Showing posts from December, 2020
Rhuthin/Ruthin has a brand new and very shiny red Royal Mail delivery van. It was registered this month. It's KR70 EYV and it's a Peugeot Expert. This makes it slightly bigger than the average and standard mail Peugeot Partner or the few remai…
As an aside to yesterday's post' Swan Wars' , Storm Bella took had taken its toll and the large pond on the rugby field was feeding the Cae Ddol lake via a small waterfall. Meanwhile, also in Cae Ddol, the play ship appeared to have left d…
This year, the people in Rhuthun/Ruthin have shown some kindness to our Cae Ddol swans. The patriarch cob who is believed to be 22 years old and resident her for much of this time has been suffering from arthritis and a number of people have been feed…
■ All presents this year bought in Rhuthun/Ruthin? YES ‡ ■ Sum total of the value of presents bought on Amazon this year: £0.00 ■ Sum total spent online this Christmas: £0.00 ■ Expected difference this will make to Rhuthun: sadly, none More than ever …
This week should be the busiest of the year—after a fashion, Rhuthun/Ruthin-style, of course. That is no longer so. Trefor Jones offered an order retrieval service Spending the day at work but doing so at home overlooking the estate spine road here a…
Where does yesterday's snap alter level 4 lockdown leave the town? And so close to Christmas? This sign at Choo Choo proved to be a little premature To recap, in shades of March 2020, yesterday's sudden announcements was the last day of permi…
... a Brief History Before the local health protection zone measures and especially lockdown 2 , we were promised that the harsh measures taken would allow us a relatively normal Christmas. Since then, infections and hospital admissions are both risi…
In pragmatic rather than remarkable news, following close behind Thursday's announcement that secondary schools in Wales were to finish for face-to-face teaching yesterday (rather than as planned on December 18th), came a decision also yesterday t…
As a result of the virus outbreak at Ysgol Borthyn , the infection spread to the Rhuthun/Ruthin mail delivery office. This, no doubt, is the reason why postal deliveries have been so disrupted since the last week of November. There have been: Several …
The war of words on the pedestrian improvements/one way system rumbles on. It's emerged that county councillors want the scheme scrapped and taken out—after only four weeks. This seems to be purely based on the reaction on Facebook . If the sche…
Data fresh in from Denbighshire paints a poor picture as regards footfall. It's up to the period end of June 2020 and data beyond that are not yet available. Not surprisingly, Rhuthun/Ruthin town centre footfall in 2020 quarter two was down signif…
It's probably not a good time to open or reconfigure your business, with the announcement this lunchtime that pubs, cafés & restaurants will from Friday December 4th have to shut by 6 p.m.and there's a ban from serving any alcohol (except …
