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Editor’s Message Merry Christmas one and all and welcome to our special Christmas edition. Did I mention it’s nearly Christmas!? I make no apologies for being cheerful about Christmas. And if you’re feeling a bit grumpy about it just imagine winter without Christmas!

Staying on the theme (it’s Christmas by the way đ&#x;˜‰) we have a load of fabulous Christmas content and adverts, including events in our What’s on section and throughout the magazine so make sure you have a good read through so you don’t miss anything. We have another new contributor this month, so welcome Professor Ian Rotherham and thank you for contributing this fabulous article and I look forward to more in the coming months!

Last months contributor Josephine who wrote about Halloween in the Peak District, did a fantastic job but discovered a few holes in some of the stories as directed by the residents!

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Congratulations to all our NEC Xmas Gift Fair winners. We had a great response again this year so sorry to all those of you who didn’t get tickets. But if you did miss out don’t despair, we have a new competition for you this month. We have a set of family tickets to give away for Cinderella at the Pomegranate Theatre Chesterfield, starring Naomi Wilkinson and Rhydian Roberts. Turn to page 22 to find out more!

To help us celebrate the season we have another foster arriving before this magazine lands on your doorstep. It’s a really special thing being able to help a dog, especially this time of the year. I may have mentioned before but we help Spaniel Aid, who do so much good work, fostering and finding homes for deserving doggies but there are lots of other good charities to support, so if you want to help, don’t delay, give a rescue dog a home for Christmas.

The next time we will be dropping on your doorstep will be 2019. Now that is a scary thought. We have big plans for next year, with a new website and more mags in the pipeline, along with new exciting content, more great competitions and of course, as always, the very best local information and businesses. Sooooooo keep your eyes peeled!

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PETER’S PhoToGRaPhY PaGE Hi, I’m Peter, your friendly local photographer, helping you capture your events and memories, whether you are looking for a beautiful portrait, to capture the romance of your wedding or to promote your business endeavours. However, I wanted to use this opportunity to share with you some of my experiences and knowledge each month.

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Taking photos is great fun, and is an easy way of recording what you are doing, who you are with, and what you can see. You may have an expensive digital camera, a treasured film camera, or just your mobile phone. Regardless, photography is a brilliant way for you to get creative.

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The annual firework event organised by Chesterfield Borough Council commemorates 100 years since the end of World War One. There will also be a short act of remembrance including standard bearers and playing of the last post. Price and further details to be confirmed.

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Victoria and Albert (112 Mins Cert PG) Thursday 8th Nov Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Calver Film meets at the Village Hall, Calver at 7.30pm. Membership is £20 for 10 films. Guests £5 each.

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Chatsworth House Bonfire and Fireworks Display

Friday 2nd – Saturday 3rd November Wrap up and enjoy live music, dancing and circus performers, face painting for little ones, as well as the traditional bonfire and a dazzling firework display. Keep warm with a range of delicious food & drink from hog

BASH Film Club

This month - The Death of Stalin (15) Comedy - Oct 14th 2018

When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader.

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Do you every find that your moods and emotions are affected and influenced by other people? By what they do, don’t do, say or don’t say or even just ‘vibes’ and energy you feel from them?

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I often find myself influenced by the behaviour and moods of others but I am slowly learning that I can still be a loving and supportive force in a person’s life without ‘taking on’ their energy.

When a close family member was suffering a great deal an important spiritual guide in my life asked me how I was dealing with the situation. When I responded that I was rather worried and was very upset about seeing my family member suffer so much my guide responded: “Helen you can show love and compassion, be helpful and practical but your family member is on their path, it is their journey and their experience to be had.” Immediately I felt less ‘responsible’ – no less concern or compassion but less like it was my responsibility to solve this problem for them. And with this new mind-set I was able to bring much more positivity and practical support into their life than I had previously.

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Family expectations, in this case the need for children to fulfil the dreams of their parents, are always a thorny area. The adult may want the child to be accepted and popular in a way they never were. Or to achieve something they failed to do themselves.

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by Celeste Ng in Everything I Never Told You. Although Ms Ng does add the complication of a boy Lydia pursues at school and who may, or may not, have something to do with her being found floating in the local lake.

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It’s very good on the pressures on children to become what their parents want of them. And on what happens when you’re not the chosen child that everything rests upon.

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A little Christmas cheer across the Peak District…..!

As winter begins to take an icy grip on the region, local people prepare for Christmas celebrations. However, many of our oldest most cherished Christmas customs are neither as traditional nor as ‘Christmassy’ as we might think.

Most of the uses of greenery, such as holly, mistletoe, and in some regions rosemary, bay or other evergreens, are decidedly pagan and have strong fertility overtones. In part, these originate as attempts by early peoples to hold on to the life-force through winter as sunlight and daytime give way to darkness and long

nights.

Winter-green vegetation clearly possessed magical properties to survive the long winter months and they became integral parts of symbolism and rites that related to humanity’s angst about the loss of vitality and fertility of nature. The ‘Yule log’ or ‘Christmas block’ was a specially selected timber log burnt on a hearth in Germanic European countries with its origins in early pagan cultures. In the chill of dark northern European winters the burning of an enormous log through the twelve days of Christmas (and before that, the period of the winter solstice), symbolised the ending of long nights and the beginning of a re-birth of the sun’s power.

Similarly, the use of holly and ivy or other winter-greens in Christmas decorations derive from the need to safeguard nature’s life-force throughout the darkness. At the summer solstice the Holly Man and the Oak Man do battle and, as the Holly Man wins the day, the world is plunged into winter darkness. Fortunes are however reversed at the winter solstice i.e. Christmas, and the Oak Man or Oak King defeats his rival so light and fertility return as part of the endless cycle of life. Do think about this next time you decorate your home with holly, ivy, or mistletoe!

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Christianity then adopted the holly with its red berries as the crown of thorns and Christ’s blood on the cross; but really this is pagan through and through. Indeed, look closely at old carvings and ornamentation in both stone and wood in old Peak District churches and you find green men, and greenery as images from a pagan past bolted onto the Christian faith.

But what you ask, about ‘Father Christmas’ a man of many aliases such as St Nicholas and Santa Claus? Well he certainly didn’t celebrate Christmas and knew little about reindeer. In Dutch legends for example, ‘Sinterklaas’ rode a grey horse and wore bishop’s clothes (it takes all sorts at Christmas…).

In the far north in you may come across the Finnish legend of ‘Old Man Winter’ driving his reindeer down from the mountains and bringing snow with him. This brings us closer to the man sporting a long white beard and importantly, he has reindeer. Even so, the image of Santa we see everywhere, as the plump, jolly figure, long white beard and the rest is depressingly recent.

This derives from drawings by Thomas Nast in Harpers Weekly magazine between 1863 and 1886, the fur-trimmed robe inspired by the furs of the wealthy Astor family.

Anyway, Coca-Cola commissioned young Swedish artist Haddon Sundblom to do an image makeover, what we might call ‘spin’ and it worked a treat. St Nicholas was in a red coat with white trim and a thick leather belt posing in seasonal scenes, and by 1934 found a hat also trimmed in white. His pipe went and he gained a bottle of Coke. Posing with children, reindeer, sacks of toys, or letters, his once modest gifts of cakes, fruit, nuts, dolls and items of clothing, became far more expensive.

Here we have the consumer-driven Christmas experience; so enjoy whilst you can! For our Viking ancestors, the Norse god Odin visited his worshippers in the depths of winter bringing gifts for the deserving and punishments for the bad. A few folk I know might look out around Yuletide!

The ‘traditional’ Santa in shops, gardens, corporate displays, on cards, and inflated and illuminated in countless balconies of homes from Bakewell to Buxton, and from Castleton to Hathersage, is sadly a bit of a fraud, perhaps a charlatan. This jovial bundle of fun and merriment clothed in red and white was invented for Coca-Cola. Prior to 1931, Santa Claus sported different garbs from a natty green elf number, to a sombre St Nicholas. In some cases, he was a gaunt man apparently rather frightening in animal skins or straw and called Knecht Rupprecht.

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A daily guide to some of the local clubs and groups in your area

MONDAYS

1st Grindleford Rainbows, 5-6pm, Pavillion, Ridgefields, Grindleford, 01433 639330 Book Club (1st Mon of month), 7pm, Bakewell Books Coffee Bar, 01629 812818 Tideswell Running Club, 7pm, tideswellrunningclub.uk Outdoor Bootcamp, 6pm Chatsworth, Paul 07403 893542, www.military-bootcamps.com Tai Chi, 3.30-5pm, VH Calver, Margaret Wood 01433 630142 Metafit, 6.30pm, Pilates & Stretch, 7pm, Lafarge Social Club, Hope, 0789 6416 014 Hope Mums, Bumps, Babies & Toddlers, 10-12pm, Hope Old School.07966 476636 Mum’s & Toddler Aerobics, Litton Villlage Hall, 9-10am, Michelle 01298 938080 Pilates, 10-11am, Castleton VH, 07990 771155 Yoga, 7.30pm, Medway Centre, New Street, Bakewell, call Louise on 0773 6351257 Bakewell Choral Society, 7.15pm, Bakewell Methodist Church 01433 631308 Ladies Badminton, Rowsley VH, 7.30pm, 01773 856566/01629 584475 Badminton (All Levels), Lady Manners Sch, 8-10pm, 07754 421211 Tae Kwon-Do, Ashford War Memorial Institute, 6.30pm, 07861 303449 Coffee Morning, Bakewell Methodist Church, 10am-12noon Tideswell Circuit Class, 7pm, Tideswell Fitness & Personal Training Studio, Fountain Square, Tideswell. Paul 07914 817073 Solo Whist 7pm, Caroline Court, Hope. Contact 01433 651560 for more details.

Club 52 Bridge Club 7pm Court Room Gallery, Bakewell Town Hall. 01629 810152 Singing Lessons with Lynda Radford from 4pm Bakewell Town Hall. 01629 810152 Boot Camp 7pm Assembly Room Theatre, Bakewell Town Hall.

01629 810152 Grindleford and Eyam Playgroup 9.30-12.30 Contact 07842 095402 for more information Hatha Yoga with Helen 1.45 -3pm- Bakewell Methodist Church 07525 626709 Buxton tennis club, Park Rd; Buxton SK17 6SF welcomes players (all standards) to club night Mondays 6.00pm-dark, and Saturday mornings 9.30 onwards. Steve (07968336483) Childrens Dance Classes - Peak Performance Theatre School - Tel: 07721 995050 Bakewell Photo Club, alternate Mondays. 7.30pm. Friends Meeting House. bakewellphotographic.co.uk

TUESDAYS

Back to Netball, 8-9pm, Baslow Sportsfield, Becky 07855 943236 2nd Bakewell Rainbows, 5-6pm, Brigade Hall, 07501 811786 1st Bakewell Brownies, 6.15-7.30pm, Brigade Hall, 01629 810369 Ashford Art Group, 1-3.15 pm. Gt. Longstone Vge. Hall. All abilities welcome. 01629 814635

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Whist, Bakewell Working Mens Club, 7pm 01629 812826 Baslow Flower Circle, Baslow V H, 3rd Tues monthly Mar-Nov, 01246 583279 Spinning, 6pm, Kettlercise 7pm, Lafarge Social Club, Hope, 0789 6416 014 Matlock & District Rifle Club, more details from Len Webster 01629 584797 Zumba, 9.30-10.30, Calver VH, Peta 07792 872211 Indoor Short Mat Bowling, 2-4pm & 7-10pm, Bamford Village Inst, 01433 620227 Back-on-Balance (postural exercise), Litton VH, 7pm or 8pm, 07854 763570 Kettlercise Class, 6pm Cavendish Hall, Chatsworth, Paul 07403 893542, www.military-bootcamps.com Buxton Bridge Club, 1.45pm, Old Hall Hotel, Buxton, 01298 25057 Various Back-on-balance Sessions/Clinic, Litton VH, Michelle 01298 938080 Tideswell Spin Class, 1pm & 7pm, Tideswell Fitness & Personal Training Studio, Fountain Square, Tideswell. Paul 07914 817073 Crafty Kids Club, 10am, Medway Centre, New Street, Bakewell, 01629 813638 Bakewell Bridge Club, 6.50pm, Medway Centre, 01629 636267 Zumba & Step, 7pm, Pilates 8.15pm, Loxley Hall, Hope, Claire 07990 771155 Tideswell Male Voice Choir, 7.30pm,Old Grammar School, Tideswell, 01433 650707 Badminton, Bakewell Methodist Church, 01629 812299 Bakewell TWG, Town Hall, 2ND Tuesday of each month 9.45 -11.45, 01629 815196 Children’s Netball and Football Baslow Sports Field 5-6pm - contact Becky Lynn on 07855 943236 Cressbrook Band Practice (all levels) 7.45-9.15pm downstairs at ‘The Cressbrook’ Club (SK17 8SX). www.facebook.com/ cressbrookband Gentle Yoga 10am Court Room Gallery Bakewell Town Hall.

07733179773 Pilates 7pm Court Room Gallery Bakewell Town Hall 01629 810152 Grindleford and Eyam Playgroup 9-3pm Contact 07842 095402 for more information Hatha Yoga with Helen 7.30 - 8.45pm - Lady Manners High School, Bakewell 07525 626709 Street Dance, Musical Theatre - Drama Classes at Peak Performance Theatre School Tel: 07721 995050 Interval Running, 6-7pm, Baslow Sports Field. Becky 07855 943236 Baslow St. Anne’s Church Choir. 6.00pm, Baslow Church, 07515 287222. (choral communion 4th Sunday of each month) Walking Netball Group, 2-3pm, Baslow Sports Field. £3 per session. Christine 07932 071005 chrismlyne@gmail.com

WEDNESDAYS

Bel Canto Ladies’ Choir, 8.15pm, St. Anne’s Church, Baslow.

07515 287222 Bridge Club, 6.50pm for 7pm, Medway Centre, Bakewell, 01629 814011

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Wednesday (continued)

Fitness Pilates, 6-7pm, Baslow VH, 07855 943236 Outdoor Bootcamp, 6pm Chatsworth, Paul 07403 893542, www.military-bootcamps.com Yoga, Friends Meeting House, Bakewell 6pm Beg, 7pm Int, Michelle 01629 815168 Rotary Club of Bakewell, 12.30pm (except last week in month – 7.30pm) Rutland Arms Hotel, Carol 01629 57445.

Bingo 8pm, Indoor Bowling 7pm, Bakewell Working Mens Club, 8pm 01629 812826 Grindleford and Eyam Playgroup Woodland sessions 9-3pm Contact 07842 095402 for more information Body Control Pilates, 9.30am, White Lion,Great Longstone.

Bkg essential. 07903 778619 Matlock & District Rifle Club, more details from Len Webster 01629 584797 Tai Chi, Bakewell 9.15am & Tideswell 11.30am, Margaret Wood 01433 630142 Hatha Yoga, 10.30-11.30am, Over Haddon VH,Michelle 01629 815168 Play Tideswell, 0-5yrs, Youth Club Building, Tideswell, 9am12pm, 07902 003 641 Under 5s Group, 10-11.30am, B Pursglove School, Tideswell, 07902 003641 Badminton, Hathersage Memorial Hall,7-10pm, 01433 621115 1st Bakewell Methodist Rainbows, 5.15-6.15pm, Methodist Church Hall, 07864 573556 Pilates, 9.30-10.30, Methodist Church, Bakewell, 07906 312372Tideswell Male Voice Choir, 7.30pm,Old Grammar School, Tideswell, 01433 650707 Tideswell Running Club, 7pm, tideswellrunningclub.uk Baby & Toddler Group 0-5yrs, 10-11.45, Moore Mem Hall, Bamford, 01433 659815 Baslow Choir, Baslow VH, 7.30pm, 01433 631586 Zumba, 9.15-10.15am, Baslow VH, 07990 771155 Drop in Craft, 10-12pm, Ashford Institute, 01629 812559 Indoor Shortmat Bowling, WMC Bakewell, 6.45pm, Bgnrs Welcome, 01298 871638 Baslow WI, Baslow VH, 2pm, www.baslow-wi.weebly.com (2nd Wed of each month) Karate, The VH, Calver, 6.30-8pm, 0114 2899333 Indoor Bowls, The VH, Calver, 1.30 - 4pm, 01629 815886 Crafty Evening (Last Wed of month), 7pm, Bakewell Books Coffee Bar, 01629 812818 Hockey Baslow Sports Field - 7:30-8:30pm contact Becky Lynn on 07855 943236 Chatsworth Players theatrical group - every Wednesday -7-10pm, Friends Meeting House, Bakewell. email: sylvia@ chatsworthplayers.com or 07425 919 965.

Whist Drive - 7:30pm, Moore Memorial Hall, Bamford. Contact 01433 651288 for more details Bakewell & District Community Choir 7pm Assembly Room Theatre, Bakewell Town Hall 07972 717279 Strike Academy of Dance & Theatre Arts 4-8pm Court Room Gallery Bakewell Town Hall 01629 810152Calver Badminton Club (School term time) 7.30 – 9pm. Lady Manners School, Bakewell. Experienced adult players and Juniors (13 years +) £4 per session Liz 07718 068384 Calver Badminton Club (School term time) 7.30 – 9pm. Lady Manners School, Bakewell. Experienced adult players and Juniors (13 years +) £4 per session Liz 07718 068384

THURSDAYS

High Peak Luncheon Club, Various venues monthly. Details from 01663 719042 Matlock Railway Club - New Venue - Gothic Warehouse, Cromford Wharf, 7.30pm fortnightly, 07900 244913 Interval Running, 6-7pm, Longshaw Estate, Becky 07855 943236 Spinning, 6pm, Zumba, 7pm, Lafarge Social Club, Hope, 0789 6416 014 Tai Chi (intermediate) Presentation Convent, Matlock 6pm Alan Box 01246 279515 Acoustic Music Session, (3rd Thurs), Mechanics institute, Eyam, 8.30pm, 01433 631049 Falls Prevention Class, Bakewell Town Hall,1.30-2.30pm, Free Cuppa, 01629 815168 Cycling Club ‘‘The Peddlin’ Rats’’Eyam, 7.30pm, 07980 988768 julian.69@uwclub.net ‘Writers in the Peak’ Writing Group, 7pm, Rutland Hotel 01629 813315 Tai Chi, Bamford Village Institute, 10-11.30am, Alan Box 01246 279515 Zumba, 7-8pm, Hathersage School, Hope, Claire 07990 771155 Homeopathy Clinic, Laurel House, Litton 5 - 6.30pm,01298 872479 Pilates (all levels), 9.30am, 10.45am & 12noon, Hathersage Mem Hall, 0781 7220324 Ballroom, Latin & Salsa Dancing, 7pm, Medway Centre, Bakewell, 01298 23171 Yoga, Friends Meeting House, Bakewell, 9.15am, 01246 591944 Back-on-balance Litton VH, 9 & 10am, 07854 763570 Litton Toddler Group, Litton VH, 1.30- 3pm, Louise 078372 29359 Pilates, 9.45-10.45, 11-12, 6-7 and 7-8, Medway Centre, Bakewell, 07906 312372 Yoga, 9.15 -11.15, Ashford Institute, 01629 813747 Tae Kwon-Do, Ashford War Memorial Institute, 6.30pm, 07861 303449 Bellringing Practice, All Saints Church, Bakewell, 7.30pm, Pauline 01629 814521 Pilates, 10-11am, Castleton VH, 07990 771155 U3A Bridge Club, 1.30pm, Medway Centre, Bakewell, 01629 814011 Bakewell Family History Group (3rd Thurs every month), 7:30pm, Bakewell Town Hall, call Olga on 01629 812327 Abney & District W.I. 7pm (monthly). At the Old School, Hope (Near the Church). Contact 01298 872117 or 01433 651686 for more information Hockey and Football, - 4-5pm, Baslow Sportsfield, Becky 07855 943236 Cressbrook Band Practice (all levels) 8-9.30pm downstairs at ‘The Cressbrook’ Club (SK17 8SX). www.facebook.com/ cressbrookband Parent and Toddler Group Between 1pm and 3pm (Term time only). At school grounds at Grindleford Primary School. Free entry. Contact 01433 630528 for more information Yoga class 6.15pm Court Room Gallery Bakewell Town Hall.

07733179773 Singing Lessons with Lynda Radford from 4pm Bakewell Town Hall. 01629 810152 Strength & Balance NHS Falls Clinic 1.30pm Court Room Gallery Bakewell Town Hall 01629 810152 Outdoor Bootcamp, 7pm Chatsworth, 07403 893542, www. military-bootcamps.com

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THURSDAYS (continued)

Back to Hockey, 8-9pm, Baslow Sports Field. Becky 07855 943236 Music for the Mind (3rd Thursdays) 2.00-3.30pm. Eyam Church Centre (next to the church). For dementia sufferers and their carers. Songs, refreshments, conversation. Contact 01433 631049 Castleton & Hope Valley Photographic society (second Thursday of the month), 7.30pm. Castleton Methodist Church.

Ray 01433 620253, ray@rayfowler.co.uk

FRIDAYS

Crafty Club, 2-4pm, Bakewell Books Coffee Bar, 01629 812818 Baslow Senior Citizens Club, Village Hall, 2pm-3.45pm, fortnightly, 01246 583375 Gentle Bridge, 3.15pm, Medway Centre, Bakewell, 01246 590623 Zumba 9.15am, Pure Stretch 10.15am, Baslow Village Hall, Claire 07990 771155 Gentle Chair Yoga, Litton Village Hall 2-3pm Michelle 01629 815168 Bakewell Flower Club Medway Centre Bakewell 3rd Friday monthly at 7:30pm Visitors welcome 01629 650143 Contemporary & Dance Classes for Grade 3 Upwards, Bakewell, 07721 995050 Buxton Bridge Club, 1.45pm, Old Hall Hotel, Buxton, 01298 25057

Friday Group Luncheon Club, Medway Centre, New Street, Bakewell, 01629 813638 Matlock & District Rifle Club, more details from Len Webster 01629 584797 Tideswell Spin Class, 1pm & 7pm, Tideswell Fitness & Personal Training Studio, Fountain Square, Tideswell. Paul 07914 817073 Hope Valley Country Market, Hathersage Methodist Church Hall, 9.30-11.15am Pilates, The VH, Main Street, Calver, 9.30-1pm, Tel 07971 566261 Zumba Tone 9.30am, Woodland Fitness Centre, Rowsley, 0789 6416 014 Bellringing Practice, St John the Baptist Church, Tideswell, 7.45 - 9pm, 01298 872891 Fall Prevention Classes, The Old School Room, Hope. Various classes every Friday. Contact Lisa Beard Tel: 07971 243470 Parkinson’s UK Support Group Bakewell, 1st Friday every month at Stanton Day Hospital , Newholme Hospital, Bakewell 3.00-5.00pm for support , info, friends, speakers & outings. Call Joyce on 01629 812288 Chatsworth Players theatrical group - every Friday -710pm, Friends Meeting House in Bakewell. email: sylvia@ chatsworthplayers.com or 07425 919 965.

Grindleford and Eyam Playgroup Woodland sessions 9.301.30pm Contact 07842 095402 for more information. Plus, mud kitchen toddler group 10-11.30am, everyone welcome.

Higher Grades Dance Classes - Peak Performance Theatre School- Tel 07721 995050

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