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Did anyone happen to take a barbecue gas canister from outside the memorial hall at the end of July (after the school summer party on the last day of term)?   The half-full tank was replaced by an empty one – no doubt by someone thinking it had been abandoned.  If you have the canister, please email the blog or call Lynne on 474 so I can put the missing tank back in touch with its owner!  Thank you.

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Update 28th Aug – Cuddles found safe and well! Julie and family send their thanks to all who were looking out for him.

Please can you help!

Our much loved family pet, the cat Cuddles, is missing, we have not seen him since late last week, around August 22nd.  He was last seen in Creamery Lane, Parwich.

He is white, with orange ears and orange stripey tail.  He should be wearing a green collar, but may now have lost it.

Please could you to check your sheds and garages as he is very timid and could have got trapped somewhere.

There is a Reward for his safe return, or for information as to his whereabouts, whether alive or not.

Thank you,
Julie B.

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Happy July 4th to our adopted Americans, including parwich.org’s own recent roving reporter (though the more distant roving of her family restricted her role):

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Village SOS is a major new initiative from the Big Lottery Fund and the BBC. They will be searching for six UK villages with a great enterprise idea to benefit their community. They are also looking for six enterprising individuals to act as Village Champions and help them achieve their ambitions. There will be a chance to show the nation, what villages can do with a community enterprise idea and what change it can achieve in rural areas.

To find out more, tune into the One Show on BBC One on 01, 02, 03 June at 7pm. If you miss the broadcasts, log on to www.bbc.co.uk/villagesos after 01 June.

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Did you, or anyone you know purchase a dinner/tea service from Oxfam in Ashbourne? If so, then you will have noticed that one cup is incorrect.

If you can reply to lynnpoppy@live.co.uk or re-visit the shop, then your correct, matching cup can be handed to you.

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 Thank you Christopher for being part of the Parwich.org blog team.  We’ll miss your blogging, but if you do have withdrawal symptoms you can always send a post in.  We’d love to hear how your new job is going.  Good Luck & Best Wishes from us all.

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Derby Evening Telegraph are seeking nominations for their 2009 Community Champions awards.  Evening Telegraph editor Steve Hall said:

The Community Champions awards gives us the chance to recognise the work of those who have helped improve the lives of others and asked for nothing in return.

The nominations last year were fantastic and I’m sure that the standard this year will be just as high.

Click here to find out more about this.

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Christmas cards with a religious theme are wanted for recycling into new cards – Liz Round of Thorpe knows a nun who would be grateful for any such cards which you can give her. So instead of throwing them away, please give them to me, and I will take them to Liz.

Christopher

p.s. Sainsbury’s will reycle all your other Christmas Cards until 13th January.

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Wills serve many purposes over and above ensuring your worldly goods end up going where you want them to.  They affirm our relationship to the world, and are an opportunity for us to have positive consequences even when we have died.  Not least we would know a lot less about local and family history with out them.

Frighteningly 60% of the British population have not made a will.  If you have a will, is it up to date? The charity Will Aid is launching November as ‘national make a will month’.

Participating solicitors give their time for free to make up new wills or to up-date existing wills.  The testator (the person whose will it is) is then asked to make a donation to the Charity, which supports various other organisations, including actionaid, the British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Help the Aged, NSPCC and Save the Children.

Ms Ann Weaver of the Ashbourne branch of Flint Bishop is one of the participating solicitors, however you can click here to find out about other participating solicitors.

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Don’t forget to put your clock back by one hour tonight!

At 0200hrs (or 2am BST) on Sunday 26th October 2008 the clocks go back one hour, as we return from British Summer Time to God’s Time (at least nearly God’s Time, as the correct local time should be a little later than GMT).

To find out more about why this happens see these two links:

National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.344

British Summer Time.co.uk
http://wwp.britishsummertime.co.uk/

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When we first moved to the village we were intrigued by the swan that always was present on the water on the left-hand side of the B5056   between the Bentley Brook & Bradbourne Mill.  It obviously didn’t take us that long to suss out that it was plastic, albeit pretty realistic looking.  Visitors who came to stay often would remark on it.  But when did it disappear?  Was it the recent flood-waters that washed it away?  If so, where is it now?

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At this time of the year some of you may have surplus vegetables growing in your garden.  So if you have any good recipes that you are willing to pass on, please email them into parwich@hotmail.co.uk  

If you have more ideas for courgettes you could  add them to the comment box below. 

So if you have lots of courgettes and fed up with eating them as ordinary vegetables, here are a few ideas.  These recipes have been tested and only the successful ones appear!

1. Courgette Cake (will freeze)
2. Courgette Savoury Bake
3. Courgette Base which is ideal for soups or pasta (will freeze)

(I’d like to try some beetroot or runner bean recipes next time so do send in your ideas)

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Thank you to Chris E. for forwarding the following grant opportunity.  Is it something that local groups could consider (e.g. The Memorial Hall for its work in developing the new Hall plans out of lextensive local consultation; the Village Action Group, perhaps to strengthen aspects of the Village Plan; or even the Parish Council to explore use of PARWICH.ORG to increase local involvement)?

Grants for new ideas to get people involved in democracy

Fresh ideas for encouraging people to become involved in democracy will be rewarded with grants under a £150,000 government scheme aimed at charities, community groups and non-government organisations. The Innovation Fund, launched by the Ministry of Justice, will support projects developing new ways to help people participate in public discussions and influence government policy. Grants of up to £15,000 will be available for up to 10 of the best proposals for using online tools, face-to-face events or a combination of approaches. Previous winners have included Speakers’ Corner Trust, which established a speakers’ corner and held a day of debate in Nottingham, and the English Secondary Students’ Association, which developed a training programme and supporting materials to help young people aged 11-19 learn how to campaign on issues important to them.

Applications close on 26 September 2008. Decisions will be announced in October 2008.  For more details see http://www.buildingdemocracy.co.uk/

This was circulated by Paul Dixon, Regional Network Officer, ACRE, http://www.acre.org.uk/events_index.html

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Thanks to Colin B for writing in. Colin says:

Here is the view looking west from the top of Parwich Hill, where the mobile reception is splendid.

I have marked the location of the phone mast. So whenever you need to make a call, just run up the hill.

If you cannot be bothered to do that, I suspect that the call wasnt all that important anyway.

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I’ve been toying with whether or not to put this blog on our website because it really is beyond our area, but hey if you don’t want to read it just keep scrolling.  If however you fancy a few days away keep reading.

We have just come back from a long weekend in Carcassonne in Southern France.  The reason I am sharing our trip with you is because it was fabulous, easy and refreshing and you might fancy doing the same trip.  (more…)

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Don’t forget to put your clock forward by one hour tonight!

At 0100hrs or 1am on Sunday 30th March 2008 the clocks go forward one hour ‘as civil time moves from Coordinated Univeral Time (almost identical to Greenwich Mean Time) to British Summer Time (BST)‘.  To find out more about why this happens see these two links:

National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.344

British Summer Time.co.uk
 http://wwp.britishsummertime.co.uk/

Personally I don’t see why the clocks need to change at all, why not stick to what the Irish call ‘God’s Time’.

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