The vernal equinox typically occurs on 20 or 21 March and is characterised by the sun being exactly above the equator. Consequently, day and night are equal in length. It also marks the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere.
Further to the UK Government’s recommendations regarding the current coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, Ingram Village Hall will be CLOSED until further notice. This is effective immediately.
Following yesterday’s recommendations from the Government regarding COVID-19 and the need to minimise social interaction, the Breamish Hall Committee has made the decision to close the Breamish Hall as from today 17 March 2020 until further notice.
We take the welfare of all residents extremely seriously.
The greatest concern is for elderly and vulnerable people in our community, many of whom may be self-isolating due to ongoing health issues.
With this in mind, the community has formed a group of local volunteers to help ANYONE who needs assistance.
We have just received notice from the organiser that the event at Breamish Hall, Powburn on Saturday 11 April 2020 has been CANCELLED.
No further information was received.
[Credit: All images © Bennet Wiese 2020 and used with permission.]
We were recently contacted by Bennet Wiese, a young man from Braunschweig near Hanover in northern Germany.
A house owner there had passed away and so Bennet’s dad and stepmother were cleaning the house up. As they did so, they found a very interesting silver cup that was originally presented to ‘A. Little’ who was the winner of the Ingram Hill Race in the years 1923-1925. Unfortunately, nothing is known about the house owner other than he had lived in England for a period and that he was not ‘A. Little’.
Having seen my first adder of the season on 26 February 2020, they can now be fairly easily seen each day basking in the morning sunshine around the margins of the Branton Lakes.
Cycling out to Ingram yesterday, in the fields between the ‘whirlpool‘ on the River Breamish and the Ingram bridge, I saw my first skylark of the season. It was performing its typical display flight, climbing almost vertically up into the sky, all the time singing its elaborate and highly-distinctive song. Just makes you feel that Spring is on its way!
Readers of this website will likely be aware of the Log Bank at Wooler that serves the people of north Northumberland.
Well, Kate Thick (Founding Trustee) of the Northumberland Log Bank project has been in touch with the exciting news that the log bank has now grown to include a site at Haydon Bridge that serves west Northumberland/Tynedale.
