Posted in Music, Out & About on Tuesday October 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Hi, I’ve been asked many times by people in the village to let them know when the band are playing in Ashbourne again, so I’m trying to let as many people know as I can, and I thought the Parwich website would be as good a place as any.
Many Thanks-Colin Keyworth
Posted in Sport on Tuesday October 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Pilates
The next course of 7 Pilates lessons runs from Wednesday November 4th until December 16th inclusive at school. The cost is £5.50 per session, paid in advance, on the 4th for the full course ie: £38.50. There are still a few spaces we need to fill to make the lessons viable, one in the 6-7pm class and several in the 7.15-8.15pm class. It is really hard to find a teacher who is prepared to travel here, so please support this village activity.
Thanks Rebecca 318
Posted in Housing on Tuesday October 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
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The list will be updated again next month. Until then, you will be able to find it on the INFO page, and in the ELSEWHERE ON PARWICH.ORG section on the right hand side of this page.
Posted in Events, Societies on Monday October 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Sport, Young people on Monday October 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Junior Tennis Tournaments are to be held this Saturday 24th October 2009:
Could anyone with a cup/trophy please bring it to Parson’s Croft on Saturday or hand it over to me before then.
All juniors welcome.
Thank you, Nia
Posted in Weather on Sunday October 18, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Last weeks readings:
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Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb am |
Pressure in Mb pm |
Temperature in ºC |
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Max |
Min |
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Sun 11th |
0 |
1010.2 |
1012.2 |
15.4 |
10.0 |
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Mon 12th |
0 |
1020.6 |
1026.2 |
15.6 |
3.9 |
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Tue 13th |
0 |
1025.4 |
1024.4 |
15.9 |
1.4 |
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Wed 14th |
0 |
1023.1 |
1023.6 |
14.4 |
8.8 |
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Thu 15th |
1 |
1024.0 |
1023.0 |
14.4 |
9.7 |
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Fri 16th |
0 |
1026.3 |
1027.8 |
14.1 |
9.3 |
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Sat 17th |
0 |
1026.8 |
1024.4 |
12.2 |
4.8 |
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Total |
1 |
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Average |
14.6 |
6.8 |
Some great sunrises and sunsets.
Posted in Events on Sunday October 18, 2009| Leave a Comment »
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What’s on Where this Week |
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| Date | Time | Event | Location |
| Sunday | 8pm | Harvest Service & Produce Sale | Parwich Legion |
| Monday | 7pm | Memorial Hall Committee Meeting | Sycamore Inn |
| Tueday | 8.45am-9am | Shared reading session Parents are invited to join their children every Tuesday |
Parwich School |
| Friday | 9am | End of Term Assembly Everyone Welcome |
Parwich School |
| Friday | 7.45pm | Film Night | Parwich Church |
| Saturday | 9am-10.45am | Saturday Morning Rubbish Collection | Parwich |
| Saturday | 8pm | Race Night | Parwich Legion |
Posted in Classified adverts, Pets of Parwich on Sunday October 18, 2009| 3 Comments »
One of our guinea pigs has recently died of old age leaving her 2 year old companion Millie. We do not want to get rid of her; but equally do not want her to be on her own. We are reluctant to get another young guinea pig friend for her; as we are nearing the end of our guinea pig years and if we keep replacing one, can’t quite see how it will end! Does anyone also have a guinea pig in need of companionship who would like Millie? She is used to over wintering in a frost free greenhouse (in her hutch) and going out, weather permitting, in a run on the grass in the day. Both hutch and run could go with her to a good home. Rebecca 318
Posted in 2009, Memorial hall, People, Posts of Note on Saturday October 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Two years ago we had a lovely party in the Hall to celebrate our daughter’s 40th birthday. (Balloons by Christine and David Goldstraw.) Cheers John F-S.
Posted in Photography on Saturday October 17, 2009| 5 Comments »
Thanks to Mike G
Posted in British Legion, Music on Saturday October 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in School on Friday October 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Memorial hall, Photo Diary on Friday October 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The main excavation work has finished and Wildgoose are presently digging out the footings ready for concreting next week. Thank goodness for the good weather this week.
The Marshalls are doing a beautiful job of walling the new substation.
Posted in History, Out & About on Friday October 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Wednesday’s History Society trip to Wirksworth provided a fascinating afternoon. The Wirksworth Heritage Centre laid on a tour round the town, followed by time spent in the Hertiage Centre.
Parwich and Alsop have had strong links to Wirksworth since at least the reign of King Canute, when our area was part of a large royal estate managed from the town. The Heritage Centre is open free of charge for the next two Wednesdays (21st & 28th October) after which it is closed for the winter. (more…)
Posted in British Legion on Friday October 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
8pm Sunday
18th October
Harvest Thanksgiving & Sale of Produce
at Parwich British Legion Club
Please leave any produce at the Legion beforehand or bring it along with you on the evening.
Everyone Welcome
Posted in 2009, Memorial hall, Posts of Note on Friday October 16, 2009| 2 Comments »
Thank you Sandra for emailing these memories of the building of the old Memorial Hall:
Following on from my recent comment here are some of my memories of the Memorial Hall.
It was great how everyone worked together to raise funds. We children were involved in concerts which took place in the old Institute (a tin shed!). These concerts were put together by Evelyn and Elsie, two village ladies who put a lot of time and effort into them. It was great fun taking part in these shows for adults and children alike.
I also recall walking past the site on my way to school and seeing the builders Tyler and Coates a local building firm from Ashbourne who had been given the job of building this exciting new hall for us with joy of joys!! ……. Inside Toilets!
We were very fortunate to have Sir John Crompton-Inglefield living at Parwich Hall at the time and he very generously matched our fund raising pound for pound so the village only had to raise half the amount needed. That is not to say it was an easy task, it seemed an awful lot of money in those days. So I can understand why people are sad to see the old hall go, myself included. We have very happy memories of the good times we had there: our wedding reception, birthdays, pantomimes, dances to name but a few.
Hopefully the next generations of villagers and children will have as much fun as we did, in a facility which has been built to today’s standards and which will provide a warm and safe environment for all their activities. The word warm certainly strikes a chord with me, as one who has stood many hours at events over the years in that bloomin freezing kitchen!!
Finally I do sincerely hope that when the new Memorial Hall has been built and has been re-dedicated to the fallen (as it will be), that people will feel as proud of it as we did all those years ago and if not then at least acknowledge that it has been another remarkable achievement for a small village.
Sandra
The minute books of the Memorial Hall management committee go back to before the start of the building work and the early entries make fascinating reading. The old Memorial Hall was built at a cost of £6,000 by the Ashbourne firm Tyler & Coates. The village raised half this sum and Sir John Crompton-Inglefield provided the rest. (more…)
Posted in 2009, Opinion, Posts of Note on Thursday October 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Thank you Patti for the following:
Whilst I was writing the post ‘In celebration of a village wedding’ to thank the lovely people whose help towards the wedding was so greatly appreciated, it made me reflect on how lucky we all are to live in our wonderful village and I would like to share my own, very personal thoughts with readers of our village blog.
Our village is worthy of all those and other complimentary comments that visitors often make. Nature has provided us with a beautiful backdrop but it does take people and the community to provide the heart and the soul of the village. Parwich is the way it is today because over the generations scores of people have given their time and money to contribute to the general welfare of the community at various times.
We have had formal groups such as The Parish Council, the Parochial Church Council, The Village Action Group, Memorial Hall Committee and the Wakes Committee who work on behalf of the entire community and smaller groups and individuals who contribute to things they are interested in such as Historical, Horticultural, Women’s Institute, Mothers Unions, Scouts, Brownies, Guides, football clubs, and theatrical groups just to illustrate a few.
We have had groups whose campaigns have resulted in buildings and structures that we can all use such as public housing, hospitals, care centres, bowling greens, and sports pavilions and memorials halls. Not all of these groups or buildings are still here today but in their time served a purpose relevant to the community at that time.
A village is a living community that only survives by responding to its changing needs. However without the selfless, generous contributions that we all make, however small and unsung, we would not have this picture book village that makes such an enviable backdrop for our children’s weddings.
Patti Beasley
Posted in About this site on Wednesday October 14, 2009| 3 Comments »
Just before 5:30 pm this afternoon, PARWICH.ORG received its 250,000th page view – which isn’t bad going, considering that we only launched the site 19 months ago.
Stats buffs might like to know that in that time, we’ve published 2,203 blog posts and we’ve received almost the same number of comments: 2,158 in total. (There have also been over 14,000 spam comments, which are automatically removed by our blogging software – why do these people bother?) We’ve also uploaded a frankly astonishing 4,245 images onto the site – and if you only knew what a tedious process it was to upload each image, you’d be even more astonished!
We’re currently averaging about 470 page views a day, and our busiest day was July 1st 2009, when we received a whopping 1,772 page views as a result of Wakes Week. Our most viewed page on the site, by some considerable distance, is the first Photos page, while our most viewed blog post – bizarrrely enough, but that’s Google for you! – is “Easter Cards & Scrapbooking with the WI“. And finally, our most clicked outbound link is the Paypal donation page, followed by the Ashbourne News Telegraph.
We hope you’ve enjoyed the ride so far. It can be a bumpy ride from time to time – and it has certainly been a learning process for all of us – but those of us who work on the blog team remain committed to reflecting as many aspects of village life as we are able to squeeze onto one website. Thanks for reading, and thanks to all who have contributed so far. We’ll do another trumpet-blowing, self-congratulatory post when we reach the half million!
Posted in Films on Wednesday October 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in British Legion on Wednesday October 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in History on Wednesday October 14, 2009| 1 Comment »
Posted in News on Wednesday October 14, 2009| 2 Comments »
Available online or in the Sycamore, the Stunner has the following items of local news:
p.29 – New starters at Parwich Primary School – our village school has two new arrivals this term as shown in the picture below (courtesy of the ANT):
p.52 – Darts – Parwich Legion 4: Shire Horse 5. D Gosling scored 3 registers and B Shaw scored an 83 finish for Parwich Legion.
p.54 – Ashbourne Aztecs U 16s 3: Mickleover U 16s 1 – “…when the central midfield trio of Sadler, Mann and Drummond got warmed up, Aztecs dominated the game…”
Posted in Photography on Wednesday October 14, 2009| 1 Comment »
In response to Jean’s recent comment, here is the requested photo:
Hi Jean, this is Red about 9 months ago, he’s grown (again!) and filled out a little since then. It’s not me riding him but Rachel Lander who does a brilliant job helping me work the young horses.
Alice
Posted in 2009, People, Posts of Note on Wednesday October 14, 2009| 1 Comment »
Hasn’t it been a wonderful autumn for weddings, and today the Blog was sent the following:
“What a beautiful village!” “I thought villages like this existed only in novels”, “What a wonderful church – it’s so well looked after”. “How lucky you are to live here.” “Isn’t everyone so friendly?” “What an idyllic setting for a wedding.”
These were just some of the comments that our guests (from all over the world) made when they came to Cassie and Dan’s wedding. They are right, it is a wonderful church and village but it takes many (unseen) hands to make a happy occasion such as this.
Even Christopher Harrison found the most beautiful apposite poem about a wedding surrounded by green fields, called ‘Epithalamium’ by Francis Warner, to use in his address at the wedding.
So with the help of the blog may we say thank you to our particular unsung heroes, who worked so hard to help make the church beautiful for Cassie and Dan’s wedding. We make no apology for some very flagrant advertising for some of our local craftsmen and women who deserve our support. (more…)
Posted in Ornithology on Wednesday October 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Memorial hall, Photo Diary on Tuesday October 13, 2009| 4 Comments »
What’s happening to the materials from the demolished hall, that is the question that some people have been asking.
Wildgoose the building contractors have a strong policy on sustainability and responsible building practices, with the recycling of building materials being a cornerstone (excuse the pun) of their business. If anyone saw the demolition or watched Martin’s great video on the Blog they will have seen the care taken over the demolition, separation and removal of all the old materials off the site. The recycling is then carried out by Transcycle who are specialists in this field. (more…)
Posted in 2009, Photography, Posts of Note on Tuesday October 13, 2009| 1 Comment »
The number of aeroplanes over Parwich has gone up dramatically over the last ten years or so, but fortunately they are generally too high to be over intrusive. Also occasionally, as in these photos taken by Mike G this morning, they create a great skyscape.
Posted in Classified adverts on Tuesday October 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Rayburn Supreme (multi fuel) cooker in good order, can be seen working – offers considered
Stihl petrol strimmer FS65AV in good working order – £110
Contact Terry on tel 01335 390 360
Posted in Ornithology, Photography on Tuesday October 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Church, Events, Societies on Monday October 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Back by popular demand is the annual Christmas Tree Festival. This year it is being held over the weekend of the 12th & 13th December to help raise funds for the Church restoration. There is no doubt that the presence of all these decorated trees really creates a magical atmosphere all over the Christmas period.
So, the festival is happening. What is needed now are different groups to volunteer to dress a tree. So far 4 out of 12 trees have been taken, so the others are up for grabs. It could be a society, a street or just a group of friends that want to get together to do this. Do let Andrew R (202) know if you would like to join in. There is no theme so you can choose your own and be as imaginative as you wish.
Posted in British Legion, Music on Monday October 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday October 12, 2009| 4 Comments »
My huge thanks to Wildgoose and all their delivery people for their kindness and consideration for my young horse. He’s recently had an operation and for his rehabilitation programme he has to be hacked out on hard surfaces in walk- for a horse who has just spent 3 months on box rest recovering, this is quite difficult! Wildgoose and co have been very considerate in stopping their machinery and vehicles when he gets frightened, so thank you. And of course a big thanks to all Parwichians who’ve been slowing down for him, your patience when passing in cars and on foot with dogs (very scary!) is greatly appreciated!
Alice Beasley and Red.
Posted in Classified adverts on Monday October 12, 2009| 4 Comments »
Posted in History, Out & About on Monday October 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Heritage Centre advise that car parking is best found behind the Wheatsheaf pub (free), accessed from Wood Street, or in the car park by Millwards filling station on Harrison Drive (pay and display).
Posted in Photography on Sunday October 11, 2009| 1 Comment »
After the drizzly gloom of late Sunday morning, it was very uplifting to have some autumn sunshine in the afternoon – the warm breeze blew the cobwebs away very effectively. Here are some pictures taken on a walk from the village to Parwich Lees. The low sunlight made the most of our undulating landscape. A week or so and the trees will be properly turning. Hope we get some sunshine then too!
Posted in Events, Music on Sunday October 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Intoxicating…virtuoso fiddle playing – The Times
“Fiery, passionate & intriguingly beautiful – BBC
Zum is a blend of violin,cello & accordion; playing ‘Nuevo Tango’ masterpieces from the golden era of tango, alongside traditional gypsy melodies as well as music written by violinist Adam Summerhays. All members of the group are well known classic musicians; with Adam (from Carsington) playing and directing the London Concertante, one of the UK’s busiest chamber orchestras.
Tickets at £12.50 can be purchased from Ashbourne Tourist Information and Natural Choice or online
Posted in Church on Sunday October 11, 2009| 1 Comment »
Today we were able to enjoy a super harvest service held at St Peter’s with the Methodist Church and led by Andrew. It was lovely to see the church so beautifully decorated. The flowers from Cassie & Dan’s wedding formed the backdrop for the array of donated fruits and vegetables, with additional flowers complementing the harvest theme – thanks to all those who spent yesterday decorating and organising the church for today.
The service was followed by a short break, whilst lunch was organised, providing an opportunity to catch up on news from around the parish. Enormous thanks must go to Val for her generosity in providing the chicken casserole lunch and to those that baked the delicious cakes. The annual auction followed, with Denis in control encouraging all to raise their bids.
Approximately £130 was taken during the collection, this will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee who are providing support for the three recent disasters in East Asia. The £310 raised from the lunch and auction will go to the Mothers Union East African appeal in Kenya.
Posted in Weather on Sunday October 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Last weeks readings:
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Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb am |
Pressure in Mb pm |
Temperature in ºC |
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Max |
Min |
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Sun 4th |
2 |
1008.5 |
1010.4 |
14.9 |
6.8 |
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Mon 5th |
0 |
1012.5 |
1008.0 |
13.6 |
2.5 |
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Tue 6th |
26 |
1003.4 |
999.0 |
17.4 |
6.1 |
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Wed 7th |
2 |
1006.2 |
1011.3 |
12.3 |
4.7 |
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Thu 8th |
0 |
1012.6 |
1016.4 |
14.5 |
1.5 |
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Fri 9th |
3 |
1017.2 |
1010.8 |
12.1 |
4.0 |
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Sat 10th |
1 |
1007.8 |
1011.7 |
16.2 |
9.2 |
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Total |
34 |
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Average |
14.4 |
5.0 |
The nights have been cooler with the first frosts. However, the weather looks GOOD for next week with the Jet Stream going north of U. K and pressure remaining high. There may be a rogue shower, or may be not.
Posted in 2009, Memorial hall, Photo Diary, Posts of Note on Saturday October 10, 2009| 3 Comments »
Thank you to Martin C and to Rob (Wildgoose) for this video – something to add to the history of Parwich.
Posted in Events, People on Saturday October 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Brian Rich is well known to many in the history society and always presents an excellent lecture. This talk is sponsored by Keele University. Ben (665) is going if anyone needs a lift.
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