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Posted in Uncategorized on Friday June 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
This great, classic film starred Errol Flynn as the swash-buckling and daring hero, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian, and with Basil Rathbone. It won 3 Oscars including Best Film score for the marvellous music by Erich Korngold. With a budget of $2 million, it was the most expensive film made to date, and one of the first to use the Technicolor process.

Now newly re-mastered from the original print, the superb costumes and sets look stunning; not a film to be missed!

Certificate U

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Coffin Well – Tissington Well Dressings

Posted in Photography, Well dressing on Wednesday June 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Coffin Well work at the other end of the barn from Yew Tree Well. This year Diane has designed her well as Noah’s Ark. The pictures show a selection of animals, including otters, pandas, butterflies, tortoise, penguin and giraffe.

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Yew Tree Well photos

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Well Dressings, Tissington – Day 3

Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Well dressing on Wednesday June 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

We work in a barn, which is cold. This year we shared the venue with 18 piglets and two sows.

Some of the youngsters, James and Catherine Carr and school friend Jada.

I even brought family over from America to lend a hand: Judy from North Carolina.

Today is the final day and we concentrated on filling the sides with parsley and conifer and we were finished by lunchtime.

The design for our Well this year is St George and the Dragon and work continued on this portion of the board for the rest of the afternoon. (more…)

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Properties for sale or rent

Posted in Housing on Wednesday June 1, 2011| 1 Comment »

IMPORTANT: These details have been updated elsewhere. Please click here for our most recent property round-up.

Pikehall Lane, 3 bed bungalow, £595,000.
NEW: Bluebell Cottage, Creamery Lane, 3 bed detached, £425,000.
NEW: Spenedge, 2 bed detached, P.O.A. (01335-390773)
NEW: Rathbone Croft, 3-bed semi-detached, £220,000.
NEW: Pikehall grassland, 7.23 acres, £55,000 – £60,000. Auction 3pm, Monday 27th June 2011, Agricultural Business Centre, Bakewell.
Pikehall Farm, workshops/commercial units.

The list will be updated again next month. Until then, you will be able to find it on the INFO page, via the SITE MAP, and in the ELSEWHERE ON PARWICH.ORG section on the right hand side of this page.

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Update on proposed Wind Turbines

Posted in Environment, Farming, Planning, Sustainability on Wednesday June 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Robert Gosling posted this as a comment.

Many thanks to those of you who attended our display on 17th May, we were very pleased with the discussions and conversations on the night. Many of you have filled in questionnaires and returned them to us. These, along with the posts on the blog have given us a range of questions, comments and suggestions which we will respond to once we have got silaging out of the way. In the meantime please continue to return the questionnaires or leave comments and suggestions on the blog. We will post the results of these by the 17th June on Parwich.org

You can access a copy of this questionnaire, in Word format, by clicking here.

You can either print out a copy and deliver it to Robert Gosling at Hill Top Farm, Parwich (DE6 1QE), or you can save and edit the document, then email it to robert_gosling@btconnect.com.