| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Day | Time | Event | Location |
| Sun 8th | 9.30am | Holy Communion | Parwich Church |
| Sun 8th | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
| Sun 8th | 2.30pm | Methodist Service | Parwich Church |
| Mon 9th | 10am / 10.07am |
Bus to Bakewell arrives Bakewell 10.40, leaves 13.35 |
Sycamore Cottages / Alsop Church |
| Mon 9th | 5pm and 6.15pm |
Pilates: two mixed ability classes | Memorial Hall |
| Tue 10th | 9am | Over Sixties: Trip to York | Parwich Green |
| Wed 11th | … | Green bin, Blue bin and food caddy collection | Parwich |
| Thu 12th | 9.30am to 12 noon | Toddler Group | Memorial Hall |
| Thu 12th | 1.45pm | Matlock Thursday Friendly Bowls League: Last match of the season Parwich vs Chatsworth A |
Away |
| Thu 12th | 7.30pm | Badminton Session – all welcome | Memorial Hall |
| Sun 15th | 10am | Family Service & Baptism | Parwich Church |
| Sun 15th | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop |
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Is anyone interested in playing badminton?

All equipment is provided and the hall is available.
For anyone interested
an initial session is being held in the Hall on
Thursday 12th September at 7.30pm.
Please come and support and hopefully this can become a regular fixture.
(If you are interested, but can’t make next Thursday, email parwich@hotmail.co.uk and we will pass your name on.)
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Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club
Last game of the season in one league, second last in the other. What will we do on Tuesday evenings and Thursday afternoons? What repeats are on the telly?
Matlock Tuesday League.
Home – Matlock Golf Club – 3 September.
Last game of the season. We won all four of the games on the Matlock green so the pressure was on to repeat the win. Down A and Dot H certainly gave us a fabulous start winning 21 – 1. Makes you feel quite sorry for their opponents. (Not). We managed to win two of the other three games quite well, but lost the third. The final score was Parwich 70 to Matlock 54. Good to end on a winning note. Hopefully we will finish about halfway in the league, a good result for such a small club as ours.
Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Last home match – Bradwell – 5 September.
Bradwell are top of the division and are certain to be promoted. We lost quite well on their green in June and although we did not necessarily expect to win we did want to do well on our green. In the three doubles we won one and lost two. Pat B and Sue A did well in their doubles, beating a very good Bradwell pairing. By the end of the doubles we were down 41 to 61. The singles players on our team played a stormer. We won four games and just lost a fifth by one point. This made the singles result 81 to 66 to us. The final score was a small defeat 122 to 127. Not bad against the league winners!
- Next Match – Away – Chatsworth – 12th Sept – 1.45pm
John B.
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Does anyone pass through Ashbourne during the week around 7.30 am? Kerry A has started at Leek college and picks up the bus in the Market Place at 7.40 am. If anyone could give her a lift from Parwich in time to catch her bus she would be very grateful. Please contact Kerry on 576.
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Evie’s artistic sessions will resume on Thursday September 26th, after a short break.
Sessions run from 11am until 1pm, and new talent is most welcome. Tea, coffee and biscuits are supplied.
There is a small contribution required towards rental costs.
Telephone Evie on 390488 for further information.
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I have just made a batch of rich and spicy chicken balti with an extra special sauce, containing twelve different ingredients.
It is £6.50 a for a generous portion.
Telephone: 01335 390488.
Cheers Paul B.
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Thank you to David G for this photograph taken early this morning, enjoy the beautiful weather today.
(Is that a parked ballon on the right hand side of the photo in the distance?)
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As part of the current review Derbyshire Dales introduce new parking for balloons:
Photo by John F-S
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Car parks review process gathers pace
Several early provisional ideas have been dropped in response to public opinion as the process gathers pace to introduce a new car parks policy for the Derbyshire Dales by 1 January next year.
Derbyshire Dales District Council has now scrutinised extensive feedback from local residents, visitors, stakeholder groups and the trading community in a review process, including extensive public consultation, which began at the start of this year. Continue Reading »
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Best wishes to pupils and staff at Parwich Primary School for the new academic year:
School opens for the autumn term on Wednesday 4th September at 8.35am.
Caroline Rogers
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Police are appealing for information after a burglary at a warehouse building on Dale Side (off Smithy Lane), Parwich.
Some time between 4pm on Thursday 29th August and 4.20am on Friday 30th August, entry has been forced to the building. A Harley Davidson Sportster motorbike was removed and found a short distance away.
Numerous Land Rover wheels and tyres have been taken along with a large amount of power and hand tools.
Several vehicles outside the building have also been broken into.
Enquiries continue, so if you saw anything suspicious, have CCTV nearby or any information, please contact PC 3047 Parker on 101, quoting crime number: 36489/13.
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Hello Possums,
523,000 Germans have invaded our shores – but don’t panic, Mr. Mainwaring. Stand down the Warmington-on-Sea home guard; these are tourists with an apparently insatiable appetite for our beaches and coastal paths. Many of them make a pilgrimage to the site where the first Zeppelin was destroyed by specially designed incendiary bullets. Wreaths of sausages are left by visitors, in memory of the millions of Germans, who were banned from scoffing their favourite Bratwurst, as the
cow skins were used in the manufacture of gas containers. So, if you ever wonder why airships have teats, there is your answer.
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Please click on any image to view a full-screen slideshow.
Our apologies to the “Ugliest or More Deformed Vegetables”, as these flatly refused to stay in focus for the camera. If anyone has a photo of these fine specimens, we should be delighted to upload it!
Full results: Continue Reading »
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Please click here for details of Derbyshire County Council’s proposed Winter Service Scheme for 2013/14.
If you are willing to participate in the Snow Warden Scheme for 2013/14 by becoming a snow warden for Parwich, to assist with clearance of village footpaths, please advise a member of Parwich Parish Council or contact the clerk to the parish council, by no later than 5th September 2013. This will enable paperwork, training and salt deliveries to be put in place in advance of any bad weather.
Thank you
Mrs S Hampson
Clerk to Parwich Parish Council
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| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Day | Time | Event | Location |
| Sun 1st | 2pm | Flower & Vegetable Show | Memorial Hall |
| Sun 1st | 6.30pm | Evensong | Parwich Church |
| Mon 2nd | 5pm and 6.15pm |
Pilates: two mixed ability classes | Memorial Hall |
| Tue 3rd | 6.30pm | Matlock Tuesday Bowls League: home vs Matlock GC | Bowling Green |
| Wed 4th | open from 8.35am |
Autumn Term starts | Parwich Primary School |
| Wed 4th | … | Grey bin and food caddy collection | Parwich |
| Thu 5th | 9.30am to 12 noon | Toddler Group | Memorial Hall |
| Thu 5th | 11am to 1pm | Evie’s Artistic Session More info: 390488 |
Memorial Hall |
| Thu 5th | 1.15 pm for 1.45pm | Matlock Thursday Friendly Bowls League: home vs Bradwell A | Bowling Green |
| Fri 6th | 7.45 pm | Parwich Film: Les Misérables | Memorial Hall |
| Sun 8th | 9.30am | Holy Communion | Parwich Church |
| Sun 8th | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
| Sun 8th | 2.30pm | Methodist Service | Parwich Church |
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Here is the schedule for the 62nd Annual Parwich Flower & Vegetable Show organized by Parwich & District Horticultural Society. Click on the image below to see the classes.
Entry forms are available in the village with the Show Schedule, from the Memorial Hall on the day (please allow enough time to fill it in) or can be printed by clicking on the image below:
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Volunteers are needed to help develop a digital media project at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery.
Derbyshire County Council are looking for pioneering individuals, groups and organisations to test out a new approach to sharing access to the museum’s exhibits and artefacts.
The project, called ‘Collections in the Landscape’, is being funded with an £81,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and will enable visitors to walk in the footsteps of archaeologists and geologists to view artefacts in places where they were either made or found.
As visitors stand next to archaeological sites and famous landmarks they will be prompted to use their smart phones or tablets to download extra information such as images of what people in previous centuries would have seen when they visited.
Pilot projects will focus on three areas − Dovedale, Arbor Low stone circle and the town of Buxton itself. Users will be able to interact with these landscapes in exciting new ways such as exploring Arbor Low to see what ancient stone tools were buried below the earth, strolling through Dovedale using the museum’s fossils to reconstruct a shallow sea floor from 350 million years ago or standing in the centre of Buxton to see what traces generations of visitors have left behind – from the Romans to the Beatles.
Now ‘collections ambassadors’ are needed to help the museum test and develop the technology as well as share news in their local communities.
Councillor Ellie Wilcox, our Deputy Cabinet Member for Health and Communities said:
“We need local volunteers to help make this exciting project happen. This is a truly unique opportunity to be part of something that will transform the way collections at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery are displayed and experienced.”
Volunteers will be involved in the pilot stage 1 of the project. The results will form part of a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund in May 2014 for an additional £449,000 to fund the project for another three years.
Ellie Wilcox added:
“Although we’re exploring the potential of digital technology, this project will still be rooted in people power. The knowledge and support of the local community will be a key factor in taking the concept of Collections in the Landscape forward.”
As part of the project the museum is also conducting an online visitor survey.
To take part in the survey or to volunteer as a collections ambassador visit http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/buxtonmuseum (opens in a new window) email citl@derbyshire.gov.uk or call 01629 533540.
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Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club
Well I should have known that after a good week last week we came down to earth with a vengeance! We did get back to the old regime of win one, lose one however, the loss was a really good one.
Matlock Tuesday League.
Away – Hathersage – 27 August.
So having got our best score of the year last week, we managed to collapse in a big way this week. The only consolation I suppose is that our opponents are top of the division and will be promoted so we won’t have to play them next year. That’s positive thinking for you! Edith and Rick did win one game, but our next best team only scored 7! The final result was Hathersage 82 – Parwich 39. It’s probably just as well we only have one match left.
- LAST match – Home – Matlock Golf Club – 3 September 6.00pm.
Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Away – Matlock Park – 29 August.
A couple more matches to go in this league and thankfully we are hanging in there. Our double pairs did us proud only trailing by 47 points to 49 with Ian J and John H winning well 21-7. This gave us a good platform. We did a bit better in the singles winning four out of the six. Our score was 84 out of a possible 90. The final result was Matlock Park 104, Parwich 131. This should keep us about half way in the division.
- Second to last match- Home – Bradwell – 5 September – 1.45pm.
John B.
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Pilates classes start on the 2nd September 2013
Two mixed ability classes will run on Monday evenings in the Memorial
Hall.
- First Class 5 pm to 6 pm
- Second Class 6.15 pm to 7.15pm
All welcome
Please contact me to confirm which class you will be attending.
No classes on 23rd Sept and 28th October. Last Class 16th Dec 2013.
If you would like to do Pilates, but cannot attend the above classes, I
am available for private tuition – either small groups or individually.
Sue P
purvisathome2@aol.com
390373
07599 372190
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On the 8th September Robert, Catherine and Anne Bunting will be cycling the 54 miles from London to Brighton in aid of the charity Prostate Cancer Research.
We would like to raise as much money as possible for this great cause, and would really appreciate your support in doing so! If you would like to sponsor us then please use our JustGiving page – any donation would be much appreciated.
Many thanks! Robert, Catherine and Anne
Note. You can also help by sharing this on your Facebook page from the Buntings’ JustGiving page or from the parwich.org Facebook page.
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Please can someone identify my rapidly growing plant? I bought it at the Horticultural Society stall on Open Gardens day as an unnamed small plant in a pot. Since then it has threatened to take over! I think it might be a squash or pumpkin or something from that family.
Fiona
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Our weatherman says:
Coming to an end of a very good summer, the weather continues to be kind, although there is a distinct feel of the impending change of season. Looking forward this week the forecast looks reasonably good with the dry conditions looking like continuing to the end of the working week.
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Parwich.org break World exclusive. Classified Top Secret: DEFRA trial new breed to double milk yield Continue Reading »
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Hello Possums
It’s Weedkiller’s Raving Reporter here, coming to you live from the Stockport branch of McDonald’s, where customers and staff are being subjected to bouts of antisocial behaviour from groups of youths loitering around the premises. As a counter measure, the management are playing classical music over the system in an effort to force the trouble makers to move on. This, to some extent, has proved successful, with the majority plaguing the nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet instead. Ah, this chappie is obviously not shifting, I’ll try to communicate at his level: “Yo! My man, slap me five. Is yo’ walking de walk and talking de talk, bro’? Is yo’ cool wid da toons, dude? Does Chopin float yo’ boat boat! Is yo’ in de gang man, and hot wid de chicks?
Over to yo’ bro’.” “Are you crazy, I happen to be the manager here, and if you will get that microphone out of my face, I’d like to get to work ‘Dude’.”
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IMPORTANT: These details have been updated elsewhere. Please click here for our most recent property round-up.
Here is the current list of properties for sale or rent in our area, correct as at August 25th 2013.
- Main street, 5 bed detached, £850,000.
- Smithy Lane, 6 bed detached, £775,000.
- Fernlea House, Main Street, 4 bed detached, £700,000.
- Lilac Cottage, 4 bed cottage, £495,000.
- Creamery Lane, 4 bed detached, £450,000.
- Church Walk, 2 bed barn conversion, £350,000.
- The Square, 4 bed semi, £325,000.
- Smithy Close, 3 bed semi, £250,000.
- NEW: Rachels Croft, Ballidon, 2 bed detached, £650 PCM.
The list will be updated again next month. Until then, you will be able to find it on the INFO page, via the SITE MAP, and in the ELSEWHERE ON PARWICH.ORG section on the right hand side of this page.
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523,000 Germans have invaded our shores – but don’t panic, Mr. Mainwaring. Stand down the Warmington-on-Sea home guard; these are tourists with an apparently insatiable appetite for our beaches and coastal paths. Many of them make a pilgrimage to the site where the first Zeppelin was destroyed by specially designed incendiary bullets. Wreaths of sausages are left by visitors, in memory of the millions of Germans, who were banned from scoffing their favourite Bratwurst, as the
cow skins were used in the manufacture of gas containers. So, if you ever wonder why airships have teats, there is your answer.














Over to yo’ bro’.” “Are you crazy, I happen to be the manager here, and if you will get that microphone out of my face, I’d like to get to work ‘Dude’.”









