Showing posts from August, 2023
At the end of July, we featured some buildings that are literally rotting away. One was the building currently occupied by tenants Ringwood Framers. A month later and the situation as regards the woodwork has noticeably worsened, above. But at least …
It's Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. at the Market Street approach to St Peter's Square roundabout. It must be a visitor and his family's car, hesitating a little too long. Joining him at the rear is a Denbighshire county council minibus and…
First purple , now pink. Some time between Tuesday morning and Friday morning, the former Montecito has gone pink. Very pink. A kind of Barbie pink. Perhaps the choice was inspired by the very fashionable film in cinemas right now. The Montecito bui…
Some news regarding food hygiene . Welcome hot food takeaway, Borthyn, as at June 2023 was 1/5 but last month regained its status as a full 5/5. That's quite a leap. Carniboar , Upper Clwyd Street, also 1/5, has improved albeit less spectacularly …
The price of petrol is on the march again. After a year of steadying and declining prices, there's a recent and nasty upward trend. In fact, prices are rising currently at every couple of days. Because petrol has been £1 per gallon cheaper than th…
Someone, somewhere, must be taking note of this blog. Last year, we commented that there was ' Little Horsepower at the Flower '. At this year's flower show, yesterday, the number of cars had increased several-fold from the three-or-so la…
One other thing in Wetherspoon's favour is its refusal to accept dogs. Now I know that this will be controversial, given the burgeoning post-coronavirus appeal of dogs as pets, but not everyone eating a meal or frequenting a café wants to see a d…
In exactly one month's time—September 17th—we shall have imposed upon us the new default urban 20 mph speed limit . This is almost without exception (see Rhuthun/Ruthin's few exceptions, here ). Part-peeled 20 mph sign at Llanfihangel I've…
One further snag concerning Mondays in Rhuthun/Ruthin is the choice of places to eat for a typical light lunch. Closed are the Craft Centre café, the market hall and Seconds café. Leonardo's has a food hygiene rating of zero, so that was out of t…
Informed sources say that today will see the last of Clwyd Alyn's tenants moving in to the new Glasdir site . This is the tenanted one adjacent to Taylor Wimpey's market housing. Clwyd Alyn's will then be completed. The site was controver…
It was wet most of yesterday's daylight hours, and chilly. The town was virtually empty. From Ruthin Weather At 11 a.m. the outside temperature had reached 11.5°C; at 3 p.m. it was just 12°C but at 6 p.m. is was 15°C. Thought 15°C was a relief, i…
There have been so many co-optees on the town council that we're starting to lose track. Now we discover that there's a further vacancy, with the resignation of former mayor Ian Lewney. His was an unusual mayoral year, thanks to that parking i…
Hufen iâ Cymraeg... neu hufen iâ Cymreig? Here's a thing. We can be so proud of Chilly Cow's Swiss brown cows and their ice cream. The cows have made Chilly Cow into a successful local business. Chilly Cow supply the local area and the region.…
Finn's does not accept card payments. Neither does the Tandoori. Aydin's will take a card if the value of the transaction is over £5 (a large chips is £4.50)... The town's NFU Mutual: unfortunately for whom? No one buys their insurance wit…
Monday 24th was the first day of the summer school holidays. There abounded a healthy number of visitors. (Indeed, the first week was quite busy with them. Not up to the high levels in 2020 and 2021 , though.) Closed on Monday 31st, even Clogau The …
