| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Day | Time | Event | Location |
| Sunday | 11.00am | Mattins | Parwich Church |
| Tuesday | 2pm | Shrovetide Football | Ashbourne |
| Wednesday | 2pm | Shrovetide Football | Ashbourne |
| Wednesday | 2pm | Pilates for the Over 60s | Memorial Hall |
| Wed 9th | Pilates followed by Pilates for the Youth Cancelled |
Memorial Hall | |
| Thursday | 12.30-2pm | Lent Lunch | Church Farm Rachel R’s house |
| Saturday | 9pm | St Patrick’s Day Karaoke | The Sycamore |
| Sunday | 9.30am | Holy Communion | Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
| Sundat | 2.30pm | Methodist Service | Parwich Church |
Archive for March, 2011
What’s on Where this Week – 6th March
Posted in Events on Sunday March 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Nia completes the High Peak Marathon
Posted in 2011, People, Posts of Note on Saturday March 5, 2011| 6 Comments »
Nia has today successfully completed the notorious High Peak Marathon (or Derwent Watershed as it’s also known) – a 42 mile overnight endurance test over the toughest terrain that the Peak District has to offer (this is actually 16 miles further than a marathon!!). After setting off at 10pm last night (Friday) the team of four (The Go-Go Girls!!!) completed the course just before 2pm today – a mere 15 1/2 hours without stopping. An amazing achievement in itself, the girls were running for a friend’s 7-year old daughter who has had part of both arms and legs amputated after catching meningitis last October. They aim to buy her quality artificial limbs.
Thank you to those in the pub last night who generously gave money. However, it is still not too late to make a donation – please drop your money off at Honeysuckle Cottage door or drop off in the Legion.
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Parwich Portrait Photography Exhibition
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note on Friday March 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Many thanks to the talented folk who have made submissions to the first Parwich Portrait Photography Exhibition. We have some wonderful pictures to share with you. It’s interesting to see just how many types of portrait photo there are…as we think you’ll see by the time you get to the end of the post 🙂 So here goes. Click on any image to enlarge it…
First up, we have some cracking portraits sent in by Debbie W:
Ally
Click on ‘Continue Reading’ to view the rest of the exhibition…
School newsletter 21
Posted in School on Friday March 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This week’s newsletter contains a new section (“Parwich Goes Potter”), written by one of the children; a budding journalist, as we are sure you will agree! As always, please click the newsletter to enlarge.
Saturday Rubbish Collection for 2011-2012
Posted in Alsop, Ballidon, Services on Friday March 4, 2011| 1 Comment »
This service has now been withdrawn. For more details click here.
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Saturday Morning Bulk Rubbish Collection 2011-2012 |
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| Date | Time | Location | Village |
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2011 2012 |
9 – 9.20am 9.25 – 9.45am 9.50 – 10.10am 10.15 – 10.45am |
Sycamore Cottages Village Green By old shop, village top Croft Avenue |
Parwich |
| 2011 April 9th July 2nd August 13th 2012 |
10.30 – 10.45am | By the houses | Ballidon |
| 2011 June 18th August 6th 2012 |
7.45am – 8.30am8.40 – 9.15am | Outside Alsop Church Opposite No 1 Alsop Moor Cottages |
Alsop & Eaton |
Tomorrow is Bulk Rubbish Day
Posted in Services on Friday March 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is the bulk rubbish collection; the dustcart picks up at various points in the village. Remember if you leave rubbish to be removed, you must be in attendance when the wagon comes and load your rubbish, yourself. Don’t lose it, use it – even if you only have a small amount to get rid of.
Sycamore Cottages 0900 – 0920
Village Green 0925 – 0945
By old shop, village top 0950 – 1010
Croft Avenue 1015 – 1045
Next collection date is Saturday 21st May
High Peak Marathon – Good Luck Nia & Co.
Posted in People on Thursday March 3, 2011| 4 Comments »
We have just had this email in from Nia. She and three others have been training extremely hard for this High Peak Marathon over the last 4 months. We hope you have a successful night and we will raise our glasses to you that evening and hope that with your effort and our support, money can be raised to help this little girl.
Basically 4 of us, all middle-aged women are setting off at 10pm on Friday night and will be covering 42 miles over some of the bleakest ground in Derbyshire; otherwise known as the Derwent Watershed. We cover the peat bogs of Howden Moor and Bleaklow and Mam Tor. We aim to finish around 2pm on Saturday and then sleep for the rest of the weekend. We are doing it to raise money for a friend’s 7-year old daughter who has had part of both arms and legs amputated after catching meningitis last October. We want to buy her quality artificial limbs.
If you would like to sponsor/donate please drop your money off at Honeysuckle Cottage door or drop off in the Legion. There will also be a tin for donations on Friday night in the Pub.
Thank you so much. Nia
Everyday First Aid
Posted in 2011, Health Care, Posts of Note, Services on Thursday March 3, 2011| 4 Comments »
FREE FIRST AID SESSIONS FROM THE BRITISH RED CROSS
The aim of everyday first aid is to provide people with the skills and confidence to act in a first aid emergency, thereby increasing the resilience of local communities and reducing “the bystander effect”.
The Red Cross knows that everyone can learn a few simple skills that could help someone if things suddenly went wrong. It doesn’t matter how young or old, or how able the person thinks they are, everyone can learn to do something to help an ill or injured person.
Everyday first aid differs from more traditional first aid training. The sessions are a maximum of two hours and focus on first aid skills which are easy to learn and remember; and which respond to a local need – so that in just a couple of hours, learners can become life-savers. We try to work alongside other organisations and tailor our first aid training sessions to your specific needs in an inclusive and flexible way.
The topics covered in a first aid session vary, depending on the needs of your group, but can range from: calling the emergency services; caring for an unconscious casualty who is breathing; caring for a casualty who is not breathing; choking; blood loss; seizures, burns and scalds etc. A typical session lasts around one to two hours, and can be delivered to groups ranging in size from about 8 to 20 people
Participants receive an easy to follow “workbook” which consists of first aid cards with a photograph of the injury or medical emergency on one side and the main key skill we want the person to deliver on the other. Each pack also contains a “Certificate of first aid learning” which each person can fill out with their name, as well as a place to tick each individual skill they’ve learnt during that session.
Sessions are free of charge; although if groups wish to make a donation to support the work of the Red Cross, that is most welcome.
This first aid programme is an exciting way to learn first aid. It offers the participants the opportunity to learn skills according to their ability and learning style. Everyone can learn something and be rewarded for it.
For more information, please contact: Deborah Webster, CBFA Coordinator
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire & Cheshire
Tel: (01629) 593335 Mob: 07912080894 email: dwebster@redcross.org.uk
Lent Lunches start next week
Posted in Church, Events on Thursday March 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Evening Pilates Classes Cancelled
Posted in Pilates on Thursday March 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Please note that the 6.30pm and 7.30pm classes will not take place on Wednesday 9th March.
The over 60s class will run as normal in the afternoon.
Just perfect
Posted in Photography on Wednesday March 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Fine detail inside this graceful flower – Thanks JF-S
Brr, what a winter!
Posted in 2011, Posts of Note, Weather on Tuesday March 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Now that we have reached the month of March, with spring time hopefully just around the corner, let’s take a look back at the last six months of Parwich weather, based on the daily maximum and minimum temperatures supplied by our “weatherman on the hill”.
With the “great freeze” of December 2010 still fresh in our memories, it scarcely seems possible to imagine a warm, sunny day in Parwich – and as our figures show, we haven’t enjoyed a temperature of over 20 degrees since Thursday September 9th. However, a warm spell in early November gave us an unexpected high of 16.4 degrees on Thursday November 4th – after which, it was downhill all the way.
Just nine days later, on Saturday November 13th, the maximum temperature in Parwich reached double figures for the last time in 2010 – and it didn’t rise to double figures again until Thursday January 13th, exactly two months later.
Although our first sub-zero temperature was recorded overnight on Monday October 25th, the first “great freeze” didn’t start in earnest until Wednesday November 24th. This marked the first of a whopping sixteen consecutive sub-zero nights, lasting until Thursday December 9th. During that time, the temperature dipped below minus 10 degrees on four nights, reaching its coldest – a positively Arctic minus 12.2 degrees – on Monday December 6th. Other villagers reported tempertaures as low as minus 15.5 degrees on the same morning – while out by Tissington Ford, one driver from the village recorded a gobsmacking minus 22 degrees.
Parwich’s second major cold spell struck on Friday December 17th, just in time for Christmas. This time round, the sub-zero nights lasted eleven days, ending on Monday December 27th. And for the five day period between December 17th and Monday December 21st, the maximum temperature in the village never once rose above zero.
During January and February, things started to improve – despite a further cold spell at the end of January, and a somewhat chilly mid-February. We had five days of double-figure mildness from Friday February 4th to Tuesday February 8th, our last sub-zero temperature was recorded in the early morning of Tuesday February 8th, and last Thursday’s 13.4 degree maximum gave us our warmest day since early November.
For the stats-lovers amongst you, here are some charts, which illustrate the last six months of maximum and minimum temperatures: from September 1st to February 26th.
Single bed available
Posted in Classified adverts on Tuesday March 1, 2011| 1 Comment »
We have recently bought a double bed and will shortly have a single bed (pine, with a mattress in quite good condition) available. The bed is free to a good home – we’ll need to get the other one first, so it may be a few weeks before it is ready.
If you are interested, please email Debbie Webster at: DebbieWebster@btinternet.com
Sweet dreams!
Winning artist goes underwater to paint seahorses
Posted in 2011, Arts, Esther Underwater, People, Posts of Note on Tuesday March 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Note from the blog team: Starting from today, Parwich artist Esther Tyson will be posting regular diary-style updates on her new creative project: to immortalise the seahorses of Dorset in art. In this first post, Esther gives us some personal background on the project, before explaining her forthcoming activities in more detail. Esther, it’s over to you…
1. The past.
We had been paddling along the gullies, sand squishing through our toes, small fish tickling our legs. I remember the excitement as the sand came alive and a flat fish darted from our feet. We sped up the shore to dry and get warm, then away again to searching the tide line, full of anticipation.
A stick, with a dragon head?
Once home, we rushed upstairs, knowing exactly where Dad’s Observer book of the sea shore stood and thumbed through every page until there it was – we had found our very own pipefish! It was moved out to the shed pretty quickly. Mum disposed of it when we weren’t looking; apparently it smelled bad!
Our following trip to Tridely left a stronger impression. We had been treading the gullies as usual, but the next moment was filled with fear. The ground fell away, and I was scrambling at the edge of the sand bank with nothing but clouded water beneath me. Clutching handfuls of bank, I couldn’t get out. My little sister came running; she grabbed my arm and pulled me out…
In 2005, I spent three months on an island in the Seychelles, working alongside scientists studying the indigenous magpie robin. Surrounded by the Indian Ocean and beautiful clear water, how could I not explore the reef? I decided there that I would attempt to get over this fear of deep water… maybe take swimming lessons back home.
In 2008, the Dorset Wildlife Trust announced they would be offering a diving bursary to explore UK waters. How exciting – for someone else! Or maybe it would focus my attention to break this water thing…?
Five swimming lessons on a “back to basics” course, six months and my confidence grew. Three years on, I decide to apply for the diving bursary…
2. The Project – A Personal Sense of Place: Studland, Dorset.
The aim is to produce a body of work inspired by the rare and unique seagrass meadow habitat and the weird and wonderful creatures that make it home (predominantly the two species of seahorse). With hope, this body of work will help increase awareness of the importance of this habitat.
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