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Archive for October, 2009

The A52s Launch Official Website

If you’re looking for up-to-the-second news on Parwich’s foremost folk-tinged indie rock covers band, look no further! A gleaming new website has been launched to cover all things A52. Click on the picture below or click on www.thea52s.co.uk to visit the site.

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A Parwich photo gallery.

Spotted on the web: here’s a small gallery containing some lovely images of Parwich, taken by a visitor to the village at the end of August. Click on each image to enlarge it, and to read comments left by other viewers. You can also view these images as a slideshow.

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School Newsletter Issue 6

Please click on the image for an enlarged, printer-friendly copy of the new-look school newsletter.

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John FS

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Bingo evening tomorrow

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Quiz Winners

Last night’s Bob Matthews Quiz went well with five local teams and three teams of visitors.  A big thank you to all who organised it and to quiz master Bill.  Congratulations to the winning team.

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Photo Diary Week 2 – It’s gone!

It is quite disorientating looking at this photo.  Never seen Ed & Nia’s house from this angle before.  Watch out, we can all see what’s going on now Bertie!! And by night.

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Photo Diary Week 2 – Demolition

Some young supporters of the project, enjoying the demolition.

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PTA tomorrow (Thursday) morning

We would love to see as many parents as possible at tomorrow morning’s PTA meeting in school straight after school drop off.

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This week in the Stunner

Available online or in the Sycamore, the Stunner has no directly local news stories this week as far as I can see, but it does have an article by local resident Debbie Webster: p.22 End of an era for my position – an article by Debbie Webster about her role in Ashbourne’s Volunteer Centre and the [...]

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Despite the closure of the B5056 Leatherbritches Nursery is open as usual with new stock in for autumn. For Halloween there are terracotta pumpkins (from £5.99) and black cauldrons (small £3.00 / large £4.00). Pre-prepared winter hanging baskets are now ready; alternatively you can take your own baskets in for filling. Pansies and violas are [...]

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Sunrise this morning

Thank you to Mike G & J-FS for sending in this morning’s wonderful sunrise.  Of course we all saw it for real!!

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Macmillan Coffee Morning update

The amount raised at the Biggest Coffee Morning in the World has risen since putting up the last post – to £380.  Sandra and Rebecca again would like to thank everyone for their support and donations.

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Harvest Festival on Sunday

There are still places for this Sunday’s Harvest Lunch, so ring Val on 390 458.

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Bob Mathews Quiz tomorrow

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Autumn leaves – photo gallery.

Photos by Kevin S. Please click to enlarge. More images:

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Green Tomatoes

If you have any unwanted green tomatoes please let me know, I’d like to try making some Green Tomato Chutney.  Thanks Ben – 665 or email parwich@hotmail.co.uk

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Parwich Film’s October Screening

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The next meeting of Parwich Parish Council is 7-30pm Tuesday 6th October in the Pavilion at Parsons Croft. Click here to access the Agenda as a pdf. As always the first 10 minutes of the meeting are available for questions and comments for the public, who can also observe the remainder of the meeting. This [...]

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A tree for a small garden

Thank you to Mani from Germany for this photo af a pine tree.  Note: this tree is around 40 years old, and has been in gardens as far apart as the Outer Hebrides and London, with its last 12 years here in Parwich.  Let’s hope it spends its next 40 years here as well.

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Downloading PDFs

There has been debate as to whether we should use the PDF format for information accessible through posts on the site.  PDFs have the advantage that we do not need to copy and reformat the information into posts and for some contributors such as Parish Councils it ensures official information remains in the format they [...]

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Ashbourne Adult Community Education Centre (tel 01335 345 613) still has places on a number of courses for the Autumn term.  For those courses that have already started the fees will be charged  pro rata.  Courses with places include Computerised Accounts, Computing, English, Maths, Plumbing, Woodwork and Lip Reading.  Click here to see the courses [...]

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If anyone is interested, Debbie W has a chest of drawers free for collection. The chest is made of oak, and it needs either painting or stripping. It is currently painted white – but the paint is chipped, so it needs some attention. Nothing fancy, but it is good quality, post war ‘service furniture’. The [...]

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We have a new site manager, Rob Osborne, who will be looking after things during this project.  He will be on site most of the time.   A specialist firm is just completing the removal of all the asbestos from the old hall and we should get the all clear today, this will mean that the demolition should start by [...]

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B5056 closed north bound from tomorrow

Don’t forget the temporary closure of the B5056 at Curzon Lodge north of Longcliffe this week. The contractors anticipate that this week’s closure will be from AM Tuesday 6th to PM Friday 9th of October. We will post updates if we get any further information.

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The Moon on Sunday Night

Is this a harvest moon? If so the Harvest Festival in Parwich next Sunday will have missed it by a week.  Thank you JF-S for the photo.

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Visit to Wirksworth

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Over the hill and far away

An uplifting view – typical village idyll. Thanks JF-S

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Parwich Film’s 2009/10 Season

Parwich Film‘s next season is due to start in our temporary new home of St. Peter’s Church Parwich on Friday 23rd October at 7-45pm.  As always our license arrangements mean we can not publicly advertise the name of the film, however if you want us to email you full details let Martin know by email [...]

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Weekly weather summary

Last weeks readings:   Rainfall in mm Pressure in Mb am Pressure in Mb pm Temperature in ºC Max Min Sun 27th 0 1023.2 1022.5 17.4 7.9 Mon 28th 0 1020.8 1018.7 17.3 11.6 Tue 29th 0 1018.1 1017.9 14.9 12.3 Wed 30th 0 1016.0 1014.1 17.9 12.4 Thu 1st 0 1016.9 1020.1 15.5 9.4 [...]

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B5056 temporary closure at Longcliffe

The temporary closure of the B5056 at Curzon Lodge north of Longcliffe will be for longer than anticipated, because of the condition of the existing road surface is poorer that expected requiring replacement of a larger area. During the closure traffic going north will need to divert towards Brassington at the Longcliffe crossroads, then along [...]

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Harvest Lunch

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