Voice Magazines - Broadmeadows, South Normanton, Blackwell, Newton & Hilcote Edition - March 2022

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Care packages. care packages available if required Located close to junction 28 of the M1 /A38 and within a stones throw almost of McArthur Glen retail park the setting is in picturesque surroundings.

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From the Editor Dear Readers, As predicted, February has been a long month (at the time of writing, it is still February and it appears to be rivalling January for its endurance)!! So far, the ‘no sugar’ Feb was uphill for the first week and a half but I have been pretty much ok from week 2, the cravings and wall climbing have virtually stopped but it’s the little things that have really gotten to me. For example, Mad Aunty had a significant birthday meal out (well, it was technically a significant birthday last year but thanks to lockdown, she has deferred it a year!) and I ordered a delicious, spritely looking Kopparberg cider (other ciders available) for myself as Mr Emily was driving. It was effervescent and enticing and I was ready for it after a tough week. The waitress handed it over, I happily poured it into the glass complete with a big toothy grin, akin to a Lion just about to tuck into its prey, I lifted it up and then said, “Oh bother and balderdash, this has got flippity sugar in it, hasn’t it? This whole thing was a rather silly thing to do and I can’t wait for February to be over, so that one can enjoy lashings of lovely delicious cider again. Here you go mother dearest, please enjoy on my behalf as an early Mother’s Day present” or very similar words to that effect!! All’s well that ends well, I swapped it for a gin and the mad

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uncle picked up the tab, so a good night was had by all!!

The reading is going well, I now seem to be the recipient of everybody’s cast offs, which is great – I’m considering starting my own book club! It’s lovely really, I’m all for recycling/upcycling and I am very much enjoying it.

I haven’t decided what I’m doing for March as yet, as at the time of writing, the shortest/ longest month in the world, won’t end!

But I’m sure I’ll come up with something!

Maybe something outdoorsy now that we’re practically into spring (apparently)? I’ve had a few outings, so I must be stirring from my hibernation.

See you next month for more fun and frivolity, Happy Reading,

x Emily

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The First Day of Spring This year, here in the Northern Hemisphere, the first day of Spring is designated as Sunday March 20th. The date varies very slightly over the years because it matches the Vernal or Spring Equinox - one of two days during a year when day and night are of equal duration.

Although, strictly speaking, apparently that isn’t quite true; daylight is several minutes longer than darkness at both the Spring and Autumn equinoxes. At the Spring equinox the sun crosses over the (imaginary) equator line and begins to head north…much to the relief of most of us! It happens at 11.33am this year should you be interested in the precise time.

The Met office however have a different date for the start of Spring - and it never changes, it is always 1st March, with meteorological Spring ending on May 31st. Meteorological seasons are based on the annual temperature cycle, not the movement of the sun, and are matched to the calendar to give clearly marked seasons. However, as we all know - seasons don’t always follow nice predictable dates, do they?

I always think of Spring as being the season of new beginnings, rebirth, regrowth, and the sense of expectation in the air is to me at least, palpable.

Living out in the Peak District I am definitely more aware of the seasons than when I was a city dweller. I only have to peek out my front door to see the new growth in the fields, and the birds are definitely beginning to ramp up the morning chorus.

In a city, although the signs of renewed plant life is visible as the season changes, it tends to be in a more controlled, less abundant way. Spring bulbs, planted in regimented fashion in gardens and public parks, begin to

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poke their green shoots shyly above ground level, and gardeners begin to fettle their tools in readiness for the first assault on grass and overgrown branch.

Spring is my favourite time of the year, as we break free of the gloom of February and look towards longer, lighter nights.

I love the clean fresh colours of the season, the vibrant greens of new plant life, the clear cerulean blue of the sky, spotted with fluffy white clouds, and the varied colours of newly blossoming trees and flowers. The air is cleansed by spring showers, and rainbows arc across the sky.

We begin to shed the heavy layers of winter, almost as if we humans are shedding our skins and emerging into the new season in the same way a butterfly struggles out of its cocoon.

Spending time outside (without catching our deaths of cold!) becomes pleasant, and we all suddenly want to become more active - as if we’ve woken from our Winter hibernations.

Anything seems possible at the start of Spring…doesn’t it?

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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Last month, the Voice team were invited to Booboo Desserts in Alfreton and it certainly didn’t disappoint!

If we had to describe in three words Yummy, Tasteful & Sweet!

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Delic it. ate I - LISA as ed melt that slowly Cornflake Tart Pudding A delicious cornflake tart, mad buttery pastry, with a layer of e with golden crispy fruity jam topped with crunchy cornflakes. Served with Absolutely yummy, I don’t norm thick, creamy custard ally have a sweet tooth but oh my, mmmmm...

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The Signature Waffle waffle with This was a huge freshly cooked berries drizzled with strawberries, raspberries & blue ice cream, and white chocolates white chocolate sauce, vanilla it crumbs on top! Now that’ biscu lotus for d aske curls! - I even ert!

- HAYLEIGH dess a what you call Movie Night Cookie Dough I couldn’t resist the ‘Movie Nigh popcorn, oreo’s, pretzels and t Cookie Dough’ as I love Absolutely fantastic presenta M&M’s - what’s not to love! awesome, I couldn’t (unbelievtion and the flavours were going back soon to try again!!ably) finish it all.....but i’m

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Val McDermid, Scottish crime writer extraordinaire, has a new heroine.

Allie Burns is, as McDermid herself once was, an aspiring young journalist. For Allie, getting the story is everything. Are the methods and the human casualties of her passion for getting the front page splash a little iffy? Interesting point.

Ms McDermid sets her novel 1979 in that year. 1979, as we know, became historically tagged as the year of discontent for the strikes and civil unrest which nearly tore “broken Britain” apart. In Scotland thousands of lorry drivers were on strike and it was the run up to devolution. The rich were getting richer and it was a time when businessmen doing dodgy tax deals were actually frowned on, rather than greeted with a shrug.

But this is only the backdrop, Allie works in the newsroom of a Scottish national newspaper, full of sexism, homophobia and three hour boozy lunches, where the news is crammed with clichés and bad puns, miracle babies and sob stories.

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and “Cheap prices good dates” “Nice big bags of biscuits. I have a lot of kids to feed so you will see me often”

• Those are just a few of the comments we heard when Draycott Confectionery opened their new stall in Alfreton Indoor Market in February.

• All cakes are major brands at reduced prices and they have a large selection of favourite biscuits packed in large family size packets.

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Pinxton & South Normanton History Group A HISTORY OF SOUTH NORMANTON In the early Assize Rolls, relating to the village, there is an interesting entry, connected to the Le Poer family who were the Lord of the Manor of Pinxton and South Normanton, dating from 1269. This was during the reign of King Henry III (1207 —1272).

The concept of ‘sanctuary’, however, prevailed until much later. Sanctuary predates Christianity; going back as far as Greek and Roman times. The early Christian Churches needed to compete with the pagan temples by offering their own protection.

The Church was deeply suspicious

The entry states that Thomas, who was the son of the Parish Priest of the Manor of South Normanton’, and Ralph Senche, who slew Ralph le Poer. This is most likely the same man who obtained and inherited, lands from the family of de Alfertune (Alfreton). The dastardly deed happened in the field of `Bentley’ which, unfortunately, hasn’t been identified. It must have been local because the pair immediately made their way to Blackwell Church where they sought sanctuary (shades of the Hunchback of Notre Dame).

about punishments meted out by secular authority. Sanctuary was introduced to address this.

This shows the changes brought about to the country following the Norman Conquest, because until then there was no ‘sanctuary’.

The former English justice system involved a Mass or oral customary rules. These were different in different parts of the country.

The Jutes who had settled in the south of the country had different rules to Mercian England in the Midlands.

It was King Henry II (nicknamed The Cleric’) who changed this and institutionalise the system of common law and created a unified court system.

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Fugitives who were not ‘of the faith’ were supposed to convert. They could not bring any weapons into the Church, nor attack their pursuers or defend themselves.

They were supposed to negotiate an agreement with the people who had been wronged, and then leave for safety. This often meant making their way to the nearest port and negotiating their passage to foreign shores, never to return.

At least they were still alive.

No record exists of what the locals thought of their Parish priest, the father of a murderer!

This account is indicative of the very early joint interests of early inhabitants of the two villages of Pinxton and South Normanton which continues today.

Postscript: the place/area of Bentley has never been identified.

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The first decade of the 20th Century witnessed an upsurge in women demanding equal rights.

The first decade of the 20th Century witnessed an upsurge in women demanding equal rights. Here in the UK, Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to “deeds, not words”, receiving repeated prison sentences (and force feeding during hunger strikes) in order to ensure women’s voices were heard.

In 1908, over in the US, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights.

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I’ve decided (nobody else has to agree) that my last two contributions have been BRILLIANT. Why? Well I’ve had loads of reaction that’s why. I’ve had phone calls telling me that they are spot on...I’ve had people contacting me in varied and forthright ways who totally disagree.

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Let’s look at what we know: In the reign of Edward III which was from 1327 – 1377 the Lord of Alfreton, Thomas Chaworth, claimed a Park and right of free warren at Alfreton, with the privilege of having a gallows, tumbrel and pillory for the manor.

Gallows is a term most of us are familiar with along with pillory or stocks but what of tumbrel? My initial thoughts were of the carts transporting aristocrats to the guillotine during the French Revolution but the name also refers to the old Latin name for a ducking stool. While in some places women (and some men) were ducked on stools in order to establish whether or not they were witches, the more common means of identifying them was to throw them into the water with a rope attached to see whether or not they floated (guilty) or sank (not guilty).

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If you’re lucky enough to have cornus (dogwood) or salix (willow) in your garden you will have been enjoying their vibrant colour during these grey months.

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Cotinus or smoke bush is another plant grown for its colour – in summer you get deep burgundy leaves with paler fluff flowers which do look like smoke around the head of the bush. If you do want to prune it for shape, do it now. You’ll probably get larger leaves but fewer flowers this year. Best position for flowering is a warm and sunny spot.

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Dahlia tubers need to go in round about mid to end of March – reckon on about six weeks before the last frost – their tender new shoots are very vulnerable to icy conditions. But if you miscalculate, put a cloche of some sort – a clear plastic container if there’s no glass - over the growth. Alternatively start them off in pots indoors and bring out when it’s safe.

You can start beans and sweet peas off from seed now indoors or in a cold frame, greenhouse, or conservatory. But they do best with long roots and empty toilet rolls are ideal for this. Be careful with the watering though as the rolls have a tendency to disintegrate quite quickly – great when you’re planting into their final spot, not so good before that.

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