| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Day | Time | Event | Location |
| Sun 18th | 10am | Family Service | Parwich Church |
| Sun 18th | 10.30am | Bowls Round Robin | Bowling Green |
| Sun 18th | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
| Tue 20th | 6.30pm | Matlock Tuesday Bowls League: home vs Wirksworth | Bowling Green |
| Wed 21st | … | Grey bin and food caddy collection | Parwich |
| Thu 22nd | 9.30am to 12 noon | Toddler Group Cancelled this week |
Memorial Hall |
| Thu 22nd | 11am to 1pm | Evie’s Artistic Session More info: 390488 |
Memorial Hall |
| Thu 22nd | 1.15 pm for 1.45pm | Matlock Thursday Friendly Bowls League: home vs Hathersage A | Bowling Green |
| Fri 23rd | TBC | Ladies Group: Picnic at Ilam Park and a short guided tour of the grounds | TBC |
| Sun 25th | 9.30am | Holy Communion | Parwich Church |
| Sun 25th | 11.15am | Mattins | Alsop Church |
| Sun 25th | 2.30pm | Methodist Service | Parwich Church |
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As part of our holiday-time August ‘Visit’ series, let us know any places in the Peak District you enjoy going to. So far we have included Lathkill Dale and Parsley Hay, but where would you recommend, either add comments to any of the Visit posts or email your photographs to parwich@hotmail.co.uk .
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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.
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Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club
Only one league match this week, it didn’t help that it was at Buxton Park. The only good thing about their green is the view from it. However, what a result in the Greenaway competition!!
Matlock Tuesday League.
Away – Buxton Park – 13 August.
The green was like a sheet of glass, you only had to trickle your wood out of your hand and it finished up in Chapel–en–le–Frith. Coupled with this was the fact that they had been relegated from the top division last year. (Getting the excuses in early) Our opposition were complaining that it was slow! The upshot of this of course was that we did not do very well.
Harry B and Clara E did win one game for us resoundingly, but the remainder were lost. Yes even Rick and Edith. The final score was Buxton 68 Parwich 50.
- Next match – Home – Wirksworth – 20 August 6.15pm.
Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Greenaway Competition
This week is the annual Charity event for the Greenaway Centre in Darley Dale. It is played at two venues, Wirksworth and Whitworth Park. We had a change of venue this year we were at Whitworth Park. The competition is for doubles and names are drawn out of a hat for partners. Bearing in mind there were in excess of 50 people playing at Whitworth alone, with all abilities, it is testament to Parwich that we seem to be able to do well. This year was no exception. Ian J got to the semi final of the repechage and Rick M only went on to win! Congratulations Rick. Still it is not the winning, but the taking part that counts, as they say and more than £1000 was raised.
- Next match Home – Hathersage – 22 August – 1.45pm.
Last Sunday we played the men’s and ladies singles. Val K won a close match to take the ladies title and Rick M won the men’s. The fourth time in five years. In the men’s final though was Tony A who put up a good game considering he only started playing Crown Green Bowls for the first time this year. There’s no replacement for natural talent!
This Sunday we play the Round Robin competition. It starts at 10.30am and lasts nearly all day. Come down to Parsons Croft and top up your sun tan and see top class bowling!
John B.
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Cheryl W is ordering oil next week, and would like to know if anybody else wants any. If so, please either a) leave a comment, b) contact Cheryl directly or c) mail the blog team.
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Thank to John FS for sending us photos of this little bit of Croatia in the Peak District.
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For those of us not jetting off to exotic destinations this August, our roving photographer John F-S has some ideas for places outside our immediate area that you might like to visit or revisit. Firstly, we have ‘Lathkill Dale on a hot, sunny August afternoon’, and tomorrow he travels even further afield.
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A swallow flying over the pond in the morning sun today. John F-S.
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People see the World in different ways. David G sent us these photos with the caption “Am I a bird, a lion, a seahorse? NO a TREE“.
Click on the photos to enlarge
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… flying-saucer found crashed into tree. (Photo by David G.) Take care if you out looking for shooting stars tonight.
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The Nottingham band Alaskan Faction, who performed on the BBC Introducing stage at this year’s Y Not Festival, have just released a new track called “You & I” (free download here). All the video footage for this track was shot at Y-Not, and eagle-eyed viewers may even spot a quick name-check for Parwich in the first few seconds!
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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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For Sale – 2 Tetrad sofas
2 quality Tetrad down filled matching traditional sofas with removable cotton covers. Two seater and three seater (two seater probably needs re-springing).
£200 the pair – buyer to collect.
Call Graham on 344
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Can you give Sam Webster a lift to Ashbourne either this or next Wednesday?
He needs to arrive sometime before 9:30 am.
Please call him on 390568.
Thanks!
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After the Panoramic Five, August is normally a quiet news month for us, so we are taking the opportunity to address some important questions that may have got missed, so let us know of any further vital issues that you want raising.
The last 18 months has seen record levels of page hits here at parwich.org, but we can not be complacent.
The above map shows where in the World people are looking at the Blog. It is heartening that we are no longer proscribed in China and we might be big in Vanuatu and the Northern Mariana Islands, however it is extremely worrying that no one in Greenland, Svalbard, Cuba, Haiti, Turkmenistan, Somalia, Madagascar, Mozambique and much of west and central Africa has visited parwich.org. Continue Reading »
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Desk for sale. £15
Please call Nia on 390661
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With the increased interest in alternative forms of energy and energy saving measures, David G thought our readers might like to see this photos taken in Bradbourne: “Everest develops new waterproofing system for cottages“.
Click on images to enlarge
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Hi
Reading on the blog that super-fast broadband will be here in the next ten years, would anyone know of a reliable broadband supplier at the moment with decent speeds? I am looking for a bundle with anytime calls. Look forward to any comments.
Thanks, Terry P.
Note: There was some previous discussion of broadband speed in February this year and, more relevant, of recommended providers in 2010, but things are likely to have changed since then.
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Hello Possums,
Slight hints of Autumn in the air these days don’t you think? I bet the Parwich shutter bugs can’t wait for the first russet hues of the season.
Green fingered tealeaves have been visiting the village. Carl’s treasured lawnmower, that he constructed from Meccano as a
child, has gone missing, and a neighborhood watch sign has disappeared from Creamery Lane.
San Antonio Zoo, California: A cruel freak of nature, Thelma and Louse, a green back turtle that was hatched with two heads, has become an overnight internet sensation, such is her popularity that she now has her own two-faced book entry.
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Our Weatherman in the Village says:
A changeable week in prospect with sunshine and showers predicted. Temperatures will be near normal for the time of year.
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Field barns are an important feature of the White Peak landscape that surrounds our villages. As patterns of land holdings have changed (the village farm houses serving scattered fields are now gone, replaced by larger farms with houses and farm buildings on the land being farmed) and farming methods have improved, these fine buildings have become redundant, with many falling into disrepair. Here are some of the field barns that can be seen around Parwich Hill (just these local photos by Peter T):
A new book entitled “Field Barns of the Peak District” by Sheila Haines celebrates these buildings and challenges us to find new uses for them before they are irreparable ruins. Parwich.org would welcome any further photographs of the barns in our local parishes, perhaps to created a gazetteer and photographic record of those in Parwich, Eaton & Alsop and Ballidon.
For more information on Sheila Haines’ book Continue Reading »
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The Methodist Service in Parwich Church tomorrow afternoon, Sunday 11th Aug 2013, is cancelled.
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“Architecture fans look into my eye”. Photo by John FS.
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| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Day | Time | Event | Location |
| Sun 11th | 9.30am | Holy Communion | Parwich Church |
| Sun 11th | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
| Sun 11th | 2pm | Bowls Men & Ladies Singles | Bowling Green |
| Sun 11th | 2.30pm | Methodist Service cancelled |
Parwich Church |
| Mon 12th | 10am / 10.07am |
Bus to Bakewell arrives Bakewell 10.40, leaves 13.35 |
Sycamore Cottages / Alsop Church |
| Tue 13th | 5.30pm | Over Sixties: Mystery Trip | Parwich Green |
| Wed 14th | … | Green bin, Blue bin and food caddy collection | Parwich |
| Thu 15th | 9.30am to 12 noon | Toddler Group | Memorial Hall |
| Thu 15th | 11am to 1pm | Evie’s Artistic Session More info: 390488 |
Memorial Hall |
| Sun 18th | 10am | Family Service | Parwich Church |
| Sun 18th | 10.30am | Bowls Round Robin | Bowling Green |
| Sun 18th | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
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Over the next few nights (10th to 13th August), visibility permitting, we will have the chance to see some exceptional meteor showers. It is thought they will be most frequent on Monday night, when there could be between 50 and 100 meteors an hour. Now that is a challenge for our enthusiastic local photographers to get shooting star photos for the Blog.
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“Not Africa again, can’t we go somewhere different this year?”
Photo by David G.
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Parwich Crown Green Bowls Club
Getting towards the end of the season, only four matches left after this week in both the leagues we play in. At least we managed to stop the win one lose one sequence, although we did get beaten very comprehensively in one match.
Matlock Tuesday League.
Home – Chatsworth – 6 August.
We were beaten fair and square on the Chatsworth green in May. Time for us to try to reverse the scores. We did manage to win three out of the four games. Dawn and Edith in their game were losing 7 – 0, but went on to win 21 – 8. What a result. In the remaining games we won two comfortably and the third we got 16 points to 21, again a good result. Having won last week with a score in the mid seventies it was good to repeat the score to an even better degree winning in the end 79 – 58. This was an almost exact reversal of the score when we played at Chatsworth.
- Next match – Away – Buxton Park – 13 August 6.30pm.
Matlock Thursday Friendly League.
Away – Matlock Bath – 9 August 2013.
We cancelled this match from Thursday until Friday, however the result was going to be the same whenever we played. The green at Matlock Bath is the smallest we play on and is in the shape of a fifty pence piece with humps and hollows all over the green ( getting the excuses ready!). In the doubles we were behind 63 to 32. Normally we can get our act together in the singles, but not this week. We only managed to win two out of the six games. Val had a really good win 15 – 4 and John H squeezed through 15 – 14.We lost the remaining games with a final score 78 to 71. The overall score was 141 to Matlock and 103 to Parwich, our lowest score of the year. No match next week, we play the annual Greenaway Charity Games. Good fun and more importantly for a good cause.
- Next match – Home – Hathersage – 22 August – 1.45pm.
Sunday has us all down at Parsons Croft playing in the ladies and men’s singles. Come on down at about 2.00pm
John B.
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Once again the cocker spaniel from Rathbone Hall is on the loose and has been in my hens. It had a hen in its mouth and was last seen running off towards Church Walk. I am missing a number of hens which have scattered. If anyone sees a hen or is able to catch the dog please can you let me know.
Thanks
Fiona 191
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A £27.67 million project to transform broadband speeds for thousands more businesses and residents across Derbyshire was announced today
Derbyshire County Council, which has spearheaded the Digital Derbyshire programme, has signed a contract with BT to make fibre broadband available to a further 88,000 premises across the county, bringing access to more than 95 per cent of homes and businesses by 2016. The project builds on BT’s existing commercial fibre deployment in the county.
The project aims to ensure that the remaining premises will also see an uplift in speed and deliver a minimum of 2Mbps or more to almost all homes and businesses, fast enough to use online services such as BBC iPlayer.
The council chose BT to work in partnership on its Digital Derbyshire programme after an extensive procurement process using the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) framework.
BT is contributing £12.87 million to the project while Derbyshire County Council is contributing £4.9 million. A further £7.4 million is coming from the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) funds as well as £2.5 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Openreach, BT’s local network division, will now begin the work on the ground with engineers surveying locations around the county and analysing the best way to roll out the network and to identify which areas of the county will be upgraded for fibre broadband. There will be a phased approach to the roll-out, with the first areas predicted to be upgraded in 2014.
Fibre to the Cabinet will be the main technology deployed. This can deliver wholesale downstream speeds of up to 80Mbps, and upstreamspeeds of up to 20Mbps. Fibre to the Premises technology − delivering ultra-fast wholesale speeds of up to 330Mbps − will also be deployed in certain areas and will be available on demand throughout the fibre footprint should local businesses want the ultra-fast speeds it offers.
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Following his bumble bee photos, David G has further immersed himself in the garden safari experience (click on each photo to enlarge): Continue Reading »
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The avenue of chestnuts at Nether Green was planted for the Queen’s Coronation, as well as the cherry trees given to each member of the WI, only a few of which remain (there is one outside Hallcliffe on Church Green), and the now very fine copper-beech also on the Green. This was part of a wave of tree planting for decoration rather than utility starting in the 1950s and 1960s.
Nearly everyone that knew these chestnuts was sad when, in ones and twos, they had to be cut down because of disease. The Parish Council undertook a very well advertised poll of the village in January and February of this year to decide what to do next. There was strong support for replanting an avenue of trees (see Parish Council Minutes for March of this year: “The results were: 13 votes for no replacement trees, 3 votes for trees only on the Nethergreen side and 37 votes for an avenue of trees on both sides.“).
It has been resolved to replant in September, with the Peak Park reimbursing the Council for the cost of the actual trees, but not the cost of the work. The Peak Park insist that the one surviving chestnut tree remain. From subsequent Minutes I am not sure if the new avenue is to be Alder, as initially resolved, or Lime trees, as advised by the Peak Park’s tree officer.
What follows is very much my personal view and does not in any way reflect the opinions of the Blog or the Blog Team, further it is in no way intended as a criticism of the Parish Council, who have put a lot of work into striving to reach the right decision for the Village:
I hesitate to raise again the issue of the avenue of trees at Nether Green, it having been clearly decided by a community vote. Having voted myself for the trees to be replanted on both sides of the road, I was at the time strongly in favour of the avenue being replanted. However over the intervening months, I have found myself increasingly valuing the open space left by the loss of the chestnuts. Several people have also said the same to me, and that it is a return to the open views so characteristic of the Village as seen in old photographs, prompting me to write this.
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With the number of people interested in various forms of art in the village, maybe someone has a project in mind and is looking for some funding?
Community groups to benefit from Derbyshire County Council Small Arts Grants
Eight groups will share £7,230 to develop plans they have to work with communities in their area.
Each group had the chance to secure up to £1,000 towards projects which will:
Develop new audiences and participants in arts activity
Support arts work with disabled people
Support art work in rural areas
Support the creative economy
DDC’s Deputy Cabinet Member for Health and Communities Councillor Ellie Wilcox said:
“The grants are a great way of encouraging creativity and development in local communities − bringing people together who before might have felt isolated.This money contributes to groups working with so many different people, whether they’re troubled families, young people, older or disabled residents − they’re all diverse projects which aim to improve ability and wellbeing.”
The council awards Small Arts Grants three times a year. Applications are still open for the third round in October and should be submitted by Monday 23 September.
For more information and to download an application form visit http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/arts (opens in a new window) or contact the council’s head of arts Ann Wright on ann.wright@derbyshire.gov.uk or 01773 832497.
The following eight groups are to receive funding in the current round: Continue Reading »
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This resident supplied their name to the Blog Team, but asked that it not be published:
I’ve had an external min/max thermometer stolen from the wall of my cottage, sometime between 07:00 on Tuesday and 10:00 on Wednesday this week. I live on Smithy Lane.
Editor: Are we entering the season where there will be car break ins in beauty spot car parks? Do take care.
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Please be aware……
A lawn mower was stolen from an outhouse on Creamery Lane sometime overnight on Tuesday 6th August / Wednesday 7th August.
Don’t forget to lock things away.
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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.
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Senior results.
Please click here for the full placings and time-sheets in PDF format.
Junior results.
Last year’s (2012) results can be seen by clicking here.
Click on the following links to see the photographs of this year’s event:
- The Senior Runners Gallery
- On the descent towards the Alsop road
- Some PP5 Photos
- The trophy winners
- The Junior Runners Gallery
- Some of the Junior Runners
- The Evening in general
Competitors might also be interested in the up coming annual Bradbourne Fell Races on Sunday 25 August.
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