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Classified ads on PARWICH.ORG

Posted in About this site, Classified adverts on Thursday April 10, 2008| 1 Comment »

Following some enquiries, we are going to launch a “classified adverts” service on this site.

If you live in Parwich, Alsop, Ballidon or Pikehall, and there is something which you’d like to sell (or buy, or swap, or even give away!), then please e-mail us at the usual address – parwich@hotmail.co.uk – and we’ll create a blog posting for you. We can also load up any accompanying photos.

Similarly, if there is a service which you’d like to provide for village residents, then please let us know. As well as letting people know via a blog posting, we can also add your details to our directory of local services.

All classifieds will be free of charge, but the service is open to village residents only.

To view all of our classified ads in one place, we are starting a new Category. You can click on it from the CATEGORIES section, on the right hand column of this page.

Your advert will be left up on the site until you ask us to remove it.

We hope that you will find this a useful service.

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April Fool’s post spoofs Church bigwigs…

Posted in 2008, About this site, Church, News, Posts of Note on Monday April 7, 2008| 4 Comments »

PARWICH.ORG notes with amusement – and no small measure of pride – that the Diocesan Office in Derby were well and truly spoofed by last week’s “Ring Tones for Parwich Church” post.

Having contacted the office to seek “fast track approval” for the project, our vicar was surprised to receive a totally genuine reply – complete with an application form for the new system, and a list of meeting dates at which the application could be considered.

“Is the direction in which they want rural churches to go?”, he wondered, as the prospect of “Crazy Frog” calling Parwich parishoners to prayer edged closer to reality.

This morning, a rather embarrassed second e-mail arrived from the same office, admitting their mistake. (“In their defence, they said that they hadn’t thought this kind of system was very typical of Parwich!”)

With the same story having been picked up by the Ashbourne Evening Telegraph, it all goes to show that a little light-hearted blogging can go a long way.

In which case, we appear to have a rather powerful tool at our disposal!

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Bus timetables

Posted in About this site, Out & About on Sunday April 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »

We have now added full bus timetable information to this site.

Click here to look up timetable information for daily journeys to Ashbourne and Derby, fortnightly journeys to Bakewell, and a variety of other local destinations.

For further bus timetable information, visit Traveline East Midlands.
To view detailed timetables for the county and a route map, go here.

For future reference, you can access the timetables through the USEFUL INFO link at the top of this page, or via the LINKS section on the right hand column.

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Website & Shop in Ashbourne Telegraph

Posted in About this site, News, Shop on Saturday April 5, 2008| 1 Comment »

Parwich is in the Ashbourne Telegraph twice this week.

Firstly, there is a comment on our two posts, about the new quarry and the new bells (1st April 2008).  PARWICH.ORG makes the news!

Secondly there is a longer feature on the new shop at the Sycamore.  Well done Janet and Steve.

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Do post your comments!

Posted in About this site on Sunday March 30, 2008| 5 Comments »

We are getting lots of positive feedback on the site both in emails to the team and face to face. This is great, but we would be even more chuffed if you put your comments in the comments section under the relevant post or on the relevant page. This is a community website, but it will reflect the community more if as many people as possible leave their thoughts and ideas on the site.

You won’t be coerced into joining the team if you leave a comment, though we would welcome anyone who want to get more involved. You don’t have to have your name published with the comment, you can always use a pseudonym.

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Website Team Grows

Posted in About this site, People on Friday March 28, 2008| 4 Comments »

Mike Atkinson, Jane Bennett and Peter Trewhitt (pheadair) are joined by four new bloggers: Christopher Harrison (the Vicar), Mike Hughes, Lewis Noble and Mandy Noble. Mike H has already mastered the Word Press software and the others will be trained shortly, though Lewis and Mandy already have experience of Word Press, so they may be giving the rest of us some pointers.

However we would welcome more people getting involved, especially anyone under twenty five.

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Parwich Film has new web pages

Posted in About this site, Films, Memorial hall, Societies on Thursday March 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »

There are new pages posted under the Directory of ‘Local groups and organisations‘ on this site.  Have your say about what films you would like to see in Parwich, or post your reviews of the films we have already see.

Click here for the Parwich Film pages

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Pikehall Page

Posted in About this site, Pikehall, Sport on Monday March 24, 2008| Leave a Comment »

It is our aim that this site will serve the same communities that the Memorial Hall was set up to serve, so we have been creating sections on the neighbouring hamlets. However it is necessary that people in those communities get involved. We now have a page for Pikehall, click here to see it. Do post any comments or suggestions for expanding it, and email to parwich@hotmail.co.uk any photos of the hamlet, the harness racing or the surrounding area that can be put on the page(s).

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Welcome to PARWICH.ORG!

Posted in 2008, About this site, Posts of Note on Sunday March 16, 2008| 3 Comments »

After several months of behind-the-scenes planning, we are delighted to announce that PARWICH.ORG is finally up and running, and open for business. If this is your first visit, then may we wish you a warm welcome.

On the front page of this site, you will find a lively and regularly updated village “blog”, which we hope will serve as a mixture between an online notice board, a newspaper and a discussion forum. Keep checking back here regularly, for a wide variety of news items, announcements, reports, reviews, photographs, opinion pieces, and occasional longer features.

Older articles can be easily found, by using the “Categories” and “Archives” sections on the right hand side of this page, or simply by clicking the “Older Posts” link at the bottom of the page.

At the end of each article, there is a space for you to leave comments. We hope that you will feel free to make the most of this feature.

Elsewhere on the site, you will find a calendar of upcoming events, and various other pages of information such as a directory of local businesses and services, a directory of local groups and organisations, and a village history.

In the next few days, we will be launching a sister site, which will contain a wealth of detailed information and reference material relating to the Parwich Memorial Hall.

Our hope is that PARWICH.ORG will become a useful and interesting “one-stop shop” for all news and information relating to the village, as well as its neighours in Alsop-en-le-Dale, Ballidon and Pikehall. This is very much your website, and so we welcome contributions from everyone. Please feel free to suggest news items for the blog, to contribute features, reviews or photographs, to publicise your event or your independent local business, or simply to leave your comments in the spaces provided.

The site is currently administrated by Mike Atkinson, Jane Bennett and Peter Trewhitt. To get in touch with us, please e-mail parwich@hotmail.co.uk.

For those without computer access, we can also provide printed copies of recent articles on request.

Finally, if you have a website of your own, then we would be grateful if you could help spread the word by linking to us.

Welcome to PARWICH.ORG!

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Alsop en le Dale page

Posted in About this site, Alsop on Wednesday December 19, 2007| Leave a Comment »

We are making a start on creating an Alsop en le Dale page.

To view it either go to the Directory or click here.

If you would like anything adding, changing or removing, then please get in touch – either by leaving a comment, or by contacting parwich@hotmail.co.uk

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“This Site Under Is Construction.”

Posted in About this site on Sunday December 9, 2007| Leave a Comment »

IMPORTANT NOTE: We’re still in the process of putting this site together, with a view to “going live” some time in the near future. In the meantime, what you see here is still very much in the experimental stage, as we work on our ideas for the finished site. So please bear with us, and watch out for an official announcement in the next few weeks.

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