Showing posts from January, 2011
Cerrig & the Green Lady is to close. There are "closing down" posters dotted around the windows. The stock's already run down. This is happening to one of our most prominent locations, on the corner of St Peter’s Square and Clwyd Str…
Some changes down Clwyd Street in January and only for the worst, I’m afraid. Capricorn, the animal rescue charity shop, is to close at the end of today. It's been open for about 18 months . Even a charity shops appears hit by recessionary Brita…
The Castle Hotel hasn't closed after all… not quite yet. It *did* close earlier in the month but has reopened. It was expected to have shut again from Monday, to facilitate the Wetherspoon's take-over but this is now expected in another fort…
Testing, testing, testing. With Wetherspoon's likely to install itself in the spring, I felt it my duty to see what all the fuss was about. Off to Yr Wyddgrug/Mold, then, and to the Gold Cape, a J D Wetherspoon's pub. And, not just once, but …
The big news in today's Free Press seems to confirm the rumour around town (and on this blog via Comments) that Stephanie's Castle Hotel has passed to J D Wetherspoon. Mind you, there's nothing especially concrete from the latter. Not t…
Talking of buying online (below), my new computer arrived last week and I spend Saturday getting it working and copying stuff across. Thank you for your help on this. Some of that advice conflicted but I used it, or parts of it, in making my choices.…
When Sweet Pea Collectibles closed on 23rd December, it had been open for all of 206 days. Its demise reduces the recently increased number of antique & collectible outlets to four, though the pair on Clwyd Street haven't been open much (if…
What will 2011 hold? Here are some educated guesses, some based on hunches, other on evidence. Prediction for 2011 Likelihood (out of 5) The Castle Hotel will get a thorough exterior refurbishment, if Herself can be persuaded 1 The county counc…
As the world returns after Christmas to some sort of normalcy (whatever that may be these days and, let's face it, yesterday's bank holiday was somewhat pointless), let us reflect that: On New Year's Eve the price of Rhuthun's most e…
Is it me or are the New Year revellers on the Square getting younger every year? Just like the largish numbers of youthful police dotted around, too. I often wondered whether I should've joined the police, for this is the one profession where you …
