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.
Please come along and join in the fun.
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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.
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.
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
Main Race
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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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:
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
First Veteran (40+)
First Female Veteran (40+)
First Veteran (50+)
First Female Veteran (50+)
First Local (overall)
First Junior (16 to 18yrs)
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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
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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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Photo by John F-S
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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.
Please come along and join in the fun.
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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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