Showing posts from December, 2021
Data released today shows the extent of covid-19 in Rhuthun/Ruthin, with Rhuthun once again attracting the highest number of infections per 100,000 in all of Denbighshire, and by some margin. At 1,803 per 100,000, that now equates to over 100 people. …
It emerged in the press on Monday that Denbighshire county council is now charging £45 for a replacement black, blue or green bin! If one is cracked, if a wheel comes off or a lid loosens and cannot be shut then the householder now has to pay for the …
Tomorrow is the last date for Christmas first class post. A month ago, with the post, we received this picture of a brassed off Nicholas Lyndhurst lookie-likie. It's yet another reason *not* to go to the post office. This home pick-up service has …
Methinks that the editors of this quarter's Town and Around are perhaps being a little mischievous. One of the images illustrating the article by Colin Edwards on 'Growing Up in Ruthin in the 1940s and 1950s' is this. Here is a perhaps sub…
Yesterday evening's history club meeting was a bit of a disaster but, given the type of people who support the club, there was much tolerance and good humour. Those who were in The Old Courthouse were treated to a quiz, following the main speaker.…
They're at it again. Squeezing in more housing on Bryn Goodman . That, I suppose, is the trouble with having such large gardens in such a select area. But the phenomenon isn't reserved just for Jumbo Hill. Wrexham Road now has plenty of exampl…
Last Saturday, December 4th, we predicted that Saturday 11th's second Christmas push would be less popular that last the 4th's . The 11th was too near to Christmas, we said. History tells us that shoppers evaporate in Rhuthun/Ruthin so close t…
Cheapest Petrol Dec 2021 £6.68 Cheapest Diesel Dec 2021 £6.81 Will the price of unleaded fuel ever stop rising? Petrol in Rhuthun/Ruthin is currently £6.68 pre gallon at Bridge Services and, seen …
Seen at the Craft Centre Café R: we all know what they mean but 'Please take a seat and order at the counter' is impossible and doesn't make sense. It could've been phrased better. We'd prefer to see 'archebu' rather than &…
On the Monday after the weekend of Storm Arwen , the clear-up continued. The A525 across Llandegla Moor saw several shallow-rooted pines blown over. Loggerheads was was also hit: Not also the significant impact Arwen had on Rhyl, with sand blown far …
The area's truckers really wanted to make a splash this year, having missed last. We saw more trucks—130 in total—than when last they went though (in 2019) and there was much excitement from young and not-so-young. The appalling weather did result…
It's rather odd that, these days, we can be excited by handfuls on our streets. A handful is significantly more than nobody. Today, we saw handfuls and, at times, several handfuls. On occasion, the queue for Siôn Corn in his wood-clad I T Williams…
Today's Welsh government coronavirus briefing had very much a familiar ring to it. In fact, the whole situation, with the new omicron variant, seems to transport us back mentally to the position in early 2020 when coronavirus was first detected in…
On December 1st, I T Williams' Lapland branch delivered Santa's grotto. It's basically a shipping container part-clad with wood. It's packed in beside the rear of the Old Courthouse and this, it seems, was something of a compromise. T…
It was probably no surprise to learn that the footpath along the Castle walls and cutting across the improved flood defences, freshly opened , has from yesterday been closed, for safety reasons.
