Posted in Arts, Out & About on Saturday May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I happened to pick up a leaflet for the Derbyshire Literature Festival, which runs from the 1st to the 14th June and the programme can be seen on line. I have not registered it in previous years, but it looks quite interesting.
For more general information on what is coming up in Derbyshire also see the artsderbyshire [...]
Posted in Gardens, Out & About on Thursday May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The floral theme is strong this weekend with Saturday seeing the start of Carsington Flower Festival (see post below), of Ashford in the Water Well Dressings (continues till Sunday 25th May), and of the Bakewell Garden Festival (Saturday & Sunday).
It continues on Sunday, when Yeldersley Hall gardens are open to the public from 2pm to 5-30pm in aid [...]
Posted in Out & About on Thursday May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
This weekend sees the start of a flower festival at:
St Margaret’s Church, Carsington
10-30am to 7-30pm
Saturday 17th to Thursday 22nd May
It will provide an ideal opportunity for all those home made cake enthusiastics who are having trouble waiting for the next bank holiday Monday at Alsop Church.
Posted in Out & About, Services on Wednesday May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Karen Wigley, Clerk to Parwich Parish Council passed on the following information that has been sent to the Parish Council:
Derbyshire Directory
Find out what is going on in your area.
Add details of your clubs or society.
Have you discovered the Derbyshire Directory yet? If you are embarking on a new hobby or keen to find out what [...]
Posted in Eating Out, Out & About on Monday May 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Following last year’s major refit of its dining room, The George has become one of our favourite local eating destinations. Under the guidance of new landlady Emily Hammond, this family-run inn has moved decisively into “gastropub” territory, as befits the sparse elegance of the almost unrecognisable new dining area. Although still only in [...]
Posted in Out & About, Societies on Sunday May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
There are still places available on Tuesday for the trip to Castle Howard. The bus leaves at 8am from the bus shelter on The Green. The forecast looks good, so it will be a wonderful opportunity to explore this magnicent house & gardens.
Posted in Out & About on Monday May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A tremendous amount of work has gone into setting up the Art show at Bradbourne Church, there are lots of different paintings adorning all the various corners of this delightful church and tucked in amongst it all are some pretty flowers. At the back of the church teas & coffees are served and you get [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Sunday May 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday for me was the finale of the Well Dressing. We went over for the afternoon to Tissington with 4 friends. It was good to see the carpark busy & was being very expertly manned by Debbie & Trevor - no cars crashed on their watch. We started at Hands well, which had the same [...]
Posted in Church, Events, Out & About, Well dressing on Saturday May 3, 2008 | No Comments »
At the well dressing service last week we had the good fortune to have the Bishop of Yei, in southern Sudan, the Rt. Rev’d Hilary Adeba, as one of our speakers. Following the sermon given by the Bishop of Repton, the Rt. Rev’d Humphrey Southern, Bishop Hilary gave some deeply moving remarks about how scarce [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Thursday May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I have to be honest I was working today so couldn’t make the service at Tissington. The church was full and people had to stand outside to listen to the Ascension Day service. Afterwards led by the Bishop everyone proceeded around the wells where a hymn was sung & the wells blessed. [...]
Posted in Out & About, People, Services, Shop on Thursday May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“It’s French!” imports speciality foods from France and is committed to providing high quality products, not available in supermarkets in France or the UK, to people passionate about food.
The initiative has been set up by Carolyn and Simon, a local couple from Clifton, who have been visiting Parwich every Saturday for the past few years whilst [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Wednesday April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Day 4, everything has to be finished and part of the team worked until 11pm last night, rumour has it that the bottle of port helped! This morning I just concentrated on the background, thousands of camomile heads. The photo below shows the use of various leaves to form part of the hills [...]
Posted in Alsop, Arts, Church, Events, Out & About, People on Wednesday April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This weekend there are lots of local events to choose from & if you plan carefully you can do everything.
Thursday to Wednesday - Tissington Well Dressings - Food is served at The Stables and certainly over the weekend lunches and Teas are also in the Village Hall (I speak from experience when I say that these [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, Well dressing on Tuesday April 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The sun was shining this morning so the great debate was how many layers of clothes do I need to wear whilst working in a cow shed? The answer - as many as possible - thermal long johns, two long sleeved thermal vests & two sweatshirts - I had no intention of being cold.
Today we [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Monday April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This blog is not X-rated, but merely a new word that I learnt whilst working at Tissington today. This was the first morning of really getting our hands dirty. The designs for the Well Dressing had been marked on the clay & now we had to outline everything in either tiny coffee beans, [...]
Posted in Arts, Events, Out & About, People on Sunday April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
May 6th - 8th - Pear Tree Farm, Matlock
Painting “Emotions” based on Landscape - all media (mainly acrylic)
Learn with Parwich artist Lewis Noble how to focus on your own individual reaction to the landscape and use contemporary techniques to produce semi-abstract images using colour, form, texture. Please bring conte crayons, oil or dry pastel sticks [...]
Posted in Events, History, Out & About, People, Well dressing on Sunday April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the next few days I am going to be posting a “Diary of Tissington Well Dressings”. In 2007 I was fortunate enough to be invited to join one of the Well Dressing teams, either they are desperate or I did a reasonable job last year because I am joining them again.
The Tissington Well [...]
Posted in Events, Gardens, Out & About on Saturday April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The West Derbyshire Spring Plant Fair
In aid of Mid-Derbyshire Association for Moblie Physiotherapy
11am to 4pm Sunday 27th April
Culland Hall, nr Brailsford
If you can go along and support this sale of unusal plants, as it will raise money for an important local charity administered by our own Debbie Webster.
The Plant Fair is open from 11am to 4pm [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, Pikehall on Monday April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well folks, it’s here again!
Taking place from 1st to 3rd August at Pikehall, the Y Not Festival will showcase over 50 acts across two stages. There’ll be a range of music on offer with live bands playing Folk to Reggae right through to Indie Rock. Also on offer over the weekend will be comedians, real ale, local ciders [...]
Posted in Eating Out, Favourite posts, Out & About on Monday April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Often when you have friends & family staying regularly you are looking for some different ideas of where to go & where to have a “nibble” out. Well this week I have been trying out some new places.
David Mellor - On the outskirts of Hathersage, a rather innovative design, a round building houses his [...]
Posted in About this site, Eating Out, Out & About on Monday April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
We have just added two new pages to this site: an “Eating Out” guide and a “Where To Go” directory.
The “Eating Out” guide lists all the local local pubs, restaurants, cafés and tearooms that we have reviewed on this site to date, along with star ratings. Click on each link to read our review. [...]
Posted in Eating Out, Favourite posts, Out & About on Saturday April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been told that I need to expand my expertise from tea rooms into dining out. Now I have no problem with this, just in case you hadn’t realised I like my food and I’ll happily send my expenses in at the end of each month, but where to!
This evening we set off [...]
Posted in Arts, Events, Out & About on Saturday April 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For anyone with an interest in contemporary ceramics, an exhibition/sale is being held this weekend at the Devonshire Dome in Buxton, between 10.00am and 4.30pm.
Many of the country’s top potters are exhibiting, and are on hand to talk about their work to anyone who is interested.
The event goes by the name of Earthmarque (official [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About on Saturday April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s good news and bad news relating to upcoming events at the Bentley Brook Inn. Let’s get the bad news over first……there will be no beer festival this year as the brewery extension project is taking lots of time and effort at present. On a more positive note there will be a quiz night on Sunday 20th [...]
Posted in Events, Gardens, Out & About on Saturday April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
For the gardeners please note, there is a plant fair selling rare and unusual plants at Stables Hill, Chatsworth from 11am to 5pm on Sunday 20th April. Admission to the plant fair is free, but the normal parking charges apply. However don’t forget the plant fair next weekend at Culland Hall in aid of Mid Derbyshire [...]
Posted in Eating Out, Out & About on Sunday April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Dimmingsdale
Last week a friend asked if I had been to Dimmingsdale & I had to say I’d never heard of it. It’s situated between Oakamoor and Alton Towers in a delightful valley along the River Churnet. So for the purposes of research three of us set out this afternoon to investigate. The area is lovely [...]
Posted in Eating Out, Out & About on Saturday April 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For the benefit of all our readers (more than 10,000 now) we decided to try a new venue for tea today. It was an interesting experience at the Portrait Gallery Cafe at Harthill Hall. It is just off the B5056, before you turn right towards Bakewell & left to Youlgreave. The tea room is in a [...]
Posted in News, Out & About, Societies on Wednesday April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Our thanks to Denis Laycock for providing us with this post.
Parwich Over Sixties began their new season of visits with a mystery trip. 37 members set off at 6 o’clock with our driver, as usual, keeping very quiet as to our destination.
We soon found ourselves up on the A515 and heading towards Buxton. We were [...]
Posted in Church, Favourite posts, Out & About, Services on Tuesday April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
This morning Ben & I went over to Bradbourne to support Flo at the Haven Grange Club Coffee morning in the Church Hall. They raised £103.65. It was a nice little affair, with Flo manning the bric a brac and the cake table.
I asked Flo what the Club was all about. Apparently the Church [...]
Posted in Favourite posts, Out & About on Monday April 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I decided this afternoon that I ‘needed’, sorry wanted to up my intake of calories, so where to go? I headed off westwards & over the county boundary into Staffordshire & to the delights of Ilam. I did a brisk but short circular walk along the river near the church & cut back [...]
Posted in About this site, Out & About on Sunday April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
We have now added full bus timetable information to this site.
Click here to look up timetable information for daily journeys to Ashbourne and Derby, fortnightly journeys to Bakewell, and a variety of other local destinations.
For further bus timetable information, visit Traveline East Midlands.
To view detailed timetables for the county and a route map, go here.
For [...]
Posted in Eating Out, Favourite posts, Out & About, People on Sunday April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In danger of becoming Little Parwich in Ashbourne, at the Horns, the Jewitts provide familiar friendly faces for those of us visiting the big city. An old Ashbourne pub on Victoria Square (known locally as the Butchery), it is at the bottom of the market place, and has over the years been extended into neighbouring [...]
Posted in Favourite posts, Out & About on Friday April 4, 2008 | No Comments »
While researching bus routes for a forthcoming “Public Transport” section on this site, I made an interesting and useful discovery, which I thought was worth sharing with fellow pub-goers and reluctant drivers.
For anyone who enjoys a lunchtime pint (or three), and who fancies a change of scenery, but who doesn’t relish the thought of having [...]
Posted in Eating Out, Favourite posts, Out & About on Monday March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, I met friends for lunch in Byways Tearooms in Bakewell. Inspired by Jane B’s ‘Well and truly replete’ post, I thought I would report back on the experience. I have been before, otherwise Byways is easy to miss, off the main street in Water Lane, and then up what seems quite a steep stairway. [...]
Posted in Alsop, Church, Eating Out, Favourite posts, Out & About on Monday March 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Easter Monday, what shall I do today? Well checking the blog site gave me one idea, bearing in mind that I have a partner who is currently on crutches & can’t walk more than 200 metres. So I decided to go and start the process of testing out various eateries (purely I add [...]
Posted in Events, Out & About, Sport on Sunday March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Flagg Races is held at Flagg Moor on Easter Tuesday, the 25th of March. The first of seven point-to-point steeplechases gets underway at 1.00pm, beginning with the famous stone wall High Peak Hunt Members’ race. The final race runs at 4.40pm.
Flagg Races is unique as a point-to-point course, in that it is the only [...]
Posted in Arts, Favourite posts, News, Out & About, People on Sunday March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Parwich artist Lewis Noble is to spend a year working with Chatsworth, making a body of work in response to the estate. The project starts in May 2008, and will culminate in a major exhibition in London, in May 2009. The paintings will also preview at Chatsworth, probably in April 2009.
Lewis spent two months at [...]
Posted in History, Out & About on Saturday March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Looking for something to do this weekend, then you might be interested in this information sent to us by Rob Francis:
Leawood pump on the Cromford Canal will be in steam this Sunday and Monday - 23/24th March. Entry is free but donations are welcome.
This is a fantastic way of looking through into the power [...]
Posted in Gardens, Out & About, Societies on Friday March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I went across to Lea Gardens near Tansley to get the Horticultural Society’s two season tickets, and was surprised to see how many of the earlier azaleas and rhododendrons are already in flower.
Posted in News, Out & About, Roads, Transport on Friday January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
I went to Matlock on Tuesday and when I returned I saw that the speed limit had changed on the B5056, it is now down to 50 mph an hour. Remember this is the road that runs from Bentley Brook to the Hollybush, past Longcliffe.
