Showing posts from June, 2015
The best thing about today's national garden open scheme was that we can all be nosey neighbours. We get an opportunity to snoop around other people's gardens and see things from a perspective that we rarely can. Ruthin Castle was open today…
Why won't Ruthinians get behind community events? Take today's carnival. Fewer entrants than the 2013 relaunch event and with 10 minutes to go there seemed to be more marshals on St Peter's Square than spectators. Things did pick up but …
The lord's garden at Nantclwyd y Dre takes shape, as these photographs show, thanks to exclusive access given to this Blog by the Friends of Nantclwyd. The restored garden (beyond the inner garden previously renovated at the house's 2007…
The grapevine suggests that Ysgol Brynhyfryd 's January 2015 school inspection did not go well. The report is due for publication in early July. The education authority and school are bracing themselves for an "adequate" result. This is …
This leaflet arrived at home today. Note the sponsor, bottom right The most interesting thing about the pinnacle of the forthcoming Gwyl Rhuthun Festival is not the expected acts performing during Saturday's Top Dre (or the lack of them: wher…
This post is not because there's accusations on the part of town traders of unfair trading but, frankly, because of attitudes. It all recently re-started when the market posted on its Facebook site that you could buy sweets within. Virtually…
Attitudes to the Welsh language continue to dominate local news. We hear that after today's cabinet that Denbighshire is to press ahead with plans to merge Ysgolion Llanfair DC a Phentrecelyn to a bilingual school , thus pleasing the majority of…
