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Hi there!

I just want to say how much I like your site!

I have no links with Parwich now, which makes me feel very sad, but after viewing your site I have a warm glow and stimulated memories.

My father’s was Frank Gibbs, brother of Leonard, Harold,Jessie,Audrey and Kenneth, son of Charles and Norah who lived on Lenscliffe. If any of your viewers have any information or photographs about any of them I would be very, very grateful. Also if anyone has any information of a Christina McMicking, who I never knew but have a piece of writing which she wrote about my father when he became Mayor of Glossop in 1960, I would love to be able to contact her or members of her family.

Parwich is held in soft spot in my heart and will always remain so. The fun I had at Wakes week as a child and even more fun as a teenager!

Keep up the good work!

Carole Bennett (nee Gibbs)

PS. It was great to watch the video of the wakes week walk, I was impressed by the number of young people there, all members of the Oddfellows Society.

Thank you to Carole for sending in this post, if you have any information that you would like us to pass on to her, either add it as a comment or send it to parwich@hotmail.com and we will forward it onto her.

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Parliament has published details of all MPs’ allowances from 2004/05 to 2007/08, which can now be seen on-line (click here for more details), though with various degrees of ‘redaction‘ or censoring.  Our MP, Patrick McLoughlin, has escaped the worst of the press onslaughts with just limited controversy about repairs to his Derbyshire home (his nominated second home). Click here to access the documentation relating to his allowances.

The items he regularly claimed for relate to mortgage payments, council tax, cleaning, insurance and food.  There are also various claims for one off redecoration and other work on the house. Unfortunately the level of parliamentary censorship means it is not possible to identify what all the invoices relate to.  The largest single invoice, for £12,630, dated 24 Jan 2007, is so heavily blanked out that only Mr Mcloughlin’s name, the amount and the date are shown.  Presumably this is the replacement windows, previously referred to in the press.

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A big thank you to everyone who sponsored us for the Moonwalk.

We raised an incredible £2024.80!

When we first filled in our application forms we estimated raising £200 each; later Colin persuaded us to have a joint target of £1000 which we thought was quite high-so the final sum exceeded all our expectations.

So many people sponsored us and their support and good wishes were fantastic.

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This is the time of year, mid May when honey bees are prone to swarm, when they leave their colony in search of a new abode taking with them the vital Queen bee. Last week a swarm of bees alighted in the cherry tree outside the telephone exchange next to The Old Post Office. Fortunately I was able to collect this swarm and take it to my apiary where it is now housed in a new hive.

If anyone in Parwich or the surrounding area becomes aware of a swarm of bees, do contact me on 390433 as soon as possible and I will be delighted to attempt to recover them and find a home for them. With the decline in the bee population due to colony collapse (no one knows the reasons for this, but some say it is due to herbicides) any attempt to promote the bee population should be welcomed as bees are a vital means of pollinating crops. I will be glad to play my small part in this. Mike Radcliffe, Flaxdale House, Parwich.

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Welcome to Vinnie and Amy who are moving into Rathbone Croft.  We all hope you feel at home in Parwich.

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All our best wishes to Sandra & Rebecca who are doing the Moonwalk tomorrow.  They set off at midnight, Saturday night, from Hyde Park walking 26 miles in decorated bras, (plus a few more clothes).  They are doing it for a fabulous cause, Breast Cancer, we all wish them well.

You can still sponsor them, either online at http://www.justgiving.com/rebeccajordan5 or using the sponsorship form in the pub.  See below for the actual bras being modelled.

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Congratulation to Jonathan Chadfield who completed the London Marathon on Sunday in 4 hours 18 minutes.  He was raising money for the Isle of Man Hospice.  He said to his Mum,

The last few miles, I’ve never known pain like it.

Of course his Mum, Sandra, is doing the Moonwalking Marathon for Breast Cancer in May.

Julie Goodwin, whose parents Margaret & Roy live in the village, also ran the London Marathon, finishing in 3 hours 46 minutes. Julie was raising funds for bowel cancer and Fair Play Special Needs Youth Club.

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For those of you who missed it, there was a really good article on Jo-anne and her book (The Beautiful Truth) in last Saturday’s Derbyshire Evening Telegraph.  Jill Gallone, who wrote the article,  said:

It’s been put together beautifully and simply. As well as showing you, step-by-step, how to apply make-up correctly, it tells you the basics you need to buy and explains the colours to suit your hair, eye and skin tones.
I followed the advice, was astonished to learn about some of the daft mistakes I’d been making for 20-odd years, then looked into the mirror to discover a new me.

To read the full article, click here.

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