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Baby Moorhen on the Jubilee Pond
Posted in Ornithology, Photography on Friday August 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
JF-S in The News
Posted in Ornithology, People, Photography on Wednesday August 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
JF-S, our talented ornithological photographer has finally hit the big time, as his photo of baby swallows feeding in Patti’s barn was published in the Ashbourne News Telegraph this week. But remember, you saw it here first!
Well done John.
PP5, before, after & prize giving
Posted in 2011, Parwich Panoramic 5, Photography, Posts of Note, Pub, Sport, Young people on Wednesday August 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This was the third Parwich Panoramic Five Fell Race (PP5) with the best turnout so far, 112 runners. There were 24 clubs represented and 34 non affiliated runners. The overall winner was Chris Nicoll from Derby Tri Club and he just missed the course record by 37 seconds. 28 ladies ran, with the leading lady, Jo Bednall coming in 42nd overall and 70 veterans participated: aged 40+. Four juniors ran, all finishing in the top 78% of the field, with the fastest coming in 28th position aged only 11!
“Best fell race”, “Great course and views”, “Best marked course” and “Friendliest marshalls” were some of the comments that have been made about this year’s race – a tremendous amount of work was put into last night’s events, so these words are very much appreciated.
The event is co-ordinated by Graham J, with a very supportive band of workers, who deliver, fetch, carry, marshal, photograph etc etc.. So big thanks to everyone, who helped, ran and supported this fabulous evening. (Below is Graham busy organising his “troops”!)
The evening also saw the running of the Junior Fell Race which is organised independently by David Denton: another great success. For those youngsters who would like to do more running, just check out his website for more local runs.
Finally a quick plug for next year’s PP5, which is provisionally booked for Tuesday 7th August 2012 – tbc.
Parwich Panoramic Fell Race Results 2011
Junior Fell Run Race Results 2011
More Photos (more…)
Lots more photos of the Junior Fell Runners
Posted in 2011, Parwich Panoramic 5, Photography, Posts of Note, Young people on Wednesday August 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Even more photos of the Junior Runners
Thank you to JF-S for these great photos (more…)
Photos From The Parwich Panoramic Five
Posted in 2011, Events, Parwich Panoramic 5, Photography, Posts of Note, Sport on Wednesday August 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The following gallery shows the valiant runners from the Parwich Panoramic Five Main Event as they reach the top of a particularly gruelling hill. Impressive performance from all runners!
Click on ‘Continue reading’ to access the rest of the pictures. We think we have a shot of each runner…
Provisional date for next year’s PP5 is Tuesday 7th August 2012 – TBC.
A Swallow diving for flies at the Jubilee pond
Posted in Ornithology, Photography on Monday August 1, 2011| 2 Comments »
Welcome back JF-S, delighted that you have got your camera back.
Wakes Week – The whole photo story
Posted in 2011, British Legion, Church, Competition, Events, Films, Memorial hall, Oddfellows, People, Photography, Posts of Note, Pub, School, Societies, Sport, Wakes, Young people on Saturday July 9, 2011| 2 Comments »
Another extremely successful Wakes Week is over and thanks must go to everyone who took part, spectators, participants, organisers and helpers, but without the hard work of the committee who meet, plan and co-ordinate the events we wouldn’t have this amazing week. So special thanks to Kerry Allsop, Janet Bainbridge, Sandra Chadfield, Roger Cundy, Liz Edge, Denis Laycock, Alan & Barbara Lowes, Paula Lynam, Sharon Swindell and Karen Wigley.
Next year’s Wakes begins on Saturday 30th June 2012.
The rest of this article contains all the Wakes posts and is a shortcut to any event or photo you may have missed. (more…)
Bowls Extravaganza & Golf Competition
Posted in 2011, Bowls, Competition, Photography, Posts of Note, Sport, Wakes on Wednesday July 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Hill Race – Start & Finish of the Adult Race
Posted in 2011, Competition, People, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes on Wednesday July 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Junior Race – Start & Finish
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Sport, Wakes, Young people on Wednesday July 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Sandra & Janice – Local Mother’s Race
Posted in 2011, People, Photography, Posts of Note, Sport, Wakes on Wednesday July 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Fun & Games with the Campers – Photos
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes on Monday July 4, 2011| 2 Comments »
Lots of Carnival & Fair Faces!
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes on Sunday July 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Even More – The Parade & Village Market
Posted in 2011, Oddfellows, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes on Sunday July 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Wakes Carnival photo gallery
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes on Sunday July 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Please click each image to enlarge it – and don’t forget to click “Continue Reading” for many, many more.
Alternatively, please click here for a slideshow, which will display all the images on full screen.
A beautiful evening
Posted in Photography, Wakes on Sunday July 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
On and Off Parade – Wakes 2011
Posted in 2011, People, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes, Young people on Sunday July 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A new arrival
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note on Saturday July 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
PARWICH.ORG welcomes Poppy: a fine Jersey cow who arrived in Parwich today, full of anticipation for the Wakes Week festivities. If you’re walking down the bottom of Creamery Lane, do be sure to say hello.
Photo by JF-S.
Oddfellows Odes
Posted in 2011, Oddfellows, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes on Saturday July 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
OPENING ODE
Tune: “Stuttgart”
Outside the Sycamore Inn at the start of the parade
Brethren of our friendly Order,
Honour here asserts her sway;
All within her sacred border
Must her high command obey.
Join, Oddfellowship of brothers,
In this song of truth and love;
Leave disputes and strife to others-
We in harmony must move.
Honour to her courts invites us-
Worthy subjects let us prove;
Strong the chain that here unites us,
Linked with Friendship, Truth and Love.
In our hearts enshrined and cherished,
May these feelings ever bloom;
Falling not when life has perished,
Living still beyond the tomb.
Knob Hall Springwatch – final installment
Posted in 2011, Ornithology, Photography, Posts of Note on Saturday July 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Colin B says:
Our Spotted Flycatchers have successfully reared 3 chicks which have now left their nest and are flying about from tree to tree. You can see the smallest two being fed a tasty wasp in these pics.
175th Anniversary
Posted in 2011, Oddfellows, Photography, Posts of Note, Wakes on Saturday July 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This year sees the 175th anniversary of the Parwich Odd Fellows:
More photos to follow.
Has the cat got the cream as well?
Posted in Pets of Parwich, Photography on Friday July 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
JF-S
Baby Swallows
Posted in 2011, Ornithology, Photography, Posts of Note on Saturday June 25, 2011| 1 Comment »
Open Gardens and Children’s Horticultural Show: more pictures
Posted in 2011, Flora, Gardens, Memorial hall, Photography, Posts of Note on Monday June 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Courtesy of JF-S, here’s our second gallery of photos, starting with the Children’s Horticultural Show and continuing with photos of the Open Gardens.
Belgian biking club visits Parwich
Posted in 2011, Church, News, People, Photography, Posts of Note on Monday June 20, 2011| 1 Comment »
A group of Belgian bikers – members of the Belgian BMW Club – paid a fleeting visit to Parwich as part of their Midlands and North Wales 2011 tour.
Nearly forty enthusiasts from Flanders, on more than twenty motor bikes, took a look at the village and church.
Pictured are some of them posing outside St Peter’s Church on Sunday morning, while vicar Andy Larkin led Matins.
Terra Nova School Staff Choir at Open Gardens
Posted in Gardens, Music, People, Photography on Monday June 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Ed L for sending us a photo of this prize-winning choir, captured in concert at the Drummond residence yesterday afternoon.
Please click to enlarge.
Parwich Open Gardens – Photo Gallery
Posted in 2011, Flora, Gardens, Photography, Posts of Note on Sunday June 19, 2011| 2 Comments »
This year, eighteen Parwich gardens opened their doors to visitors – and with the rain thankfully holding off, this turned out to be another very successful event.
As well as the various horticultural delights, villagers and visitors alike got to enjoy the splendid children’s show in the Memorial Hall, along with delicious cream teas and a plant sale. Elsewhere, the Flaxdale art exhibition and bric-a-brac sale continued for a second day, as did Lewis Noble’s open studio. The school held an open day, Hayley Powell staged a blacksmithing display at The Barn, The A52s played a gig at Rookery House, and a talented vocal troupe, Terra Nova School Staff Choir, staged impromptu recitals at various locations round the village. The day finished with a Father’s Day barbecue at the Legion, while the Horticultural Society laid on a “thank you” buffet for weary and grateful exhibitors at the hall.
Hot off the presses, here’s a gallery of all eighteen gardens, accompanied by Lynette and John’s colourful and creative signage. As always, these photos will look so much better if they are enlarged; click on each image for a bigger version.
1. Brook Close Farm
2. Pond Cottage
3. Cosheton
(more…)
What will I become?
Posted in 2011, Gardens, Photography, Posts of Note on Sunday June 19, 2011| 2 Comments »
Thank you to Rebecca for identifying this colourful caterpillar…
I know what this is from bitter experience, a mullein moth, or will be, but not in my garden as I have declared war on them. If you want to see what they do to verbascum leaves pop by.
The following information comes from the Gardeners World website
The mullein moth, Cucullia verbasci, lays its eggs on verbascum, buddleia and figwort at the end of spring. Shortly after, from late spring to midsummer, the caterpillars demolish the foliage. Bad infestations can actually strip a plant. They then hide in the soil to pupate.
Solution Organic
The bright yellow and black caterpillars are easy to spot as they crawl across the leaves, and can be picked off by hand.
Chemical
The moment you spot an infestation, spray them with bifenthrin or pyrethrum. If the plants are in flower, spray in the evening, so pollinating insects aren’t affected.
Flycatcher
Posted in Ornithology, Photography on Friday June 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Colin B says,
Our resident bee eating spotted flycatcher has found a good place to perch.
The Blue Tit Update
Posted in Ornithology, Photography on Tuesday June 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Of the three chicks that were featured last week, unfortunately only one survived; two fell out of the nest. The attached pictures show the third chick successfully flying the nest.
JF-S
We’re very hungry!
Posted in 2011, Ornithology, Photography, Posts of Note on Saturday June 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Tissington Well Dressing – Photo Gallery 2011 – 2
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Well dressing on Friday June 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Tissington Well Dressings – Photo Gallery 2011 – 1
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Well dressing on Friday June 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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.
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…)
Spotted flycatchers
Posted in 2011, Ornithology, Photography, Posts of Note on Wednesday June 1, 2011| 3 Comments »
I ‘spotted’ a pair of these flycatching birds in my garden.
(Definitely not swallows)
Sssshhhhhh dont tell JFS.
– Colin B
(Please click to enlarge; well worth it!)
Well Dressings, Tissington – Day 2
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Well dressing on Tuesday May 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This morning we had plenty of volunteers working on the design, some carried on the positioning of the camomile heads, which has meant we are well ahead of ourselves. Today sees the start of the main board. Margaret has drawn the picture onto paper and then Helen transfers the design onto the clay. Helen and her Mum will then spend the next two days creating the wonderful focal point for this well dressing.
I begin adding some of the colour to the boards that surround the main design. The petals we are using this year are mainly carnations and some hydrangeas. Petals are placed on the clay starting from the bottom, overlapping and working upwards, so that a tiled effect is created. If it rains then the water is more likely to run off, instead of getting trapped in the petals.
The petal design below should give you a clue as to what Yew Tree Well Dressing is all about.
Deutzia Blossom
Posted in Flora, Photography on Tuesday May 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Well Dressings, Tissington 2011 – Day 1
Posted in 2011, Photography, Posts of Note, Well dressing on Monday May 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The design is drawn onto paper, pricked out and then outlined with a metal pointer on the clay, so it is easy for us to see where to outline in coffee beans and black knobs.
The coffee beans are always positioned with the rounded edge facing outwards. This year we had to outline more in coffee beans because the black knobs or alder cones were unusually large. Once this has been finished we started filling out the background and this year we are using thousands, of camomile flower heads, and they are tiny.
The effect is certainly dramatic. (more…)
What’s the swallow thinking?
Posted in Ornithology, Photography on Saturday May 28, 2011| 2 Comments »
An unusual view of a swallow yesterday – JF-S
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