The Methodist service due to take place this coming Sunday 6 March has been cancelled due to illness.

Legion Karaoke Night…

Bowls AGM – Today!

Big Bingo Prize Night

March Church Services

PEAK FIVE BENEFICE SERVICES

NEW SERVICE PATTERN STARTS – most services 10.30am

ALL WELCOME AT EACH SERVICE – WHY NOT SHARE A LIFT?

6th March Lent 1

Parwich               2.30pm       Methodist led service         CANCELLED due to illness    

Tissington             10.30am      Family Service                         Rev N Fenton

13th March Lent 2

Alsop en le Dale   10.30am      Morning Praise                         warden led

Thorpe                  10.30am      Mattins                                     Miss R Hunt

20th March Lent 3

Alsop en le Dale   10.30          Mattins                           Archdeacon Carol Coslett

27th March Mothering Sunday

Thorpe                  10.30am      Holy Communion                    Rev Ben Griffiths

Parwich               11am          Memorial Service for

                                                Rosemary Chambers   

                                                                                Rev Christopher Harrison

Blue and Green Bins Tomorrow

But sadly no food caddy.

The permanent closure today of the privately owned Vital Earth reprocessing facility in Ashbourne means residents are asked for the next four weeks to mix food waste in your domestic waste containers.

All food caddy collections are paused from tomorrow (1 March).

While Derbyshire Dales District Council remains one of the few councils locally to offer separate food waste collections, we apologise for the temporary inconvenience to our residents.

Vital Earth has for a number of years recycled food and garden waste from Derbyshire Dales collections into compost, used in horticulture and sold in bags at local garden centres.

The District Council has been negotiating with Serco on the new arrangements and has identified alternative recycling sites in the north and south of Derbyshire that will take the district’s garden waste, which means garden waste collections continue unchanged for residents on bin collections.

Unfortunately while one of the new sites will accept garden waste in compostable sacks, the other will not and we cannot split the Dales into separate collection areas. Residents on sack collection rounds who subscribe to our garden waste scheme have already received a direct communication from the Council about this.

We have identified an alternative option for food waste disposal and will update you on this in four weeks when operational details have been finalised with Serco.

Parwich Primary School PTA Raffle

Just over one week left to get your tickets. Tickets are available from Lucy Maddocks. There are some great prizes up for grabs and all to raise money for our local school.

Parwich Picture Club

Bowls AGM

Legion Karaoke Night…

Oil Price :-(

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Update for Bradbourne & Parwich Heating Oil Club


The Ukraine crisis pushed Brent Crude over $105 a barrel on Thursday but has since fallen back to $97 a barrel. However, we have heard from several suppliers today that a lack of product at a number of terminals is pushing kerosene prices even higher in the UK. If you do not need to order fuel, you may wish to wait until oil prices and supply issues stabilise.
Estimated delivery times are 7 to 14 working days. Delivery times are an estimated delivery time. Please allow plenty of time for your order to be delivered and take into consideration that with the cold weather comes higher oil usage so please ensure you have allowed enough time for delivery. If you are low on heating oil and need a quick delivery, this group order will not be suitable.

TIP: Over time condensation and sludge naturally build up in your tank and can cause issues if sucked into your system. We recommend adding a bottle of additive to your oil to help break down any sludge and clear the injectors and pipes, and putting a water scavenger in every few months to absorb any water that has built up at the bottom of your tank.
Additives and water scavengers can be purchased from The Oil-Club Store. Please note, if you have an AGA then please ensure you order the cooker additive.

Rate:  £0.7244 (pence per litre excluding vat [5% for Domestic use])

For full details  Continue Reading »

Horticultural Society Talk

Legion Shrovetide Raffle Winner

This week’s bingo is cancelled

Help Needed

I wonder if you could help please? My parents, Gill and Peter Simpson are despairing about being let down time & time again by tradespeople. They have been promised people to come to put in a new radiator &, look at lights in their living  which have gone dim. Their summer house roof and felt has now blown off and requires repair. They also require help in the garden and for odd jobs.
I wonder if you could put a request for help with the above please but tradespeople need to be reliable and be able to do the job well!
I realise that many people are in this situation but they are becoming very anxious about this and are struggling especially with the light situation. I live up in Cumbria and have asked on Facebook for recommendations but have only managed to find substandard tradespeople.
Thanks so much in anticipation
Jackie Bateman . 390388.


Free to Good Home

Slimline water butt and stand free to good home, outside Wheatsheaf cottage to collect if you can make use of it.
Jill L

6 Nations at the Legion

February Film: No Time To Die

James Bond (Daniel Craig) is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica after leaving active service. However, his peace is short-lived as his old CIA friend, Felix Leiter, shows up and asks for help.

The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond on the trail of a mysterious villain who’s armed with a dangerous new technology.

FRIDAY 25th February  7.45PM

Parwich Memorial Hall

“No Time to Die review – Daniel Craig dispatches James Bond with panache, rage – and cuddles” *****  The Guardian

Bins Update

This message received from Derbyshire Dales District Council-

While household waste and recycling collections currently remain a day later than usual this week due to Monday’s floods, Serco are catching up faster than expected with some garden, food and trade waste collections.

This means some garden, food and trade waste collections have happened on residents’ usual day today – we apologise on Serco’s behalf for the lack of communication on this.

However, Serco will go back for any garden waste and food collections missed yesterday and today if you were working to the revised day-late schedule and didn’t put your container out. Simply complete the missed bin form at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/missedbin

The new message for the rest of this week is to leave garden and food waste containers out for collection *on your usual collection day*, but household waste and recycling collections will continue to be a day later than usual. Serco’s crews will work on Saturday to catch up.

MARVELLOUS!

Glow Worms!

Dear residents of Parwich.  I am after your help!

My name is Jim, a Derbyshire naturalist and former countryside warden.  For almost 20 years I have had a fascination with one of the UKs most enigmatic insect, the Common Glow-worm and most evening through June and July I am out searching the Derbyshire countryside to try to locate and record the species which is actually a type of beetle and not a worm at all.

Many people are totally unaware that Glow-worms (a close relative of Fireflies) even exist in Derbyshire or even the UK. They do and Derbyshire is quite a good place to find them, especially in the limestone areas of our county, where they may be found in many of the limestone dales.

Unfortunately, the number of populations of this species has declined over the past century through changes to land use, use of pesticides and increased levels of light pollution. Therefore I am trying to locate as many of our surviving Glow-worm populations as possible.

Over the last five or six years I have been trying to find new i.e. unrecorded populations as well as visiting sites with historical records, some dating back to the mid 1900’s. 

There are no records that I am aware of for the immediate area around Parwich. The nearest populations being in Ballidon Dale where I saw them in 2018 and on private land a little farther east towards Brassington.  There is also an old record for the Tissington Trail near Newton Grange. 

It is possible that Glow-worms do exists around Parwich village and some of you may be aware of them, or have seen them there in the past, perhaps lighting your way home with their yellow bioluminescent glows, down one of the lanes on a summer evening.

Glow-worms are usually found on unimproved pastures & meadows especially steep banks or dale sides, where they feed upon slugs and snails.

I’d be grateful if anyone who may know of the whereabouts of any Glow-worms, even memories of seeing them decades ago around Parwich (or indeed anywhere else in the county) could let me know via my email address

More information about Glow-worms can be found on the UK Glow-worm Survey website (www.glowworms.org.uk ) that Glow-worm enthusiast Robin Scagell has run for almost 30 years.  I now assist Robin with the survey as well as conducting my own searches in Derbyshire.

Many thanks

Jim Alder

UK Glow-worm Survey records verifier

derbyshireglowworms@gmail.com

Parish Council Minutes

Click this link to read the draft minutes of the meeting of Parwich Parish Council held on the 16th of February.

Parwich Picture Club

Carnival and Recreation Committee AGM

The Carnival and Recreation Committee are holding their AGM on Wednesday 23rd March, 7pm at the Parwich Royal British Legion.

We would love to welcome new members to join our small committee to help plan Wakes week, Bonfire night and Christmas Carols on the Green so please feel free to come along and find out more. If you have any questions please email lucywigley@googlemail.com

Thanks Lucy M

Grey Bin Thursday

and food caddy.

one day late due to flooding around the dales.

Bin Collection One Day Late

All bin collections will be one day later than usual for the remainder of this week due to rounds being cancelled today because of widespread flooding across the Dales.

It means collections that were scheduled for today will now happen tomorrow, and Tuesday’s on Wednesday etc. Serco crews will be working on Saturday to complete the week’s rounds.

Housing Needs Survey

Housing need survey for Parwich, Ballidon, Bradbourne, Eaton & Alsop and Newton Grange

Local people with a connection to Parwich and the neighbouring parishes of Ballidon, Bradbourne, Eaton & Alsop and Newton Grange are being encouraged to take part in an online survey about their housing needs.

Derbyshire Dales District Council wants to hear from people who are living in accommodation that is unsuitable for them. For example this could be young people interested in setting up a home for the first time, families needing a bigger home, people struggling in high cost rented homes and older people who may have a need to downsize.

A District Council spokesperson said: “For many people, finding a home that is affordable in the Peak District can be a real challenge – and local shops and services, which help to keep our communities sustainable and vibrant, are put under pressure as the population changes.

“Our key corporate priorities include enabling new homes for local people and supporting the local economy – that’s why we are working in partnership with local parish councils and other community groups to deliver more housing.”

A postcard inviting residents to take part in the survey is being hand-delivered by local residents through every letterbox in Parwich, Ballidon, Bradbourne, Eaton and Alsop, Newton Grange.

The spokesperson added: “We have a strong track record of building small developments of sensitively planned affordable homes within the Peak District National Park. You can see recent examples in Bradwell, Youlgrave, Stoney Middleton, Elton, Calver and Bakewell. These are all occupied by people with a strong local connection to those villages and towns.

“We believe that there is a growing need to build affordable homes for local people in Parwich and the neighbouring parishes.

“However, before any options are considered, we need the community to help us identify what the housing need is. That’s why we’re calling on residents – or former residents with a strong local connection who have moved away and wish to return – to tell us about their housing issues.”

The survey can be completed online at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/housingneedsurvey or contact the District Council’s Rural Housing Enabler, Jeremy Mason, on 01629 761256 / jeremy.mason@derbyshiredales.gov.uk before the deadline of 22nd March 2022

Tree Down

On the road heading towards Hill Top from Town Head. Passable with care. Susan S

Thanks to John V for the photo

6 Nations at the Legion

Pump Hill Tree Down

A tree has fallen on Pump Hill. Some of the branches are hanging over the road. Charles B has offered to cut back the offending branches once the wind dies down a little. Take care if you are driving or walking around Pump Hill.

Road Closed Matlock Bath

Just in case anyone has to venture out :  I’ve heard that you cannot get to Matlock through Matlock Bath ( the road is closed between Cromford and the railway bridge going into Matlock) due to concerns about the wall retaining the river.  There is also flooding in Crown Square, the park and the A6 (The Arc leisure centre road).

Sue H

Parwich Primary School PTA Raffle

Just over two weeks left to get your tickets. Tickets are available from Lucy Maddocks, the pub shop or the school. There are some great prizes up for grabs and all to raise money for our local school.

Tree Blocking Monsdale Lane

Monsdale Lane is completely blocked by a fallen tree, just beyond Littlewood Farm. I have contacted the Council about it who have a lodged a report.

Best wishes
Aniela S (Littlewood Farm)


The week at the Legion

Horticultural Society AGM

February Film: No Time To Die

James Bond (Daniel Craig) is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica after leaving active service. However, his peace is short-lived as his old CIA friend, Felix Leiter, shows up and asks for help.

The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond on the trail of a mysterious villain who’s armed with a dangerous new technology.

FRIDAY 25th February  7.45PM

Parwich Memorial Hall

“No Time to Die review – Daniel Craig dispatches James Bond with panache, rage – and cuddles” *****  The Guardian

Damage to Verges

Yesterday a large vehicle appears to have been done significant damage to the verges on both Creamery Lane and Kiln Lane.

If anyone knows which vehicle caused this damage could they please share this information with the Parish Council.

Parcel Mystery

” I have a parcel here for ‘Sarah Chambers’. I don’t know her. Does anyone else know her? If so, please could you let her know that I have her parcel. I am a bit puzzled that it is addressed to my address which is: The Square, School Lane, Parwich, DE6 1QJ.

Please could anyone who knows Sarah ask her to give me a call on 01335 390554 & leave me a message to arrange collection.

Thanks. Lesley B

Anyone for Cricket?