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Archive for August, 2010

Weekly Weather

Here are the weekly readings:   Rainfallin mm Pressurein Mb am Pressurein Mb pm Temperature in ºC Max Min Sun 22nd 0.0 1016.2 1012.5 23.2 10.8 Mon 23rd 5.8 1003.4 1006.2 16.8 11.7 Tue 24th 0.4 1008.1 1014.5 17.0 9.0 Wed 25th 0.9 1016.7 1013.1 15.6 8.7 Thu 26th 3.6 1010.2 1010.6 13.4 11.2 Fri [...]

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A tribute to Frank Sinatra

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Tea & Cakes Today

Tea & Cakes are being served in the churchyard at Alsop between 11am – 4pm today.  Come along and support this event, in aid of Alsop Church.  Stunning views, delicious cakes, not to be missed!

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Harvest Supper

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What’s on Where this Week

What’s on Where this Week Date Time Event Location Sunday 10am Songs of Praise – Andy Larkin Parwich Church Monday 11am-4.30pm Tea & Cakes in the Churchyard Alsop Church Sunday   Horticultural Show 8-11am – Bring in your exhibits 2pm – Open to the Public 3pm – Prize Presentation followed by an auction of exhibits [...]

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Tomorrow, sing your hearts out.

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Tea & Cakes in the Churchyard – Monday

Tea & Cakes are being served in the churchyard at Alsop between 11am – 4pm this Monday.  Come along and support this event, in aid of Alsop Church.  Stunning views, delicious cakes, not to be missed!

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Free events will encourage new or nervous cyclists to get out and about in the Peak District National Park this autumn. Pedal Peak District, a cycling project run by the Peak District National Park Authority, is putting on guided rides, cycle skills training and bike maintenance workshops for residents and visitors. Booking is essential on [...]

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The Bell is Back

Our Church Bell was returned from the Loughborough Bell Foundry yesterday, newly restored with its bright red mountings (known as a headstock) and bright redclapper. The bell, which is older than the church, dating from 180was cast by a Chesterfield foundry and had not been serviced since the Church was built in the 1860′s. The [...]

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September’s Film Night

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Fallen Tree on Dale Road: Please Take Care!

Thanks to Graham J for the following bulletin. If you have more news to share on this incident, please let us know via comments or email. As at 08:30 this morning a tree has fallen across The Dale road between Parwich and A515 in the wood below Upper Moor Farm. It has fallen across the [...]

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PARWICH BOWLS CLUB

Week commencing 23 August 2010. At the risk of repeating myself, not a very good week this week, two losses. Although the losses were not as big as last week. Tuesday League – Home – Whitworth Park. Penultimate match of the year, and we had a really good match this week. We won two games [...]

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Trifle Fun……….

Well the men of the village have 9 days to experiment with their ideas for their trifle, ready for the Horticultural show on Sunday 4th September. Just think how many trifles you could enjoy eating between now and then, all that delicious custard and cream – you have the perfect excuse.

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Sweet Nectar

Buddlejas can be seen in many gardens around the village, ours however has only recently come into flower and on Sunday it was covered in bees and butterflies.

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This Sunday – Come along and Sing

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Parwich Bowls Club

Week commencing 16 August 2010. Not a very good week this week, two losses. Tuesday League – Away – Ashwood Park. Not our favourite green to say the least. Although we managed to share the match two games each our points tally was considerably less than our opponents. The result was 78 to Ashwood and [...]

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Y-Not Festival 2010.

The atmosphere as soon as we arrived reminded me of those impromptu last-minute parties that end up being the ones you still talk about with misty-eyed nostalgia. People here were all laughing, playing, and dancing with genuine gay abandon, there was…something…different going on here. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. But I REALLY [...]

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Weekly Weather…

Here are the weekly readings:   Rainfall in mm Pressure in Mb am Pressure in Mb pm Temperature in ºC Max Min Sun 15th 0.0 1021.4 1023.4 22.1 12.8 Mon 16th 0.0 1019.6 1019.3 23.6 10.3 Tue 17th 3.1 1014.3 1011.4 22.2 12.0 Wed 18th 2.2 1010.7 1010.4 24.2 8.0 Thu 19th 6.7 1011.6 1014.6 [...]

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Hiving a Swarm of Bees

This article has been sent in by Mike at Flaxdale Apiary who is supporting Derwent Rural Counselling – if you need help with a swarm ring Mike on 390433. I am alerted now and again by residents of Parwich who have found a swarm of bees on their land – what should they do?  Several [...]

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Road Repairs from Parwich to B5056

From Monday for the next couple of weeks the road from Parwich to the B5056 is being patched, work is anticipated to take up to a fortnight.  Thanks to Robert Bonsall for sending in this information. Work is progressing well at Tissington Ford as the photo shows. Photos-Jane B

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What’s on Where this Week

  What’s on Where this Week Date Time Event Location Sunday 9.30am Holy Communion-Andy Larkin Parwich Church Sunday 11.15am Mattins Alsop Church Sunday 2.30pm Methodist Service Parwich Church Saturday 7.30pm Live Music with Vicki Lambert Parwich Legion Sunday 10am Songs of Praise – Andy Larkin Parwich Church

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Live music at the Legion

Click here for Vicki’s own website and to hear a preview

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Congratulations Catherine

Enormous congratulations have to go to Catherine Bunting, she achieved 5 A*s in her A levels yesterday and confirmed her place at Cambridge where she is going to study Natural Sciences.  Most appropriately she will be at St Catharine’s College.  Good luck, now the pressure is off, enjoy the rest of your summer holidays!

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Today the planting was completed (well almost) at the Memorial Hall.  There are 8 plants outstanding, which will be planted when the grass seeding is done in September.  All bar one of the beds has been muched and this final one will be covered over the weekend, once we have planted the hundreds of snowdrops that [...]

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Bits & Pieces regarding the Hall

Now the hall is finished, any bits and pieces that were being rehoused during the build can be returned, if you have things like tables, chairs, crockery etc please either drop them into Janet at the Pub or give her a ring on 212. The landscaping of the hall will be done tomorrow.  The landscaping [...]

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Ben’s success in Hedge Laying

Ben Chadfield has come 2nd, winning the CPRE Trophy in the Brailsford & District Ploughing Competition.  He achieved this in the hedge laying growth section, having laid the hedge the previous year in the competition.  Well done to Ben.

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Walking down from Minninglow

Thanks to Jamie R for sending in this evocative view.  Click on the photo to enlarge.

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Tissington Ford

Work is ongoing at Tissington Ford. It is due for completion by September 1st. The photos show tarmacing on the hill beyond the ford, as well as some of the ‘new’ stones in place in the ford.

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Diary updates

If you have anything for the diary, that would also benefit from being included in the Parish Magazine, please can you email it into parwich@hotmail.co.uk or directly to Jane, by Monday 23rd August.  Thanks

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What am I?

This has been called Deb’s bug by JF-S; not sure what the story is behind this…..

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Summer weather?

Here are the weekly readings:   Rainfall in mm Pressure in Mb am Pressure in Mb pm Temperature in ºC Max Min Sun 8th 0.0 1019.8 1021.2 22.1 11.0 Mon 9th 0.4 1016.9 1014.4 20.6 10.5 Tue 10th 0.0 1011.4 1013.7 21.3 10.0 Wed 11th 0.0 1015.4 1017.3 18.7 6.9 Thu 12th 6.7 1016.3 1018.9 [...]

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What’s on Where this Week

  What’s on Where this Week Date Time Event Location Sun 15th 10am Family Service with Parwich Methodists and St Peter’s Parwich Church Sun 15th 11.15am Holy Communion Alsop Church Sat 21st 7.45-8.30am Saturday Morning Bulk Rubbish Collection Alsop Sun 22nd 9.30am Holy Communion-Andy Larkin Parwich Church Sun 22nd 11.15am Mattins Alsop Church Sun 22nd [...]

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Successful week bowling

PARWICH BOWLS CLUB – Week commencing 10 August 2010. Tuesday League – Home – Bradwell. Bradwell are just 20 points behind us in the league. It looked as though we were going to do very well after the first game, but in the end we only won one game to Bradwell’s three. However, we did [...]

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This year’s brood

Again, some great photography from JF-S, it takes time, persistence, patience and skill to get shots like this.

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This week’s stunner

Since we have stopped doing a regular feature on the Ashbourne News Telegraph, they have altered how they put out their e-edition.  You can still see it on-line but you have to subscribe (55p per edition or £20 for a year, click here for more details).  Some of the articles are still posted for free access on their [...]

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Nets for the Football pitch?

Over the summer I have noticed many young people, several fathers and other adults playing football on the football pitch. Unfortunately there is only one tatty net and the other ‘goal’ is just a pile of stones. Could I suggest that perhaps some interested person might like to see if they can be provided with [...]

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Water supply interruption

Don’t forget your water supply may be interrupted tonight.

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Church Repairs

Tony & Shaun, (Marshall Builders – 01335 390 552)  have been working on further repairs to the Church.  The old rotten timbers in the aisle have now been replaced with new wood. Thanks to JF-S for the photos.

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Hanging Basket Competition

The Horticultural Society is very grateful to Bill Whitfield of Leatherbritches Nursery for kindly judging the baskets at 17 houses. It was good to see such a fine display. Here are the four that Bill considered were the best. Joint 1st prize – Jack Cundy, Main Street Joint 1st prize – Ben and Jane Bennett, [...]

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