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Archive for December, 2008
Merry Christmas from Peter T
Posted in Project Parwich on Saturday December 20, 2008| 1 Comment »
Merry Christmas from Graham and Amanda
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Parwich Advent Calendar – Day Twenty.
Posted in Advent Calendar on Saturday December 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
PARWICH.ORG apologises for posting today’s calendar entry a little later than usual. That’s because PARWICH.ORG is still nursing a bit of a sore head, brought on by immoderate imbibing at last night’s splendid A52s gig.
From now until Christmas Day, we’ll be doubling up the number of images on the the daily calendar. Click the door marked “20” to display today’s pair of frosty nature studies.
Meanwhile, our quest to unmask the man beneath the bowler hat continues. We’re already just over halfway towards raising our £40 target – but as we’ve still got at least one more Calendar Model waiting in the wings, time is of the essence!
Donations can be made online, or via the collecting tin on the bar of the Sycamore, or by contacting Mike Atkinson, Jane Bennett or Peter Trewhitt.
Tom and Camilla’s Journey to the Finals
Posted in Tom Chambers on Saturday December 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Sorry for the non-fans, but today is the last day. Here is Tom and Camilla’s appearance on last night’s It Takes Two:
The complete progamme is being repeated this afternoon on BBC2 at 3-30pm.
Strictly Sycamore
Posted in Pub, Tom Chambers on Saturday December 20, 2008| 1 Comment »
Everyone is welcome to come at watch the Strictly Come Dancing finals at the Sycamore this evening. As always there is the wide screen telly and lots of good cheer. The Pub is now redecorated and Janet’s new carpet is revealed!
Part one of the finals starts at 6-40pm and the final two couples dance again at 9pm.
The phone lines for the first part open at approximately 7-50pm and close at 9pm. Then they open again during the second part of the finals for the two dances last dances, but you will have to watch the Show to know when.
Then that is it for another year. (Well no, there is the champion of champion’s show on Christmas Day, which will include our very own … guess who!)
Not enough room at the Inn
Posted in A52s, Music, Pub on Saturday December 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The A52s packed the pub last night with their Christmas gig, with people clustering round the doorways unable to get into the bar. An excellent evening; hopefully there will be lots more. Thank you to John FS for these two photos:
Strictly Finals
Posted in Tom Chambers on Saturday December 20, 2008| 5 Comments »
This evening the Strictly Come Dancing finals starts at 6-40pm, with all couples dancing a Ball Room and a Latin dance. Voting on the first part starts around 7-50pm, with lines closing at 9pm in the second part of the programme. The couple with the lowest score will be knocked out.
The remaining two couples will then dance a Viennese Waltz and their Show Dance. The lines will re-open during the Show, with the winner being decided only on the ensuing phone votes
All three couples chose the same Ball Room dance, the Foxtrot. Tom and Camilla are looking forward to dancing the Foxtrot, which is their highest scoring dance so far, and have chosen the Salsa for their Latin dance in the first part of the Finals.
With last semi-finals’ scoring controversy, last week’s scores will be carried forward to the first part of tonight’s Show meaning Tom will start in either joint second or bottom, so it will be essential that Tom not only finds favour with the judges but also does well on the public vote.
Tom is the current bookies’ favourite to win, and may be helped by Rachel’s ‘back injury’ in training. There were a lot of column yards given over to last week’s voting fiasco. Let’s hope there is no repeat of last week’s judges scores, or we could have the same problems all over again.
Here is the round up of Tom’s week in the press, with increased broadsheeet participation, but not including much on the voting controversy as we do not have sufficient time or space: (more…)
Gate theft from Parwich
Posted in Police on Friday December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
During the evening of Wednesday 10th December 2008 someone stole a farm gate from a field entrance on the edge of Parwich. The gate had been fitted so it could not be simply lifted off its hinges like many. The thieves would have needed a hammer or tools and abit of time to remove it and then take it away.
As you leave Parwich towards Ballidon, you get to the sharp right hand bend/triangle, with a lane off to the left. If you turn left, towards Pikehall, the gate was the first on the left.
If anyone saw any persons or vehicles in suspicious circumstances, at that location, on that evening (in particular between 8.30 – 9.45 pm), can they please contact me on 0345 123 33 33.
Can people be aware that agricultural type thefts seem to be on the increase. If they see anything that is suspicious in any way please ring us at the time.
Please note the new number 0345, instead of 0845. I’m told its even cheaper to contact us now.
Thanks Ian COOPER PC 1525
School Newsletter 16
Posted in School on Friday December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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The A52s Christmas message
Posted in A52s, Events on Friday December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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The A52s will be at the Sycamore Inn this evening from 9pm.
Christmas Crime Prevention
Posted in Police on Friday December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The Police remind everyone that Christmas is not a good time to forget your normal security measures:
As the festive season rapidly approaches, the criminal opportunists in our communities will be preparing to take advantage of the fact that we are all busy getting ready for the celebrations, so we should be extra security conscious.
In one in three burglaries, the thief doesn’t have to force entry to gain access to a home, as residents leave windows or doors open when they are out or in another part of the house. Prevention need not cost money, simply closing and locking doors is sufficient to prevent these unwanted incidents occurring.
A frosty walk.
Posted in Photography on Friday December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Cheryl for sending in these three frosty photos, taken on a recent walk.
Parwich Advent Calendar – Day Nineteen.
Posted in Advent Calendar on Friday December 19, 2008| 5 Comments »
Click the door marked “19” to display today’s snowy window.
And once you’ve done that, there’s a new EXCITING MYSTERY WINDOW to reveal. Just who IS Parwich’s answer to Nigella, and where DID she get those beautiful…
…well, click the door to find out!
Thanks to all who donated. And we’re not done yet…
As time is tight, we’re ploughing straight on with our next Parwich Calendar Boy (and his mystery admirer). To find out who’s lurking beneath that bowler, we need to raise another £40. Please donate online, or via the collecting tin in the pub, or via a member of the blog team.
A Toast to the Future
Posted in Memorial hall, Pub on Friday December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Santa at the Legion on Sunday
Posted in British Legion, Young people on Friday December 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Can you help? Gas Bottles.
Posted in Classified adverts on Thursday December 18, 2008| 4 Comments »
We need to buy some tall gas bottles (47kg), where do we go to order them? Is it normal for delivery to be charged?
Thank you – Ben & Jane
Let the Peak Park Authority know your views
Posted in Peak Park on Thursday December 18, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Irene Ratcliffe, PDNPA Deputy Chair & Derbyshire County Councilor, and Jim Dixon, PDNPA Chief Executive, are to visit Parwich on the afternoon Tuesday 13th January.
On the day they will visit various local facilities and meet members of the community. Anyone from Parwich interested in meeting these senior leaders of the Peak District National Park Authority during these events can contact John Fern, head of communications, on 01629 816356 or email john.fern@peakdistrict.gov.uk.
The Authority also wants the neighbouring hamlets to be included, so interested parties from Alsop, Ballidon and Pikehall should also get in touch.
The event is a chance for Irene and Jim to meet with residents, business owners and parish councillors in the village to discuss any issues that affect village life.
They will also discuss the work of the Peak District National Park Authority in the area to find out what is working well and areas where improvements could be made.
We will provide more details as they become available.
Parwich Advent Calendar – Day Eighteen.
Posted in Advent Calendar on Thursday December 18, 2008| 1 Comment »
Please click the door marked “18” to reveal today’s window.
And once you’ve done that…
We’re nearly halfway towards reaching our £40 target for the fourth of our EXCITING MYSTERY WINDOWS – so with luck there will be time for one or two more Parwich Calendar Models, before our Advent Calendar reaches its conclusion.
To reveal Parwich’s answer to Nigella Lawson, please make a donation online, or via the tin at the Sycamore, or via one of our blog team.
To see all of our regular calendar windows to date, please click here.
Christmas Film on Saturday
Posted in Films on Thursday December 18, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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Emergency Vehicles Getting Lost in Parwich village
Posted in First Responders, Roads, Services on Wednesday December 17, 2008| 4 Comments »
As you are probably aware many of us have the names of our houses as addresses, and rarely use the street name (if it exists). A village map is in the process of being produced, and it is hoped that when this is sited in the village it will help visitors find their way around. This process is well underway and we look forward to its completion.
However in the interim there have been difficulties for emergency vehicles trying to find addresses in the village. Recently we had a fire engine and the senior fire officer up here at Gibbons Bank by mistake looking for Monsdale Lane.
Today the emergency ambulance needed help finding a house which had made a 999 call. The emergency services have asked for our help – especially with the festive season coming up.
As a temporary solution permission has been given to site a copy of the First Responders village map on a board on the roadside near to the south entrance to the village, next to the drive to Stephen Dale’s yard. We hope this will meet with the village’s approval.
However if anyone is unhappy about this, or has any alternative better solutions to the problem, we are more than happy to reconsider. Do please ring us on 390 529 or add comments to this blog entry.
Here’s to a healthy trouble-free Christmas (or is that an oxymoron?)
Season’s Greetings from Jean and Martin Compton, on behalf of Parwich First Responders
All Roads Lead To The Sycamore!
Posted in A52s, Events, Music, Pub on Wednesday December 17, 2008| 1 Comment »
If you’re looking for a cracking way to celebrate the run into Christmas week, come on down to The Sycamore on Friday 19th December where The A52s (Parwich’s foremost rock-folk combo) will try very hard to entertain you.
Once the band have finished driving their limos into the duckpond, they will play a selection of Christmas-themed tunes (plus the usual all-year-round stuff). The brawl gig begins at 9.00pm.
Admission free. Earplugs cost a fiver. Each.
The A52s during their Robinson's bitter experimentation phase.
NFU Centenary
Posted in Farming on Wednesday December 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
This year sees the centenary of the National Farmers Union. The actual date for the founding of the NFU was 10th December 1908.
Peter Kendall NFU President
will speak on issues currently being faced by farmers
7-30pm Tuesday 23rd December
at the Bluebell Inn, Tissington
Do let us know if any other events are happening locally.
Revisit Tom & Camilla’s dances
Posted in 2008, Posts of Note, Tom Chambers on Wednesday December 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Tom and Camilla after some fourteen competition dances have made it to the finals. To see any or all of their dances again click on the relevant photos below:
Week 1 ChaCha
A Seasonal Stunner
Posted in News on Wednesday December 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
It’s Wednesday again and the latest issue of the Ashbourne News Telegraph is out. Because of the paper’s printing deadlines and the BLF decision to announce the Memorial Hall grant today, on a day when the most important piece of news for Alsop, Ballidon, Parwich and Pikehall breaks, there are almost no items in today’s paper that relate to our immediate area:
- p. 21 NUF Centenary to be marked locally by a visit from the national President (7-30pm Tuesday 23rd Dec at the Bluebell Inn Tissington).
- p. 60 A page spread on Tom & Camilla getting through to the Strictly Come Dancing Final (Click here to see the article).
- p.62 Cavendish Dominoes current league table positions: the Legion in third place and the Sycamore in tenth.
Here are some other items of more general interest: (more…)
Jo-anne’s Book – Special Price for Locals
Posted in People on Wednesday December 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Following last week’s successful book launch, Jo-anne would like to offer local residents her new book, “The Beautiful Truth: Make-up Made Easy”, at the special rate of £10.
This offer is only available to locals and to take advantage of it, please contact Jo-anne at the Horns (347387), at Hope Croft, or by email (info@joannejewett.com).
Parwich Advent Calendar – Day Seventeen.
Posted in Advent Calendar on Wednesday December 17, 2008| 5 Comments »
To reveal our EXCITING MYSTERY PARWICH CALENDAR GIRL – who will be giving our readers a very special cookery demonstration – please donate online, or via the collecting tin in the pub, or via members of the blog team. Once again, our target is £40…
BLF Grant Announced
Posted in 2008, Memorial hall, Posts of Note on Wednesday December 17, 2008| 12 Comments »
Just a few minutes!
Posted in First Responders on Wednesday December 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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Tom & Camilla interviewed
Posted in Tom Chambers on Tuesday December 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here is Tom & Camilla’s interview on this evening’s It Takes Two
(Non-Strictly fans please be patient, there are only five days to go before it is all over.)
Carols on the Green
Posted in Events on Tuesday December 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Lighting Up the Green
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BLF decision tomorrow
Posted in Memorial hall on Tuesday December 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
We shall find out tomorrow if we are one step nearer realising a new Memorial Hall for Alsop, Ballidon, Parwich and Pikehall. Might this become a reality:
Strictly’s Finals Scoring
Posted in Tom Chambers on Tuesday December 16, 2008| 3 Comments »
This Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing final will be in two parts:
- At the start of the show, before any dancing takes place, all three couples will have their scores carried over from last week. This includes not only last week’s judges’ scores (in which Tom and Camilla placed last), but also the results of last week’s public phone votes (which will be revealed on the night).
- After the first set of dances, the judges’ new votes, plus the new set of public phone votes, will be added to last week’s scores. The lowest scoring couple will be eliminated.
- At the start of Part Two, later in the evening, the remaining two couples will dance again, with the winner decided solely by a new public phone vote.
This means that Tom and Camilla will start the first part of the show with a potentially major disadvantage – so the phone votes are all-important. No matter how well or how badly Tom and Camilla do on the judges’ scores on Saturday, they will still need the public’s support.
For the Strictly geeks amongst you, the planned voting system announced yesterday does not exclude the possibility of last week’s fiasco happening again… (more…)
Parwich praised at Village Conference
Posted in 2008, Events, Peak Park, Posts of Note on Tuesday December 16, 2008| 1 Comment »
Last Friday Adele Metcalfe and Dan Yates (the Peak District National Park Authority’s Community Planning Officers) organised an inspirational Peak District National Park Villages Conference. The day was intended to share ideas and experiences between villages. Parwich Village Action Group sent along a member of our Environment Sub-Group who was struck by how much Parwich has achieved and the opportunities that are open to us.
This day also served to highlight how much the Village Action Group and Parwich have benefited from the support of the Community Planning Officers, who are currently funded by European money due to end in March. At present further funding has not been identified, but the following report of the Conference illustrates how the Authority can not let this essential part of their work be lost – Peter Trewhitt (Village Action Group Chair):
Keynote speaker, Matthew Parris, Times correspondent and political journalist, fired off the opening salvo at a recent Peak District National Park Villages Conference by disagreeing with the quotation. In his own inimitable style he challenged us to consider the importance of local, regional and national government in facilitating the changes that communities at the grass root level need and require. It is neither a top down nor a bottom up process. It is by interweaving the will of people and communities to control their environment and lives with the appropriate mechanism that effects positive change. (more…)
Making a Christmas cake
Posted in Pre-school, Young people on Tuesday December 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Thank you to Stepping Stones (Parwich Pre-School) for sending us these two photographs of them making a Christmas cake:
They certainly seem to be enjoying themselves.
Parwich Advent Calendar – Day Sixteen.
Posted in Advent Calendar on Tuesday December 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Today’s regular Advent Calendar window is a little bit different from the others. Please click the window marked “16” for an EXCLUSIVE MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE!
And now, let us usher the second of our blushing Parwich Calendar Girls into the EXCITING MYSTERY WINDOW spot.
Whose finger is this? And what tasty festive treats is she concealing? There’s only one way to find out… by raising £40 in donations to the Memorial Hall Fund.
If you’d like to make a donation, then there are three available options:
- You can donate via PayPal.
- You can hand your donation to Mike Atkinson, Jane Bennett, Mike Hughes or Peter Trewhitt in person.
- You can place your donation in the collecting tin which we’ve placed on the bar of The Sycamore.
Please give generously! No donation is too small (or too big)!
New Farm Shop at Alstonefield
Posted in Eating Out, News, Services on Tuesday December 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
A new farm shop has opened at The George in Alstonefield. The shop is behind the pub, accessed through the car park.
The farm shop specialises in organic, seasonal and local produce including: vegetables from a local market gardener, organic beef and lamb from Lower Hurst Farm, fresh milk butter and cheese from Peak District Dairy. In addition, chefs from the pub’s kitchen prepare freshly baked bread, cakes and savouries. The philosophy behind the shop is to only use suppliers who share a passion for really good food.
Opening times are Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 12pm-4pm (closed Mondays). For more details contact The George on 01335 310205.
The Christmas Tree on the Green
Posted in Photography on Monday December 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s Christmas Fayre
Posted in Events, Pre-school on Monday December 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Santa put in an appearance at yesterday’s Stepping Stones Christmas Fayre in the Memorial Hall. However if you missed him or just can’t wait til the night of the 24th, he will be back before then at the Legion on Sunday 21st.
Parwich Advent Calendar – Day Fifteen.
Posted in Advent Calendar on Monday December 15, 2008| 5 Comments »
Please click the door marked “15” to reveal today’s window.
Alternatively, you can click here to reveal all of our windows opened to date.
Once again, the time has come for us to reveal the contents of our EXCITING MYSTERY WINDOW. Ladies, get those smelling salts ready!
To catch a glimpse of one of our finest specimens of Parwich manhood, bravely enduring INTENSE PHYSICAL DISCOMFORT in the name of High Art, please click on the door above.
Needless to say, there will be a brand new Mystery Window tomorrow. Oh yes, we’re on quite a roll now…
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