MORE than 1,000 spectators braved freezing temperatures to cheer on friends and family in a gruelling charity race which saw competitors plunging 30ft into icy water. Continue Reading »
Have a great birthday weekend – make the most of today as tomorrow you will be a decade older!
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Hands up, who would like to see yet more frost shots?!
These can all be enlarged by clicking…
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The 2009 Parwich Film season kicks off on Friday 9th with another family-friendly animation from the brilliant Pixar Studios. Continue Reading »
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Thanks to John F-S for sending us this striking pair of images. Please click to enlarge.
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The second half of our Parwich News Review of 2008 starts where we left off: slap bang in the middle of Wakes Week. We hope you’ll enjoy our month-by-month summary, which covers the period from July to December.
WARNING: it’s quite a lengthy summary! Continue Reading »
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We have had some more frosty pictures sent into us: three from Pikehall & one from Parwich.
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It will be interesting to see what The Weatherman has to report on yesterday and today. As far as we can tell, the temperature never rose above -4 degrees centigrade all day on New Year’s Eve. The upside of this was we had a beautiful frost for us to admire.
Frost covering twisted hazel.
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Happy New Year – Don’t forget your black bins will be collected tomorrow, Saturday 2nd January.
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The advertiser reports this week that the Competition Commission has finished its provisional investigation into the takeover of Hartington cheese factory. It concludes that with out Long Clawson Dairy takeover, Dairy Crest’s Blue Stilton factory would close down anyway, shortly after Christmas – it has been making a loss for years. The downturn in the factory’s profitability has been partly put down to a decline in the quality of cheese going back to 2001 when expensive new equipment was brought into the site, they lost customers like Sainsbury’s. The Hartington Creamery was founded in 1870 and has been used for the production of Stilton since 1900.
The Commission has invited the public to have their say on the finding, please email stilton@cc.gsi.gov.uk before January 9th.
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It had its ups, it had it downs – but life in Parwich during 2008 was rarely uneventful. On the downside, we lost the Spar shop, the Methodist chapel and the direct bus service to Derby, and much of the village was battered by freak floods. On the upside, we gained a shop in the pub, a refurbished hard play area, a replica tympanum and a beautiful new stained glass window in the church, half a million quid’s worth of Lottery money for the Memorial Hall, nearly £8000 for the primary school, a national award for the Sycamore, prime time TV success for a Parwich lad… oh, and can we mention this very website, which launched in March?
To help us look back on the past twelve months of village life, here’s a month-by-month reminder of some of the main events. We’re splitting it into two parts, starting with the period from January to June. Continue Reading »
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Come along and join in the New Year’s Eve Parties – there are three in the village tomorrow.
Memorial Hall – from 8pm. Stepping Stones are holding a family party night with buffet. Pay on entrance – £6 adult, £3 child. Please bring your own drinks. Everyone of all ages are welcome.
Parwich Legion from 8pm – Karaoke & free buffet. Come and welcome the New Year in.
The Sycamore – Entertainment with DJ Will” and a light buffet
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Open all week until Sunday 4th – 10.30am – 5pm for teas, coffees, light lunches and afternoon teas. From January 8th it is open Thursdays to Sundays.
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This week’s Stunner may only be a very slim edition, but as usual there is plenty of Parwich-related content to read about. Due to technical problems at Burton on Trent they are not sure when the paper will be on-line, that is why the usual links we put on are not available. Links now available. Why not read the whole paper, click here for the on line version.
Page 2. “Cash harvest for schools’ growers”. Parwich Primary School kept up the village’s current streak by attracting the highest figure in the area, scooping £7860 to grow their own fruit & veg. Their slice of the £510,000 will be invested in tools, a greenhouse, propagators, plants & seeds.
Page 3. “Credit crunch? Not here, say retailers”. Ashbourne appears to be avoiding the worst of the economic doom & gloom with many traders reporting a successful Christmas. New managing director of Bennetts, Simon Ingham said it was “too early” to say for sure how well they did over Christmas.
Page 6 & 7. “Speech day awards for QEGS high-flyers”
Page 8. “May’s legacy ends its 10-year blessing”. May Heathcote of Bradbourne left all her money to benefit the community, the trust set up in her name has awarded nearly half a million pounds & has now completed their job. A number of organisations in Parwich benefited from this trust, including The Over 60’s Club, Parwich Youth Club, Parwich Crown Green Bowling Club and Parwich First Responders.
Page 9. “Army officer plans new manoeuvres”. Simon Ingham a former army officer, now living in Parwich is the new managing director of Bennetts, he will also oversee the company branches in Derby and Bakewell. He is keen to support local businesses, charities, artists and designers and will have specific 10% sales of which 5% will be passed on to charity, benefiting the whole community. Speaking about Parwich he said “Parwich is a beautiful place, I enjoy living and working here and really enjoy the countryside”.
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Thanks to the triple-whammy of a) the Big Lottery Fund grant, b) the cheeky Advent Calendar pages and c) Tom’s Strictly Come Dancing victory, PARWICH.ORG has enjoyed a record month in terms of visitor numbers, with over 20,000 page views (and counting).
This beats our previous record of just over 15,000 page views in July, when the excitement of Wakes Week also sent the stats sky high. Interestingly, the week following Wakes remains our busiest week to date, by the merest of whiskers.
Perhaps this goes to show us what tabloid newspaper editors have known for a long time: that nothing “sells” like sauciness, sportiness, success and celebrity!
We’d be surprised if these extraordinary figures were ever matched again in the future… but then again, as 2008 has shown us time and time again, you never quite know what’s lurking around the corner…
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Lots of people have looked at this brain teaser published on Saturday, but I’m not sure how many of you got the correct answers. All the answers are to do with pounds, shillings & pence and the sum of the answers comes to 32 pounds, 7 shillings and 81/2 pence. Be sure to say the answers out loud, it all becomes so obvious! Continue Reading »
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Well it wasn’t a white Christmas but here’s how the weather was…..
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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 |
1024.5 |
1027.7 |
10.7 |
7.5 |
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Mon 22nd |
1 |
1029.2 |
1033.7 |
11.8 |
7.7 |
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Tue 23rd |
0 |
1032.5 |
1033.8 |
6.5 |
6.4 |
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Wed 24th |
0 |
1033.7 |
1034.5 |
10.2 |
5.1 |
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Thurs 25th |
0 |
1032.5 |
1035.2 |
6.0 |
4.6 |
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Fri 26th |
0 |
1036.6 |
1037.5 |
5.5 |
1.9 |
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Sat 27th |
0 |
1036.1 |
1035.0 |
2.2 |
0.2 |
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Total |
1 |
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Average |
7.6 |
4.8 |
The weatherman on the hill wishes everyone a happy new year!
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This year’s critically acclaimed Nativity Play, which took place in St Peter’s Church on Christmas Eve, is now available as a DVD.
To obtain a copy – in return for a donation to St Peter’s Church Restoration Fund – please contact Martin by e-mail at martin@orchidserve.com, or by phone on 529.
Martin has also loaded a preview clip to YouTube:
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Another teaser, but no clues this time.
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After all that turkey and pudding, let’s exercise the mind. What are the next two numbers in the sequence?
For a clue, but if you don’t want to know don’t click here. Continue Reading »
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If you’re trying to think of somewhere (other than the sales) to go over the next few days, and running out of ideas about where to take the rellies, well good news. Ilam tearooms is open from 11am tomorrow until January 4th. If the weather is anything like it was today it’ll be gorgeous over there. These photos were taken this afternoon. Continue Reading »
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Making room for the turkey. Continue Reading »
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Christmas Day is here at last, meaning that it’s time to reveal our final Advent Calendar window. Please be sure to click on the door marked “25”, to view a veritable feast of visual delights! (The tinsel alone took Kevin a whole afternoon to arrange…)
If you’re using Internet Explorer with your speakers switched on, then there’s also a little audio treat in store.
Every single one of the images that we’ve featured over the last 25 days has been taken by Parwich photographers, using Parwich locations (yes, even the indoor “still life” shots). Many thanks to everybody who contributed to this epic project!
And finally, here’s a chance to revisit all 25 windows and all 6 of our “specials”… Continue Reading »
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As so often seems to be the case these days, there’s plenty of Parwich-related content in this week’s Ashbourne News Telegraph…
Page 1. “What a turn-up for Shrovetide!” – Simon Spencer, who represents Dovedale and Parwich Ward on Derbyshire Dales District Council, will be turning up the ball for the Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football match on Shrove Tuesday, February 24th.
Page 4. Editorial comment: “Tom’s secret of success”. A veritable eulogy to our Mr. Chambers, which pegs him as “the kind of person that every mother would like their daughter to marry”…
Page 8. “Should Tom have won?” – a news piece announcing the opening of “what could be our most one-sided poll ever” on the Stunner’s website.
Page 8. “Tools stolen from garage” – report on last Saturday lunchtime’s theft of several hundred pounds worth of equipment from a wooden garage in Parwich.
Page 10. “Public says Yes to Tom’s magic steps.” A detailed full-page article on last Saturday’s victory, featuring quotes from Stephen Conway at The Sycamore, the Revd. Christopher Harrison – and an interesting exclusive mini-interview with Tom’s mum Rosemary, which also contradicts some of this week’s national newspaper headlines…
Page 19. “Lottery windfall for village halls.” Another full page feature, covering the Big Lottery Fund grants made to Parwich and Clifton. There’s also a colour photo of committee members Val S, Mike G-P, Brian B and Nick S.
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MERRY CREDIT-CRUNCH-MAS!
FRUGALLY FESTIVE FELICITATIONS
TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS IN PARWICH,
FROM KEVIN AND MIKE
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Please click the door marked “24” to reveal today’s pair of images. There will be one more window to open on Christmas Day.
As for our sixth and final EXCITING MYSTERY WINDOW, we are happy to announce that we exceeded our target of £40… raising a final total of £151.
This was in no small part due to a very generous donation from a couple of well-wishers from outside the village, who discovered PARWICH.ORG following Tom’s Strictly victory. This is what they had to say:
Tom has given us such pleasure over the Strictly series. If his good humour and spirit is indicative of that of his locality, we wanted to show our appreciation by supporting a local cause.
As a result, we can now reveal our “Seasonal Stocking Filler” Calendar Girl! Please click on the window to view the image.
We hope you’ve enjoyed our cheeky cavalcade of Calendar Boys and Calendar Girls, who between them have raised over £300 for the Memorial Hall Fund. Our sincere thanks to all who participated, and to all who donated.
And finally… there’s just enough room for one more Bumper Bonus Calendar Boy, whose submission reached us too late to be included in the “Pay Per View” series… who can it possibly be? Continue Reading »
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Two delightful shepherds were seen wandering around Parwich today. Were they looking for their sheep? Find out tomorrow. Come along tomorrow at 4pm to Parwich Church and see The Nativity Play and Christmas Eve service.
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What a super evening, there must have been almost 100 people singing on The Green, we even managed an original compilation, Once in Royal David’s City to the tune of Hark the Herald Angels Sing – the original was better than our version. Thanks to Chris for accompanying us and to Barbara, Mary & helpers for providing mulled wine & mince pies. More photos… Continue Reading »
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Just in case you missed this piece of information on the blue cards:
the green bins are being collected on Christmas Eve.
As for the regular domestic waste bins, these will be collected on Saturday 27th December.
Next Friday’s refuse collections will also take place a day later than usual, on Saturday January 3rd.
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They say that good things come in threes. Following last week’s Big Lottery Fund grant of £500,000 towards the redevelopment of Parwich Memorial Hall, and Tom Chambers’ spectacular success in Strictly Come Dancing, some of us were left wondering what our third stroke of good fortune would be.
And now we know! We’re grateful to our friends at the Ashbourne News Telegraph for passing on the excellent news that Parwich Primary School has been awarded a grant of nearly £8000, as part of Derbyshire County Council’s “Growing Better Together” funding initiative. This award is amongst the highest given to any of the schools on the list.
The funding is designed to encourage Derbyshire youngsters to:
- Plan, plant, grow and eat healthy food
- Share experience and knowledge by working alongside older people, parents, voluntary groups and horticulture/conservation organisations in their communities.
To read the full text of Derbyshire County Council’s press release: Continue Reading »
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If yesterday’s theme was “arboreal”, today’s theme is “ecclesiastical”. Please click the door marked “23” to see what we’re on about…
There’s just one more day to go before we reveal our sixth and final EXCITING MYSTERY WINDOW – but we’ll only be revealing it if we raise at least £40 for the Memorial Hall Fund.
Today is your final chance to donate! As always, you can do so via PayPal, or via the collecting tin in the Sycamore, or via one of the blog team.
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Don’t forget to join us for the annual “Carols on the Green”, a delightful village event to celebrate the start of Christmas.
After a hearty sing, we can refresh ourselves with mulled wine & mince pies.
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We were delighted to receive a couple of friendly and informative e-mails from Bernard Tapp, who lived at “Stanworth” on the Alsop Road in the 1960s. Over to Bernard…
It was not until I saw the end of “Strictly” last night that I discovered that Tom came from Parwich. My link goes back to 1965 when I was appointed Head Teacher at Clifton Primary School at the age of 31. We had to move from Northampton.
Estate agents in Ashbourne offered us the choice of three farms to buy! Exploration led us to the Moore’s builders and I was offered a plot of land opposite the Legion for £450. Moore designed and built the house I called “Stanworth” (Stone House) and we lived there for four years until I took another post near Bristol. I am Bernard Tapp, my wife, who died in 1997 was Meg, and the three youngsters are Marion, Trevor and Jayne.
I can tell you a few tales of how we were gradually accepted in the village. As Alan and Violet Oldfield said, “When they tell you you are not digging the garden right you are in”. Someone coming out of the Legion did, and we were.
We were “Nobs” according to Alan, and when Col Sir John Crompton Inglefield was unable to open the village fete, Meg was called in at the last minute. She had to buy a hat! I remember he called his wife Bunty.
We were friendly with Cath and Cliff Goldstraw, but they have both passed on. My dog once sat outside the Sycamore all night in drenching rain, ‘cos their bitch was on heat!!
If you want me to rack my brains further, I will. Like when my toddler son threw Violet and Alan’s gnomes in their pond, and then followed them in in the middle of winter, or when he and another lad, whose name I have forgotten, smeared wet tarmac in their hair after I had had a “Cheap” delivery from the quarry. We could buy cheaply some left over loads at the end of the day.
I won’t bore you any more but please e-mail m.robinet@blueyonder.co.uk if you want to chat. I still keep in touch with the Oldfields, and have been onto the History Society Website.
Regards,
Bernard Tapp
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This evening Tom’s high profile ‘thank you’ to Parwich village, to the Sycamore and its loyal band of fans, and to the people of Derbyshire in general was featured on the BBC East Midlands evening news, including footage (taken from us!) of Tom and Camilla’s visit to the Sycamore and another interview with Janet Gosling.
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In what has been billed as the only post-Strictly television interview that they will be doing, Tom and Camilla appeared on this morning’s BBC Breakfast, alongside judge Arlene Phillips.
Click here to watch the clip, which can also be viewed in full screen mode.
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The following was sent to us this afternoon:
I would like to wish you all and your families a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
Thank you for your continued support throughout 2008. The information that you pass on to Derbyshire Constabulary following Ringmaster community messages is much appreciated.
Many thanks to the Safer Neighbourhood Teams for recruiting new members of the community, who are now registered with the messaging service. We look forward to working along with you in 2009.
Together we can continue to make this area a safe place to live, work in and visit.
Best Wishes, Trisha Mellor
Buxton Police Station
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PARWICH.ORG has just received this message from Tom’s dad Stuart:
Hi and we are still in London enjoying lots of emotion. We go to the Xmas recording tonite too. No telephone voting required.
The first place the Strictly Come Dancing trophy is coming, says Tom, is to The Sycamore.
Tom says thank you for your support and all the best for Xmas and New Year. He cannot get up until mid January, due to more Strictly tour rehearsals.
My favourite film is It’s a Wonderful Life, James Stewart. It sure is at the moment, thanks to the public. Tom is very humbled.
Big episode on Holby City too on Tuesday night. More Kleenex. Thanks Parwich.
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Please click on the door marked “22” to reveal today’s pair of Advent images.
As for our sixth and final EXCITING MYSTERY WINDOW, our Calendar Girl will appear on Christmas Eve – but only if we raise at least £40 in donations for the Memorial Hall Fund.
Please donate online, or via the tin in the Sycamore, or by contacting one of the blog team.
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Mamma Mia has been one of the most popular in the current parwich film season, and a few people have requested a second showing. This is more than possible if there is sufficient demand:
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