Some enterprising person has cut a groove into the recently chopped down tree on Market Street and attached runners to the remaining stump.
The Children's Society may recently have benefited from an internal refit but has anyone noticed the condition on the first floor and above of this prominent Rhuthun/Ruthin building. The paint's in a bad way and it really could use some attention.
Meanwhile, St Kentigern is struggling for volunteers and is now restricted in terms of opening.
Bluebells have sprouted and opened in shady, wooded spaces at least three and possibly four weeks early, this year.
The people who consider the diocesan church buildings have recommended that St Peter's strips away the ivy that is growing up the church's sides and a small group of volunteers began work on April 23rd to do just that.
Nature's Treasure, the shop that doesn't really have a core proposition, now has an assortment of sayings engraved on wood. This particular one, prominent in the window, is missing an apostrophe...
The Gaol has new signage, Note also that the Gaol has won the 2016 Visit Wales Hidden Gem award. Hidden gem rather infers that no one knows about the facility.
We've no idea how serious they are but cracks have begun to appear and in some cases have been filled on the Glasdir new flood defence walls.
Castle Bell has decided to re-open on Sundays. It had previously closed, after its last Sunday on September 13th, 2015. It re-opened for Sunday trading again on April 3rd. Meanwhile, no matter the day, the shop has a snazzy new "Open" sign.
And, talking of Sunday opening, the W & G Jones café at the junction of Well Street and Station Road now opens on Sundays...
... but Tanazaro's tea rooms, recently opened in Corwen to take advantage of the post railway mini-boom, is now permanently closed.
The slowly disappearing sign for Vale Carpets now reads Vale A. It had previously been Vale Ar and before that Vale Car. The proprietor blames vandals. We're not so sure. The font is bespoke and, when complete, looked so much better than the modern panels we tend to see today.
Meanwhile, the long-running (the *very* long-running) saga of Corwen Carpets continues. As if to add to the general mess within, materials found their way outside. And the widows are probably the only ones on a town centre shop that are consistently dirty.
On April 28th, fresh from the Brazil Business News site, came written confirmation that Ruthin Craft Centre's café will officially re-open on Monday May 9th. It seems Rhuthun is so important to the nut crop market that the re-opening appears on a website such as this ; ) Perhaps the clue as to why this was actually news on the other side of the world was in the strange Wenglish combination of Ein Newsdesk (Our Newsdesk).
At the end of April, scaffolding emerged on the store frontage of the Well Street/Station Road junction.
Spotted on Lôn Parcwr is this interesting reinstatement following pavement patching. 10/10 for trying.
Towards the end of April, a couple of businesses have put up some new signage. The first are notices at Ruthin Décor, advising of car parking restrictions and a possible £100 penalty for those who contravene the two hours' worth of time (for customers only). This, no doubt, is a reaction to the recent car park cost increases in town which, no doubt, displaced people to other locations such as here. Indeed, it would be no surprise to note that the car park is being abused. Interestingly, though, Ruthin Décor has to pay the firm which monitorsd the car park: the compnay doesn't simply live of fthe fines. Removed
after all these years are the last signs pertaining to Slater's, though the frames remain.
Using the old trick of "a polite notice", Automark on Lôn Parcwr advises pedestrians that its site is not a short cut from there to Hen Lôn Parcwr.
In Talking of Hen Lôn Parcwr and in a blow for the town centre, The Handyman of Clwyd Street will from May 3rd be moving to Birch House.
Below, noted at Well Street outside Beresford Adams, is what happens when vehicles park on the footway. Both slabs are loose and one is cracked. The same has been true of the dropped kerbing at both sides of Tesco's goods entrance ever since the supermarket opened.
Successor to Annie's, Number 5, opened on April 27th. It has transformed into a restaurant rather than a luncheon venue. whereas Annie's didn't open in the evening, Number 5's hours are 12-3 and 6-9 Wednesday to Saturday and open Sunday 12-6.
