Okay, not quite all: the electricity is coming in just fine on our side (though the repercussions of the seized transfer pump in the water system are shorting out the neighbour’s electrical supply on a daily basis), but it feels…
Category: Services
“Where’s the nearest petrol station?”
It’s probably the most common question asked at the Post Office/MarketPlace. So let’s be absolutely definitive, using Googlemaps as a guide, to mapping the distance from Allendale’s Market Square to the nearest petrol stations around the place: MarketPlace/Post Office NE47…
Babies & Toddlers Group(s)
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…
Fawside . . . on our side
Fawside is the friendly community development organisation at the heart of Allendale village life. But it’s a quiet group, and not many folks are quite aware of its thirty year history, or of how it fits in with everything else…
Our beloved library . . .
Mystery, History and Romance, writes Joan Morgan, noted local author, of this beloved institution . . . . . . and everything else from Science Fiction to the life of Barack Obama; it’s all there in our small but perfectly…
Welcome Pack: good idea or not?
I was ruminating on a post in Allendale area notices, as you do, and wondering whether the enquirer, newly arriving in the area, could use the services of a friendly Welcome Pack. As far as I know, nothing like that…
Mundane Money
That’s right, there are actually two cash machines, one in the East River Allen Valley at MarketPlace/Post Office just off the market square of Allendale. The other one, in the West River Allen Valley, is on the main road outside…
Water . . . or not
Now I know that most folks in Allendale are on mains water. But some of us out in the valleys have our own water supply, and this capacity has both good and bad features. Good: our water is very clean,…
Our health services
I’ve deliberately not capitalised the words on this morning’s diary entry, because I mean to be a bit more generic than a capitalised ‘Health Services’ might indicate. Like many of us of a slightly advanced age, lately I’m experiencing rather…
Allendale Parish Council
Allendale Parish Council is comprised of 13 ‘elected’, or co-opted, councillors, who put their names forward for a term of four years and who are all neatly listed on the Northumberland Parishes website, as ‘People‘. The current chair is David…