Showing posts from February, 2015
Some interesting developments on the housing front. The substantial semi-detached buildings that were together once the Wynnstay Arms are both now reduced. After almost a year on the market as sub-divided properties, they're now on for £330,00…
As part of the county council’s building rationalisation, later today, most of the council staff at 46 Clwyd Street (the front of Yr Hen Garchar/Old Gaol) move out from their Rhuthun/Ruthin offices to alternative premises at Caledfyn, Ffordd yr Efail,…
Apropos the recent post on supermarkets , here's an update. The staff at the Co-op Station Road are mostly rather nice. Far better than in the days immediately prior to Tesco arriving, anyway. In particular, the two middle aged women with whit…
Look what was behind the bar at the Farmers' Arms recently. It's not just any blackcurrant juice. It's Tesco blackcurrant juice. Who says Tesco and farmers don't get on.
Today is the last day to get your green bin at £22 rather than the usual £24 per annum. The deadline was extended by two weeks from the end of January. Reminder stickers began arriving on existing bin tops w/b February 2nd A chance conversati…
At 10 a.m. this morning, they announced that superfast broadband had arrived—at least for some in Rhuthun/Ruthin. The early adopting fortunate few were connected to wiring cabinets 5 and 6 (parts of Llanfwrog Urban, Dro Deg and Parc y Castell areas).…
Letters in this week's Free Press and last consider the folly of moving both Rhos Street and Penbarras to a new site at Glasdir. Correspondents wish to see Rhos Street stay put and expand onto the adjacent Penbarras site. This they claim will redu…
Broadband speed recorded at home, January 31st, 2015 BT Openreach is still predicting that the fibre optic broadband revolution will start in March. Is it a coincidence, though, that with 17 days to go to the beginning of that month, copper-wire…
Still at the Rhuthun/Ruthin telephone exchange—perhaps the person who put this up realised it wasn't worth taking it down So, we were right . Ysgol Llanbedr stays open on "technicalities". Reported in yesterday's Daily Post, the…
We live in a society that uses words in vast quantities. We see them everywhere, in hard copy, on the internet, by email and text. It was T S Eliot who wrote of "the slimy mud of words, the sleet and hail of verbal imprecision". But I trust …
What was this small group of people doing this afternoon? Two of them had just been in the Co-op to buy matches. These were used to set fire to foliage that was cleared from the rough ground on Wynnstay Road immediately behind the former Santander o…
More Rhuthun/Ruthin people prefer to do their non-grocery shopping in Chester or Wrexham than Rhuthun, research for the county council has revealed. This was one of the results of a residents' survey. The council asked a sample of people who liv…
There was me thinking that cupcakes reached their peak four years ago. New to Rhuthun/Ruthin, nevertheless, on Wernfechan, in the former Alison's beauty salon (Josephine's prior to that) is Delightful Cupcakes. It began trading on November 8…
The editorial comment in last week's Free Press was not particularly appreciative of the government's decision to through out the Conwy-Denbighshire merger. It said that both Conwy & Denbighshire pinned their hopes in a voluntarily merger…
Today, the council begins a formal consultation about the merger of two primaries, Ysgolion Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd a Phentrecelyn. There’s already been a minor rumpus, as placard-waving Pentrecelyn parents gathered outside county hall on January 13th …
No one can condone a drunken stabbing but in the case of the convicted Llanfwrog woman who attacked her husband, was he equally at fault? The husband wasn't only having an affair but actually managed to push his wife out to an annexe to make way f…
