With these high temperatures and humidity, the energy in the atmosphere has to go somewhere, and tonight, it came to Parwich. This picture was taken at 7:30 pm tonight 29th June 2009. The cloud formations were spectacular, and what you don’t get from this still picture is the turbulent movement in the formations. Though there are rumblings and flashes, so far, as of writing this, we have been spared the storm.
Graham
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Tuesday 30th June: Hill Race
7-00pm Local Mothers’ Race
7-30pm Junior Hill Race
8-00pm Senior Hill Race
For more details on the evening click here and for enquiries about the Hill Race call tel. 01629 732004.
For last years’ times click here.
Westledine’s funfair will be in full swing for the evening. Click here to see the full Wakes Week programme.
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Thank you to Amy H-G, who is visiting Parwich, for these photos (taken before the storm clouds arrived). Click here for Nia’s write up of the evening.
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Lou Matthews ran her very popular jewellery stall again at the Village Market on Saturday. At the end of the day she generously donated her takings of £200 to the New Memorial Hall Fund. Lou is anxious that all the people who bought jewellery from her should also be thanked.
The fund also received another anonymous donation of £2000. We are a very lucky village to have people who are working so hard and giving both time and money to help us build our hall. Thank you to all of them.
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Do you have any Wakes photos that we could add to the blog? Or any Wakes photos that we could use in a caption competition? Please send them to our email address – parwich@hotmail.co.uk. If we get inundated, we may not be able to post them all but will post as many as we can. We would also like photos from the campsite games if anyone has any. Thank you.
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Happy St Peter’s Day
St Peter’s day (29th June), along with St John the Baptist’s day (25th June), is an important marker for mid-summer celebrations. Bonfires were lit on both St John’s Eve (Midsummer’s Day, this was the Summer Solstice before changes in the calendar) and St. Peter’s Eve. In Tudor England both these celebrations included music, processions, garlands of flowers, drinking ale and feasting.
Locally St. Peter’s Day is the fixed point for the timing of Parwich Wakes, and gardeners in the village used to regard this as the best time for digging your first new potatoes.
The Odd Fellows Ale drunk at their feast on Saturday is a recent revival of a very old tradition. Chris and the A52s are keeping alive local music making. Our Carnival Parade is a reminder of the Tudor processions, and the floats in the parade echo the decorated carts popular in the north as part of the build up to hay making.
Being currently between vicars there is no St Peter’s Day service in Parwich Church this year, but Andrew Robinson, lay reader wrote the following on St Peter for us: Continue Reading »
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Wakes Week got off to an excellent start yesterday. The weather became progressively better and much fun was had by all who participated.
Here are some more photos from the Odd Fellows’ Procession, the Village Market and the Fancy Dress Parade. See if you can spot yourself!
The Odd Fellows' Procession
Click on ‘continue reading’ for the photo gallery.
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Monday 29th June: Children’s Sports
6-30pm Children’s Sports at Nether Green and call in at the funfair on your way home.
For a list of events click here to see the full Wakes programme.
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The tea and cakes in Parwich Churchyard went down well, and all the proceeds will go to the Church restoration fund.
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No swimming tomorrow as there is a problem with the pool in Ashbourne.
9.30am PC Cassidy in school leading assembly on local links – parents welcome.
11am Opening Ceremony of Sports Week – all children make a pledge to sport. The objectives of the week are to raise awareness of the 2012 London Olympics and to improve awareness of PE and Sport across the school.
And don’t forget, children’s sports on Nether Green at 6.30pm on Monday and the Junior Hill Race at 7-30pm on Tuesday.
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What’s on Where this Week |
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| Date | Time | Event | Location |
| Sunday | 11am | Campsite Service if wet in the Church. |
Parwich Cricket Ground |
| Sunday | 12pm | Fun & Games with the Campers | Parwich Cricket Ground |
| Sunday | 2-4.30pm | Teas & Cakes in the Churchyard Donations to Church Fabric Appeal |
Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 4pm | Funding Meeting | |
| Sunday | 2.30pm | Parwich v Kings Newton | Away Bowling Match |
| Sunday | 6pm | Treasure Hunt | Village Green |
| Sunday | 8pm | BBQ | British Legion |
| Monday | 6.30pm | Children’s Sports | Nether Green |
| Monday | 8pm | Memorial Hall Committee Meeting | Memorial Hall |
| Tuesday | from 7pm | Hill Race Night | |
| Wednesday | 8pm | Strongest Man Competition | The Sycamore |
| Thursday | 7pm | Children’s Film | Memorial Hall |
| Thursday | 8.30pm | Wheelbarrow Race |
Start – Pump Shed. Finish – The Legion |
| Friday | 10.30am-3.30pm | Liberation Day Event free for 50+,free lunch & refreshment. All services present – Police, Age Concern, Council, Fire Service etc |
Pavilion Gardens Buxton |
| Friday | from 7pm | The Ball Race & Race Night | British Legion |
| Saturday | 9am-10.45am | Saturday Morning Rubbish Collection | Parwich |
| Sunday | 6.30pm | Evensong | Parwich Church |
| Sunday | 2pm | Senior Cup Competition | Bowling Club |
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Up-dated Monday 29th June 2009. Sorry the Blog Team have slipped up and put this information on-line prematurely. Watch out for a corrected post tomorrow (Tuesday 30th June 2009).
Click here for the corrected post.
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Here is last week’s data from the weatherman on the hill, it looks like it is set to continue hot and sultry in Wakes week:
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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 21st |
0 |
1019.3 |
1020.0 |
19.9 |
10.4 |
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Mon 22nd |
0 |
1020.9 |
1021.3 |
23.3 |
10.1 |
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Tue 23rd |
0 |
1022.5 |
1020.6 |
25.0 |
12.0 |
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Wed 24th |
0 |
1022.3 |
1021.2 |
25.9 |
9.7 |
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Thu 25th |
0 |
1017.5 |
1015.3 |
23.7 |
10.8 |
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Fri 26th |
0 |
1012.6 |
1011.5 |
24.5 |
11.5 |
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Sat 27th |
0 |
1013.3 |
1012.6 |
21.4 |
15.0 |
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Total |
0 |
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Average |
23.4 |
11.5 |
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To view the whole gallery: Continue Reading »
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Ah, the sound of the band, the sight of a parade of rather smartly turned out gentlemen (or ‘Odd Fellows’ take your pick…) wearing white gloves and carrying sticks, the sparkling of Lou’s jewellery stand at the ‘Market Place’, the smell of Janet and Paula’s burger stand…it could only be the start of Wakes!
As usual it was great fun for both participants and observers. I always enjoy a spot of shopping, and very much enjoyed my little spree on the green this afternoon. Two necklaces, three bracelets and one 1930’s koala bear later I then strolled over to the beautiful garden at The Fold for a quick sip of beer. The atmosphere there was fantastic! It is great to see to many Parwichians (that sounds like a Native American Tribe, doesn’t it?!) in one spot – especially loved seeing Barbara and Brian McCormack and their gorgeous grandchildren.
What’s next on the agenda? My own lovely Oddfellow (every girl should have one) coming home, full of roast beef and beer, falling asleep on the sofa.
I suppose it is only once a year…
Thank you to Deb for her perspective on the afternoon, she is joining the team for this week as one of our overworked and underpaid roving reporters.
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Sunday 28th June: Campsite Service, Treasure Hunt and Bar-B-Q
11-00am Campsite ‘Songs of Praise’ at Parson’s Croft (or if wet in the Church)
12-00am Fun & Games with the Campers
2pm to 4-30pm Tea & cakes in the Churchyard (if raining inside the Church)
6-00pm Treasure Hunt (start on the Green)
8-00pm Wakes Bar-B-Q at the Legion
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This post is an active one and will grow throughout the day. This post is packed with photos, all will enlarge, just click on them.
By 10am the village is alive with people, the Odd Fellows have already visited 2 venues and quickly marching up the hill for their 3rd pint whilst the Village Market stall holders are busy preparing their goods for the start of the sales at 11am.
The 3rd stop for the marchers after The Sycamore and Flaxdale House is The Hall, with the Shields family serving refreshments for the thirsty participants, it’s a long way up the hill!
10.15 Some of the suspect faces up at The Hall.
Loads more photos of the day, just click. Continue Reading »
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Welcome to the first day of Parwich Wakes, which starts each year on the Saturday nearest to St. Peter’s Day (29th June). The Derbyshire village wakes have their roots in the celebration of each village’s patron saint, dating back to before the Reformation. So Parwich has been celebrating Wakes at this time of year for at least four hundred years; though it could be as long as nine hundred years or more.
Village wakes are a time of celebration, but also from medieval times they have been a time for fund raising for village causes, and equally importantly a time for the consumption of beer!
Saturday 27th June: Odd Fellows Parade & Carnival
9-30am Odd Fellows Parade starts from the Sycamore Inn (an earlier start than usual to fit in the popular new stop at Flaxdale)
11-am Odd Fellows Service in Parwich Church
1-15pm Odd Fellows Dinner in the Memorial Hall
11am to 4pm Village Market (with some 14 stalls) & Children’s Entertainment (including bouncy castle and face painting) & refreshments
6-00pm Fancy Dress & Carnival (parade assembles at the School)
6-15pm Fancy Dress Parade, followed on the Green by a Hog roast, the A52s (until aprox. 8-30pm) and then Chris Houlihan
Also Westledine’s funfair
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Forget the Hill Race; disregard the Strongest Man; it is on Friday night when you’ll need real balls.
Buy your balls at the bargain price of £1 each (available today at Wakes market and the other events all week), and they will be set rolling on Friday evening at the start of Race Night. First prize is £50, second £25 and third £10.
The Grand Ball Race
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Today saw the culmination of Numeracy Week, and what a day it was today. The children had the challenge of dressing up as something to do with maths.
The afternoon, with parents taking part, involved a maths relay with all the school involved. With 7 teams of mixed ages, each team had to run to collect their first of 30 questions, as each one was answered, each child taking it in turns had to return to the the teachers to have their answers checked. Once they received the OK, it was back to their group for the next one.
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On Wednesday there was a crash on the back lane between Town Head and the A515, fortunately no-one, on this occasion was injured. Certainly the increase in traffic on these roads because of the closure of the B5056 is more likely to increase the chances of an accident, but are the overgrown summer verges exacerbating the problem. On both this road and the Alsop road it is extremely difficult to see vehicles coming around the bends because of the hight grasses, it may be that some of the time cars are driving to fast, but others are crawling round mindful of safety.
Would safety be improved if these verges were cut back?
Please ring Police Non Emergency 0345 1233333 or email the police and Derbyshire County Council at Call Derbyshire – 08456 058 058if you have any concerns. The more phone calls, the more likely something will be done.
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Weeding the vegetables. (Click on any photo to enlarge)
Harvesting the first vegetables – Red Potatoes, guess what is on the menu at school next week. Thank you to the Horticultural Society for their support.
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Can you identify where these photos were taken (click on photo to enlarge):
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Tom’s Strictly Come Dancing Trophy is on display at the Sycamore Inn:
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Highways have confirmed that the B5056 is to re-open tonight (Friday 26th June) at 6pm.
Highways will let us know when the scheme of works for repairing the road has been agreed. (The two lots of temporary traffic lights will still be in place.) It is hoped that the road will stay open until until the repairs are due to start, however if there is further movement in the landslip this may not be possible.
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Saturday 27th June: Odd Fellows Parade & Carnival
9-30am Odd Fellows Parade starts from the Sycamore Inn (an earlier start than usual to fit in the popular new stop at Flaxdale)
11-am Odd Fellows Service in Parwich Church
1-15pm Odd Fellows Dinner in the Memorial Hall
11am to 4pm Village Market (with some 14 stalls) & Children’s Entertainment (including bouncy castle and face painting) & refreshments
6-00pm Fancy Dress & Carnival (parade assembles at the School)
6-15pm Fancy Dress Parade, followed on the Green by Hog roast, the A52s (until aprox. 8-30pm) and then Chris Houlihan
Also Westledine’s funfair
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Job description: lousy pay, a sense of humour and a love of Wakes Week.
We are looking for some help to report things during Wakes Week – Interested?
Nothing too demanding: you’ve read the posts that we put on (piece of cake), and spellcheque is included in the package.
So all you have to do is email parwich@hotmail.co.uk or talk to one of the team and let us know which event you are happy to write about. It doesn’t have to be long; write it as if you were talking to a friend. You can then email it in to us, and we’ll post it on the blog.
Seriously: if you can help, we would appreciate knowing as soon as possible, so events are not duplicated – not that we expect to be overwhelmed with offers, but we are happy to be surprised..
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Click on the image below to access the 2009 Official Wakes Programme as a pdf.
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All runners here is your chance. Competitors are invited to enter Parwich Hill Race. Registration is opposite the Sycamore Inn on the night of the races. All races start and finish in front of the Sycamore Inn. The raffle will be drawn and the trophies presented after the completion of the last race. Continue Reading »
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Parents, children, governors and staff of the school – what would you like to see on your school website? It is in the process of being created but we need your input. All ideas and suggestions are welcome – sensible ones, boring ones, fun ones and whacky ones too. You can leave comments at the bottom of this article, email your ideas into us at parwich@hotmail.co.uk or give your ideas to Sally or Lynne.
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Don’t forget that tomorrow (Friday) is the final days of maths week and is a mathematical fancy dress day! Parents are also invited into school from 1.30pm for team games organised by the school council.
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The school is running a tombola at the Saturday Wakes market and would welcome any and all contributions. Please deliver them tomorrow or Friday either to the school or – ideally – to Denise Ball, who is running the stall. All donations are more than welcome. Little bags of sweets or chocolates are popular as they attract lots of children to the stall. Thank you very much.
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A team of about 20 boys and girls went to a QEGs rounders tournament last night in the blazing hot sunshine. The highlights were beating Longford 7:3 and getting through to the quarter finals where sadly we were knocked out by Clifton. Still, the kids clobbered the ball hard a few times, made a few great catches, ran like the wind and had a blast. Continue Reading »
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Available in the Sycamore or online. In this week’s edition there are only two pieces of Parwich news but hopefully we’ll create more next week with all the Wakes events:
p.20: Parwich Wakes Camping Plans – revellers attending Parwich Wakes are being urged to set up camp at official sites.
p.48: Parwich invite keen runners – competitors are invited for Parwich Wakes Hill Race on Tuesday 30th June. All races start and finish outside the Sycamore Inn and more details can be obtained on tel. 01629 732004.
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If you haven’t already, there is still time to plan your costume for the Fancy Dress Parade on Saturday.
Participants should assemble at the School steps for 6pm; the parade begins at 6-15pm. The categories are: Continue Reading »
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