Showing posts from October, 2023
Yesterday... Last week, just in time for this week's Greenwich mean time, the disparity between our town town clocks was at last remedied. For about one month, the clock on the Peers Memorial was (usually very) wrong. This is not the first time th…
Natural Resources Wales is consulting on the possible boundary for the national park that could replace the Clwydian Range (and Dee Valley) AONB. Other than for the country land owners' association, the establishment of a national park is surely …
Yesterday, the town hall was open for the first time (in recent years). Thanks to the artisan market moving temporarily there from next door, we got a glimpse of the entrance and one large-ish room. That room was where the former Cornmarket Café used …
Informed sources say that today's the day that the town's planters come down. I'm sure that even the town council would agree that this year's examples have been disappointing. By the end of the season, they've become ratty, weedy …
The Craft Centre and café opens Tuesdays to Sundays inclusive. It's interesting that on Mondays there's always a number of parked cars in the *free* car park. Yet, on Mondays, everything is closed on the site. The threat of increased parking …
The interesting thing about the recently published population density maps from the Office of National Statistics is the result returned for Rhuthun/Ruthin town centre. Conveniently, there's an output area that includes virtually all of the town c…
One of the strangest loans now available from Rhuthun/Ruthin library are footballs. Yes, actual footballs. While you pop into the library to get your latest Danielle Steele, Maeve Binchy or Agetha Christie (or even Agatha Raisin), why not take out a f…
First light on Saturday morning In spite of some localised surface water and some flooding to agricultural land, compared to north Denbighshire and Yr Wyddgrug/Mold & to its east, it would appear that Rhuthun/Ruthin got off lightly during Storm Ba…
Storm Babet's dominated the weather and news in recent days but Rhuthun/Ruthin saw temperatures yesterday of 17°C. Tomorrow (Saturday) and especially today are not going to be as nice. We now officially have a yellow weather warning of continuous …
I have been challenged on what I said this morning about parking and am happy to set the record straight. Under today's graph, it was incorrect of me to say that inflation since 2016 had reduced the cost of parking in real terms *by* 69 per cent.…
It's been a while since we've mentioned car parking charges . That's because it's been a while since they've increased. The £1.50 cost of three hours parking (long stay†) has remained the same since 2016. 2016 = 100%. In real terms…
Coronavirus may be on the march again. We no longer have statistics and it's no longer in the news but that doesn't mean it's gone away. Far from it, though its prevalence in and around Rhuthun/Ruthin is still low. This autumn, there'…
Following nearly one month of works , the Midland Bank/HSBC reopened on Thursday. We can expect five-days-a-week banking which, in the era of closures and part time opening, is good news. There remains a counter service, so we aren't a 'digita…
Lee Waters, the deputy minister responsible for 20 mph , suggested on the BBC a week ago that motorists needed 28 days to get used to the new blanket default speed limit. That's today. So, how is it for you? 1. Our observations, though not claimi…
There were so few comments during the recent Dyfodol Rhuthun Future event that there is a danger that the more wacky of them may actually take hold. Take the call for a McDonald's, a KFC, a Pizza Hut and a Burger King. Judging by the spelling of …
Another reason not to come into Rhuthun/Ruthin on Mondays , then. It seems in future our library won't be open that day. Neither on Wednesdays, as now. And, for the rest of the time, hours will be condensed. In fact, the number of hours open per w…
Continuing our recent theme of surveillance , a month ago it was reported that Tesco was to allow any member of its shop floor staff who wished to wear a body-cam to do so. This has now reached us. In Rhuthun/Ruthin, slightly fewer than about a quart…
She's been talking about it for some time but on Saturday, finally, the proprietrix of Candy Shack retired. Well, we suspect that it's semi-retirement. Whatever it is, she'll not be running her Well Street premises. 'Happy Retirement&…
Rhuthun/Ruthin is suffering from 'future fatigue'. There appeared to be very few people willing to engage this time with the Rhuthun Future fortnight that finished yesterday. I think people would much rather be snidey on Facebook about project…
