Voice Magazines - Kirkby-in-Ashfield & Annesley Edition - May 2021

MAY ‘21

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From the Editor This month I’m not going to talk about the dreaded ‘C’ word and I’m also not going to mention any bingo words, such as ‘restrictions’, ‘lockdown’, ‘rule of 6’ etc etc. It hasn’t gone away, it has affected everybody’s lives in one way or another, we shouldn’t be complacent but that said, I, like many of you, want my life back! And this month has seen the return of the shops.

I’m sure that you’re all aware by now that I am passionate about small business and that it is synonymous with ‘Shopping local’, which has never been more important than currently. Many of our local businesses have been unable to open and as such trade. The stress that they have endured trying to keep the wheels on, has at times been too much to bear and many shops & businesses, big and small, have fallen along the way. Having felt the pain ourselves to some degree (although we were fortunate enough to limp along from home), the people in these industries are my absolute heroes. The adaptability, resilience and fortitude that every business owner has shown, should be celebrated and the very least we can do is support them in their comeback.

vote, irrespective of your persuasion! We did want to run a feature about all the local elections etc but decided against it for fear of vitriol from the keyboard warriors who assume my position without question!

I’m off to enjoy the sunshine and visit some local independent traders #shoplocal ….it’s our future!!

Emily x

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Liam and I popped down to Alfreton Market during the opening week on a Saturday and met the traders, you can read all about our experience in our Alfreton & Swanwick editions and online. I may have mentioned this before, but when I was a kid, I had a stint on my cousin’s cheese stall and it proper gave me the bug! I love markets, car-boots, fairs etc and I really love trading on them.

Having spoken with many of the traders, we found such a mixed bag between, longevity, products sold, whether they kept running throughout lockdowns and how they had to adapt but what was apparent was the resolve of all these people to carry on. It was also wonderful to see a couple of start-up businesses which began trading through lockdown and are working hard to build a business from it.

I truly think that through dark times, opportunities arise and sometimes, we talk more about what we’ve lost than the successes that we have gained. I would urge anyone who spots an opportunity, to grab it with both hands and with that in mind, Alfreton Market has some cracking deals for crafts and start-up businesses & I believe that most local markets have similar incentives – so if your dream is retail, why not give them a call!

In other news and in the same vein, local elections – use your vote and use it wisely and don’t try and read anything into that other than – we only get a say if we turn up and

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3. Add the peppers, garlic and green beans to the frying pan and cook for 6-8 minutes or until tender and lightly charred, stirring often. Add to the salmon cubes and mix gently.

4. Toss the salmon mixture through the pasta and stir in the fromage frais, lemon zest, chopped watercress and as much of the pasta water as you need to make a good sauce. Season lightly and divide between plates or shallow bowls. Scatter over the watercress sprigs and serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over.

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Vintage Rambles a with raFf lake and

This walk originally featured in the magazines back in August 2014. The walk is one of my favourites, which we do quite often. It makes great use of a number of different trails and has a great variety of scenery, not least the views from the ‘Miner’, which is the highest point in Nottinghamshire.

The walk can be adapted, if you want to stick to the trails or if you want to shorten it. To shorten the route just jump from the end of point 5 to point 11, although you will miss out on the Miner!

6-mile circular from Brierly Forest Park A moderate and varied walk for you and your dog. The route should take around 3 hours. The route has a couple of decent inclines and there are stiles to cross. There are a few stretches of road so take care. The terrain is generally very good but as with all walks it depends on the conditions, so a good pair of boots are always advised.

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START: Brierly Forest Park Visitor Centre, Skegby Road, Huthwaite, NG17 2PL. 1.

Begin in the car park. Facing the visitors centre exit the car park on the right, passing through a kissing gate and continue straight along the path. Continue to pass a picnic area and pond on your right.

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grass path that U-turns down the bankside to pass through a metal gate. Turn right to pass under the bridge and through another metal gate into a field.

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Take a slight diagonal left to cross the field, heading for a gap in the fence on the left-hand perimeter of this field. Pass through the gap and uphill onto the Silverhill Trail.

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Turn right, signposted for ‘Teversal’. Pass over a road bridge and then an old station platform on your right.

Continue until reaching a signpost on your right. Bear right and then turn left following the signs for ‘The Miner’ and ‘Highest Point’.

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Keep straight ahead until you cross a road bridge, then bear left, following the signs for ‘The Miner’ and ‘Highest Point’.

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Continue along this trail, passing a pond on your right and onto a T-junction with a large ‘Silverhill Wood’ sign on your right. Turn right here and continue winding gently uphill along the trail for approx.1 mile. At a fork in the path, bear left uphill. Pass through a large wooden gate and shortly after turn right to climb some steps to ‘The Miner’.

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At the top of the steps bear left, keeping ‘The Miner’ monument on your right and continue downhill along a footpath to re-join the trail. Continue downhill, through This walk is for illustrative a wooden chicane, a metal width restrictor and onto a purposes only. Voice road.

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THE HIGH STREET This month we wanted to welcome back all the businesses on our local high streets. They have had a rough year not only worrying about their health but also their livelihoods and as such ‘Shopping local’ and has never been more important than now.

Our local shops, traders and businesses have been hit hard by Covid-19 and they desperately need our help if they are to survive.

Please don’t assume that because lockdown is ending, they are out of the woods. This is make-or-break time for so many businesses.

Local businesses are your friends, your neighbours, the parents of the kids at school, the guy from the pub and the nice lady who walks her dog down the park. They are your local community. And the money spent with local businesses stays in the local community, to be spent again and again. Rather than the money spent at the big shops, which mostly leaves straight away.

So be brave and be impulsive. Pop down to your local shops, market or pick up that phone today and make that booking. It really is the difference between our local businesses surviving and disappearing, perhaps for good this time!

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Support Local Businesses!

The ‘pandemic’ may not be over yet - actually it may never be completely over, as viruses are pesky wee blighters that continually adapt and change - but at least we can now get out and about with a little more freedom.

Shopping is one of the things that many people say they have missed during the repeated lockdowns. Supermarket food shopping and online browsing doesn’t hold a candle to mooching round actual shops…well for some people anyway!

Evidence of this ‘must go shopping syndrome’ (MGSS) was all over the news when the restrictions were lifted, with multiple images of people queuing to get in the likes of Primark, other city centre department stores and out of town retail parks.

Great for those stores (and their shareholders!) but what about the small traders on your local high streets. The one man (and woman) bands who have struggled to survive during the crises, often with very little help from government.

Some of these small local retail outlets may have managed to stay open during lockdown, the ones providing essential services anyway, please don’t let them down now the economy is reopening, by heading elsewhere!

What about the cafes, hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, gift shops, and the myriad other small shops you can find in every town and village? Some haven’t survived, some may still find themselves unable to continue even though clientele is returning, and others will be testing the water - can they make up for the devastating losses of the last year, or should they give up?

The people who run these businesses are our friends, often our family, they are the lifeblood of our local communities and we cannot afford to lose them and their businesses. According to website

www.indieretail.uk, stats show that for every £1 spent with a local, independent business, between 50p-70p circulates back into the local economy. That same pound spent in a retail chain will see a mere 5p trickling down to local level, it’s a company’s shareholders who ultimately benefit.

Don’t kid yourself that your small spend won’t make a difference - it will! An article in The Independent just before Christmas 2020 said that, according to Visa, if we all spent £5 extra per week with small businesses it would help to keep them open in the long term.

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While many of us are undoubtedly struggling financially during these repeated lockdowns, spare a thought for small local charities who rely totally on funding from the public in order to survive.

Many of their usual fund raising events rely on people being able to get together: coffee mornings, cake and bake sales, bring and buys etc, and these haven’t been able to go ahead for months now.

That’s potentially a LOT of money NOT passing to the charity. Other fund raisers like sponsored walks, sky dives and the like, have also had to be scrapped, or at least postponed.

Add to this the fact, that according to a 2019 report by CAF (Charites Aid Foundation) the number of people in the UK who regularly donate to charities has fallen consistently for 3 years, and you’ll understand why so many charities are struggling.

There are things we can do to support our favourite charities that we CAN do from home in lockdown and that don’t cost us a penny…

For example, when you shop via Amazon there is a way to ensure that a small percentage of everything you spend is automatically donated to a charity of your choice. There are a few things to remember: 1) you need to shop via smile. amazon.co.uk not the usual website address (it’s exactly the same!) 2) you have to pick your charity and click to choose it 3) your charity needs to register themselves in order to benefit.

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portal. It’s easier than I’ve just made that sound – the hard part is remembering to use the portal rather than shopping directly!

Along the same lines, some banks (Starling for example) have a facility where you ‘round up’ the cost of your card/online purchase and the excess is deposited in a savings pot within your account, e.g. something costs £5.60, the vendor gets that amount, 40p goes into the ‘pot’ and your account shows you have spent £6.00. After a certain amount of time you could then pay that pot over to your chosen charity. You probably won’t even notice the 1p, 5p, 10p round ups but it could build into a nice amount over time.

A few ideas here to help you help your charity of choice at this tricky time, it’s also worth simply checking in to see if there’s anything else you can do to help.

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We can’t know for sure, but her ascendancy to the highest echelons, and her ability to hold onto her wealth, give us some hints. In modern parlance she would be called driven, shrewd, ambitious, perhaps ‘money grabbing’. She was probably all of these things, but she also appears to have had an uncanny ability to extricate or distance herself from scandal…particularly Royal scandal.

lived, when Bess found herself again embroiled in a royal scandal after she arranged for her daughter to marry the son of yet another claimant to the English throne. The Queen was furious when she found out a child was already on the way, which had it been a boy, could have held some title to the crown. That child, Arabella, ultimately became the focus of Bess’s dynastic plans.

In 1558 when Elizabeth Tudor came to the throne, Bess was married to Sir William Loe (her 3rd husband) and through him she secured a place at the young Queens court. At 31 she would have been one of the oldest in the household and likely had a personality similar in strength to Elizabeth.

The friendly relationship Bess had enjoyed with the Queen of Scots; they spent many hours together working on impressive needlework projects; deteriorated when she discovered Bess’s dynastic meddling which could have affected her own sons claim to the throne. Claim and counter claim of seduction and adultery were made, and the Earl of Shrewsbury declared he could no longer live with Bess who fled to Hardwick.

The first scandal Bess became embroiled in involved the Grey family, potential claimants to the English crown. Katherine Grey had secretly married her cousin Edward Seymour, another claimant to the throne, and was pregnant, a fact she confessed to Bess. When the Queen discovered the situation she immediately suspected Bess of conspiring against her and locked both her and Katherine in the Tower.

Freed several months later Bess was sent back to Derbyshire in disgrace. Following the death of husband number 3 and the acquisition a couple of years later of husband number 4; the Earl of Shrewsbury; Bess was catapulted back into court life in 1558 when Shrewsbury was appointed keeper of Elizabeth’s cousin and rival, Mary Queen of Scots.

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Arabella herself eventually tired of her grandmother’s machinations, and in 1602 she decided she would find her own husband. Her choice of Edward Seymour (Katherine Grey’s grandson) was a foolish one inspiring the wrath of the Queen. For once Elizabeth believed Bess’s assertion that Arabella had acted independently.

Arabella was disowned by her Grandmother shortly before the Queen’s death in 1603.

Bess herself lived until 1608.

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It may have been nearly seventy years since those intimate fireside chats with his grandad, but they remained fresh in George’s memory.

He wasn’t sure if it was the way Horace told the tales or just the fact that many of the late Victorian characters he was hearing about bore absolutely no resemblance to the heroes of his own childhood like Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse. Whatever, Horace almost seemed able to bring them to life. Here’s another good example.

With the Club doing well and drawing huge crowds to the Harena, there was a problem. Most of the players were colliers, with some not finishing their Saturday morning shift until 1.00pm. They’d then come to the stadium straight from the pit and be stripped naked and have buckets of water thrown over them to clear the accumulated muck & grime. A bit cleaner perhaps, but having not eaten anything since getting up for work at 4.30am, they needed sustenance to ensure they’d last a full ninety minutes.

Now, as Horace recalled, Mildred Mycroft was the mother of one of the star players during the glory days of the 1890’s. She was not only a keen supporter but recognised as one of the best cooks in the area, and when she was approached and asked if she’d provide a few snacks ‘for t’lads’ she was only too pleased to help out.

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and within a couple of months, many Hilcote supporters were asking if she could just ‘do a bit more’ and they’d happily pay for what was on offer. Before the end of that season, she had been provided with facilities to not only prepare and cook whatever was required, but a hatch through which she could sell to hungry spectators, many of whom had also come straight from work.

So it was that for many a Saturday afternoon, one of the attractions of a trip to the Harena was a visit to Mildred’s Mess. People, some of whom were not in the least interested in the football, would turn up to consume some of Mildred’s Mutton Stew, freshly made Lard Sandwiches, Fidgety Pies, Bakewell Puddings or Lumpytums.

As George put it, and who am I to disagree, there is a good case to suggest that at Hilcote, Mildred Mycroft created the original pre-match meal and opened the first ever ‘concessionary stall’ at any sporting ground in the world. If proven, this could draw tourists from around the world to the village.

PS – Mildred, weighing a little over 19 stones, was a good advert for the quality of her own cooking.

As the captain of visiting Marehay Marauders was once heard to remark upon arrival at the Harena, “Flipping Heck*, I hope she’s not playing centre half this afternoon”. * - it was actually worse than that, but kids might be reading!

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May flowers in the Peak 2021 Late spring into early summer sees our woodland flowers come to a spectacular peak. Swarms of bluebells have taken over from the wood anemones and will Wild Garlic merge with clouds of pungent wild garlic flowers and greater stitchwort too. With woods still full of dappled sunlight before the midsummer closure of the canopy throws everything into shade, the flowers dominate the senses in terms of both colour and fragrance. The sounds of spring birds in a rich chorus provide a backdrop to a seasonal feast of nature’s extravaganza. At this time of year the woods are busy places with birds supporting broods of youngsters and mammals like badgers and foxes with youngsters too. For the flowers this is the time, indeed a short window of opportunity, to attract vital pollinating insects and thus to set seed. The clouds of bluebells for example, are attended by bumblebees, honey bees, and hoverflies in abundance. Within a few months the woods will be dark, the ground floor dry, and the spring flowers merely a distant memory until the next year.

However, there is a rather secret life active in the old woods. As the trees like oak and birch burst into life they are followed by a host of hungry insects, the larvae of myriad moths that feed on oak especially. Indeed, the oak is famed for supporting hundreds of other species, mostly insects which either live in it or feed on it. It is these insect larvae i.e. caterpillars Anemone that parent birds gather to feed to their growing offspring. The birds depend on the insect larvae and the insects depend on the great oak trees; and thus the circle of life goes around.

Birds like blue tits and great tits have their annual breeding patterns carefully synchronised to match the available caterpillars. To make matters even more complicated, the oak’s leaves contain toxic chemicals called ‘tannins’ to help protect them against insect predation i.e. caterpillars, and

these are timed to reach their highest levels when caterpillars are most abundant. Of course with climate change many of these interconnected cycles are getting out of sync and that can cause problems.

The so-called ‘ancient woodlands’ are the richest in terms of their rare and unique biodiversity, and their tree canopies dominated by oaks and sometimes Woodland Flowers by planted beech trees, are host to diverse insect faunas. However, at the present time and for a variety of reasons these insects are under pressure and many populations across the whole of Europe have plummeted. If this continues then it may mean problems for the woodland birds which need insects as food for their young, and also for the woodland flowers which need to be pollinated. It appears that the ‘usual suspects’ for causing these problems are habitat loss and habitat change, and climatic shifts, plus various pesticide chemicals used in modern farming.

Steps are now being taken to limit or remove the worst of these but only time will tell if nature can bounce back. In the meantime, take a walk in the local woods and enjoy!

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Professor Ian D. Rotherham of Sheffield Hallam University is a researcher, writer and broadcaster on wildlife and environmental issues in the Peak District and elsewhere. He is contactable on info@hallamec.plus.com and you can follow Don’t his website and blog: & https://ianswalkonthewildside.wordpress.com/ 46 forget to www.ukeconet.org mention Voice Magazines when responding to the Ads

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