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Apparently, joy is the new bleak

LarryWinger
January 21, 2022
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Perhaps we don’t think that writing follows trends, but according to @thebookseller (yes, I’m gradually getting my head around the twittertariat) the zeitgeist is moving towards joy. Agents and publishers are looking for manuscripts that deal with that particular emotion….

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Business Event Tourism Welcome

Boxing Day: the sales, a run, or a rest maybe?

LarryWinger
December 26, 2019
0

For families throughout this patch, today is probably something of a let-up from the pressure to be nice over Christmas Day itself. Back to normality then?! Shopping, anyone? Some of us will be resting after the excesses of the day…

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Community Event Welcome

Santa at the Tree, Carols in the Square, & Young Notes!

LarryWinger
December 17, 2019
0

This evening rather a lot of Christmas season festivities occur all at once! The brightly lit tree on the green, carefully decorated by ageing Lions Club members who nevertheless managed to finish the job without mishap up several different ladders,…

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Cultural Life Welcome

Ageing: a work in progress

LarryWinger
December 16, 2019
0

These past two weekends, the 7th and 8th and 14th and 15th of December, three local artists presented a gallery full (the ACA Gallery in the Allenheads Heritage Centre opposite the Armstrong engine building) of art on the subject of…

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Access and Inclusion Healthy Living Welcome

Zumba!

LarryWinger
August 19, 2019
1

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…

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Environment Healthy Living Infrastructure Welcome

The River Path

LarryWinger
June 15, 2019
3

In the first of a new Saturday series featuring free activities to enjoy throughout the Allen Valleys, based loosely around the activities described in the Allendale and Allen Valleys Pocket Directory, Joan Morgan writes about her love of Allendale’s River…

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Access and Inclusion Community Healthy Living Welcome

Healthy walkers . . .

LarryWinger
February 21, 2019
0

My ambition was to catch individual walkers arriving outside the Co-op from 9:30 for their designated Health Walk at 10, just to garner a few thoughts from each about their weekly sojourns. And, of course, I could also pop into…

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Access and Inclusion Community Cultural Life Fundraising Organisation Welcome

The joy of singing together

LarryWinger
February 5, 2019
1

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 . . ….

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Access and Inclusion Community Organisation Welcome

Allen Valleys Get Together

LarryWinger
January 22, 2019
1

Ros Ronaldson drops a line about this friendly group . . . Our group is called Allen Valleys Get Together and we’ve been established since May 2017. It all came about because I was finding it a little difficult when…

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Access and Inclusion Communications Community Tourism Welcome

Pocket Directory 3.1

LarryWinger
January 16, 2019
0

It’s newly printed as of yesterday, and out in the shops and other special places today . . . the third yearly edition of the handy little Allendale and Allen Valleys Pocket Directory. Invented in 2017, this directory is unique…

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