Happy New Year!
Not a lot to be said, really…2020 has been unprecedented.
But now with the positive news of vaccines against coronavirus starting to be rolled out, there’s good reason to hope for a happier 2021.
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A Merry Little Christmas
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
However you celebrate the Christmas season, songs and carols are such a staple. We hear them on the radio, as background music in shops, rousingly played by brass bands in our streets, and on the tinkling pianos and other instruments that our children and grandchildren are learning to play. And we would have enjoyed singing them as a local community around the Christmas tree such as Powburn’s Community Garden.
Merry Christmas 2020
Merry Christmas!
Well…it’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? It’s been kind of:
- unusual
- extraordinary
- uncommon
- remarkable
- unparalleled
- aberrant
Mmm…the list goes on.
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Advent: the four weeks before Christmas
Whether or not you count yourself as religious, spiritual, agnostic or whatever, the anticipation of Christmas each year seems to me to be a wonderful thing. Today is the first day of Advent 2020 – advent being the time in the liturgical year encompassing the four weeks before Christmas.
Lest We Forget 2020
As mentioned in the post entitled Remembrance Sunday 2020, May Wilson BEM has today laid a commemorative poppy wreath in remembrance of the fallen from the Breamish Valley at the Breamish Valley War Memorial in the Powburn Community Garden.
A Little Firework Fun 2020
Family firework fun
At a time during the second UK national lockdown when we were all unable to attend organised Bonfire Night firework displays, it was nice to see from my window that at least one family was making the most of things up on the old railway line in Powburn, well away from anyone. It was lovely to hear the sound of a child laughing and squealing in delight, as the fireworks were let off one by one by their daddy. And you couldn’t help but see the wonderful flashes of light in the near darkness at the back of Powburn near the Dene. Lifted the spirits!
Merry Christmas 2019
Merry Christmas!
Well, we’ve had a few cold and frosty mornings recently: certainly enough to get me in the Christmas spirit, as they remind me of my favourite Christmas Carol, ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’. And we’ve only just passed the midwinter point of the shortest, and darkest day. Things can only get brighter!
Christmas Carol Services 2019
Local Christmas Carol Services 2019
The following is a list of Christmas Carol Services taking place locally at St Bartholomew’s (Whittingham), St John the Baptist (Edlingham) and Bolton Chapel (Bolton).
Christmas Concert update
Alnwick & District Choral Society update
A poster for the Christmas Concert at 3pm on 15 December 2019 has now been released. The Conductor will be Peter Brown; Organist will be Alan Gidney and the cost is £12.00 at the door (students free).
Ingram Fireworks Fun 2019!
Fireworks fun at Ingram Village
Following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, King James I introduced the ‘Observance of 5th November Act’, an enforced annual public day of thanksgiving. Despite being repealed in 1859, the celebration has continued with enthusiasm throughout the UK. So last night – exactly 414 years after the failed plot – Ingram Village celebrated in its own community-centred style at Ingram Village Hall.