We have a Rabbit Hutch needing a new home (Free) if anyone would like it. Collect or Deliver locally.
The rabbit is fine by the way, he just lives in the house now!!
Tel: 390552
Apologies that the appearance of the Church Magazine on the Blog had slipped. Here is the current issue:
Click on the cover to access the Magazine as a pdf. The Magazine can also be accessed through the Church website. For previous missed issues Continue Reading »
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Here are last week’s readings:
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Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb (am) |
Pressure in Mb (pm) |
Temperature in ºC |
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Max |
Min |
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Sun 5 |
0.0 |
1019.5 |
1015.3 |
17.8 |
8.9 |
|
Mon 6 |
0.0 |
1009.8 |
1008.5 |
18.6 |
8.9 |
|
Tue 7 |
4.5 |
1006.5 |
1004.1 |
15.2 |
5.5 |
|
Wed 8 |
1.8 |
1008.0 |
1007.8 |
17.1 |
6.9 |
|
Thu 9 |
0.0 |
1011.3 |
1013.2 |
18.2 |
8.2 |
|
Fri 10 |
2.2 |
1014.4 |
1014.1 |
17.4 |
5.0 |
|
Sat 11 |
0.0 |
1014.7 |
1016.7 |
16.8 |
2.9 |
|
Total |
8.5 |
Average |
17.3 |
6.6 |
|
Our weatherman on the hill says:
Another cool week to come with a little rain at times and some sunny spells but NO sign of a heatwave at the moment.
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| What’s on Where this Week |
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| Day | Time | Event | Location |
| Sunday | 9.30am | Holy Communion | Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 10.30am-noon | Club Tennis | Tennis Courts |
| Sunday | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
| Sunday | 2pm | Pikehall Harness Racing | Pikehall |
| Sunday | No Methodist Service | ||
| Monday | 6.30pm | Bowls Club Practice Night | Bowling Green |
| Wednesday | 2pm | Pilates for the Over 60s | Memorial Hall |
| Wednesday | No Pilates this evening | ||
| Thursday | 6-7pm | Circuit Training | Memorial Hall |
| Friday – 3rd July |
. | Ashbourne Festival | Ashbourne |
| Friday | 7.45pm | Film Night – Summer Classics | Memorial Hall |
| Saturday | 7.45-8.30am | Saturday Morning Bulk Rubbish Collection | Alsop |
| Saturday | 10-6pm | Flaxdale Garden & Art Exhibition | Flaxdale House |
| Saturday Sunday |
10-4pm | Lewis Noble Exhibition Weekend | The Studio |
| Sunday | 10am | Family Service | Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 10.30am-noon | Club Tennis | Tennis Courts |
| Sunday | 11-4pm | Cullen Hall Plant Sale & Open Garden | Brailsford |
| Sunday | 11.15am | Family Society Service | Alsop Church |
| Sunday | 2-6pm | Open Gardens & Children’s Show plus Open School day | Parwich |
| Sunday | 6pm | Father’s Day BBQ | Parwich Legion |
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The second of this year’s Pikehall harness racing fixtures takes place tomorrow (Sunday June 12th) from 2pm. Entrance is £8 per person, with free admission to under-14s and free parking at the site. There’s more info at http://www.pikehallharnessracing.co.uk/.
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Janet & Steve would like to thank everyone for the cards and generous gifts received after the birth of their daughter Rosie Elizabeth Conway.
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Well at least we won one of our two matches this week.
Tuesday league – 7 June – Home – Hathersage.
Hathersage are, and still are, top of the league. Although we shared the games two each their points scored were considerably better than ours. Consequently we lost the match 63 to 70. We have dropped from second in the league to fourth.
Next match 14 June – Away – Whitworth Park.
Thursday Friendly league – 9 June – Home – Lafarge.
Our winning streak continues in this league. Lafarge from Hope were second in the league. We did play really well and won the doubles games three nil and five out of the six singles, giving us a 143 to 89 win. Having at one point been third from bottom we are now a very respectable mid table.
Next match 16 June – Away – Matlock Bath.
We were due to play another friendly match away at Ellastone on Sunday, but due to people being on holiday we could not send enough players to have a match. We therefore had to cancel which is a real shame. IF ONLY WE HAD MORE MEMBERS.
Don’t forget Monday nights 6.30pm
John B
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The A52s have sent us a message to say that they will be playing acoustic music during the afternoon of Saturday 11th June as part of the Hidden Gardens and Courtyards of Wirksworth event. The band will be based in the Wirksworth Community Garden near to the railway station.
The gardens will be open today and tomorrow from 12pm to 5pm. Further details can be found by clicking here.
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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
This great, classic film starred Errol Flynn as the swash-buckling and daring hero, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian, and with Basil Rathbone. It won 3 Oscars including Best Film score for the marvellous music by Erich Korngold. With a budget of $2 million, it was the most expensive film made to date, and one of the first to use the Technicolor process.
Now newly re-mastered from the original print, the superb costumes and sets look stunning; not a film to be missed!
In the warm and comfortable Parwich Memorial Hall FRIDAY 17th June 7.45PM
Free Entrance. Refreshments . Raffle
Silent projection
Hi Fi Sound
Special hi-fi headphones for those with hearing difficulties, please ask.
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Hot water boiler
Does anyone have a Hot water boiler they can lend Mike & Gill R for their fund raising charity event at Flaxdale House on 18thJune? Perhaps someone might know the whereabouts of the old water boiler from the Memorial Hall? If anyone has any ideas please telephone 390433.
Bric-à-brac
If anyone has any suitable items that would otherwise go to a charity shop, we could put them on our bric-à-brac stall at our fund raising charity event at Flaxdale House on 18th June. Any unsold items will be sent to a charity shop. Do call us on 390433 if you can help.
Thank you so much, Mike & Gill
Click on the poster to enlarge.
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Flaxdale Garden and Art Exhibition
Saturday 18th June, 10am to 6pm
Every year we make a great effort to try and get our gardens presentable for visitors to the village on Open Gardens day. This year we have decided to make the most of all our hard work and open our garden the day before Open Gardens day as well, i.e. on June 18th, to help raise funds for the DRCS, a local charity.
In the current climate DRCS (Derwent Rural Counselling Service) like many other charities, is finding it increasingly hard to make ends meet and risks having to cut the service it offers local people. We do hope you will be able to come, any time between 10am and 6pm to enjoy yourselves and at the same time enable DRCS to keep on with its good work supporting people in the area.
There will be an exhibition of original paintings by Gill, Gill Evans, Dorothy Littlewood, Evie Burlinson and Janis Castledine, who have all very kindly agreed to donate 25% of any sales to the charity. In addition we will have stalls for bric-à-brac, books and plants. There will also be a raffle.
The entry fee of £3 will entitle visitors to their first drink (tea, coffee, fruit juice or ‘bubbly’) plus a slice of cake. (We will not be doing cream teas!)
We have no idea how many will turn up, but we are promoting this event widely around the county and hope to attract a possibly different range of visitors from those who come regularly each year to the village Open Gardens event. Maybe some who visit Flaxdale garden on the 18th will be tempted to return the next day to visit all the other Parwich Open Gardens.
Thank you so very much for your support. If you can’t visit us on the 18th then you are most welcome to come another day to see the garden and paintings and any small donation to DRCS would be gratefully received.
With best wishes,
Mike & Gill R at Flaxdale House
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Please ignore the times on the poster below, they have changed.
The Legion will be open at 3pm and the BBQ will start at 6 pm.
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Don H has given us the following message:
I am hoping to walk 30 miles plus on 25th June and perhaps raise a bob or two for Parwich British Legion. If anyone feels they’d like to sponsor me please call me on 773 or contact anyone connected with The Legion
Good luck Don!
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Sarah Bentley Cleaner. I already have a number of clients in the village and I am looking for extra work . Please call me on 01298 84841.
For Sale: R reg LandRover Discovery, Epsom Green, 3 Door. £1900. Call Sarah on 01298 84841
Thank you to Rebecca for sending this email in.
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Emeritus Professor Peter Alexander Young
An appreciation by Michael Radcliffe
I first met Peter Young when I moved to Parwich just over twelve years ago. We were both Cambridge Natural Science graduates, we had both worked in the nuclear power industry, we both loved sacred music, so we had much in common and we became firm friends. We dined together in each other’s houses, we went to concerts together and we went to church together. We talked a great deal about science and music and many other things. With my father dying when I was a youngster and Peter having no family, the relationship became more like father and son, though in reality it was like teacher and student. He took a keen interest in me and my studies with the Open University. He enriched my life in many ways.
Peter was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, on Dec 23, 1924, an only child of Scottish parents. They realised that they had a very bright boy so they moved home to make sure he went to the right primary school to get him into Boston Grammar School. At the age of 4 his parents recognised his musical talent and took him to the choirmaster at their local church to see whether he might join the choir. Looking at this young 4 year old in disbelief, the choirmaster thrust a bible into his hand, and opening it at random with his finger pointing to verse 9 from Psalm 108, asked Peter if he could read. Peter read “Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philis’ti-a will I triumph.” Whether Peter understood what he was reading did not matter, he proved to the choirmaster he could read and duly joined in the choir; and so began a passion for music and singing which he kept up throughout his life. While studying at Cambridge he sang in the Chapel Choir at St Catherine’s and was President of the Music Society. While he was living in Harrogate he was a long-standing member of the Harrogate Chamber Singers. Until quite recently he was still having singing lessons and singing in the choir to keep his voice in practice at choral evensong each Sunday at St Mary’s Church in Wirksworth. Continue Reading »
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Of the three chicks that were featured last week, unfortunately only one survived; two fell out of the nest. The attached pictures show the third chick successfully flying the nest.
JF-S
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Here are last week’s readings:
|
Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb (am) |
Pressure in Mb (pm) |
Temperature in ºC |
||
|
Max |
Min |
||||
|
Sun 29 |
0.0 |
1009.1 |
1008.6 |
16.5 |
10.4 |
|
Mon 30 |
16.6 |
1008.5 |
1009.8 |
12.8 |
9.5 |
|
Tue 31 |
0.4 |
1013.5 |
1021.4 |
19.2 |
4.5 |
|
Wed 1 |
0.0 |
1026.3 |
1027.5 |
21.0 |
4.0 |
|
Thu 2 |
0.0 |
1030.3 |
1031.7 |
24.1 |
7.3 |
|
Fri 3 |
0.0 |
1031.0 |
1030.9 |
24.9 |
10.1 |
|
Sat 4 |
0.0 |
1028.9 |
1025.1 |
22.3 |
10.2 |
|
Total |
17.1 |
Average |
20.12 |
8.00 |
|
Our weatherman on the hill says:
A cooler week to come, with the possibility of the odd shower but rather cloudy and lighter winds than recently.
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| What’s on Where this Week |
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| Day | Time | Event | Location |
| Sunday | 10.30am-noon | Club Tennis | Tennis Courts |
| Sunday | 11am | Toddler & Teddy Bear Picnic | Cricket Pitch |
| Sunday | 6.30pm | Evensong | Parwich Church |
| Monday | .. | School Reopens for Summer Term | Primary School |
| Monday | 6.30pm | Bowls Club Practice Night | Bowling Green |
| Wednesday | 2pm | Pilates for the Over 60s | Memorial Hall |
| Wednesday | 6.30pm 7.30pm |
Pilates followed by Pilates for the Youth |
Memorial Hall |
| Thursday | 6-7pm | Circuit Training | Memorial Hall |
| Sunday | 9.30am | Holy Communion | Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 10.30am-noon | Club Tennis | Tennis Courts |
| Sunday | 11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
| Sunday | 2pm | Pikehall Harness Racing | Pikehall |
| Sunday | No Methodist Service | ||
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Jo-anne J has sent us the following report on Smiths of Ashbourne:
Just wanted to announce – Smiths Deli / shop in Ashbourne have made me a very happy girl…
Have not been able to find ‘torta di dolcelatte’ original square block cheese – for years – but on an impromptu visit today, there it was standing proudly in their chill cabinet – winking at me !
Who would believe it – Harrods eat your heart out …we have all we need in Smiths.
Along with a fab herb salad from Kniveton.
Well done Smiths.
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At the risk of tempting providence, we had another two good wins this week.
Tuesday league
31 May – Home – Bakewell.
Bakewell are only slightly below us in the league. Although we only shared the games two each our ‘points for’ totals were thankfully a lot better than theirs. We manage a win by 77 to 63. This now takes us to the giddy heights of second in the league!
Next match 7 June – Home – Hathersage.
Thursday Friendly league.
2 June – Home – Whitworth Park.
Having started off not playing at all well we are gradually putting some good results together in this league. We only managed to win one doubles game, but won five out of the six singles games. The result was 132 to us and 127 to Whitworth. We are slowly moving up the league and are rapidly approaching halfway!
Next match 9 June – Home – Lafrage.
The weather did us proud on Sunday when we entertained Ashbourne Bowls Club for a friendly. A really good time was had by all. This Sunday we have a club competition starting at around 2.00pm. Come along and have a look.
Don’t forget Monday nights 6.30.
John B
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We want more!
JF-S
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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
This great, classic film starred Errol Flynn as the swash-buckling and daring hero, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian, and with Basil Rathbone. It won 3 Oscars including Best Film score for the marvellous music by Erich Korngold. With a budget of $2 million, it was the most expensive film made to date, and one of the first to use the Technicolor process.
Now newly re-mastered from the original print, the superb costumes and sets look stunning; not a film to be missed!
Certificate U
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Coffin Well work at the other end of the barn from Yew Tree Well. This year Diane has designed her well as Noah’s Ark. The pictures show a selection of animals, including otters, pandas, butterflies, tortoise, penguin and giraffe.
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We work in a barn, which is cold. This year we shared the venue with 18 piglets and two sows.
Some of the youngsters, James and Catherine Carr and school friend Jada.
I even brought family over from America to lend a hand: Judy from North Carolina.
Today is the final day and we concentrated on filling the sides with parsley and conifer and we were finished by lunchtime.
The design for our Well this year is St George and the Dragon and work continued on this portion of the board for the rest of the afternoon. Continue Reading »
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IMPORTANT: These details have been updated elsewhere. Please click here for our most recent property round-up.
- Pikehall Lane, 3 bed bungalow, £595,000.
- NEW: Bluebell Cottage, Creamery Lane, 3 bed detached, £425,000.
- NEW: Spenedge, 2 bed detached, P.O.A. (01335-390773)
- NEW: Rathbone Croft, 3-bed semi-detached, £220,000.
- NEW: Pikehall grassland, 7.23 acres, £55,000 – £60,000. Auction 3pm, Monday 27th June 2011, Agricultural Business Centre, Bakewell.
- Pikehall Farm, workshops/commercial units.
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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Robert Gosling posted this as a comment.
Many thanks to those of you who attended our display on 17th May, we were very pleased with the discussions and conversations on the night. Many of you have filled in questionnaires and returned them to us. These, along with the posts on the blog have given us a range of questions, comments and suggestions which we will respond to once we have got silaging out of the way. In the meantime please continue to return the questionnaires or leave comments and suggestions on the blog. We will post the results of these by the 17th June on Parwich.org
You can access a copy of this questionnaire, in Word format, by clicking here.
You can either print out a copy and deliver it to Robert Gosling at Hill Top Farm, Parwich (DE6 1QE), or you can save and edit the document, then email it to robert_gosling@btconnect.com.
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I ‘spotted’ a pair of these flycatching birds in my garden.
(Definitely not swallows)
Sssshhhhhh dont tell JFS.
– Colin B
(Please click to enlarge; well worth it!)
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This morning we had plenty of volunteers working on the design, some carried on the positioning of the camomile heads, which has meant we are well ahead of ourselves. Today sees the start of the main board. Margaret has drawn the picture onto paper and then Helen transfers the design onto the clay. Helen and her Mum will then spend the next two days creating the wonderful focal point for this well dressing.
I begin adding some of the colour to the boards that surround the main design. The petals we are using this year are mainly carnations and some hydrangeas. Petals are placed on the clay starting from the bottom, overlapping and working upwards, so that a tiled effect is created. If it rains then the water is more likely to run off, instead of getting trapped in the petals.
The petal design below should give you a clue as to what Yew Tree Well Dressing is all about.
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Sue H has passed us the following request:
I have just taken on an allotment and can’t dig it all in one go! Does anyone have any old carpet or black plastic to spare or to borrow? My number is 334.
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A 2 bedroom, detached bungalow has just been put up for sale in Parwich. “Spenedge” on Monsdale Lane has a good sized garden and parking for several cars.
P.O.A. 01335-390773 (Don & Audrey).
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