Showing posts from June, 2016
Fly posting continues to be a problem throughout the town. It seems that every publicly available space has something to do with The Centre (though it wasn't the management who did these and others like them).
This well-presented pillar box in Tarfyn/Tarvin (between Caer/Chester and Cryw*/Crewe), above, and the brand new letter box in a brand new location awaiting commission at Llanrhaeadr yng Nghinmeirch contrast considerably with those found in Rhuthun/…
Is this a command or a warning? A campaign, perhaps? I suppose the call to caution cyclists rather than send them to trial saves both court time and the public purse.
Now the polls have closed, we feel we can briefly mention *that* referendum. Polling at Rhuthun/Ruthin's Canolfan Awelon was steady throughout the day but things hotted up in the evening and continued busily even after 8 p.m. Speaking to the polli…
The Rover Sports Register this year chose Rhuthun/Ruthin for its June 2016 tour. Yesterday, owners in 1930s dress walked around town on their own treasure hunt before departing in their period Rover cars for lunch at the 50s museum at Dinbych's …
The long-promised barrier at Schola Ruthinensis has arrived and been erected, as of yesterday. It's fun to watch motorists heading up Mold Road swing to the left into the school's grounds, only to be confronted by an immovable blockage. They…
With (very) unconfirmed reports that football manager José Mourinho is interested in the £3,900,000 Castell Gyrn above Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd—yeah, right; as if—what else's been happening to the local housing market? They say that, nationally, t…
Beside the path and the wall What have the council's contractors done to our green spaces? Ringing (almost?) every verdant open space is a swathe of burnt grass, about a foot in width, poisoned by some herbicide whose effects on wildlife are …
To the north of the Northern Link Road there's a parcel of land near the Mart which, over winter and spring, has been water-logged. With almost four weeks of dry and warm weather, the water's dried up leaving a decidedly horrid scum (above).…
Here's a sight for soar eyes. Threaded with a large variety of bee-friendly meadow flowers, it's somewhere in Rhuthun/Ruthin. But where? Here you will find campions, alliums (allia?), daisies (including the Michaelmas variety), a plant that…
