Voice Magazines - Selston, Pinxton, Jacksdale & Westwood Edition - September 2020

SEPTEMBER ‘20

SELSTON, PINXTON, JACKSDALE & WESTWOOD

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

From the Editor After saying how great it was that Yoga was back last month – Katie B has only gone and decided to have a sabbatical from teaching for an extended period – for all the right reasons, but what about me! How rude! Still, for our last lesson, she left us with all our favourite positions (insert eyeroll!) and serenaded us with an instrumental version of “time to say goodbye” as we were leaving (second eyeroll!)

– it was nothing if not dramatic but I will very much miss my stretchy Mondays, Katie and our lovely group!

In other great news – it’s 10 years since I delivered the first Amber Valley Voice through the doors of 2,500 homes in Swanwick, Riddings & Leabrooks!!! It was a bit hairy as to whether we would make it to 10 years and this year has been no exception to the long list of curve balls that has been thrown during our time, and like many small businesses it was genuinely touch and go, but we here and we are here we are here to stay!

It’s been a bit emosh, this trip down memory lane! Thinking back, I can’t tell you how nervous I was trotting up people’s driveways (with half my family spread out delivering around Broadway!). And you always think the worst – what if they don’t want it, what if they come out and shout at me, what if they think it’s rubbish!! – I look back on that first edition now and we a very critical eye, I think it is rubbish but I can’t say that it didn’t have my heart and soul poured into it and maybe everyone else saw that too?

R H Builders, S T Roofing and Seals Fodder Room, which is more than a bit awesome and they’ve become firm friends of mine over the years.

We’ve created a bit of a timeline in the centre pages to show you the journey that we’ve been on and we’ll be making mention of this throughout the year as we’re planning a few bits and bobs in relation to our anniversary. Despite this 2020 shaped catastrophe, we are working hard and planning to keep bringing in fresh new looks, interesting new articles and features and new ideas for what we hope to be, at least, the next 10 years.

So please raise a glass to our wonderful team who are quite simply phenomenal at what they do, distributors who are wonderful and brave the weather every month to bring you the magazine, all our advertisers – many of whom are truly local and we try and support them as much as they support us, contributors who keep you entertained and of course yourselves – I could not have produced a thing without any of you effectively inviting me into your homes each and every month and it certainly wouldn’t have made it to 10 years.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Still, for whatever reason, you wonderful people seemed to get the gist of what I was trying to do and stuck with us – both readers and advertisers alike and here we are, 10 years later – 9 magazines, 48,000 homes, over 60 distributors, 6 wonderful people to work with (7 if you include Liam but he doesn’t really count as I can’t ever get rid of him – well, I could but it’ll be mightily costly!!!)

See you next month (when normality resumes and much less gushing!),

Looking back through the cringe worthy first edition – we’ve still got 3 of our original advertisers in the magazine;

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Emily x

Upcoming Submission Deadline for Advertisers & Contributors: October edition – 18th September November edition – 16th October

To advertise email info@voicemagazines.co.uk or call us on 01773 549 035 Printed by Newman Thompson Ltd and distributed to 5,000 homes in Selston, Pinxton, Jacksdale & Westwood homes. Disclaimer: No responsibility is accepted by Voice Magazines Limited for claims, errors or omissions made in advertisements appearing in this issue. All advertisers are accepted in good faith and we are not responsible for views expressed by contributor or other sources. Reproduction of the contents of this magazine is not permitted To advertise callVoice Voice Team 01773 549Normanton, 035 Derbyshire. DE55 2BP. Registered in England 3& Magazines Limited,on 81 High Street, South without the prior consentplease of the publisher.

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Heanor and Ripley Markets are trading on Fridays and Saturdays while Alfreton Indoor Market operates on Tuesdays, Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays.

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It has been quite the journey... and looking back, there have been some ups and downs, as well as the positives - new mags, new people new areas and new premises there have also been some gaps where we didn’t have any growth and some really diffcult deadlines to meet.

The first edition was the toughest as I was still working somewhere else at the time (although I knew it was coming to an end because it was a fixed term contract). Also, we missed the April 2012 edition because of our wedding overseas.... it was a nightmare to get the March edition out before we flew and then get May sorted as soon as we landed!

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We’re back again with another classic from the Rafa’s Rambles archive. There are so many great walks on the Phoenix Greenways but this is a favourite of ours as the dogs get so much free time to get into all sorts of mischief!

The walk starts from Tibshelf ponds and heads out on the Silverhill Trail and across to Doe Hill park before circling round and heading back along a different path. A lovely gentle walk that makes use of some lovely local trails.

5 1/2-mile circular walk from Tibshelf Ponds to Doe Hill park A mid-length walk which should take you and your dog around 2 - 2½ hours to complete. The walk is mostly on trails and paths but there are a few short stretches of road so please take care. Please wear appropriate footwear and as always, please follow the countryside code.

START: Tibshelf Ponds Car Park, Sunny Bank, Tibshelf. Derbys. DE55 5PF 1.

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At this point you will reach a fork in the path. Keep to the left and continue along this path for some distance until reaching a T junction of paths.

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Continue along this path for some distance until reaching a car park. Pass through the car park and bear around to the left to continue towards the car park entrance. Just prior to reaching the entrance and a height restrictor, turn left onto a footpath.

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Continue along this path until reaching a fork in the path. Keep to the right passing a pond on your right and then continue to pass another path on your left.

After some distance you will reach an intersection of paths with a path on the left and then a path on the right. Ignore these paths and continue straight ahead going uphill.

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to a metal barrier and onto a road.

by a gap in the hedge on your right. A little further on pass through a gap in the hedge on the right.

After passing through the gap turn left, cross over a road and continue to pass through a gap adjacent to a metal barrier and onto a lane.

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Continue along the lane for a short distance until reaching a large metal gate and tall metal fence on your right. At this point turn left along a bridleway with trees and open fields on your left and trees and a fence on your right. Initially, this path runs parallel with the Silver Hill Trail you were on earlier.

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Continue for some distance and then eventually the bridleway widens into a lane. After some distance follow the lane as it bears around to the left. Now you will begin to pass houses on your right and a school on your left. Eventually you will come to a T-junction with a road.

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Turn right along the road going uphill and then after some distance take the 1st turning on the right into ‘Newton Road’. Continue, going downhill for some distance and then take the 1st turning on the left into ‘Shetland Road’.

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After some distance take the 1st turning on the right into ‘Sunny Bank’. Continue along ‘Sunny Bank’ until the road turns into a lane and continue along the lane until you reach the car park on your left.

This walk is for illustrative purposes only. Voice Magazines takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.

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This month’s book, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo is definitely a oneoff. Winner of last year’s Booker Prize it’s a novel without a plot but with 12 of the most interesting, cracklingly different and unusual characters you’re likely to meet in a book.

First off it’s about women – well women and girls. There are some men in there but they don’t have a particularly big input (or reputation) in the great scheme of things.

You don’t usually read about these women in fiction. But in this book they give us a picture, through their eyes, of Britain - mostly, though not exclusively, black Britain - over the past 120 years.

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Gardener’s Calendar While the garden should still be full of flowers, this is also a good time to think about pruning and dividing so the garden stays healthy and bountiful next year.

If you haven’t already pruned philadelphus and forsythia, do it now that flowering is completely finished for this year. Cut back to a healthy bud or side-shoot. Where you’ve got bushes which have outgrown their space take some of the oldest stems right back to the base then reduce the rest by a third to a half.

Perennials such as hellebores or day lilies which have finished flowering can be lifted and divided. That way you get more plants for next year and existing plants have room to spread and so will produce more flowers. As a rule of thumb big clumpy perennials can be divided by digging down and lifting then prising apart with two forks back to back or even cutting through vertically with a spade. Then replant back in place with the offcut in another spot or even in a pot until you decide where you want it to be.

Crocosmia have small corms. To divide dig deep about nine inches to a foot to lift then prise apart clumps rather than individual corms. They like to be crowded, so this is something you can do every few years rather than every year. Whatever you’re dividing, water it in well.

Pot up strawberry runners for next year. Also start looking at daffs and narcissi for spring. They can be planted from the end of September on, but leave tulips until November. Wallflowers and winter pansies can also go in now.

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