Showing posts from September, 2008
“Saturday, Saturday, ever lovin’ Saturday”, to quote (The) Carpenters. Saturday 13th September was probably slightly atypical, as far as recent Saturdays in Rhuthun go. It was the Heritage Weekend and you'd therefore expect more town visitors t…
And hurrah for the sunshine. The organisers of Saturday’s final produce market of the season will be delighted with the turn out. Not on every occasion was the produce market so well supported. Saturday morning was especially brisk. And in a repeat …
Remember the challenge that we set ? Police Sgt Mavis Evans writes, “Good Evening all. On Saturday the 11th October 2008 I'm working a 5pm to 3am shift and would love to offer the chance to come on patrol with me. The key times are 11pm to 1am …
Yesterday’s post on whoolefoods couldn’t have been more apposite, in the light of news from Rhuthun Organics that it’s likely to shut. To avoid shutting, it needs to sell and if the proprietors don’t sell soon, it will close. So that’s the two uncon…
While taking this photograph, three people turned up on Saturday afternoon at the 2 p.m. newly closed door of Rhuthun Wholefoods . One person said something like, ‘Oh, I forgot’ and promptly turned and went. The other two were together. They’d forg…
Twice in almost as many months and we welcome yet another newspaper title to Rhuthun. Today’s the launch date of Trinity Mirror’s new free Denbighshire Visitor . It replaces Your Vale which, in June, itself superseded the erstwhile Vale Advertiser . A…
Spot the Difference In the last edition of Your Vale the editor, Alan Davies, writes, “It’s very much a case of out with the not-so-old and in with the new as we invite you to make a date… with our new edition of the Visitor. “This of course means…
Distro The Vale Advertiser was distributed door-to-door. Your Vale had rather restricted pick-up points at the Co-op and Tesco. Trinity Mirror has rectified this deficiency by offering a greater range of outlets from which to collect the Denbighshir…
January 2011 Update on Wetherspoon's here I don’t profess to know much about pubs, other than the price of drinks within tends to be far too high, and probably always has been. What little I know is that the signboard, outward façade and interna…
Two positive responses to Saturday’s challenge . One was from Invisus, a long time activist on this blog, and the second was the anonymous commenter who drew remarks from Sgt Mavis Evans in the first place. There’s no way of knowing whether this anony…
Do we reckon the local police do a good job? Do we need CCTV in the town? We’re told crime is falling in Rhuthun, but what is the perception? What are our local policing issues ? Is there an officer available when you need one? In a comment yester…
Remember that long distant time, over 30 years ago now, when it was customary for Rhuthun shops to close for a half day, on a Thursday? Then, every town throughout the land stopped dead in its tracks for one afternoon each week. Now, supermarkets and …
Who’ll win this autumn’s Ruthin & District Civic Association Quayle Award for the building that through its design or restoration has contributed most to the town (or local villages nearby)? It is almost time for 2008’s declaration. This is the …
Was it me or were there fewer people than last year in Rhuthun for the weekend’s Heritage Open Days? Given the more favourable weather forecast and the most welcome daily morning sunshine, I’d have expected far more. Saturday afternoon was busier than…
Update Monday: This post didn’t come across as light-heartedly as I’d first intended. Rereading it, I can see why. Rather than rewrite it, though, all I’ve done is correct the misuse of the word ‘hoard’. Friday night’s youth were still noisy but stran…
If you believe ysterday's TV news, we’re currently building the slums of the future, so tightly packed-in and small is our new housing stock. We have the smallest new housing units in Europe, it’s reported. “And they’re all made out of ticky tacky…
It’s been a week of rumours accelerating around north Denbighshire about the future of its newspapers. There were first threats of redundancies, then apparently a photographer has already left the Trinity Mirror Visitor series. These rumours affect th…
As a diversion from the rather interesting debate about cars in town , given our unseasonal weather over August and the weekend, if you're a bit of a weather junkie, why not try Rhuthun Weather? The website's maintained by a Graigfechan res…
The weekend should’ve been sunny and warm. After all, August is only just behind us. Instead, it was wet and cool. And with only one week of high summer sun and hardly an August day passing without rain, the conditions are ripe for another year 2000…
How far should we go in the quest for a more pedestrian-friendly Rhuthun? Indeed, should this be a goal? We’ve occasionally wondered whether we could easily and legitimately lose the six parking spaces on St Peter’s Square. We recently reflected that…
Is the decision at yesterday’s Denbighshire council planning meeting to approve Tesco’s in Dinbych/Denbigh a huge nail in Rhuthun’s coffin? We’ve pondered this question before but now it’s a reality, can we assume a bigger & ‘better’ Denbigh Te…
We welcome Jane Gow Independent Financial Advisers, premises that opened officially on Monday 1st September, that look like the inside of a modern Halifax branch (it’s a Halifax agency). The premises, though empty for a long while, were formerly New…
From the archive: My records indicate that four star petrol exactly twenty years ago was £1.62 per gallon (39p per litre). And didn’t we complain. And the August 2000 fuel protests saw petrol escalate to 82p per litre (if you could find any—not in Rhu…
It seems I was unduly pessimistic about school attire when I posted a week ago under the slightly witty title of Cobblers . It seems you *can* by school shoes in Rhuthun—at Traed Bach , which stocks a range of ‘Buckle my Shoes’. My thanks to an anonym…
