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Hi Readers What to say?! I’ve thought long and hard on this and there are a lot of opinions about a lot of things and I don’t think my inbox can take anymore ‘opinions’ on what I’ve written – so I’m going with 2 unrelated things this month……take it as you will….

1. I was lucky enough to go to uni and apart from the life style/nightlife, the best thing I learned was about sources of information. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary, multiple sources and analyse, analyse, analyse! There are several experts in every field, they don’t always agree and there are flaws in every study, opinion, findings – it was my job to find them. Find the conflicting opinions, read them all, and critique them – it’s hard when you don’t personally agree but as my tutor said to me on many, many occasions…….my opinion doesn’t matter. #justsaying 2. It was my birthday this month – lockdown birthday – I think we’ve nearly all had one by now and some people are coming up to birthday lockdown number 2. Last year we were throwing axes and watching the ice hockey. However, I did

make the best of it….Mr Emily organised a Zoom murder mystery evening with the fam-ilam! We all got into character, we all stayed in our own homes and we all had some nice drinks (which helped with the accents no end…honest!!). Most fun and excitement we’ve all had in nearly a year – highly recommend it!

Finally, lots for everyone to read this month. Just so you know, we are still allowed to work and our distributors can’t deliver from home so are ok to continue, whilst adhering to the rules. Most people were wonderful last month as anticipated but just note, if you don’t want to receive the mag, just put a visible note in the window and we won’t deliver in future.

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Rotary Club of Alfreton spread some christmas cheer Despite Covid-19 preventing the usual Santa’s Sleigh appearances and fundraising, the stoic souls at the Rotary Club of Alfreton have been doing their best to keep people’s spirits high.

As well as producing a fun video, which they posted on YouTube and can also be accessed via the club Facebook page the club have been busy making donations of cash and gifts, including donating £50 each to 20 Primary Schools in the Alfreton area, which has gone towards children’s parties. £50 was donated as a pupil prize to Tibshelf School and a further donation of £250 was made to Kids Out. £200 worth of sweets and chocolates were given to Older Persons Care Homes in the Alfreton district and finally, a cheque to the Salvation Army is on its way for £100.

The club has itself received generous donations from the Football Association via Alfreton Town FC for £500, and Tesco for £50.

The Rotary Club of Alfreton are a warm and friendly club who are always looking for new ideas and suggestions on the best way we can uphold the rotary motto ‘Service above Self’ and in doing so support the needs of local, national and international communities. To find out more about the club visit www.alfretonrotaryclub.org.uk or find them on Facebook @rotaryalfreton

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Lots of people will also know him for his other TV appearances, - QI, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Black Books, but he also does stand-up comedy and knows lots about music and birds. A talented chap. Now he’s added a new book, Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to Happiness: to his CV. It’s a light, warm and entertaining ride through the things that Bill finds fun, or simply, bring him happiness – a useful reminder in current times, that life can actually be quite enjoyable, although you may not want to follow some of his examples such as jumping out of a plane. A feel-good read.

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The Circus Comes to Town It’s 1959 and the Circus has come to Alfreton: There’s great excitement in the town, with colourful Posters all around and Elephants on Mansfield Road making their way to the Big Top down on the Welfare.

From the Stage Magazine of April 30th 1959 ONE of the oldest and greatest names in English circus, Lord George Sanger, is still kept alive by members of this famous show family who travel a circus on the roads of Britain each year. We find them at Alfreton.

The big top is a large two-pole affair measuring 90 feet round with a 40 foot centre in green canvas with striped white and green wallings. The two beast wagons and horse tent form a small zoo at the rear of the big top. All the loads, in familiar. Sanger tradition, are painted yellow with true show-land style lettering in red, and the directors’ wagons and artists’ trailers are in various pale shades. Most of the seating is the six tiered construction type with ringside seating and an old style V and bracket gallery section for the cheaper seats. Following the modern trend in this country, there are two ring entrances built on to the end of a box lorry drawn up just inside the big top.

in the show and programmed as the Sensational Rudellis, a polished balancing act on ladders. Using a rest commonly employed by foot jugglers, one girl supports the ladders of varying lengths by her feet while the blonde girl juggles high above.

English favourites are Anton and Vianet with their very popular trapeze offering which must have appeared at nearly all the Variety theatres in this country. The male partner in the trapeze act, Claude Yelding, also performs the duties of ringmaster and presents Arabian horses and Shetland ponies from the Sanger Menage besides riding bareback with the Western Riders. The comic member of this act is Pat Freeman who also rides in Indian fashion.

With his wife Muriel. He then presents a llama and pony novelty act, later appearing as Regnas with his comedy donkey and dog act.

Sanger’s Abyssinian lionesses are presented by Albert Kean in a rectangular cage measuring only 16 ft by 6 feet. In a clowning role Albert also shows his performing pig. Bill. The Henry Biddall family numbering six have two first-class specialities in the form of a trampoline offering also using a fixed perch, and a brilliant flying rings display. Both acts are very well dressed and presented.

Henry Biddall leads the comedy as clown. Spuds, with partner Ro Cooke, and third clown. Babs Zola makes a solo appearance with the thought reading pony.

First time here are Perry and Cacuell with a slack wire act from Germany. Novelty is the keynote and the male partner scores with his balancing code tail feat. His blonde partner is joined by another girl later

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MANDY’S TRAVEL PAGE Hi I’m Mandy your Personal Travel Counsellor.

Beautiful Barbados beckons after lockdown As I write, holidays may seem so far away but we all need something to look forward to and to plan for. So, this month, i’ve picked this gem in the hope that it doesn’t go on the ‘no travel’ list and some of you are able to enjoy this fabulous place.

Sandy Lane, Barbados The grandest hotel on the island – and a celebrity magnet with one of the world’s most-papped beaches – still has a laidback Caribbean charm, with super-friendly staff dispensing impeccable levels of service. Expect an airport concierge on arrival, luggage packing and unpacking services, and sunlounger-side pampering including cold towels, water-misting and tropical drinks (and a no-tipping policy, meaning no awkward looking-for-your-wallet moments!).

An Illustrious Heritage The most famous of all Barbados resorts, Sandy Lane opened its doors on the island’s Platinum Coast on 1st January 1961, making 2021 a particularly special one to stay at the property and help celebrate its 60th birthday in style. The anniversary follows a grand reopening in late 2020 after extensive renovation work inside and outside its Palladian-

style buildings. The hotel occupies the site of the old Sandy Lane sugar plantation – chosen by former British politician Ronald Tree to realise his dream of opening a luxury hotel with a golf course. In danger of being taken over and expanded by a multi-national in the 1990s, it was saved by two Irishmen, Dermot Desmond and JP McManus, who were determined not only to preserve its unique atmosphere but to take it to a whole new level of luxury.

Dining Food is one of the highlights of any stay at Sandy Lane.

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Sadly she ‘crossed the rainbow bridge’ on New Year’s Day 2018, completely out of the blue. I came downstairs (slightly the worse for wear after a New Year’s Eve party) and found her lying on the kitchen floor – unmoving apart from a slight rise and fall of her chest.

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smaller that sheds less hair and requires less grooming – I’m sure we’ll find a compromise eventually.

Our pets give us so much unconditional love but there are so many other ‘hidden’ benefits too. A quick search online gave me these facts from the “Centers for Disease Control” in the USA: Some of the benefits of having a pet include: ✔

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STOP using disposable face masks and switch to fabric ones that you wash at home on a regular basis. There are endless options out there now, face coverings have even become a bit of a fashion statement with some high end fashion houses creating ‘designer masks’ to match their clothes! For a few pounds (unless you choose the designer option of course) you can have several masks to wear and wash in rotation.

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You may (or not!) agree with me but....

..........unlike many, I remained highly sceptical about the relentless optimism coming from No 10 throughout the 2020 pandemic. Up to a point I can understand why, but personally, I’d rather have had a deal more realism and pragmatism than the constant ‘world beating’ pronouncements from our tousled hair leader.

Having said that, I wouldn’t have fancied his job because he has been in a ‘damned if I do and damned if I don’t’ situation and was never going to please everyone. However, I have absolutely no sympathy with those who feel sorry for him because he has had to deal with:a. suffering the long term effects of Covid-19 b. he fall-out from Dominic Cummings’ ‘sightseeing’ trip to Durham c. the seemingly never ending, but now thankfully concluded, Brexit negotiations. d. the disruption to family life following the birth of baby Wilfred.

Call me hard hearted if you like but was coronavirus not contracted after he disregarded initial Government advice by going around shaking hands with all and sundry in addition to attending non socially distanced Cabinet meetings? Did he not appoint Dominic Cummings? Was he not one of the key Brexit disciples convincing a minority of the population that Britain should, to use current parlance, ‘unfriend’ Europe? Finally, unless Carrie knows any different, he must surely take full responsibility for baby Wilfred’s arrival.

As I’ve said, I’d sympathise with whoever had to deal with one of the greatest peacetime crises the nation

(entire planet in reality) has had to deal with, but in my opinion, Boris has not helped himself.

Still, there now appears to be clear light at the end of what has been a very long tunnel. As a result, while reflecting upon the mistakes that have been made and mourning those who have succumbed to Covid-19, let’s look forward to a better future.

We Brits are very resilient and one characteristic that has shone brightly during the last twelve months has been our unique sense of humour. I’m sure I‘m not alone, and guess that most of us have had emails containing satirical videos and assorted memes that have kept us smiling through even the darkest of days. Well, with apologies for those of you who have already seen it, I repeat below, a most troublesome message that landed in my in-box in December.

This is important - you must be extremely vigilant Should you receive an email with the words ‘Knock Knock’ in the subject title, please, whatever you do, don’t open it.

It is a message from Jehovah’s Witnesses who are working from home!

You have been warned.

Until next month........Boom Boom!

PS - as I write (2nd January) I’m confident that today will the last day that I’m force fed Christmas leftovers for breakfast, lunch/dinner and tea.

Happy New Year to you all!

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Rather stupidly I didn’t follow my own advice of last month not to dig very wet soil - and have now had a painful back for well over a week keeping me away from my plot. Hopefully a visit to a physiotherapist soon will help. So do as I say not as I do - wait for your soil to dry out a bit before tackling any last minute digging manure in. Back pain is very debilitating!

Going on about soil, how healthy is yours? Have you measured its pH at different sites round your plot recently? You might be surprised at the differences. Get yourself a soil test kit from a Garden Centre or Amazon UK. I use pH papers after shaking up a teaspoonful of soil with some distilled water in a plastic 25ml screw top tube. You can buy pH meters which stick into moist soil but bending down to read the values at ground level is awkward. For general vegetable growing you want the pH to be neutral (pH7) or just slightly acid (pH6.5). There is a good RHS website on ‘Soil pH’ which is worth consulting. In soil that is too acid (pH<5) plants can’t extract the nutrients, bacteria can’t rot down organic matter and minerals are washed out more easily. Soils that are too acid can be treated with lime. I usually lime the bed where brassicas are to be grown anyway as the more alkaline pH helps keep the dreaded clubroot fungal infection at bay.

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Signs of spring are what we’re looking for at the moment – and to be fair, there’s quite a few.

Snowdrops, bluebells, hellebores are all either flowering or not too far off. Snowies and bluebells do best when planted “in the green” – whilst the leaves are still alive, rather than as dry bulbs so as soon as they’ve gone over you can lift and divide for a bigger show next year. Lift while the soil is moist, tease apart without damaging the roots and replant in small clumps to the same depth – where the stem changes colour from green to white.

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