Showing posts from June, 2020
100 days since lockdown, they say. But is it? The call to lock down came on March 23rd at or about 8.30p.m. and didn't take effect till Tuesday March 24th , in which case, that's 98 days by my calculation. Even if you count March 23rd, th…
Ysgol Brynhyfryd was the first school in Wales to close because of the coronavirus threat. Like all schools, it reopened this morning. Here are some observations from the sidelines. 1. There was much, much more traffic around this morning. Most of …
The Free Press website breaks the news we featured way back when about one way traffic in Rhuthun/Ruthin. The newspaper site gives no specific details (as regards Rhuthun), so let me fill in the details. Well Street is to become one way from its …
It's lovely to see Rhuthun/Ruthin burst back into life after empty streets. Except that, actually, the number of cars zipping through town may have increased exponentially (and uncomfortably) but shoppers are still keeping away. There's the …
It was a season ago. When lockdown began , sunset in Rhuthun/Ruthin was 6.32p.m. Today, lockdown's eased and the sunset is 9.21p.m. with twilight at 10.07p.m. Much of the town reopened yesterday but shoppers hadn't caught up. The forme…
Open Doors 2020 is cancelled. But, from tomorrow, we find doors opening of a more mundane though very encouraging kind. Notice in Reebee's window I often wonder what shopkeepers of non-essential stores think about being tagged as somehow s…
A casualty of lockdown is the consolidation at Choo Choo. Gone is the store near Exemewe Hall in the former Dodd's estate agency. That's the bad news. It leaves a gap, of course, and one no doubt of many. The good, however, is that Choo …
At last night's town council, the normally rather reserved Cllr Keiran Allsopp-Robson humourously twice referred to ours being "a friendly coach town". Of course, he meant "a coach friendly town". Even during the days when gram…
Thanks to coronavirus, tonight's was the town council's second meeting via the now vogue-ish Zoom video conferencing software. This was available on Facebook and it ensured, at least in theory, a greater public participation. One downside in t…
The library reopens tomorrow—sort of. They're to offer an order and collect service, with access to the building still forbidden. Users have been deprived of any books since suddenly the library closed at lockdown. Most of the signs on the door, b…
This isn't actually the first and it won't be the last... A sad day for Rhuthun/Ruthin is the announcement this morning that the Army and Navy will not reopen after lockdown. This store provides a unique service for Rhuthun and one that ha…
A daemon is a computer program sitting quietly in the background waiting for something to happen, some call to action. So it is with The Daemon. The untimely death of its genius-but-insane creator lights the blue touch paper, as The Daemon "sen…
The weather has broken. Cloudy, light rain showers and chilly at about 10°c lower at its peak than the last 10 days. On goes the wood burner this evening, then. Ironic, really, now that sine June 1st we're legally able to meet a second household a…
Our town mayor, Cllr Gavin Harris, is often in the news locally and usually for the good things he achieves. Yesterday, however, he reached the Free Press because of an allegation that he had not distanced appropriately during a 50th birthday street p…
There are a number of changes coming up this week. First, Castle Bell reopened today, on a one-in-one-out basis. Castle Bell closed its shop at the start of lockdown but has maintained daily paper deliveries throughout. Not just that, either. It o…
