Not so much reported for our area in this week’s Ashbourne News Telegraph (13th August). But the following might be of interest:
- p.1 Construction work is to start this month on the new £20 million Ashbourne Hospital
- p.2 Brief mention of the Memorial Hall proposals. They had been looking at doing a feature on the Peak Park Planners’ recommendation, but given the uncertainty about what they are recommending it was not clear what the paper could write.
- p.4 Comment on the continuing concern about the plans to close Hartington Cheese Factory.
- p.8 Two page feature on the Manifold Show.
- p.23 It is good to see Debbie W back in the paper reporting on the Volunteer Centre and in particular on their photography competition. Entries need to be in by 15th September.
- p.27-30 A pull out advertising feature on the Ashbourne Show taking place this Saturday.
- p.31 Congratulations to Mrs Price of Alsop Moor for raising £600 at her recent coffee morning in aid of Cancer & Leukemia in Childhood.
- p.54 Derbyshire Dales District Council is calling for nominations for this year’s Annual Sports Awards. Nominees can be put forward for any reason whether they contribute to sport locally as a performer, coach or organiser. Awards are being made in 14 categories and nominations need to be in by Friday 22nd August; forms are available from the District Council website.
- p.56 Results of the Summer Football League and of Ashbourne Flying Club in the races from Hallavington (207 birds) and from Windrush (196 birds).
As always let us know if I have missed any local mentions.
PARWICH.ORG 
Who is Air Head P anyway? Oops, did I write that backwards?
It is good to see intellectual curiosity is not dead (or at least not completely dead). ‘Pheadair’ uses Gælic orthography and would be pronounced /fitә/ in English or either /Φidәr/ or /ΦidәӨ/ in Gælic. (Note that in spoken Gælic and R.P., the accent of Standard Southern British, the consonants ‘d’ and ‘t’ are articulated differently.) ‘Pheadair’ is the vocative case of ‘Peadair’, pronounced /pitә/, /pidәr/ or /pidәӨ/. I used the vocative case because someone had already taken the nominative case as a user name. Initial mutation, somewhat misleadingly called ‘aspiration’, is a feature of both p- and q- type Celtic languages (i.e. Gælic and Welsh). In standard British orthography it would be spelt ‘Peter’.
You did ask!
However we would like to point out to ‘Just me’ that we only accept comments on condition that a valid email address is supplied. The email address supplied by ‘Just me’ is not functional. In future any comments without a valid address will be deleted automatically.
A demonstration sometimes works better. Open posting never works well for very long, which was my point!
I could have been much more dramatic than using Air head (although the response seems to justify the name twisting)
Its a big wide world out there and not all of them as nice as me. Open posting leaves your site WIDE open for abuse and not just with words.
My point made and I think probably taken notice of, so I will disappear back into the web.
Get the feeling Id get stoned to death if I actually put my real name to this.
“Just me”, I think (although I’m not 100% certain) that you’re the first person to have left a comment under a fake e-mail address since the site launched in late March. So, 866 comments down the line, we’re not doing too badly – at least so far. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Anyhow, point taken and procedures clarified accordingly. (Which means that strictly speaking, we should delete your second comment above – but we’ll let it pass, just this once!)
Oh how I love this blog! Not only is it informative and entertaining, but it sometimes has the ability to restore your faith in old fashoined values of justice and fairness.
I was beside myself with indignity (sp?) when I read the first rude comment left for someone who puts in an inordinate amount of time and thought into such a positive contribution.
But then I have taken my lead from Pheadair.
So, John Smith – who is “mute js” anyway?
Graham, I am glad to see someone got the joke. I was beinging to think the five minutes spent brushing up on phonetics and Gaelic had been a waste of time. I am certainly enough of an air head not to remember without revision things last looked at nearly thirty years ago.
Though it is disappointing that Just me now indicates he was not motivated by intellectual curiosity. What is the World coming to? The youngsters today!
Graham, do you have the right gender? He could be Ms. Jute.