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Our very own Carolyn G is being interviewed on Radio Derby. She is part of a programme about strokes which will be broadcast between 11 and 12 tomorrow.
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Photos by John F-S.
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Margaret Russell has got a very nice pine corner cupboard and a high backed cane chair to sell.
All proceeds of the sales will go to help the waifs and strays in the care of Cheadle Animal Welfare Society.
She is asking around £65 – £70 for the pine cupboard and is open to offers for the cane chair. Contact Margaret on 01335 390369 if you are interested.
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Click on the image below to download the time sheets for 2014 the main race as a pdf:
The winners of each class are listed in our post “PP5 2014 Results“. For comparison, last year’s time sheets (2013) can also be seen by clicking here.
Also click on the image below to download the time sheets for 2014 the junior races as a pdf:
Please note there are still lots more photos to follow.
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We are always pleased to get material from new contributors, a big thank you to David C for these photos of the start last night:
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What a great evening, well done to Rannoch Linnell for heading up this year’s organising team. With some 90 runners it was an excellent field, with times faster than last year and a close fought race. There are already some photos of the Junior Races and the Main Even posted here at parwich.org, and more are to follow along with the time sheets. In the meantime here are the winners:
Overall Winners:
- Chris Patterson, 33m 55s, Ashbourne RC
- Ben Cartwright, 34m 04s, Matlock AC
- Luke Beresford, 34m 26s, Ripley RC
Congratulations to Chris, who won for the second year running, with a time of nearly a minute faster than last year, and a personal best on the course(we think).
First Female
- Christine Howard, 42m 51s, Matlock AC
First Veteran (40+)
- Stuart Gregory, 35m 18s, Holme Pierrepoint RC
First Female Veteran (40+)
- Christine Howard, 42m 51s, Matlock AC
First Veteran (50+)
- Richard Hyde, 39m 59s, Erewash Valley
First Female Veteran (50+)
- Carol Higg, 46m 56s
First Local (overall)
- Jacob Buckley, 39m 50s, Buxton RC
First Junior (16 to 18yrs)
- Alex Ediker, 36m 27s, Buxton AC
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Parwich commemorated the centenary of the start of World War I, perhaps the darkest four years of the twentieth century, with an exhibition, a talk and a moving service at the War Memorial.
Some 80 Parwich men served in the Arm Forces during WWI, the Exhibition included details and photographs of some of those that the History Society and Parwich Legion have managed to identify from local knowledge and newspapers of the time. More need to identified, so if you know of anyone who served, have any stories or have photographs do get in touch.
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Some photos of the Junior Races, though persuading a horse not to join in with the races has interfered with some of these shots.
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Thank you to David G for these photos taken on Monday morning following the Festival.
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Here are the pictures taken by our roving photographer who, as usual, took up position at the top of the steepest hill so all runners would look their best. Well done to everyone!
Click on ‘Continue Reading’ to see the complete set of photos.
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Parwich Memorial Hall Management Committee – AGM
Tuesday 12th August 2014
7.30pm Parwich Memorial Hall
Agenda
- Chairman’s opening remarks
- Apologies for absence
- Minutes of previous AGM
- Matters arising
- Reports:
- Treasurer’s Financial Report
- Chairman’s Annual Report
- Election of committee members
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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
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As festival-goers pack their tents and start to think about the real world again, they can look back on a classic weekend of music and fun. From the pyrotechnic onslaught of Dizzie to the relaxing acoustic tents. From hilarious paint/mud-related encounters to the secret rave tent that only The Grannies could help you find (“It’s behind the bookcase. Shhh!”). From King Pleasure’s triumphant swing set to the jaw-dropping beatboxing of Shlomo. Y Not had it all!
See you next year!
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Janice W has a sofa and two armchairs for sale. The suite is only around two years old and hardly been used. Offers around £150 – ready for immediate collection. Contact Janice on 390281 or email lucywigley@googlemail.com if you are interested:
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Next week, Derbyshire Dales District Council will be hosting Parwich Village Games….
Sunday 10th August – 12.30pm – 2.30pm FREE Family Multi Sports.
Meeting at the Memorial Hall….for various games and lots of fun, then heading to the cricket pitch for outdoor fun and games.
There will be a bar provided by Janet and a BBQ by the Oddfellows with more family fun continuing into the afternoon (more details to follow nearer the time!)
Also…..
Another free evening of family sports….
Please come along and join in the fun.
For further information regarding these events please contact Katy Stubbs on 01629 761385
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Our Weatherman in the Village says:
The weather pattern has definitely changed to a more unsettled state, with showers looking likely in the coming week. The weather conditions for the Parwich Panoramic Five race on Tuesday evening look like being changeable with some showers forecast and average temperatures for the time of year which will suit the runners.
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| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Day | Time | Event | Location | Sun 3rd | ynot? festival | Pikehall |
| Sun 3rd | No services today | Parwich & Alsop Churches |
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| Mon 4th | 7-8pm | Parwich Crown Green Bowls Open Evening |
Parson’s Croft |
| Mon 4th | 8.30pm Onwards |
Lights Out Parwich Commemorates Start of WWI 8.30pm Exhibition on Parwich Enlisted Men (those known) 9.15pm Illustrated Talk ‘Parwich at War 1914-18’ 10.30pm Torchlight Procession to War Memorial |
Memorial Hall |
| Tue 5th | 6.15pm | Parwich Crown Green Bowls vs Youlgrave B |
Home |
| Tue 5th | 6.30pm onwards |
Parwich Panoramic Five Fell Race Juniors Races from 6.30pm Senior Race 7.30pm start |
Start & Finish by Sycamore Inn |
| Tue 5th | 7-10pm | Badminton: book via Janet at Sycamore 212 | Memorial Hall |
| Wed 6th | … | Grey bin and food caddy collection | Parwich |
| Wed 6th | 6-10pm | Badminton: book via Janet at Sycamore 212 | Memorial Hall |
| Thu 7th | 11am to 1pm | Evie’s Artistic Session More info: 390488 |
Memorial Hall |
| Thu 7th | 1.15pm | Parwich Crown Green Bowls vs Chatsworth A |
Home |
| Thu 7th | 7-10pm | Badminton: book via Janet at Sycamore 212 | Memorial Hall |
| Sun 10th | 9.30am | Holy Communion | Parwich Church |
| Sun 10th | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
| Sun 10th | 12.30 – 2.30pm | Parwich Village Games Family Multi-Sports Bar & BBQ (meet at Memorial Hall) |
Memorial Hall & Parson’s Croft |
| Sun 10th | 2pm | Parwich Crown Green Bowls Men’s & Ladies Singles |
Parson’s Croft |
| Sun 10th | 2.30pm | Methodist Service | Parwich Church |
Click here to see the full Diary page; please email any event information to parwich@hotmail.co.uk
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Hello Possums
Reported sightings of U.F.O’s are on the increase with some very convincing eye witness accounts and photographic evidence. Personally I believe these chaps should steer well clear of planet Earth. If indeed they do have the capability to cover infinite distances in space, they are most likely far more intelligent than the human race and would not wish to get embroiled in the progressive destruction of our planet, ongoing territorial and religious conflicts, genocide, famine, drought, disease over fishing, gradual destruction of natural habitats of wild animals, decimation of vital rain forests, unsustainable populations, and … the list goes on. We are not alone, or are we?
On a lighter note, Prince Charles is seeking a versatile gardener for his Highgrove estate. The successful applicant will be required to work a forty hour week with extra duties at weekend on a rota basis, to include topiary, hedge, shrub and lawn maintenance, emptying ash trays, weed control and reading bed time stories to One’s plants. There is a competitive salary with all the benefits that one would expect as a royal employee, but in keeping with the Princes’ frugal existence the hourly luncheon break will be unpaid.
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What’s big, has 30,000 legs and wades through mud? Friday at Y Not was buzzing despite the slightly inclement weather. The festival was alive with great bands and a great atmosphere. Our roving reporter particularly enjoyed the mighty Kog and the Zongo Brigade – what a performance!
The following review is provided by Matthieu Woods (aged 16), who has travelled from France to attend the festival:
Ynot is the best place on earth. I mean, this was my first festival last year, and I travelled from France for the second time in a row, bringing my sister this time.The reasons for this success are the place, the people and the music (glad about that!). First, Derbyshire is such a great place to set a festival, with its marvellous landscapes and fields that turn into mud a few hours after the festival started – but a festival without any mud wouldn’t be a British festival, right?-, becoming a wellingtons’ gala.Then, English people, especially during ynot, are so cool ! People dancing in the tents, talking together in the toilets queue, recommending bands they know to strangers…Finally, the last but not the least is the fact that these bands that are up and coming, or the guitar-voice people that try to be known, performing in small tents, make such a good music. For what I’ve seen during these couple of days I’ve passed in ynot, everything was brilliant. Even if I wouldn’t listen to all of them in my bedroom, these musicians are at least great on stage.I would recommend this festival to any person who wants to try a festival, but not a huge one. Maybe next year I’ll manage to convince friends to come abroad ?
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Click on the above image to download the Show Schedule as a PDF, paper copies can be collected from the Sycamore Inn and the Legion.
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The Inghams have lost a golden coloured hen called Toffee. If you see her please could you ring them on 221
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PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB
So having said it was getting critical in terms of wins, the Crown Green Bowls genie came out of the bottle and we lost both matches this week – phew! Actually it would be good to play in the higher divisions of the leagues, but we would struggle with the few players we have. How about coming to join us?
Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Away – Whitworth Park – 29 July.
When we played Whitworth at Parwich we only beat them by one point. They took their revenge and inflicted on us only our second defeat of the season. The games were shared two apiece, but their wins were by a greater margin than ours. Rick M and Dennis E, however, tried their darndest and won 21 – 7, the best win by either side. The final score was Whitworth 67, Parwich 63. We were just ahead of them in the league and although we lost we will stay ahead.
- Next match – Home – Youlgrave – 5 August – 6.30pm.
Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Away – Matlock Bath – 31 July.
This is a really peculiar green which can be best described as the shape of a fifty pence piece. It has so many humps and hollows that it is very difficult to ‘read’. Because of the lack of rain the green was like a sheet of glass. You only had to gently send the bowl and it went like a rocket into the Derwent.
Things did not bode well for us when we lost the doubles 63 – 31. Our singles players have done us proud this season, but the score to make up was far too much and in the end, although we shared the games three each we still trailed 66 – 65. The final result therefore was Whitworth 129, Parwich 96.
- Next match – Home – Chatsworth A – 7 August.
Our own green at Parsons Croft could do with a little water to help the grass for next week otherwise sending a wood in Parwich may well finish up in the Derwent as well.
John B.
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Thank you to Cheryl W for sending us this piece from the ANT. Does anyone know anything about Cpl J H Robinson? If you have any knowledge of those who volunteered or enlisted, or any stories you have had passed down in your family about life during the WWI period, we should love to hear about it. Don’t forget the talk on Monday evening when Parwich will start it’s work on the WWI in Parwich project.
MEMBERS of the Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Committee have taken a ball back to a village in France where it was used to play the game during the First World War.
The 1916 ball was taken back to the spot in Sus St Leger, where the match was played, by members of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment.
It was part of a research trip as the game’s organising committee gathers pictures and information ready for a commemoration in 2016.
Members are planning to commission a painting of the game played against the backdrop of the buildings that remain in the village, which was largely untouched during the war.
A limited run of 300 Royal Doulton figurines depicting the soldiers kicking the ball will also be produced.
Committee chairman Brell Ewart and secretary Mick Betteridge, along with an interpreter and a driver, met the village’s Mayor, Marc Dufour, and elder statesman Charles Gavory for a walk through the streets.
Mr Ewart said: “This visit has been a number of months in the planning.
“There are very few records of the game and, with the committee planning to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the game in 2016, a visit was essential in order to establish links and gather information.
“One of the principal reasons for the visit was to photograph the village to produce an accurate backdrop for the oil painting.
“We knew the game was played in Sus St Leger, as this is recorded on the ball goaled by Cpl J H Robinson, of Parwich. We also knew that men from Ashbourne in the Sherwood Foresters were billeted there at Shrovetide in 1916.”
The game was played in snow and Lt Colonel Goodman arranged for two companies to play as Up’Ards and two more as Down’Ards.
Mr Ewart added: “The 2016 anniversary is very special.
“Sending a ball to France in 1916 for the game to be played by men from the town is probably one of the most prominent actions ever taken by a Shrovetide committee.”
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I wonder if anyone can recommend to us a really good, reliable cleaner, available in Parwich for Friday holiday cottage changeovers? 4-5 hours, demanding standards, pleasant conditions, good pay…!
(To be responsible mainly for Douglas’s Barn, the second of our two 5* Gold Award holiday cottages.)
We’d be very grateful for any recommendations or suggestions, please.
Do phone on 519 or email marion@tomsbarn.co.uk.
Thank you!
Marion
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