Rural Voice - Bakewell & Villages Edition - June 2021

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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 reopening of life as we know it – we suspect that events and community groups will be re-opening again soon too and we’ve already had contact from a few groups, 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,

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Book Review For anyone still dreaming about summer holidays abroad in these uncertain times, the writer Donna Leon is a gift.

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World Music Day! “Music was my first love”, so sang John Miles in 1976…but what does music mean to you?

21st June is World Music Day - it’s also the day that the UK is due to be fully liberated from the restrictions imposed

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.

If you want to see if there are any World Music Day events near you, I recommend you checking out www. makemusicday.co.uk/events. You can create and add your own events to that site too - so if there isn’t anything local to you, why not think about organising a get together? It needn’t be big, expensive, and flashy - it could just be a concert on your local village green or in the pub carpark. It would be a great way to get your neighbours and friends together after what has been a horrible year or so.

So, returning to the opening sentence of this article…what does music mean to you? Visit our Facebook page and let us know!

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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.

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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Gardener’s Calendar Despite our chilly spring most gardens are bursting with life. You can start to think about pruning early flowering shrubs such as forsythia, currant and mock orange to ensure you get a good show of flowers next year. Leave it later and the flowers are less likely. Take out diseased stems to ground level and cut back generally to a lower strongly growing stem. Cut back a quarter of older stems to the base.

Nasturtiums and night scented stock are among the seeds you can still be planting now, along with other “companion” plants which will help keep pests away. These usually have a strong scent, which confuse the insects which will damage your prize plants, whether fruit and veg or the likes of roses. So you can use nasturtiums alongside beans, lavender for carrots, calendula and mint for tomatoes, although watch out that the mint doesn’t take over your plot. Artemesia attracts things like ladybirds which see off aphids.

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The Splendour of the Red Tree from Turkey

All across the Peak District there is most stunning and splendid wild sight emerging as the ‘wild rhododendron’ bursts into bloom. This is the bane of conservationists but much-loved by the public (and a lot of wildlife too). Many people don’t realise this is an ‘alien’, exotic, or non-native plant, and those who do, think it comes from the Himalayas.

This spectacular shrub is Rhododendron ponticum or literally ‘The Red Tree from Turkey’; so yes, there is a clue there. Most rhododendrons do come from the Himalayas from the Sikkim and Bhutan across into China; with a few in North America, a small number in Europe, and a lot in tropical forests. However, our ‘wild’ shrub is from Europe and around the Mediterranean.

Landowners loved it for shelter, ornament, and especially game cover for shoots. Many planted it as wildlife cover and its stunning flowers, and it was extensively used as root-stock for less hardy prize rhododendrons brought to Britain by the Empire’s plant hunters. Collectors travelled the globe in search of the exotic, and it burst onto and across the Peak’s countryside for 200 years spreading unnoticed and uncontrolled. This is one of the most successful of our invasive alien plants and talk of attempted total eradication is pie-inthe-sky. There’s been ‘talk’ of effective control for sixty years or more by forestry experts, and rhododendron can be dealt with on individual sites. However, there is no effective strategy or policy to stop the further spread across the landscape. Personally I cannot see government spending the huge amount of cash that would be needed and also I don’t imagine everybody would be agreeable or co-operative. Many of the seed-plants are in small, private gardens and I just don’t think people will take to them being ‘eradicated’. This plant can cause a head-ache for site managers but gardeners and many of the resident and visiting public love it.

This flowering event becomes a natural spectacular which in places like the Peak District and Snowdonia in particular, presents with stunning vistas and views. This is an annual happening for which people travel miles to see and has become a tourism attraction. Covering woods, heaths, moorland edge, and old parklands with a blanket of red and purple to mauve flowers, the impact is dramatic. Outside this peak of flowering the shrub is far less obvious and is often unnoticed. Invading natural habitats it clearly impacts on native wildlife but not always negatively. However, there is a twist in this story for a plant often demonised as an alien invader.

It was native in Britain between the recent glacial periods but somehow never returned when icy chills mellowed around 15,000 years ago. It was effectively banished to the far flung tips of Europe and Near Asia (Turkey, Lebanon, Portugal, and Spain), until 1763 when plant collectors brought seeds back to London’s Kew Gardens.

From there as they say, the rest is history.

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