What’s on Where this Week Day Time Event Location Sunday 11.00am Mattins Parwich Church Tuesday 2pm Shrovetide Football Ashbourne Wednesday 2pm Shrovetide Football Ashbourne Wednesday 2pm Pilates for the Over 60s Memorial Hall Wed 9th 6.30pm 7.30pm Pilates followed by Pilates for the Youth Cancelled Memorial Hall Thursday 12.30-2pm Lent Lunch Church Farm Rachel R’s [...]
Archive for March, 2011
What’s on Where this Week – 6th March
Posted in Events on Sunday March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Nia completes the High Peak Marathon
Posted in People on Saturday March 5, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Nia has today successfully completed the notorious High Peak Marathon (or Derwent Watershed as it’s also known) – a 42 mile overnight endurance test over the toughest terrain that the Peak District has to offer (this is actually 16 miles further than a marathon!!). After setting off at 10pm last night (Friday) the team of [...]
Parwich Portrait Photography Exhibition
Posted in Photography on Friday March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Many thanks to the talented folk who have made submissions to the first Parwich Portrait Photography Exhibition. We have some wonderful pictures to share with you. It’s interesting to see just how many types of portrait photo there are…as we think you’ll see by the time you get to the end of the post So [...]
School newsletter 21
Posted in School on Friday March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s newsletter contains a new section (“Parwich Goes Potter”), written by one of the children; a budding journalist, as we are sure you will agree! As always, please click the newsletter to enlarge.
Saturday Rubbish Collection for 2011-2012
Posted in Alsop, Ballidon, Services on Friday March 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This service has now been withdrawn. For more details click here. Saturday Morning Bulk Rubbish Collection 2011-2012 Date Time Location Village 2011 March 5th May 21st July 2nd September 10th November 5th 2012 February 4th March 31st 9 – 9.20am 9.25 – 9.45am 9.50 – 10.10am 10.15 – 10.45am Sycamore Cottages Village Green By old [...]
Tomorrow is Bulk Rubbish Day
Posted in Services on Friday March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is the bulk rubbish collection; the dustcart picks up at various points in the village. Remember if you leave rubbish to be removed, you must be in attendance when the wagon comes and load your rubbish, yourself. Don’t lose it, use it – even if you only have a small amount to get rid [...]
High Peak Marathon – Good Luck Nia & Co.
Posted in People on Thursday March 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
We have just had this email in from Nia. She and three others have been training extremely hard for this High Peak Marathon over the last 4 months. We hope you have a successful night and we will raise our glasses to you that evening and hope that with your effort and our support, money [...]
Everyday First Aid
Posted in Health Care, Services on Thursday March 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
FREE FIRST AID SESSIONS FROM THE BRITISH RED CROSS The aim of everyday first aid is to provide people with the skills and confidence to act in a first aid emergency, thereby increasing the resilience of local communities and reducing “the bystander effect”. The Red Cross knows that everyone can learn a few simple skills [...]
Lent Lunches start next week
Posted in Church, Events on Thursday March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Evening Pilates Classes Cancelled
Posted in Pilates on Thursday March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Please note that the 6.30pm and 7.30pm classes will not take place on Wednesday 9th March. The over 60s class will run as normal in the afternoon.
Just perfect
Posted in Photography on Wednesday March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fine detail inside this graceful flower – Thanks JF-S
Brr, what a winter!
Posted in Weather on Tuesday March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Now that we have reached the month of March, with spring time hopefully just around the corner, let’s take a look back at the last six months of Parwich weather, based on the daily maximum and minimum temperatures supplied by our “weatherman on the hill”. With the “great freeze” of December 2010 still fresh in [...]
Single bed available
Posted in Classified adverts on Tuesday March 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We have recently bought a double bed and will shortly have a single bed (pine, with a mattress in quite good condition) available. The bed is free to a good home – we’ll need to get the other one first, so it may be a few weeks before it is ready. If you are interested, [...]
Winning artist goes underwater to paint seahorses
Posted in Arts, Esther Underwater, People on Tuesday March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Note from the blog team: Starting from today, Parwich artist Esther Tyson will be posting regular diary-style updates on her new creative project: to immortalise the seahorses of Dorset in art. In this first post, Esther gives us some personal background on the project, before explaining her forthcoming activities in more detail. Esther, it’s over [...]


