Voice Magazines - Broadmeadows, South Normanton, Blackwell, Newton & Hilcote Edition - June 2021

JUNE ‘21

BROADMEADOWS, SOUTH NORMANTON, BLACKWELL, NEWTON & HILCOTE

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From the Editor Hello Readers, We’ve made it to summer (allegedly – the weather begs to differ!) and everywhere is tentatively starting to re-open. We had a lovely meal in an al fresco igloo with 2 friends to celebrate a birthday that happened 2 months ago! For us, 1 vaccine down, it’s nice to be out and about again and of course, to be able to see friends and family at long last. We’ve got Christmas dinner with the outlaws next month – it’s the roaring 20’s – anything goes!!!

Speaking of things being open – have we got a comp for you guys!! As you are all aware, the Y Not Festival IS running this year -yayyyy! We’re so excited as the Voice team are on tour BUT we also managed to get a family ticket to give away to our lovely readers. The line-up is amazing and something really positive to look forward too after the last couple of years.

SOOOO…. to be in with a chance of winning - all you need to do is answer the following question and email, it back to us.

Which county is the Y Not festival held in?

Email us at info@voicemagazines.co.uk before 5pm on 18th June 2021, with the answer, your name & contact telephone number (if we don’t have both of these, you won’t be included in the draw). *T&C’s apply.

Following on from the re-opening of life as we know it – we suspect that events and community groups will be reopening again soon too and we’ve already had contact from The Men’s Shed and Alfreton Ramblers Club, so now we just need you! If you previously featured in our mag or you would like to in future and you run a community or not-for-profit group or event, please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

Happy catching up with friends and family, but remember, the dreaded ‘C’ word hasn’t gone away, so stay safe!

See you next month,

Emily x P.S. Don’t forget to mention the ‘Voice’ when you use any of the companies in this magazine

Upcoming Submission Deadline for Advertisers & Contributors: July edition - 11th June, August edition - 9th July

To advertise email info@voicemagazines.co.uk or call us on 01773 549 035 Printed by Newman Thomson Ltd and distributed to 5,000 homes in Broadmeadows, South Normanton, Blackwell, Newton & Hilcote. 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 Voice549 Magazines Limited, 81 High Street, South Normanton, Derbyshire. DE55 2BP. Registered in England permitted without the prior consent ofcall the publisher.

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Other Services CLAY CROSS AIR GUNS

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At the time of writing (early May 2021) we are seeing restrictions eased and possibly on 21 June 2021 further easing, and as we, hopefully, move towards ‘normal’, various pressures may begin to come to the surface. If you are worried about your finances or struggling to make ends meet, you are not alone.

From Tuesday 04 May 2021, the new Breathing Space and Mental Health Crisis Debt Respite Schemes came into force, and for some people could be a really useful way to help get on top of their finances. Or, if you prefer a less personal approach, there are a number of options online including:

The disruption caused by the pandemic has negatively affected many people’s incomes, leaving us with less money coming in, but with bills and debts to pay.

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FOOD & RETAIL

Slimming World Recipe Margherita Pizza Homemade pizza is a real game changer and this recipe from Slimming world is easy to follow and provides a great base to begin experimenting with your favourite toppings. Just remember to count those syns if you are on plan.

Serves: 4

Ready in: 55mins

Syns per serving: 7

Ingredients:

Method:

• 125g strong bread flour

1. Put all the topping ingredients apart from the mozzarella and basil in a saucepan, season to taste and cook over a medium-low heat for 25-30 minutes or until you have a thick, spreadable sauce.

• 7g sachet instant active yeast

For the topping:

2. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6 and heat through a baking sheet or, better still, a pizza stone – this will help your pizza to cook evenly.

3. Put the flour in a large bowl and stir in the yeast and 1 tsp salt. Make a well in the middle, pour in 75ml of warm water and mix with a wooden spoon until you have a soft, fairly wet dough. Dust a surface very lightly with flour (1 level tsp is ½ Syn), turn out the dough and knead for 5 minutes until smooth. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a thin circle about 22cm across.

4. Put your rolled-out base on the preheated pizza stone or baking sheet (add a sheet of non-stick baking parchment if you’re using a baking sheet). Spoon the tomato sauce over the base and arrange the mozzarella on top.

5. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the base is golden. Scatter over the basil and serve hot with a rocket salad.

• 4 shallots, finely chopped • 3 garlic cloves, crushed • 1 tsp dried red chilli flakes • 2 tsp dried oregano • 400g can chopped tomatoes • 1 tbsp tomato purée • 70g reduced-fat mozzarella cheese, cubed or sliced • Small handful of torn fresh basil leaves, to serve

For more information visit www.slimmingworld.co.uk

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For appointments, call Anna on:

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Now offering IPL Hair Reduction FREE Consultation and Patch Test Fed up of shaving or waxing and your hair is getting you down then enquire about Permanent hair reduction now.

Any other issues you might like to improve or just to de stress and pamper there are many Beauty, Holistic and Aesthetic treatments available in a private new Home Salon.

Contact Donna 07779572824

7 Larkspur Close, Broadmeadows South Normanton DE553NL www.beautyno7.com

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Beauty@No7 I have never been a person that has done much in the way of a skin routine. It has usually been make-up removal wipes and a generic moisturiser that you can buy from your local supermarket and that was the sum total of my skincare routine.

However, since Christmas, I started to notice that the skin on my face was beginning to get really dry, itchy, spotty, very red and irritated. Also, as a women of a certain age, my skin was not being helped by hot flushes and other factors making things worse.

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After trying lots of different products, and even something from the chemist and doctors, I got in touch with Donna at Beauty @No 7 to see if she could help sort out the issues that I was having.

Straight away she advised me that I needed to calm my face down and help get it back on track with a Skin Rescue Facial with Eve Taylor Products to help people with hypersentive, reddened or reactive skin. She then advised looking after it with a better skincare routine.

This was my first ever facial and the experience didn’t disappoint, it was lovely, so relaxing yet invigoration, I felt like a new woman. Donna explained what she was doing all the way through and I could feel my skin starting become more hydrated throughout the process. To my surprise the facial included a shoulder massage while the

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Since my facial and the continuation of my recommended skincare routine the difference has been fantastic and it has only been two weeks. It is still early days but my skin is soft, supple, fresh and so much better than it was before I went to see Donna. Without her knowledge, experience AFTER TWO WEEKS and expertise I would still be buying product after product and not getting any results. If you are having problems and really don’t know where to turn to sort your skincare or other body issues then go and see Donna and speak to a beautician to get the right advice and the right treatment for your problem.

I can’t recommend Donna Kelly at Beauty@No7 enough, she has really helped me get the skin on my face under control and start to feel and look better.

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Riddings PHARMACY FREE PRESCRIPTION DELIVERY SERVICE We are a family owned independent pharmacy and pride ourselves on a high standard of personal service to our local and surrounding community.

Our reputation is built on our commitment to personal service and attention to details by our professional and experienced staff.

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In loving memory

Obituaries FENWICK Carol Joy & Daniel

SEASTON William Kenneth

Sadly passed away, Joy on Wednesday 28th April aged 76 years and Danny on 4th May 2021 aged 77 years. Joy was born in Blackwell living all her life locally while Danny was born in Jarrow, living locally for over 50 years in which he met Joy when first moving to the area and they married

Formally of New Street, Newton has sadly, passed away peacefully on Monday 10th May 2021 aged 93 years.

soon after.

Ken enjoyed his gardening and going on walks and he was a member of St Werburgh’s Parish Church, Old Blackwll.

Joy enjoyed baking and decorating cakes, gardening and being with her family, Danny enjoyed playing Golf, gardening and socialising with family and friends.

When Joy took over the family funeral business, Wilkinson Bros, she was well known for the care and support she gave families.

Joy & Danny had 7 Children, Christopher who sadly passed away aged 6 months, Joanne, Louise, Helen, Sarah, Emma & Paul. They have 17 Grandchildren & 3 Great Grandchildren who will all miss them dearly.

A funeral service was held on Thursday 20th May 2021 at St Werburgh’s Church, Old Blackwell.

All donations in lieu of family flowers are to be split between ‘Alzheimer’s Research UK’ & ‘Parkinson’s UK’.

Joy & Danny’s family would like to express their thanks for all the kind words and messages received at this sad time. They would also like to give a special thanks to the staff at Blackwell Care home and Ward 22 at Kings Mill hospital.

All funeral enquiries to Wilkinson Bros Independent Family Funeral Directors, 10 Church Hill, Old Blackwell, Alfreton, DE55 5HN, 01773 811371

Ken was born in Tibshelf and lived all his life locally, working as a retail manager at Tibshelf & Newton Co-Op and Mac Market in Sutton & Mansfield.

BROWN Alma of Littlemoor Lane, Newton has sadly passed away on Sunday 2nd May 2021 aged 62 years.

A funeral service was held at Amber Valley Crematorium on Thursday 27th May 2021.

All funeral enquiries to Wilkinson Bros Independent Family Funeral Directors, 10 Church Hill, Old Blackwell, Alfreton, DE55 5HN, 01773 811371

He leaves 3 nieces and 2 Nephews, Bryon, Joan, Anne, Patricia & Ian and their families.

Also a dear family friend, Addy White.

A funeral service is to be held at Mansfield Crematorium on Tuesday 1st June 2021.

Any donations in lieu of flowers will be split between ‘Air Ambulance’ & ‘British Heart Foundation’.

All funeral enquiries to Wilkinson Bros Independent Family Funeral Directors, 10 Church Hill, Old Blackwell, Alfreton, DE55 5HN, 01773 811371

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by COVID (fingers crossed of course!) as well as being the Summer Solstice.

Will you be listening to a few tunes to celebrate, or is music not high on your list of likes?

Music has always been an integral part of being human. Musical instruments have been around for thousands of years, the earliest known being flutes, made out of mammoth bone, and dating back an incredible 43,000 years! Even before that impressively early period in prehistory, it isn’t a stretch to imagine our early ancestors using the power of their voices to create music. Not all of us are blessed with amazingly tuneful voices, yet most of us are able to recognise and enjoy that skill in others. I like to think of my ancestor, umpteen generations removed, sitting around the fire humming along and tapping her feet as someone else sings a song (I do have a vivid imagination though…curse of the writer!).

Music certainly has some sort of power over us, hearing a song from ‘back in the day’, can instantly transport you in time. And have you ever noticed that you can remember the lyrics of a song from years ago and yet struggle to remember where you put the car keys? I know I have! This connection between music and memory is why it is often used to help people living with dementia, and in care homes in general. For a truly heart warming example of how music memory

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remains long after other memories have faded, type ‘dementia ballet dancer’ into Google and prepare to be amazed (have a tissue handy!).

Staying with memory, well the mind anyway - one of the best ways to ensure your brain remains in tip top condition for as long as possible is to learn to play an instrument. You may never be a virtuoso, but the very act of learning to play helps to form new neural paths in your brain (it’s called neuroplasticity) it’s like exercise for your grey matter.

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Beer Goggles Did you know that June 15th is National Beer Day? I can’t say as I did until I saw it written down somewhere, but it did lead me to think about beer - or more accurately the history of beer, before someone accuses me of being an alcofrolic with beer goggles on!

A little spot of ‘Googling’ (minus the beer goggles of course) and I managed to establish that beer is in fact a very, very, very old beverage indeed. In fact the earliest archaeological evidence of a beer produced by fermentation is a 13,000-year-old residue found in a cave near Haifa in Israel. As a drink it may not have tickled our modern taste buds, being of a ‘gruel’ like consistency apparently, but it just goes to show that where man goes, beer seems to inevitably follow!

Since beer is essentially a by-product of fermenting grain, it may well have been discovered accidentally in many different places throughout the world when humans began to live a more settled agriculturally based existence and grains featured more heavily in the daily diet.

One of the earliest written down recipes for beer comes from a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem about Ninkasi, their patron goddess of brewing. It described beer being made from the barley left from the production of bread.

‘Small beer’, a very low alcohol brew would have been the drink of choice throughout Europe and the UK in the middle ages. In a climate not suitable for growing grapes to turn into wine, beer was a readily available alternative, and workers involved in heavy labour were known to drink up to 10 pints a day. By the 15th century the addition of hops to a brew reached the UK; an unhopped beer would have been known as an ale, while the use of hops would make it a beer.

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The Industrial Revolution saw the beginning of the mass production of beers which ultimately led to the large scale breweries of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Commercialisation and mechanisation led to a reduction in locally produced brews, replacing them with standard, often chemically laden concoctions.

To the relief of many a beer aficionado, this trend of mass production has been reversed somewhat in the past 20 or so years, with the emergence of many craft beer breweries - small scale, local, and each creating their own unique beers.

Derbyshire is blessed with many of these producers including Howard Town, Glossop; Thornbridge and Peak Ales both near Bakewell; Eyam Brewery; Buxton Brewery; Intrepid in the Hope Valley; Wolds Farm and Moot Ales, near Matlock…even the most beer phobic amongst us should be able to find something to our tastes. (Personally, I favour Howard Town’s ‘Hope’ - but I am biased because the head brewer is a friend!).

Next time you raise a pint, give pause to think of the generations before you who have done the same over the last several thousand years.

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I’ve written a bit about my Lambretta days but one place has hardly had a mention until now.

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This month has seen the return to some normality, with local shops, pubs and eateries reopening their doors for us all to enjoy some time to catch up with friends and family. Before I start on the football, I feel it’s important we understand just how daunting it must have been for all the staff in these venues reopening after so long off. I think huge praise needs to go to all the local places who have opened up in a safe manner, it’s been very much appreciated by a lot of us it seems!

Football also returned this month, and it’s been an absolute privilege to get back to being around each other again, we’ve basically described this as a ‘pre’ pre season. We asked all our lads if they’d rather play or wait until pre season - all of them wanted to play so we’ve just got back together, and we’ve played 3 games, drawing 2 and losing 1. Having played 2 teams from the league above, we weren’t to disheartened. We’ve (first team) got 2 more

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games left, a home game against Ravenshead, behind closed doors, and a Chesterfield U21 game on 20th May. By the time this article reaches you that game will have been and gone - but it’s the week we’re allowed fans in so, fingers crossed, we get a few through the gates!

Behind the scenes the club are delighted to announce our U15 side will be on board for the start of next season, and theres talks to have more teams under our banner too. All part of the plan to have a club the whole community can feel a part of!

The senior squads will be back in for pre season on 19th June with friendlies beginning in July. We should be allowed fans in by then so keep an eye on the clubs social media pages, or through the village, for the specific details - as we speak they’re currently being ironed out.

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This month George regales us with the tale of the larger-than-life Wee Willie. Not so much a tall tale this time…

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When the Hilcote club was formed in 1868, most of the players were young God fearing Christian men who attended the local Methodist chapel. As a result, they were known as the Weslyans, and remained so until 1885.

Whilst strictly amateur in the early years, as they became successful they realised that they were increasingly competing with professional teams and decided to follow suit. They began to attract better players by offering cash incentives plus a Sunday dinner each week, courtesy of Mildred Mycroft (see May’s edition of The Voice for more detail) One of the incoming players was Willie Robertson, a veteran of the 1st Zulu Campaign, where, it was rumoured, he had single-handedly held off 416 natives at the battle of Rorke’s Drift. He subsequently returned to his native Scotland, and whilst working as a night soilman during the week, earned more playing football at the weekends.

His reputation as a tough winger spread to England, and many clubs tried to sign him. However, having invited him down to Hilcote, arranging for Mildred to feed him that day was said to have been a master-stroke, and he duly became a Weslyan.

Somewhat diminutive – less than five foot tall – and forever known as Wee Willie by the Hilcote faithful, Robertson was an immediate star. Playing out wide on either the right or left touchline, he was tricky and would often bamboozle his man two or three times before sending over the perfect cross for a grateful teammate to put away for a goal.

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Footballers these days are familiar with the phrase ‘nutmeg’ which describes successfully passing the ball between an opposing player’s legs. Well Willie was the first ever player to master this skill. In his case however, he’d send the ball past the player and then run straight through their legs himself. Embarrassing for defenders it may have been, but the Hilcote fans lapped it up.

Word got round quickly and opposing teams were often advised that the only way to stop Hilcote was to ‘get’ Wee Willie Robertson ‘early doors’, and put him out of the game. The ploy never worked because Robertson was, to coin a phrase, ‘as tough as old boots’. His lack of height may have limited his ability to look his opponent in the eye or give the equivalent of a ‘Glasgow kiss’, but many a player ended up with a broken kneecap after Willie had deliberately ‘nutted’ it or a painful shin after a good whack.

Whilst not the type of play for which Hilcote Weslyans had previously been noted, it was successful and soon spread throughout the team and they became known as a bunch of win at all cost cloggers. The Hilcote hierarchy revelled in this reputation and in recognition of Wee Willie’s strengths, and the part he had played in their success, decided to drop Weslyan for a new suffix based upon Robertson’s home town. Like you dear reader, it came as no surprise to me to hear that he came from Hamilton.

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