Comments for Allendale Diary

Comment on This diary is of life in 2019 . . . by Henry L Renn

Henry L Renn — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:21:04 +0000

Larry, AD is one of my ebooks & still a pleasant read. AD gives someone like myself a picture of life today, people and history in a town & surrounding area your part of England. Surely someone will be writing about post COVID life and the changes experienced since COVID’s reign of terror.

Comment on Apparently, joy is the new bleak by LarryWinger

LarryWinger — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:58:35 +0000

In reply to Annie Bishop. Many odes make a concert, is all I can think really :) but I was sort of thinking, 'Country Roads' and that fits rather with tomorrow's post . . . 'take me home'

Comment on Apparently, joy is the new bleak by Annie Bishop

Annie Bishop — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:54:21 +0000

Roads to Joy ? Reminds me of Ode to Joy yes that fits fine and dandy

Comment on Apparently, joy is the new bleak by LarryWinger

LarryWinger — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:54:10 +0000

In reply to Val Duncan. Thanks Val, and I hope some intriguing local submissions come in too! I'm about to post a first story on the blog (well, a link, anyway) over this weekend, but I'm sure there are lots of memoirs, musings, poems and stories out there just waiting to be released and revealed. On the title, I was surprised that nobody according to Google had used it before (there's Road to Joy, but not Roads, which really is more apropos, I think!). Best wishes to you too!

Comment on Apparently, joy is the new bleak by Val Duncan

Val Duncan — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:00:47 +0000

What a wonderful idea, Larry! Great blog name too. Wishing you well and looking forward to following everyone’s posts

Comment on ‘My life as a farmer’ by Kerry

Kerry — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 07:38:04 +0000

My great uncle was John Coulson, I spent many a school holiday in the Sinderhope area, in particular on Sipton Terrace where he lived.
I have very special memories from exploring this area.
I would love to spend time with anyone who knew him to build more of a picture of his extraordinary strength in life.
Both Uncle John and my Grandmother are a huge miss.
This is a fascinating read, thank you for sharing.

Comment on A series of novels about Allendale by David Humes

David Humes — Sat, 01 May 2021 11:48:50 +0000

Good luck with this Larry, it sounds like it has been tremendously hard work

Comment on Old Man Bottom by LarryWinger

LarryWinger — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:15:43 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Paul, and a further intriguing clarification! Words and attributions seem to change with the times: I’ve just been pondering about ‘The Rose of Allandale’ or ‘The Rose of Allendale,’ depending on your perspective. The late great Terry Conway used to insist that Charles Jefferys’ song did not reference Allendale at all, and indeed, both in the original spelling of Mary’s home, and in the third line of the first verse (When Mary left her Highland croft/home) and again on the fifth line (flowers [be]bedecked the mountain’s side) the sense of the song is much more Scottish Highland than the Border region where Allendale is found, of course. But being human, we love to revise, don’t we? The new ‘A Christmas Carol’ television version showcased by the BBC this season is somehow, today, a more apposite telling of the Dickens story than the original, because it chimes so resonantly with our own times.

Comment on Old Man Bottom by Paul Mingard

Paul Mingard — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:54:44 +0000

Larry. Robert told the audience at one of his talks that it’s not even Old Man Bottom but Oldman Bottom named for the landowner a Mr Oldman. I say that probably the only reason the name survives, is the pleasure it gives young and not at all young boys to say Old Man’s Bottom whenever the opportunity arises.
P.S. I’ll miss my daily dose of Allendale community facts in the New Year. I hope you add something about the future in a postscript to all this. A fascinating and heartwarming journal of a community on the fringe of a mostly urban and alienating society. Thanks Larry.

Comment on Christmas Day Feast by Sue Davison

Sue Davison — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 09:36:22 +0000

Merry Christmas xx