Posted in Gardens, People, Project Parwich on Tuesday May 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you go down to the woods today you will see - gnomes - and lots of them.
Jane Harris’ garden has long been a source of attraction for gnomophiles. It has a reputation far and wide as Derbyshire’s Premier Collection of Garden Gnomes. They come in all shapes and sizes, and are known to [...]
Posted in Events, Memorial hall, People, Photography, Project Parwich on Thursday May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Not content with setting up The Horns and looking after her family, Jo-anne Jewett has been busy writing a book to help “empower” normal women by dispelling the myths about make-up and teaching them how to achieve a professional look themselves. The book, which is due to be launched at Bennetts in Ashbourne in July, [...]
Posted in Housing, People, Planning, Services, Transport on Thursday May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thank you to Peter Trewhitt for providing this interview with Simon Spencer, Councillor for the Dovedale and Parwich Ward of Derbyshire Dales District Council
Simon Spencer should be well placed to understand our local issues. His family have lived and worked in the area for sometime, the family firm, Spencer’s Bakery of Ashbourne, having been founded in [...]
Posted in Gardens, People, Societies on Wednesday May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Thank you to Di Turnbull for sending in this post.
What a great time we had planting up the border outside the hard play area.
Cloe, Courtney, Josh and Dan helped to put down the stone around the access paths and seating area a few months ago and were keen to help with the design and planting [...]
Posted in People, Societies, Sport on Tuesday May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Thank you to Val & Glynis for sending in this post.
This weekend it was Parwich’s turn to host the annual tour match vs Cromer Tennis Club. (On alternative years Parwich visit Cromer) The weekend started with a friendly get-together in the Sycamore on Friday evening to catch up on the news and events of the past [...]
Posted in People on Tuesday May 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We have just received this post from Anthony Dillion, can you help him?
Hi, I’m trying to find information regarding my grandfathers family.. His name was Vernon Whyatt-Hadfield and his step father was a Isaac Hadfield born in Parwich in 1868 or there abouts to a William Hadfield, William’s mother was Maude. I would love to [...]
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 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 Carolyn's Corner, News, People on Thursday May 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The latest update on Carolyn…..
Carolyn is still make good progress and her therapists are “very pleased” with her overall progress; however there is still no news on how long it will be before Carolyn can come home.
On a more positive note, Carolyn’s been out and about again - this time to the Westfield shopping centre [...]
Posted in Events, People, Well dressing on Thursday May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Over the last 4 days I have given you clues and even partial pictures, so can you now identify the well dressing that I helped to create?
Can you also spot this well dressing, created by the children. What is this a picture of (and I don’t mean the finger on the left handside)?
Remember [...]
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 People on Monday April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to Tom’s dad Stuart for alerting us to these great photos of the lad in action, as part of The Great Walk To Beijing 2008.
1. Tom on the Great Wall of China.
2. By the remains of a tower on the Great Wall, with Gordon Chan, Adam Sutton, Cliff Richard, Allison Cratchley and Murry Bingham.
3. [...]
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 People, Transport on Sunday April 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I could do with a bit of advice…
Back in March I was issued with a parking ticket; since I thought the ticket was completely unfair I immediately appealed against it, only to find out yesterday that my appeal was turned down and I must, “pay the full amount of £80 within 7 days” or be [...]
Posted in Arts, Events, People on Sunday April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Derbyshire Open Arts is a visual arts and crafts event across the county. This free event invites you to visit artists and craftspeople in their show spaces and workplaces over Spring Bank holiday weekend.
Our next event will take place during Spring Bank holiday weekend, 24th, 25th and 26th May.
One of the venues for this event [...]
Posted in About this site, People on Friday April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here I am with news for Parwich, and could not find my way around Parwich.org to write a comment, is it done by email I wondered. I was looking for ‘post a blog here’ type button!
Anyway, here I am in Central France, on the edge of the Limousin and the Aquitaine, doing a little shopping [...]
Posted in People on Thursday April 24, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Thank you to Stuart for forwarding the following information, sorry we did not get it posted on Wednesday when it was sent in, we are not normally this slow:
Tom flies out with Cliff Richard tonight (Wednesday) to join the Great Walk to Beijing and we should be able to follow his progress via the website www.greatwalktobeijing.com [...]
Posted in People on Thursday April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
We hope you are having a good birthday, and are sorry you have to spend it at St. Oswald’s Hospital. Get well soon.
Best wishes from all your friends in Parwich.
Posted in Carolyn's Corner, News, People on Wednesday April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A further update on Carolyn…..
Carolyn has been in the rehab ward for over a week and the treatment she has received there has made a noticeable difference. She is making good and regular steps forward and Howard reports daily progress. In fact, Carolyn has really impressed the physiotherapist as she was able to stand for [...]
Posted in Events, People on Wednesday April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
The funeral of Annie Steeples of Smithy Close, Parwich, will take place at St. Peter’s church on Thursday 24th April at 11.45 am in St. Peter’s church.
Annie grew up in Camberwell, London, before meeting her husband Frank during the Second World War. Frank had grown up in Parwich and brought her back there, apparently telling [...]
Posted in Favourite posts, People, Societies, Sport on Tuesday April 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
(Thanks to Graham for supplying this post.)
The Grand opening of the superb hard play area on Sunday morning was followed by an equally auspicious event in the afternoon - “The Chairman & Presidents day” organized by the Parwich Tennis Club.
Flushed with success playing for the football team in the opening round robin competition in the [...]
Posted in News, People on Monday April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Congratulations to Matthew and Gill.
Hopefully the sleepless nights will not last too long.
Isobel Lucy Elizabeth Harrison
was born at 3am on Monday 14th April in Derby City Hospital. She weighed 8lb 12oz (3.98kg) and came home for the first time last Wednesday.
Posted in Favourite posts, Gardens, People, Photography on Monday April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We would like to thank Dorothy for all the hard work she has put into creating a woodland garden on the Parish Council land in front of Parwich Hall.
The Parish Council were bold enough to go for this land in the centre of the village when it came up for auction a couple of years [...]
Posted in People, School on Sunday April 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As a community we take great pleasure in welcoming Mrs Caroline Rodgers to our delightful village school of Parwich. We hope that she will thoroughly enjoy being here and we look forward to developing closer community ties with the school.
Posted in Events, Favourite posts, People, Societies, Sport on Sunday April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Parwich sport has never had it so good, as dozens of fans crowded together supporting this impressive occasion. The ground was hard & the conditions were cold but we witnessed drama, mental resilience & the breathless physical fitness of so many.
We may not have had the hordes of celebrities who were present last night [...]
Posted in Carolyn's Corner, News, People on Monday April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thank you to Emma for sending this in.
A quick update on Carolyn…..
Carolyn is no longer on any medication and has been moved to a Rehab Ward (Ward 1), where she is best placed to receive the treatment she needs to recover.
Howard is reporting steady, daily, progress and improvements and he was most insistent that I [...]
Posted in Church, News, People on Sunday April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Thursday 24th April
10am at Dam Farm
As you will have read in an earlier blog Ambrose Wilton has left a generous sum of money to the Church and it was agreed that this should be put towards some kneelers in Church. Helen is hosting the initial meeting at her house, Dam Farm (near the Pond) [...]
Posted in Carolyn's Corner, News, People on Wednesday April 9, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Here are some ways in which we can help Carolyn while she is in hospital.
1. Photographs.
We are planning to take photos of familiar people and places into hospital for Carolyn. This is partly to help her keep in touch, and also so that she can let all the numerous new people (nurses, therapists, etc) [...]
Posted in Carolyn's Corner, News, People on Tuesday April 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Many thanks to Emma Spence (Pond Cottage) for supplying us with this post.
A huge amount of support and genuine concern has been expressed by people from all over the village relating to Carolyn. Most know by now that Carolyn suffered from a stroke last Wednesday and is currently recovering in the Derby Royal Infirmary.
With [...]
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, People on Sunday March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I was ’surfing the net’ looking at relevant links for the Parwich Film section, got sidetracked and came across a film director called Pete Parwich (not Big Pete and not Posh Pete, but Pete Parwich). The site for Nordic Film Days Lübeck in northern Germany (http://www.luebeck.de/filmtage/99/program/filme/120.
html) says the following about him:
After studying in Vienna [...]
Posted in About this site, People on Friday March 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Mike Atkinson, Jane Bennett and Peter Trewhitt (pheadair) are joined by four new bloggers: Christopher Harrison (the Vicar), Mike Hughes, Lewis Noble and Mandy Noble. Mike H has already mastered the Word Press software and the others will be trained shortly, though Lewis and Mandy already have experience of Word Press, so they may [...]
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 Favourite posts, News, People, Photography, Services, Shop on Saturday March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here are some photographs from the grand opening of the new village shop, inside the Sycamore. Our local TV celebrity Tom Chambers was on hand to congratulate Janet, as were a whole crowd of well-wishers.
Inside the shop, you’ll find all the essentials, including fresh fruit and vegetables, free range Parwich eggs, tea, coffee, cereals, fresh [...]
Posted in News, People, School on Friday March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The new head, Caroline Rodgers, is due to start at Parwich Primary School after the Easter holidays. She is currently deputy head at Swanick Primary School and has also had several acting-headships. She is keen to build on the existing good relations with the community as a whole, and we want to take this opportunity [...]
Posted in Local Links, People, Services on Saturday December 22, 2007 | No Comments »
A new page giving contact details for the local authorities and our local representatives has been posted
To go to the page look under the Directory tab above or click here
