About Wrinehill

  I have never entered anything made or grown in a Show before.   I made an exception this year.   My runner beans were insistent. After a slow start, they took control and leapt up their canes, flowered like crazy and began to set with a vengeance.   By the end of August   one bean was large enough to feed one person.   Clearly these beans had aspirations and were probably related to Jack’s.   How could I disappoint them – given that the promising broad bean crop was devastated by black fly at a crucial stage of their development, the peas didn’t show at all, and the sweet peas sulked for so long they missed their chance? I had seen the notice for the Woore Flower and Produce Show at the Woore Garden Centre.   On the morning of 7 September 2024 at 8.30 a.m. I set aside all misgivings and ferried them to the Victory Hall in Woore, the venue of the Show.   They were entered for two classes – the runner bean and longest runner bean.   ...

 Although the latest bout of rain is not welcomed by everyone, it is not unexpected.  It probably also warns us of things to come when the winter weather starts to roll in. It comes also as no surprise then that the 'resolutions' attempted in the early part of the Summer will be put to the test.  They have, and they have been found wanting. Some potholes have been repaired - properly (with a seal)  which has been welcomed although as one resident pointed out, but these are mainly on the edges of the tarmac which has been eroded, and where the verge has been worn away.  So that has been one decent repair effected, so grateful thanks to the Amey. Although the recent Parish Council Minutes state that  two out of three issues on the Lane had been sorted, that would not be entirely true.  Three issues were sorted:  the repair to the broken drain at the telecom mast (damaged when the mast was being installed); the blocked drain further down the Land was...