Showing posts from November, 2008
Friday 5th December is Rhuthun’s Christmas late night fling. We expect to see all our readers out supporting our town traders. There’s a three line whip, you know. Meanwhile, yesterday evening was Dinbych/Denbigh’s turn. If Rhuthun’s event is half a…
It has come to this blog’s attention that the local police have written to parents at Ysgol Brynhyfryd warning them that the police will randomly use drug sniffer dogs at the school. It’s not a new phenomenon but it is new at Brynhyfryd. It’s sad that…
By yesterday, all the town’s public Christmas trees had arrived. On Monday evening, the tree at Mwrog Street/Lôn Fawr was lit. Yesterday evening, that on Denbigh Road/Maes Hafod was illuminated. The non-Christmas tree of the so-called Briec roundabout…
So says the sign outside Bridge Services. And they're right to crow about the price of fuel as, for the first time in years, petrol has either matched or has been close to local competition. With fuel prices sliding, we've not felt inclined …
January 2011 Update on Wetherspoon's here Fair play to millionaire Stephanie Booth for making a clean breast of it regarding the Castle Hotel. She’s now on the record confirming what we already kind of knew—that, in spite of planning permission…
(Pictures accompanying this post are of existing turbines west of Rhuthun. Hover over an image for more details) I have never been taken with the idea of wind farms over Rhuthun. While they won’t affect the town directly, there may be indirect conse…
The deputy mayor reports that many if not most of our town traders are taking part in the Anrheg Nadolig Rhuthun/Ruthin Christmas Present promotion, offering 10 per cent off by coupon redemption —and that even includes national chain Boots the Chemist…
We continue to document that changes we see in Rhuthun. Marks & Spencer Upstairs at Simmi has opened as a clothes exchange agency. ‘Absolute discretion’ is assured clients who want to sell the clothes and shoes they’ve only managed to wear a …
So, in spite of the two large further consultation posters obscuring half the windows at Llanfwrog post office, the facility is finally to close. We can only assume that being in a second round of consultation meant the branch was borderline. In the e…
Lights Rhuthun’s new Christmas lights went up last week, considerably earlier than in previous years. How splendid they will look! Because they are smaller and because they don’t drape across the street any more , they’re now spread throughout the t…
On occasion, there have been times when comments on this blog have suggest this site takes a pro-Welsh and possibly anti-English view… The older I get, the more Sunday’s Remembrance Service seems to be pertinent, as you realise its worth. Younger pe…
The recent damp week last week has made visible two quite distinct tracks that cut across the Craft Centre grass, in a line from Tesco and the Craft Centre car park. Is it that Tesco shoppers are culturally aware—or is it hard evidence that the Craft…
It wasn’t long ago that we mentioned vandalism . There’s sadly more to report. One of the doors at Bridge Services (Texaco) has suffered a large hit that has all but shattered the glass pane. Then, there’s a long crack that’s recently emerged in the …
The transformation at the Texaco service station (Malthurst Rhuthun, Bridge Services) is marked. Since the new manager arrived in August, he’s tidied and smarted the place up . A lot. Gone are the old editions of magazines stuffed and wedged into th…
We welcome Popty’r Eryr (Eagle’s Bakery) at the back of the former Eagles Hotel. The entrance is a little obscure, down a perhaps less-than-edifying alley between Fineline and Wildcatz, off Clwyd Street, but the journey's worth it. The artisan bak…
