Rural Voice - Darley Dale & Villages Edition - January 2022

JANUARY ’22

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From the Editor Happy New Year Readers!

Or is it? At the time of writing (due to printer close downs over the holiday season), we aren’t actually at Christmas yet and everything hangs in the balance once more – Omicron! I, like many of you I’m sure, was hopeful that the worst of the pandemic times are behind us but, as it currently stands, we do not know how this variant is or isn’t going to transpire – anyway, shoulder shrug, see what happens and onwards we move!

Following from our covers this month I’ve already made my New Year’s resolutions but they are toned down massively on normal - as what I’m really wanting is a nice long break, in the sunshine, preferably with lots of books! I love reading but barely get chance these days, so I’m going to see if I can stick to this one – 1 book per month, no excuses! What’s your plans for 2022?

In terms of the mags, I am loving seeing all the articles/contributions, especially the heritage articles. Across all the magazines, they are absolutely fantastic and so interesting for each area – I’m very thankful to all the people that make the effort and send these articles over each month to us, we love printing them and I hope you all love reading them as much as I do?

With that in mind, we’re hoping to bring you even more content next year, with some big household names, all being well. We’ll keep our powder dry until everything is fully confirmed but safe to say it’s very exciting if it does happen.

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Obviously, creating new content will no doubt bring some more magazine launches – so watch this space on Voice Magazines reaching even more people in 2022! Although, it is a much more difficult juggle this year with paper prices increasing so substantially and showing no signs of slowing down (13% increase so far!! Eeek!!).

Final note to mention, thank you to everyone for bearing with us in terms of delivery last month and possibly the coming few months. In between storms, covid & other illnesses and holidays, we do have to extend a little extra time to our fabulous distribution team at this time of year as sometimes it isn’t safe or they simply aren’t well enough to deliver, but we massively appreciate your patience on this.

Once more unto the breach…….See you in the Feb edition, Happy Reading,

x Emily And all the VOICE MAGAZINES TEAM

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Happy New Year!

In the 21st Century, we see January 1st as the start of a brand new year - but did you know that this wasn’t always the case?

In fact the month of January didn’t even exist until around 700 BCE when it and February were added to the Roman calendar. At that point in history the start of the new year was widely regarded as being March 1st - to coincide with the start of new life in spring. In about 45 BCE Julius Caesar (yes, the one who invaded Britain, lusted after Cleopatra, and was stabbed to death by the members of his senate) introduced a new calendar to the Roman empire - one based on the movement of the earth around the sun, and much more accurate than the old lunar based system. This calendar became known as the Julian Calendar and it was decreed that January 1st be recognised as the start of a new year throughout Roman territories.

It doesn’t end there though…

New Year was still a moveable feast right up to the acceptance of (another!) new calendar system in 1582 - the Gregorian calendar, which is still used today. The day was celebrated 25 December; 1 March; 25 March and also on the movable feast of Easter; depending on where you were in Europe. Very confusing!

Even more confusing if you were in Britain because, believe it or not, until 1752 Britain (except Scotland) and its Empire had retained March 25 as the official start of the year.

Now we’ve established when January 1st became recognised as the start of a new year, let’s take a look to see when ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ became common.

Historians tell us that Babylonians were the first to make new year resolutions

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around 2000 BCE, although their new year was in springtime when they held a big festival lasting for 12 days. Citizens swore to pay off debts to their gods, and promised to return borrowed goods. It sounds a bit ‘resolutionary’ but not much!

The actual phrase ‘New Year Resolution’ was first used in a Boston newspaper in 1813 according to Mirriam Webster (a website, not a person) “And yet, I believe there are multitudes of people, accustomed to receive injunctions of new year resolutions, who will sin all the month of December, with a serious determination of beginning the new year with new resolutions and new behaviour, and with the full belief that they shall thus expiate and wipe away all their former faults.”

Now that sounds familiar! It would be even more appropriate to add “And the resolutions will be broken within the month”!

Personally I think spring is a much more sensible time to set new intentions - the days are getting longer and everything feels so much more alive with possibility than dark cold January! What do you think? Will you be making (and breaking) any resolutions this year?

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

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THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD – I SHALL NOT WANT Have you ever said these words?

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“The body is in the library” sounds like the start of an Agatha Christie, or a game of Cluedo.

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Perennials such as stonecrop, otherwise known as sedum can be trimmed. Old stems may be looking very leggy and bedraggled so take them out, but be careful not to damage new growth coming through.

Plants which have been forced for inside growing for Xmas can be put outside to let them die down once they’ve done their job. You can plant hyacinths in the garden and they should grow next year outside, but narcissus such as paper whites need to be lifted and stored as bulbs to be planted for indoor growing again next year.

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Most indoor plants need less water over the winter when they enjoy a dormant period. But they still need good light and plants such as fuchsias and begonias which you may be overwintering indoors to protect from frost need a minimum of 5 degrees heat to keep them going. If they’re on a window sill, don’t leave them behind the curtain overnight as the temperature can drop dramatically even in a centrally heated house.

Clean your pots ready for spring planting. Yes it’s boring, but then you’re good to go come seed sowing time. Some recommend diluted bleach to kill off pathogens, but a less drastic solution is a cupful of white vinegar in a washing up bowl of warm soapy water.

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If you’re itching to be outside this is a good time for planting bare root roses, and pruning overgrown honeysuckle back hard to promote new growth in spring.

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Peak’s Moorland Recovery I was out on the Peak’s high moors and bogs just recently and the purpose of the visit was to check on the recovery of uncommon, rare, and otherwise important peat-bog plants. In this context, it was exciting to see how wild nature is recovering from its low point in the 1980s. At that time, land drainage, catastrophic air pollution from nearby big cities, and then massive over-grazing by sheep destroyed much of the habitat and removed rare species. The grazing and the drainage were both publicly subsidized and created what writer George Monbiot describes as ‘sheep-wrecked landscapes’. These adverse factors combined, had pretty much done for these incredibly vulnerable ecosystems. However, time rolls on and today, with all the above impacts reduced or removed, a major shift is underway and these areas are recovering. Furthermore, this remarkable recovery is happening naturally and without major financial investment to bring about the change. The important message here is about the need and potential to simply remove the negative influences and let nature itself get on with the process of long-term recovery. Indeed, at one major peat bog on the edge of Sheffield, a site called Ringinglow Bog, these sometimes-subtle changes can now be witnessed first-hand. A first visible step is the recovery of the ‘bog mosses’ – the Sphagnum species. These are especially sensitive to air pollution and on our local moors and bogs the Industrial Revolution’s foul air destroyed most of them. However, this loss has a disproportionate impact on the uplands. This is because the bog mosses hold water - up to 20x their own weight held in the plant’s pore-rich tissues. These diminutive plants are the so-called ‘bog-builders’ and everything else depends on them. The remarkable waterholding abilities of the mosses can power this re-naturing of the wet landscapes. Furthermore, if we can harness the water absorption of the

Sphagnum mosses, then the recovery can help reduce future flooding downstream. This is not at all bad for a humble moss that most people never notice.

At Ringinglow, rare upland flowers such as the Bog Andromeda or Bog Rosemary (so-called because its leaves look like the Rosemary in your garden), were believed extinct. This loss was after drainage for the North Sea Gas pipeline cut through the site in the 1970s. The result was that the drying out of the site and then (grant-aided) heavy sheep grazing did the rest. However, this special plant was rediscovered on the site about five years ago

by Dr Paul Ardron and me. This was whilst we were running a field workshop for the British Ecological Society to train people in the unique skills of bog moss identification.

Re-visiting the area today, it has recovered in good amounts over a wide area of the wet peat bog. Equally exciting was that other uncommon upland bog plants have also reappeared.

These include the Eared Willow (a rare rather dwarfish species), Cranberry, Bog Asphodel (a beautiful upland lily), and the intriguing Common Sundew. This latter plant is one of our few carnivorous or insectivorous wild flowers; again almost extinct in the Peak by the 1980s.

Nevertheless, it has reappeared across many old haunts and it seems to be doing well.

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