Posted in About this site, Events on Saturday December 31, 2016| 1 Comment »
Posted in About this site, Church, Events on Saturday November 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
We will be updating the Parwich.org Diary page next weekend, so if you have any Alsop, Ballidon, Parwich or Pikehall events (December, January and February) that you want to go in the Diary in time to be included in the Peak Five Churches Magazine’s December/January issue, please send them in by next Sunday, Sunday 20th of November. Please note that this issue covers two months (December & January) so the issue after that will not be out until Fenruary 2017.
Including our Diary in the Church magazine is important as it helps you reach some of those who are not on-line.
Please send Diary information to parwich@hotmail.co.uk or ring me on tel. 287.
Thank you, Peter
Note, click here for
Posted in About this site on Thursday September 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
If you see something on the Blog why not Like it or share it through Social Media. Just click on the buttons now showing under each post – go on you know you want to!
Posted in About this site on Monday August 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A big thank you to a local holiday cottage owner who has donated £10 towards the running costs of the Blog. It was given to us with thanks for the guests that found their way to this cottage via the links on the Blog and for the useful information guests gain from our site.
Posted in About this site, Services on Wednesday July 20, 2016| 2 Comments »
Posted 11am. Thank you to Caroline G for alerting us to problems with BT Broadband this morning:
There’s a problem with BT across different counties today, in case anyone in Parwich is experiencing issues. Best, Caroline
See http://downdetector.co.uk/problems/bt-british-telecom
Comments suggest variable problems with varying difficulties of accessing some sites, accessing email or very slow speeds. Click here to report problems to BT online or phone 0800 111 4567.
Posted in About this site on Thursday July 7, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Wednesday 6th July 2016 is our busiest day ever here at parwich.org with the following number of page views:
This well exceeds the previous record of 8,221 page views on Thursday 2nd July 2015, Wakes Week last year.
Posted in About this site, People, Photography on Monday June 27, 2016| 1 Comment »
The Blog Team said thank you to JFS yesterday over a cream tea. JFS has been a photographic stalwart, recording nearly every Parwich event for our website. It has been a mammoth task which he has approached not only with quiet fortitude but also displaying considerable artistic skill . We hope that he will continue to bring his camera with him every time he comes to Parwich.
Thank you so much for the silver swallow, a beautiful piece of delicate work. It was suggested that an ear lobe would be the place to wear it. However it will be placed on my sun hat. I will treasure it. JFS
Posted in About this site, Parish Council on Tuesday June 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Parwich Parish Council
At last week’s meeting of Parwich Parish Council it was resolved that the Council’s Communications Policy should be amended to include the following two clauses:
Website
The Parish Council will follow recommended best practice in maintaining its own website which meets statutory requirements, integrates access to other local authority content and provides absolute clarity that the Council takes responsibility for its content.
Parwich Blog
The Parish Council values the Parwich Blog as an effective means of communicating with residents. Regular posts to the Blog will be used to provide effective links to content on the Parish Council Website but are not intended to duplicate it.
We hope that this clarification is helpful to residents and look forward to working with the Blog team to make both sites as useful as possible.
Andrew Martin
Clerk RFO. Parwich Parish Council
e-mail: clerk@parwichparishcouncil.org.uk
Posted in About this site on Friday December 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Posted in About this site, Gardens, Societies on Thursday November 12, 2015| 1 Comment »
The Blog Team would like to thank the Horticultural Society and another donor who wishes to remain anonymous for their kind donations. The Blog has been running since 2007 and until this year has been funded by the Blog Team members.
Parwich.org costs an average of £120 per year to run, with an additional £40 spent last year to provide prizes for competitions. Costs have increased over the years as more storage/memory space has had to be purchased. Other costs include the cost of the domain, the cost of a version of WordPress which we can customise and the cost of keeping the site free of adverts.
Thank you for your support,
Peter, Emma, Fiona, Lucy and Steve
Posted in About this site, Local government, Roads, Transport on Wednesday September 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Here is the summary of the poll results that we sent to Derbyshire County Council:
The community website parwich.org, as well as providing readers with a link to Derbyshire County Council’s online consultation on the idea of 20mph speed limits in residential areas, offered readers the opportunity to to participate in a poll on our own site, see
The following figures were recorded at 12am Wednesday 30th September 2015:
In response to the general idea of 20mph speed limits in residential areas, 54 people participated with 78% in favour of the idea of 20mph speed limits.
There was also clear support for the idea of specific 20mph limits in our local villages:
- Alsop en le Dale 77.5% (31 out of 40)
- Ballidon 72% (23 out of 32)
- Parwich 77% (33 out of 43)
- Pikehall 70% (23 out of 33)
These recent poll results are consistent with issues raised by our readers over a number of years concerned about traffic and road safety in Parwich and Alsop en le Dale villages.
Compiled by the parwich.org team Fiona H, Stephen J, Lucy M, Emma S and Peter T
CC
Parwich Parish Council
Alsop en le Dale Parish Council
Note: It is still possible for people to vote on the online polls, but, as the County Council’s consultation closes today, any votes after midday today will not be included in their analysis.
Posted in About this site, Alsop, Ballidon, Environment, Local government, Pikehall, Roads, Transport on Wednesday September 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Derbyshire County Council’s consultation on the idea of 20mph speed limits in some (as yet unspecified) residential areas in the County ends next Wednesday (30th September). Click here if you want to find out more about the consultation or participate on line.
The Council plan to enter into further consultation with any neighbourhoods if they consider introducing specific schemes. However this is something that has been raised a number of times in the past both with Parwich Parish Council and here at Parwich.org, so what do you think?
We encourage you to respond directly to DCC’s consultation, but we will also forward any comments added to this post and responses to the polls below to the Council next Wednesday.
Do you think 20mph speed limits are a good idea in some residential areas?
Do you think a 20mph speed limit would be a good idea in our local villages?
Posted in About this site, Wakes on Friday July 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday saw the previous record of the number of hits (‘page views’) on the Blog smashed after two years. Yesterday we recorded 8,221 hits, around 2,000 more than the previous record.
Wakes is always our busiest week, with particular interest in the photographs. Photographs from a new contributor, Andy G, have proved popular, with Rob Laycock leaving the following comment:
These are superb photos, even the one of me taking picture at the hall is one of the better shots taken of me!
It was posted on one of the photos in the ‘A New Perspective‘ of Wakes Saturday (comments left on individual photos don’t appear in the list of recent comments, but we are more than happy to highlight it here).
Thank you for all the support from the community. It is your contributions that make the Blog.
Posted in About this site, Church, Events on Sunday March 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We are updating the Diary page this week, so if you have any Alsop, Ballidon, Parwich or Pikehall events (for April and May) that you want to go in the Diary in time to be included in the Peak Five Churches Magazine’s April issue, please send them in by Tuesday evening (24th March).
Including our Diary in the Church magazine is important as it helps you reach some of those who are not on-line.
Please send Diary information to parwich@hotmail.co.uk or give it to me (Peter T) tel. 287.
Thank you, Peter
Posted in About this site, Church, Events on Thursday February 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We are updating the Diary page this week, so if you have any Alsop, Ballidon, Parwich or Pikehall events that you want to go in the Diary in time for the Peak Five Churches magazine’s March issue, please send them in by Sunday (22nd February).
Including our Diary in the Church magazine is important as it helps us reach some of those who are not on-line.
Please send Diary information to parwich@hotmail.co.uk or give it to me (Peter T) tel. 287.
Thank you, Peter
Posted in About this site, Arts, Parwich Heights on Friday January 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »
It has been well worth waiting for! The internationally acclaimed romantic novel, Parwich Heights, sees a new chapter. Alsop’s own Bridget Jones has completed Instalment 12.
With instalments from such local luminaries as I M Nobronte, Barbara Heartland and Lady AgaSaga, this gripping read is an iBook sensation. So look out for further chapters soon.
Posted in About this site, Church, Events on Monday January 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We are updating the Diary page this week, so if you have any Alsop, Ballidon, Parwich or Pikehall events that you want to go in the Diary in time for the Peak Five Churches magazine’s February issue, please send them in by Friday (23rd January).
Including our Diary in the Church magazine is important as it helps us reach some of those who are not on-line.
Please send Diary information to parwich@hotmail.co.uk or give it to me (Peter T) tel. 287.
Thank you, Peter
Posted in About this site, Environment, Parish Council on Sunday January 18, 2015| 1 Comment »
Our poll on the idea of of a public meeting relating to the future of the community owned land off Pump Hill (see https://parwich.org/2014/12/26/land-off-pump-hill/ ) so far has attracted 136 votes. This makes it the most responded to poll here at parwich.org. A clear majority of 78% are in favour of the option:
There should be a public meeting to discuss the options for the land off Pump Hill
These results will be passed on to Parwich Parish Council.
Posted in About this site, People on Thursday January 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Welcome to our newest Blog Team Member, Steve J, who officially signed on today as an ‘administrator’ of parwich.org. Steve started learning the WordPress software today, and with the various updates, he may have to be doing update training for the rest of us.
Also watch this space as we hope soon to have news on further expansion.
Fiona H, Lucy M, Emma S & Peter T
Posted in About this site on Wednesday December 24, 2014| 1 Comment »
Posted in About this site, Church, Events on Friday November 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
If there any events you want adding to the parwich.org Diary pages for December, January and February in time for them to also appear in the Church’s December/January Peak Five Group Magazine please let us know at parwich@hotmail.co.uk (or add a comment to this post) this weekend.
Please note next month’s Group Magazine is a double issue, covering January 2015 as well.
Posted in About this site, Church, Events on Friday November 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »
If there any events you want adding to the parwich.org Diary pages for December, January and February in time for them to also appear in the Church’s December/January Peak Five Group Magazine please let us know at parwich@hotmail.co.uk (or add a comment to this post) by Saturday 22nd November.
Please note next month’s Group Magazine is a double issue, covering January 2015 as well.
Posted in About this site, Church, Events on Friday August 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Please email any new events or event information for the Diary page here at parwich.org for September/October to parwich@hotmail.co.uk by Sunday 24th August if you want it to appear in the Parwich Diary that is published in the Peak Five’s Group Magazine. Including the Parwich Diary page in the Church Magazine means it reaches many of those who are not online.
Posted in About this site, Flora, Gardens, Photography on Wednesday August 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
We have had some fantastic photos sent into the Blog recently, including some from new contributors. Do keep sending in shots of local scenes and local life. Also don’t forget our area includes Alsop, Ballidon and Pikehall, so photos taken in these hamlets are very welcome. To get you saying ‘I can do better than that’ here are a few garden ones I took last night.
Posted in About this site, Events on Friday August 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Please email any new events or event information for the Diary page here at parwich.org for September/October to parwich@hotmail.co.uk by Sunday 24th August if you want it to appear in the Parwich Diary as it is published in the Peak Five’s Group Magazine. Including the Parwich Diary page in the Church Magazine means it reaches many of those who are not online.
Posted in About this site, Out & About, Sport on Tuesday August 5, 2014| 1 Comment »
After tonight’s Parwich Panoramic Five things usually go quiet on the Blog until the start of the School term and Annual Flower & Vegetable Show in early September, though this year we do have the Local Authority sponsored Family Games events. However if you have any suggestions or photographs of things to do or places to go in August do email them to parwich@hotmail.co.uk and we can share them on the Blog.
Here are a few photographs I have taken yesterday and today at Arbor Low, Robin Hood’s Stride and Hobhurst Cave in Deepdale. These are on my list of places to take visitors, so, as I now have visited them quite often, I am looking forward to getting ideas of new places to add to the list.
Peter T
Posted in About this site on Tuesday July 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »
This evening saw the number of page views here at parwich.org for this month (July 2014) exceed all previous months. So far there have been just under 50,000 page views, and there are still two days to go.
Posted in About this site, Gardens, Photography, Wakes on Saturday June 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Can you help take photographs for the Blog at tomorrow’s Open Garden, and any of the Wakes events? As we have lost one of our photographic contributors (Kevin S.) this would be much appreciated. Either speak to one of the Blog Team (Fiona H, Lucy M, Emma S or Peter T.) or email any shots to parwich@hotmail.co.uk.
Many thanks,
Blog Team
Note. We are always pleased to get photos of local scenes, events or people from our readers at any time.
Posted in About this site on Monday May 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »
When readers comment on posts here at parwich.org they go through the WordPress spam filter. Normally this is very efficient, but recently a number of genuine comments have been sent to the spam folder. This should not be a problem as we, the Blog Team, try to check the spam folder at least once a day, though it may mean the comment is slower than normal to appear on the Blog.
However, if you have made a comment which seems to have disappeared do email us at parwich@hotmail.co.uk to ensure we check for it.
Thank you,
The Blog Team
(Fiona H, Lucy M, Emma S and Peter T)
Posted in About this site, Environment, Local government, Services on Monday April 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Derbyshire Dales District Council have issued the following update about Easter rubbish and recycling collections:
Easter waste and recycling collection changes
Derbyshire Dales residents are being warned to expect changes to their usual waste and recycling collections over Easter.
The District Council’s contractor Serco will work as normal on Good Friday (18 April), but there will be no collections on Easter Monday (21 April).
It means collections that week will be one day later than usual and will include a Saturday collection on 26 April.
Looking further ahead, the same applies in the weeks beginning with Monday 5 May and Monday 26 May, both of which are also Bank Holidays.
The District Council is urging residents to use the online search at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/waste to see which containers to put out and download a collection calendar.
Local people can also sign up for a free e-newsletter at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/enewsreg to be kept informed of any changes to bin collections.
This means that our Grey bin and food caddy collection this week is on Wednesday as normal, but that next week’s recycling (Green bin, Blue bin and food caddy) collections are a day later on Thursday 26th April. Local collection days are shown on our Diary page here at parwich.org.
Posted in About this site, People on Monday February 3, 2014| 1 Comment »
The Blog Team would like to thank Mike and Kevin for all their work and support in the creation and development of our Blog site, parwich.org.
A changing Team
In 2007 there was a meeting to discuss ways of communicating the plans for developing a website to help communicate the progress of the planned new Memorial Hall. The possibilities of a traditional static website and a new fangled idea of a community blog were considered. Mike A was an experience blogger and he convinced everyone of the potential of a blog, though perhaps even he did not realise all the directions it could possibly take. At that meeting it was agree to set up two sites, a community blog and a more traditional static site for material that would not fit easily into a blog.
A very real advantage of blogging software is that it creates a site that can be administered by a group rather than requiring one person managing all up loading. Further it allows people to participate without extensive knowledge of HTML, the coding used in web design. Mike set about teaching a group of us how to use the blogging software. In early 2008 parwich.org was launched. (more…)
Posted in About this site on Friday January 31, 2014| 8 Comments »
“Posts of Note” is a brand new section on PARWICH.ORG, which catalogues some of our more noteworthy posts over the past six years. These might be of historical interest, or they might be reminders of particular village events. Some might contain useful information, others might contain particularly eye-catching photography, and others might simply raise a smile. Taken together, they hopefully form a kind of “potted history” of Parwich from 2008 to the present day.
Click here to view the full “Posts of Note” archive.
For future reference, you can find links to this section from the Site Map, from the “About us” page, and from the “Elsewhere on PARWICH.ORG” section on the right-hand sidebar.
And finally… “Posts of Note” is my final piece of work for PARWICH.ORG, and this is my final post as a member of the blog team. As we will be moving up to Knaresborough (North Yorkshire) in the near future, it is sadly time for me to bow out of blogging duties, after six very busy but extremely rewarding years.
Thanks are due to all my fellow blog team members, both past and present. You have all been wonderfully supportive, and a pleasure to work with. And to the continuing blog team, may I wish you all the best for the future.
– Mike Atkinson
Posted in 2013, About this site, Out & About, Posts of Note on Tuesday August 13, 2013| 2 Comments »
After the Panoramic Five, August is normally a quiet news month for us, so we are taking the opportunity to address some important questions that may have got missed, so let us know of any further vital issues that you want raising.
The last 18 months has seen record levels of page hits here at parwich.org, but we can not be complacent.
The above map shows where in the World people are looking at the Blog. It is heartening that we are no longer proscribed in China and we might be big in Vanuatu and the Northern Mariana Islands, however it is extremely worrying that no one in Greenland, Svalbard, Cuba, Haiti, Turkmenistan, Somalia, Madagascar, Mozambique and much of west and central Africa has visited parwich.org. (more…)
Posted in About this site, Events, Local government, Services, Sport on Friday July 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
We get a lot of information and press releases from the County and District Councils and the Peak Park Authority. Many are not of specific interest to our immediate area or are too general for parwich.org. However today there are few that may be of tangential interest to some of our readers, not enough to warrant separate posts, but perhaps worth a brief listing here:
Posted in 2013, About this site, British Legion, Church, Events, Films, Memorial hall, Music, Oddfellows, People, Pets of Parwich, Photography, Posts of Note, Pub, Societies, Sport, Wakes, Young people on Saturday July 6, 2013| 1 Comment »
What a fantastic Wakes Week. A big thank you to the Carnival & Recreation Committee, the Oddfellows, the Legion, the Sycamore and everyone who works so hard every year to make it such a success. (And the weather was OK too!)
With all the great photos and results that have been coming in, it can be hard to find all that has been posted at parwich.org, so here is a list of the 2013 posts (with links) in the order the events happened.
Also if you can fill any of the gaps in our reporting, please contact us via parwich@hotmail.co.uk.
Click here to see the full 2013 Programme
Oddfellows Parade, Service & Dinner
Carnival
Campsite ‘Songs of Praise’ (more…)
Posted in 2013, About this site, Posts of Note on Wednesday July 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday (2nd July 2013) was our busiest day so far here at parwich.org with a total of 6,438 page views. Wakes is always one of our busiest times, and this year is no exception, perhaps helped by the wet weather yesterday evening encouraging people to stay in on their computers. Thank you everyone for your support, but make sure you get out there and enjoy yourselves too.
Posted in About this site, Classified adverts, Services on Tuesday April 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
We are updating the directory of local businesses and services – https://parwich.org/village/directory/ – which can also be found using the INFO tab at the top of this page.
If you run an enterprise based in Parwich, Alsop, Ballidon or Pikehall and would like to be included in this list, contact parwich@hotmail.co.uk or any member of the Blog team. Please give a brief description of the business/service together with contact details. If you are aware of anyone not on this list but think they might wish to be included please pass on the message.
Posted in 2013, About this site, Posts of Note on Saturday March 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »
PARWICH.ORG reached its fifth birthday this month.
In that time, we have:
Happy Birthday, PARWICH.ORG!
Posted in 2013, About this site, News, Posts of Note on Tuesday January 1, 2013| 7 Comments »
At around 15:00 on January 1st 2013, PARWICH.ORG notched up its millionth page view. Here’s to the next million!
Posted in 2012, About this site, Posts of Note on Monday December 24, 2012| 3 Comments »
Based on our current readership stats, we are expecting PARWICH.ORG to welcome its one millionth visitor before the end of 2012. The most likely date looks like being Saturday December 29th.
Will YOU be our historic millionth visitor? To find out, keep a close eye on the stats box, which we are temporarily moving to the top of the right hand column.
Anyone sending us a screenshot showing us the magic number will win a lifetime’s free subscription to the blog!
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