Our collections will be a day early this week, weather permitting.
Hear no evil See no evil Speak no evil
Posted in People | 1 Comment »
Parwich features a little bit more in this week’s Ashbourne News Telegraph. As always it can be bought from The Sycamore shop or viewed online.
p2 – Parwich Postie makes his last delivery A lovely article about the service held in the Church for Simon last Sunday with a super picture of Simon, Martin and Bertie.
p3. Clothing store scoops world first – This refers to Pachacuti who have become the first retailer in the world to be given a new classification by the World Fair Trade Organisation. Two Parwichians – Glynis D and Sue P help to run this very popular establishment.
P10. Creative talent shines through at the Nativity’s. Parwich Primary School’s Christmas production was ‘Sparkle’, the story of a star chosen from all the others to be the Star of Bethlehem, guiding the shepherds and kings to the birth of Christ.
Posted in News | 2 Comments »
Our resident art critic says:
“Today, Parwich Primary School presents two boldly contrasting images. Note the effective use of bright colours from Kirsten B – whereas the subtle restraint of Charlie S’s more monochromatic palette is most soothing to the eye.”
We think he likes them!
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
How do you know if Father Christmas is a werewolf in disguise ?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
There’s a lovely Nativity scene from Lauren M on today’s window – while in Will E’s picture, Santa and the Snowman are feeling the heat!
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
What’s the slogan for the Eskimo lottery ?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
Just before sunset this afternoon, the freshly fallen snow took on an eerie pink glow. Here are a selection of images which capture that moment.
Click on each image to enlarge it, and click on “Continue Reading” to view the rest of the gallery.
Posted in 2009, Photography, Posts of Note | 1 Comment »
Heavy Snow from 1200 Sun 20th to 2200 Sun 20th.
Snow showers will become frequent and heavy at times during today, these showers merging into longer periods of snow at times. Accumulations of 5 to 10cm of snow are expected, with 15 to 20cm possible over higher ground. There is also the potential for some drifting, mainly over higher ground, in fresh to strong westerly winds.
If you have any information on current driving conditions, then do please share them with us in the comments box.
Posted in Roads, Weather | 3 Comments »
- What was the exact title of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s 1971 Christmas single?
- The Christmas Star (Poinsettia) originated from… a. Cuba, b. China, c. Mexico d. Brazil
- Which Wallace & Gromit movie, set at Christmas and first aired on 24 December, won the 1995 Oscar for best Animated Short Film and which recurring character was introduced in the movie?
- In which country does Joulupukki, the Yul Goat, bring the presents?
- Which cartoon family have a dog called Santa’s Little Helper?
- Four of the top five teams at the 2006 ClauWau, the Santa Claus World Championships, came from the host country, Switzerland. The other team was from… a. Japan, b. Jamaica, c. Holland, d. Kenya
- In what year did Band Aid release their record “Do They Know It’s Christmas?“? (Mike A definitely knows this one)
- In Dickens ‘”Christmas Carol“, how many children does Bob Cratchit have and what’s the name of the youngest?
Those who went to the History Society Quiz will have a decided advantage as these questions were used in one of its general konowledge sections. So if you were there, hold back a day or so before revealing the answers.
Posted in Competition | 10 Comments »
Last weeks readings:
|
|
Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb am |
Pressure in Mb pm |
Temperature in ºC |
|
|
Max |
Min |
||||
|
Sun 13th |
0 |
1024.2 |
1022.0 |
9.9 |
1.1 |
|
Mon 14th |
2 |
1019.3 |
1014.7 |
8.8 |
4.7 |
|
Tue 15th |
2 |
1011.5 |
1014.2 |
2.9 |
2.8 |
|
Wed 16th |
4 |
1010.1 |
1005.8 |
4.1 |
1.6 |
|
Thu 17th |
1 |
1007.8 |
1013.1 |
3.1 |
0.3 |
|
Fri 18th |
0 |
1013.4 |
1015.9 |
0.9 |
-2.8 |
|
Sat 19th |
0 |
1010.9 |
1003.3 |
1.4 |
-6.1 |
|
Total |
9 |
|
Average |
4.4 |
0.2 |
Another sunny Sunday, perhaps the cold snap will last long enough for a White Christmas?
Posted in Weather | 1 Comment »
Don’t forget the Christmas Carol Service, today at 4pm, at St Peter’s.
| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
| Sunday | 4pm | Joint Carol Service with St Peter’s & Parwich Methodists |
Parwich Church |
| Monday | INSET Day for Teachers | Parwich School | |
| Monday | 7pm | Carol Service | Alsop Church |
| Christmas Eve |
4pm | Crib Service | Parwich Church |
| Christmas Eve |
11.30pm | Midnight Mass | Thorpe Church |
| Christmas Day |
11.15am | Holy Communion | Alsop Church |
Posted in Events | Leave a Comment »
Today, let’s take a look at Reuben G’s and Tarun L’s Christmas artwork. Please click on the door to reveal the window.
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
Whose job is it to give Santa a hard time at Christmas ?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
Spotted in the church grounds this afternoon:
Posted in Ornithology, Photography | Leave a Comment »
Apologies from our on-line weather station (the links are always displayed in the weather section of the right hand column):
Those of you who have a keen interest in live local weather readings will have noticed a problem with our Parwich weather station data over the past few weeks. Intermittent problems with the hardware have led to some data being unavailable for periods of time, and the station is presently down. We think we have now located the source of the problem, and hope to have the station up and running again shortly.
In the meantime please accept our apologies for the incomplete data – especially over this extreme weather period. I can tell you the temperature in Parwich dipped to around -6 degrees C overnight, and the cold spell looks to continue into next week. Might we be in for a white Christmas?
Thanks.
As always we will have our weekly weather summary from our Weatherman on the Hill tomorrow.
Posted in Weather | 2 Comments »
Luke W R and Sophie P: today it’s your turn to supply our Advent Calendar images. Please click on the door below to reveal them.
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
Why should you be careful at Christmas ?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to one of our team, Mike A, whose part time music reviewing has resulted in this latest article in today’s Guardian newspaper about the 25th anniversary of Band Aid’s Do they know it’s Christmas.
As well as his own blog, Mike has written a number of features for the Nottingham Evening Post and the Guardian; it is good to see his writing getting recognition. Click here to read his article.
Posted in Music, People | Leave a Comment »
There have been a number of TV interviews with Tom recently, including the following clip from Wednesday’s This Morning:
Thank you to Stuart for letting us know he is also on tonight’s One Show at 7pm on BBC 1.
Posted in Tom Chambers | Leave a Comment »
Mani and Iris from Germany send their Christmas Greetings. They most recently were here in September and wanted to be remembered to everyone they know:
Posted in Classified adverts, People | Leave a Comment »
With just seven days to go until Christmas, here are our next pair of images – supplied today by Elizabeth B and Leoni M.
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
Why was Cinderella such a bad football player?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Photography | Leave a Comment »
IMPORTANT: These details have been updated elsewhere. Please click here for our most recent property round-up.
There are just two properties currently on the market:
- Hope Croft, Parwich. 3 bed semi-detached, £365,000
- Pikehall, 6 bed farmhouse, £699,950
The list will be updated again next month. Until then, you will be able to find it on the INFO page, and in the ELSEWHERE ON PARWICH.ORG section on the right hand side of this page.
Posted in Housing | Leave a Comment »
Mati K and Eve G are today’s Advent Calendar artists. Please click on the door to enjoy their contributions.
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
What did one snowman say to the other ?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
Available online or in the Sycamore, the ANT has the following stories this week:
p1. Paying Tribute to a Treasure – An article about the memorial service for the Ashbourne jeweller, Lionel Webster, formerly of Parwich.
P2. Extension to free parking – those of you with a Derbyshire Dales window parking disk for your car will be able to park free in the Dales car parks from now until the end of the year before 11am and after 2pm.
p13. Be a secret Santa this year – an article by our very own Deb Web.
p20-21. Live Nativity Helps to spread Festive Joy – a double page spread article about the Xmas shopping evening in Ashbourne last Friday – including a photo of our very own Deb Web!
Posted in News | Leave a Comment »
There’s some great stuff behind today’s window, thanks to Charlotte B and Chloe W. Why not click the door and find out for yourselves?
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
How do polar bears travel about ?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
- Where in Parwich was the tithe barn, it later became Tyburn or Tithe Barn Cottage, and is now a ruin?
- Now the water supply is disconnected, what is the Hampson Memorial currently used for? (Official use only, please.)
- How is the date of Parwich Wakes established?
- What do Robert Bunting and Batman have in common?
- What metal was stamped with the place name Lutudarum?
- What was the building that now houses the British Legion previously used for?
- What instrument of punishment was located on the Green outside Parwich Church up to the late 1800s?
- Pikehall is split between a number of parishes, which are they?
Thank you to Parwich & District Local History Society for the above questions, taken from their old Christmas Quizzes.
Posted in Competition | 6 Comments »
On the 17th November there was a public meeting organised by Derbyshire County Council on the current temporary closure of the B5056. Our report of that meeting at PARWICH.ORG can be seen by clicking here.
Cllr Simon Spencer committed the Authority to keep residents up to date in writing on the various issues raised that could not be conclusively dealt with in the meeting.
Earlier this month Cllr Chris Jackson (Cabinet Member for Highways & Transport) sent out a letter with their minutes of the meeting and their current action plan from the meeting. Yesterday they also emailed us this so we could put it on the Blog. To access these papers click on the following links:
- Cllr Jackson’s letter originally dated 2nd Dec 2009
- DCC minutes of the public meeting on 17/11/09 re B5056 closure
- DCC’s planned action following the public meeting
(Note: the minutes and action plan are not exactly as sent to us as the originals contained some full names and addresses which we have removed. Added 16th Dec.)
You can contact the Cllr Chris Jackson directly with any responses or further thoughts or alternatively any comments added below will be forwarded by the PARWICH.ORG Team to Highways.
Posted in Local government, Roads, Transport | 2 Comments »
Thank you to our local Peak Park Ranger for this update on the maintenance of the Weather Way, a fantastic footpath along an ancient holloway going south up from Alsop Lane onto the Flatts. If you don’t know it, it is well worth a visit. (Click here to find out more about some of the ancient routes near by.)
Photo by Rob F taken in 2000, after the previous restoration
Peak Park Rangers and volunteers have been out recently to try and clear Parwich footpath number 36 that runs south from Flaxdale Holding. This was repaired several years ago but had become overgrown and rather quagmirey.
We cut back much of the tree growth to discover the path is actually quite wide, but we left enough young saplings to form a hedge at the top of the sunken route. We also installed some new wider gates to make it a little easier to get through this area.
About 15 volunteers came out to help with the work and we used the excuse of burning the brash to enjoy a hot baked potato or two in the fire at the end of the day.
Despite this work the path still remains wet (though perhaps this isn’t surprising given the recent wet Autumn). We’ll be keeping an eye on the water level on this path and hopefully improve the drainage at the bottom of the path in the summer when conditions improve.
If you would like to help with conservation tasks like this in the Parwich area feel free to contact me at lynn.burrow@peakdistrict.gov.uk with your contact details. I’ll give you a call next time we are heading in the Parwich direction.
Merry Christmas to you all
Lynn Burrow
Area Ranger
Peak District National Park
Posted in 2009, Environment, Peak Park, Posts of Note | Leave a Comment »
Pilates is cancelled on Wednesday 16th December, the class fee will be carried over to next term, which will start on January 6th (subject to me checking with school).Rebecca
Posted in Sport | Leave a Comment »
Joe A and Lucy Lee H are the artists behind today’s window, which you can see by clicking on the door below.
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
Why does Santa have three gardens ?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
The festive artwork continues, with colourful offerings today from Amy G and Jack W. Please click the door below to view the window.
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
What do snowmen like on their burgers ?
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
Simon our postman will be doing his round for the last time on 2nd January after 11 years delivering the post to the people of Parwich. We could not have wished for a more dedicated and helpful person to deliver our mail. Through rain, snow and shine, Simon has always looked after us with a smile and a wave. We will be very sorry to see him go.
It was wonderful therefore to have the opportunity this afternoon to thank him and his wife Barbara.
Posted in 2009, Church, People, Posts of Note | 2 Comments »
| What’s on Where this Week | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
| Wednesday | 6pm & 7.15pm | Pilates | Parwich School |
| Thursday | 7.30pm | Carols with Ashbourne Band | The Green |
| Friday | End of Term | Parwich School | |
| Friday | 7.45pm | Christmas Film Night | Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 4pm | Joint Carol Service with St Peter’s & Parwich Methodists |
Parwich Church |
Posted in Events | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Stuart for drawing our attention to this interview with Tom, which is the cover story of today’s colour supplement in Scotland’s Sunday Post newspaper. (Click here to view the cover.)
Posted in Tom Chambers | Leave a Comment »
Last weeks readings:
|
|
Rainfall in mm |
Pressure in Mb am |
Pressure in Mb pm |
Temperature in ºC |
|
|
Max |
Min |
||||
|
Sun 6th |
12 |
986.5 |
993.4 |
10.7 |
6.5 |
|
Mon 7th |
1 |
996.7 |
993.4 |
8.7 |
4.0 |
|
Tue 8th |
4 |
1003.4 |
1005.8 |
7.3 |
2.5 |
|
Wed 9th |
6 |
1009.5 |
1013.2 |
8.3 |
5.0 |
|
Thu 10th |
2 |
1015.8 |
1022.2 |
10.0 |
5.6 |
|
Fri 11th |
0 |
1025.4 |
1027.5 |
4.7 |
0.4 |
|
Sat 12th |
0 |
1026.2 |
1026.9 |
8.2 |
1.9 |
|
Total |
25 |
|
Average |
8.3 |
3.7 |
Another sunny Sunday whilst drafting this post, let’s hope this high pressure will last.
Posted in Weather | Leave a Comment »
Today’s calendar window was drawn by Matthew B and Adam B. Please click on the door below to open it.
CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
“Doctor, Doctor, I’m scared of Father Christmas !”
Posted in Advent Calendar | Leave a Comment »
Click on the following for the Christmas collections:
Click on the following for recycling Christmas Trees and Christmas Cards:
Posted in Local government, Services | Leave a Comment »
- In Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol, who was Scrooge’s dead business partner?
- From the Christmas Carol “Good King Wenceslas”, where was Good King Wenceslas the King of?
- What was the title of the song and the name of the artist for the Christmas Number 1 in 2000?
- He’s known as Father Christmas in the UK, Pere Noel in France, Kriss Kringle in Germany, La Befana in Italy, Julinesse in Denmark and Dedushka Moroz in Russia but what does the Russian version of Father Christmas actually mean?
- On 26th December of what year was the USSR officially dissolved?
- In what year were the first electric Christmas lights used?
- In the 1930’s, the Addis Brush Company produced the first artificial-brush trees, using the same machinery that made their…. a) toilet brushes, b) hair brushes, c) tooth brushes or d) paint brushes?
- The music to ‘Silent Night’ was originally written for a…. a) guitar, b) piano, c) harpsichord or d) pipe organ?
Posted in Competition | 5 Comments »
A memorial service is to be held for Lionel Webster in St Oswald’s Church, Ashbourne at 3pm on Monday 14th December.
Posted in People | Leave a Comment »
Contact the blog team
Latest Comments
-
-
-
You can follow @parwichblog on Twitter, and you can also "like" us on Facebook.
-
Recent Posts
PARWICH.ORG 