Showing posts from January, 2009
In another twist in the tale of the now former Organics Store , a sign has at last appeared this week informing everyone that the shop, though closed, is able to deliver organics (from its Sealand Road HQ). While this is probably the next best thing t…
This evening’s launch of Age of Experience , in which the work of 15 senior craftspeople occupy all three Canolfan Grefft/Craft Centre galleries, will no doubt be its usual high society affair. I say “no doubt” because I’ve not been invited to the wi…
Now we’ve all sobered up after the festivities and received are credit card bills, what’s happened to Rhuthun on New Year’s Eve? Once dubbed one of the liveliest places to be in Britain, this year’s affair was much, much quieter. Still enough people s…
... for our newspapers. 2008, that is. We saw no fewer than three new titles. First of all, Trinity Mirror's established Vale Advertiser morphed in June into Your Vale . Still free of charge, it went from being delivered to being available at a …
Two interesting comments recently on the large number of hairdressers in Rhuthun. One anonymous commenter put me right on the number in & immediately around town, at 14, plus four barbers. And, over the weekend, someone (tongue firmly in cheek) f…
Though it’s not likely to rain today, it’s still a January Monday in Rhuthun—the weekday when fewest shops open. Lest we be accused of entering the debate over so-called ‘hobby shopkeepers’, we need to say that for those larger shops with more sta…
The recession is hitting house sales significantly. What more proof is there than the closure of two Rhuthun estate agents—on the same premises. Molyneux’s has transferred its Rhuthun agency to its Yr Wyddgrug/Mold office, nine months after it spen…
The Farmers Union of Wales’ move at the back end of the week from its offices near the Watergate further up Clwyd Street is a positive albeit temporary one. Clwyd Street was again starting to look a little empty , especially at the upper end of its so…
“Be disappointed no longer because we have done exactly what Wetherspoons planned to do except it is now located at The Anchor.” So says the full-page advert in both this week’s Denbighshire Visitor and Denbighshire Free Press, for The Malt House R…
I don’t usually do requests. Nevertheless, Andrew left a comment on this site yesterday asking, “I currently work in North Wales and am hoping to buy one of the smaller houses on Glasdir . Any advice would be welcome. Will I need to pack swimming e…
Today is pretty much a momentous day in life of the world and not just because the Canolfan Gretfftau Rhuthun/Ruthin Craft Centre re-opens. It’s also the day America swears in new president Barrack Obama. Back to the Craft Centre, though. It’s been…
My first thoughts when I heard of Saturday’s incident on the Square roundabout was this: those with views on pedestrianisation had been vindicated. Then I thought twice. A well-known local in a suped-up car is reported to have collided with a pens…
Good news! Crime down in Rhuthun by 14 per cent! This headline figure supports what local bobbies have recently said in the local press. It reinforces what we all really know—that Rhuthun's relatively safe and sound. And, as one elderly person i…
Over the years, there’ve been a number of commenters on here willing to highlight good or bad customer service in Rhuthun. In recent months, such comments have forged a link between customer service and the future of retail. Regular Gina Tonick has at…
Denbighshire Visitor journalist Justine Bailey always writes entertainingly under the “Hot Topic” heading (in fact, it seems she writes most of the Visitor single-handedly, but that’s another matter). This week she asks whether our town centres are …
We’re given to understand that the Rhuthun/Ruthin Blog featured in that august journal “Agenda”, the publication of the Institute of Welsh Affairs. This doesn’t appear to be stocked in the Library so we’ve only got this second hand. In its winter 20…
It’s been just over a year since Leonardo’s deli reintroduced Rhuthun to the honey bun . This sticky, folded sweet bread laced with honey was once said to be unique to Rhuthun, though some say it originated further north. Attempts some years ago to br…
Back from my New Year’s break and feeling all the better for it! But if you think Rhuthun is beset with economic woes, I can assure you first hand that matters aren’t any better elsewhere. In fact, they’re worse. Staying even a short while in a former…
