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Hi Readers, 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.

Liam and I popped down to our local market during the opening week on a Saturday and met the traders. 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, carboots, 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 that started 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!

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 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!!

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Hopefully we all know the importance of making a suitable Will… it shows you care enough about what happens to your assets once you’ve died. But… shouldn’t you care just as much about keeping your assets and yourself safe while you are alive? If you are unable to manage your own affairs… a Will is not enough. The legal documents you need in place are called “Lasting Powers of Attorney”. They allow the people YOU choose now rather than someone appointed by the Court of Protection to deal with decisions in two key areas: your Property/Financial affairs and your Health/Welfare matters.

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Castleton & its Caverns - Continued Part 5 - Blue John If you’ve been reading the previous articles in this series, you’ll have spotted that a common vein running through them (pun absolutely intended) has been Blue John…but what exactly Is Blue John?

In unromantic terms, it is a mineral, a form of fluorspar (also known as fluorite) with the chemical composition CaF2. Fluorspar is not an uncommon mineral, in fact it is found all over the world, but Castleton is the ONLY place Blue John is found.

Blue John, despite the name, is not really blue!

The stone is actually banded, with stripes of an almost purplish grey blue, through to white and yellow, occasionally even red and a very deep purple are present.

Rumours abound that the Romans, who had a small fort in nearby Brough (Navio in Roman times, meaning ‘on the river’) discovered the mineral and used it to create decorative cups and urns 2000 years ago. It was even said that a couple of vessels unearthed in Pompeii were made of Blue John from Castleton; something later proved to be untrue, but a good story nevertheless! There isn’t any hard archaeological fact to corroborate Romans finding and using Blue John, however, as veins of the mineral could be found at ground level (it’s often how later miners traced underground deposits) then I personally would imagine that the odd foot soldier or so would have picked up a chunk in passing.

Actual mining of the mineral didn’t really begin until the mid-1700s when it became fashionable in the upper classes to have something made from Blue John. From fireplaces to pieces of

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jewellery and everything in between, the mineral was mined extensively and Castleton and surround villages became a centre for crafts people working with the stone.

The earliest dated example of decorative Blue John from Castleton is from 1762 in Kedleston Hall, near Derby, where there are Blue John panels mounted in a marble fireplace surround designed by Robert Adam.

The boom time for Blue John lasted until the end of the Victorian era when it fell out of favour, and instead of being mined to create beauty, it was diverted to the steel industry where it was used as flux.

And the name - Blue John? It depends on who you talk to, or what you read! The most common (and plausible) explanation is that the mineral was exported to France, where bleu, jaune means blue, yellow – a reasonable description of the banded mineral. Another plausible explanation comes from Cornwall! Cornish miners worked in the mines from the 1740s and in the Cornish language there is a word bleujenn (in Old Cornish blodon) meaning a flower, bloom, or blossom…I like the idea of the veins of mineral being called blooms!

You can buy smaller items of Blue John in Castleton, but if you want one of the big pieces you better start saving, as they fetch into the thousands!

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Book Review Lots of people seem to have found an increased interest in nature and the countryside during the past year, whether it’s been through TV programmes like Springwatch which have kept us in touch with what’s happening in the big wide world outside our own four walls, or more awareness of global warming or what happens when we don’t balance human needs with what the planet can take.

So James Rebanks’ books about his family farm in Cumbria seem to reflect an emerging mood to see if we can make things better. He wrote The Shepherd’s Life back in 2015 and followed this with English Pastoral: An Inheritance, published last year. Both are beautiful, unsentimental, passionate tales of a tough way of life which deserves to be taken heed of.

The author is the son of a shepherd, who was the son of a shepherd and the family has lived and worked farms around the Lake District for four generations. They live by the seasons and farming is not something they do for a living, it is their life. They work through Christmas and birthdays, the children grow up knowing things that city kids can’t hope to learn – including that you need a “get up – get out” mentality , as in get out into the outdoors, and the first rule is to look after the animals and the land.

Mr Rebanks may be a born farmer, but he’s also a born writer with a fantastic eye for the beauty of the country. This isn’t All Creatures Great and Small, there’s no whimsy, instead it leaves you with a real appreciation of the fells and the people who work them – and of the lessons we maybe need to learn if we are to improve our time here.

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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?

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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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