Photos by David G
Photos by David G
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Parwich is now the proud owner of its very own static defibrillator!! Thanks to Lottery funding, Waitrose and local charities and the organisational efforts of Martin C, on behalf of Parwich First Responders, villagers will have this kit at their disposal to use in the event of a heart attack when there are no First Responders available to assist.
How does it work? As always the first step will be to dial 999. If there is no First Responder to be dispatched the caller will be advised that they can get our static defibrillator and given instructions how to operate it. This equipment can then be used until such time as an ambulance arrives.
How will I know what to do? The defibrillator will “talk” you through what you need to do. However, training for the entire village will be provided (hopefully at the end of September) to ensure that you are confident to use it. Parwich First Responders strongly recommend that you attend this training so that you know exactly what to do to save the life of a loved-one at what will be a traumatic time.
Remember: the earlier chest compressions followed by use of a defibrillator (if appropriate) are started, the better the outcome for the patient.
Please watch this space for further information. We also hope to deliver information to each household.
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Now returned home!
Barney has gone missing, please could you check your sheds and garages etc in the Croft Avenue area. If anyone has seen him could they contact Eveline S on ——.
Many thanks.
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Although outside of our immediate area, you might be interested in the following:
Whist Drive – Saturday 16th August at 8 pm.
Held at Biggin by Hartginton Village Hall.
Admission is £1.50, including refreshments.
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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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Katy at Village Games says “the teacher says it is very much free style and will be adapted to the participants which turn up however saying that is aimed more at the parents and children (mummies and daughters dancing together etc) rather than an experienced dancer, however that’s not to say we could not introduce a further session, should there be the interest in the village.”
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If there is a clear sky tonight, watch out for the combination of full moon (a so called ‘supermoon‘, as its position in the sky creates an optical illusion of being significantly larger than normal) and the Persied meteor shower.
(See http://www.itv.com/news/2014-08-08/dramatic-supermoon-to-light-up-skies-alongside-meteor-shower/ )
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Our Weatherman in the Village says:
Just think….all that water falling today (Sunday) started its journey to us in the Caribbean Sea! Perhaps it would stay there in future?
Our lovely dry warm summer seems to have well and truly broken, and even my (still) broken rain gauge seems to have been shocked into life temporarily.
After today’s deluge, the weather for the coming weeks looks like being generally unsettled with blustery showers or longer periods of rain. Not a great week in prospect weather-wise……
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Because of the weather:
Today’s Village Games are taking place at the Memorial Hall
Sunday 10th August – meet 12.30pm
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Hello Possums,
Well I must tell you, all hell broke loose at Weedkiller’s headquarters recently, when our head canteen cook, Mavis Crow, learnt that her application to be included in the last 15,975 hopefuls for a place in ‘The Great British Bake Off’had been rejected. Apparently Mavis’s Spam and Stilton Quiche and her Coconut Crumble failed to impress the judges. The air was blue, as Mavis threw an almighty tantrum; pots and pans flying everywhere. ”It’s a bloody fix” she screamed, stubbing her fag out on her treasured signed photo of Paul Hollywood, ”They’re all pals of Mary Berry. It’s a flaming conspiracy.” It took two Newcastle Browns and a good swig of cooking sherry to calm her down. What a kerfuffle.
Hurry! Hurry! It’s the last few days of Parwich Blog’s furniture sale. We wont be beaten on price: buy now, pay nothing for ten years, then fifty year’s interest free credit; guaranteed Christmas delivery.
A French hospice is to open a wine bar for terminally ill patients at the Clermont Ferrand Hospital in Central France. The bar will stock a wide range of spirits, wine and champagne. A spokesman did say that the consumption of alcohol by patients will be carefully monitored to avoid the risk of long term alcohol dependency issues.
A Swedish woman was aghast to discover the skulls and bones of eighty people stored in IKEA bags in the basement of her local church. Apparently the remains were exhumed to allow building repairs to take place and had lain forgotten for some considerable time. A spokesman for IKEA has promised to forward instructions for self assembly of the skeletons which will be re-interred in flat pack coffins.
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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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| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Day | Time | Event | Location |
| 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 |
| Sun 10th | 2pm | Parwich Crown Green Bowls Men’s & Ladies Singles |
Parson’s Croft |
| Sun 10th | 2.30pm | Methodist Service | Parwich Church |
| Mon 11th | 10am / 10.07am |
Bus to Bakewell arrives Bakewell 10.40, leaves 13.35 |
Sycamore Cottages / Alsop Church |
| Mon 11th | 7-8pm | Parwich Crown Green Bowls Open Evening |
Parson’s Croft |
| Tue 12th | Leave 5.30pm |
Over 60s Trip Evening Mystery Trip |
meet on The Green |
| Tue 12th | 6.15pm | Parwich Crown Green Bowls vs Matlock Golf Club |
Away |
| Tue 12th | 7pm | Keep fit run/jog/walk – all abilities | Sycamore car park |
| Tue 12th | 7.30pm | Parwich Memorial Hall Management Committee AGM All welcome |
Memorial Hall |
| Wed 13th | … | Green bin, Blue bin and food caddy collection | Parwich |
| Wed 13th | 6-10pm | Badminton: book via Janet at Sycamore 212 | Memorial Hall |
| Thu 14th | 11am to 1pm | Evie’s Artistic Session More info: 390488 |
Memorial Hall |
| Thu 14th | 1.15pm | Parwich Crown Green Bowls vs Greenway |
tbc |
| Thu 14th | 7-10pm | Badminton: book via Janet at Sycamore 212 | Memorial Hall |
| Sun 17th | 10am | Family Service | Parwich Church |
| Sun 17th | 10.30am | Parwich Crown Green Bowls Round Robin |
Parson’s Croft |
| Sun 17th | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
Click here to see the full Diary page; please email any event information to parwich@hotmail.co.uk
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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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PARWICH CROWN GREEN BOWLS CLUB
Why do people take things so literally, we only wanted to lose the occasional match not to disappear into a losing spiral. Well at least we won one match this week.
Matlock Tuesday bowls league.
Home – Youlgrave – 5 Aug.
When we played at Youlgrave earlier in the year we played in a thunderstorm, one of the few times this year when this has occurred. It even tried to rain here this week, perhaps it would have been better had it done so. Harry B and Val K fought back well to win 21 – 17. Similarly Tony A and Dennis E lost narrowly 21 – 16. After two games only one point in it. The two final games ended 21 – 7 to Youlgrave (enough said) with Rick M and Edith R pulling out all the stops in their usual inimitable fashion to repeat a win for us 21 – 7. We therefore just lost the match by one point 65 – 66.
- Next match – Away – Matlock Golf Club – 12 August – 6.30pm.
Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Home – Chatsworth A – 7 August.
We had been doing quite well in this league until last week’s painful loss, so we needed to get back into the swing of things this week. Our three doubles pairs did us proud winning two games to one and giving us a lead of 56 to 50.
As you avid readers of this scintillating copy will know our singles players do, more often than not, keep us in the match and quite often give us the winning edge. Thankfully they came through for us again this week winning four of the six games and only narrowly losing a fifth. This gave us a score of 78 – 66. The final overall result was 134 – 116 to Parwich. An excellent turnaround from last week. We had dropped down to fourth in the league after the loss so hopefully this win will give us a chance to go up a place.
No match next week in this league as it is the annual charity game to provide as much money as possible for the Greenaway centre in Darley Dale. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather. In the past Parwich players have done quite well in this competition let’s hope the trend continues.
- Next match – Away – Greenaway Competition – 14 August.
On Sunday we are playing a Club competition – Ladies and Men’s singles. Not sure the weather is going to be good though. See you down at Parsons Croft about 2.00ish. The kettle will be on.
John B.
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To help readers locate the PP5 posts they want, here is a list of all our posts reporting this year’s races (2014 Parwich Panoramic Five) here at parwich.org. Click on the title of the post you want to see it in full.
General
- Parwich Panoramic Five 2014 Results – lists the winners of each class in the main race
- PP5 Time Sheets 2014 – links to download this year’s time sheets for the main and junior races as PDFs
- People & Prizes: PP5 2014 – a slide show of John F-S’ photos of the evening in general and the presentation of the main race trophies and medals
Main Race
- And they’re off! – a short slide show of David C’s photos of the main race start
- Parwich Panoramic Five: Start & Finish (Updated 8/8/14) – lots of John F-S’s photos of the start and finish of the main race
- Panoramic Five Photos – Mike H’s photos of all the runners halfway round the course, as they reach the top of the steepest hill on the course
- Some more PP5 photos – Peter T’s photos of many of the runners leaving and returning to the village and Cheryl W’s photos taken by Parwich Lees
Junior Races
- Junior Races: Start & Finish – lots of John F-S’s photos of the start and finish of the junior races
- PP5 Some Junior Race Photos – some of Peter T’s photos for the middle section of the junior races
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As an Alsop myself, I made a backpacking trip in 2008 across Europe, and had to stop at Alsop en le Dale. I was peaking over the fence of the hall when a woman asked if she could help me. Understandably looking suspicious, I explained my situation. She showed me the church because I had previously not pushed hard enough on the door, and presumed it locked. The woman lived in the farmhouse right next to the church and offered to let me come to her home for tea. She made my trip to Alsop en le Dale spectacular. I wonder if there’s a way to send a thank you note to the kind woman that I met that day, as well as make a small contribution to the church.
Thank you,
Michael Alsop
Colorado, USA
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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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