Showing posts from September, 2022
Later today will see the last ever 'regular' services at Ss Mwrog & Mary, Llanfwrog and at St Meugan's. Thereafter, the Church in Wales will be centralising its Rhuthun/Ruthin activities in St Peter's, to be called the hub church. …
We're not sure whether this comment originated on social media or not but it's certainly doing the rounds and it's something like this: 'What's she doing managing the market hall when she couldn't manage her own business' T…
Just when you thought it was again safe to venture out†, we hear that coronavirus and its disease covid 19 is back in Ysbyty Rhuthun/Ruthin Hospital. It's been pushed out of the news, by events in Balmoral and all summer elsewhere. We can no longe…
If you're a royalist, then today's funeral has been the culmination so far of 11 of 12 days of mourning. If you're somewhere on the nationalist spectrum, then perhaps the best you can say is that the queen has bestowed upon us all two ext…
Is it Christmas? Incredibly, B & M Bargains now opens up to 9 pm on weeknights. This from September 12th. Not that the official sign or website say so. It was in 2017 that they extended opening from 6 to 8 pm. Retrieved yesterday The tally of bu…
There are at least three books of condolence for the royal death available should you wish to sign any of them. One at St Peter's. One at Yr Hen Lys. The third at County Hall. That at The Old Courthouse was certainly much more popular than the sma…
Till Monday's funeral, the media have nothing on which to report save for That Queue, shuffling its 22-hour-long way around Llundain/London. It's there to behold, seemingly permanently, on TV's red button and, among the random Britons you …
Now that the Eagle's Bakery is looking less and less likely to reopen, we like to buy Village Bakery bread from the Co-op. It's local (Minera, Wrexham). It's from a chain that trades ethically. But it's now expensive. Back in February…
I've now actually purchased for the first time from our Aldi supermarket... and made repeat visits. The first time wasn't much but comparing the cost against comparable items and making adjustments for different weights or volumes, I was surpr…
It didn't take long for someone to fall for the spin from Holywell's Tate Rowland estate agency and it was on September 9th that probably 15th or 16th century Bryn Clwyd, Clwyd Street, was placed on the market with them. It's the sort of …
Yesterday at County Hall, Yr Wyddgrug/Mold, the High Sheriff of the ceremonial county of Clwyd officially proclaimed the new king. The last time there was a royal proclamation, it's sobering the think that neither of Rhuthun/Ruthin's nor Yr W…
2023 is the year of returns and the latest is Open Doors. Though this is held over the weekend, it was noticeable that yesterday, Saturday, was the day when most premises' doors were open. A significant number had been open in previous years but s…
Is there such a thing as bell ringer's elbow? If there is, we're sure the St Peter's band have it, all thanks to recent events at Balmoral and in Llundain. The bell tower was open today, as part of Open Doors. Two of these bell ringers a…
Whatever your views on the monarchy, and they can be very polarised, there's no doubt about the absolute self-sacrifice of the present incumbent, queen Elizabeth II, who died yesterday. A woman of profound faith, duty and hard work. Surrounded by …
A tally of those in our pubs as at 9 pm on Thursday, September 8th, 2022 in the evening: The Wine Vaults 2 The Corporation 3 The Feathers 4 The Boar's Head 4 …
I had to see what all this quilting fuss was about and was surprised to find that it was something of a modern art form that would be as much at home in the Craft Centre as in the town centre. If only the Craft Centre supported local community art (it…
It's autumn and this week has been a very mixed one, weather wise. It certainly chucked it down this afternoon. We've had some steady rain and on Monday evening some thunder. It's been wet every day since Sunday, though generally thanks to…
