garden to tend, and…
Just cheerfully pottering about . . .
I think I’m getting more used to the retirement lifestyle. Instead of filling our days in a rather frenzied rush to accomplish all the tasks we’d set for ourselves, we’ve retrenched, with a longer schedule pushed further and further ahead,…