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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,

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The staff at Clay Cross Parish Council have been very busy over the last year. The Parish Council was one of the first to launch its own website many years ago and a completely new version has now been made available – www.claycross.gov.uk The website contains a wealth of information about Clay Cross and your local services, please take a few minutes to have a look and complete our Climate Change Questionnaire (for both residents and businesses). The picture gallery contains many aerial photographs of the town and Kenning Park.

also have several allotment sites, recreation grounds and Kenning Park where the town’s Library and Forest School are situated. Many of you would have visited Clay Cross Gala which was held in the Park for the first time last summer and experienced the Love Exploring app that brings the Park to life.

Another major project undertaken was the relocation of the Parish Council office into the former Rykneld Homes Area Housing office at the front of the Social Centre.

Clay Cross Parish Council continued to support local groups and organisations, along with supporting Holmgate Primary School and Sharley Park Community Primary School with help towards their Christmas activities. Clay Cross Social Centre on Market Street continues to be a popular venue where many community events are held each month. We

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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?

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Book Review

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

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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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FOOTBALL: IT IS MORE THAN A GAME NEW TUPTON IVANHOE FC What do you think of when you watch a game of football?

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This month we revive a walk from back in 2016. We always re walk and rework the walks, which is fortunate as this time a right of way was blocked and we had to make a small detour. And it was well worth the effort as this is a cracking walk, with some lovely views on the way out and a opportunity to walk along a section of the Trans Pennine Trail.

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William Maurice, who died on the 10th July, 1951, was born on the 11th February, 1872. He received his engineering education at Manchester Technical College and his practical training with J. Davis and Son in Derby. On completing his apprenticeship, he remained with that company for a few years. In 1892-93 he was in South Africa on their behalf, and in 1894 he was appointed Electrical Engineer at Swanwick Collieries, Alfreton, where he subsequently became Assistant to the Manager, under whom he qualified as a colliery manager. In 1899 he was appointed Manager of the Babbington Coal Co.’s Tibshelf New Colliery, and in 1903 he went to Hucknall Collieries, near Nottingham, as General Mine Manager. Here Maurice met a number of influential people that were to shape his life and career in many ways and the way miner’s safety was considered – the Seeley family and Stuart Crawford-Wardell.

As a budding engineer, in 1905 he installed at Hucknall Torkard the first exhaust-steam turbo-alternator to be used in a British mine, and in 1908 he added a booster motor-generator and equalizing battery. He was the first to develop the thin seams of the Leen Valley and the first to use electric coal-cutters in that area. In 1911 he left Hucknall Torkard and entered into an agreement with the firm of Friemann and Wolf, of Saxony, for the purpose of re-establishing the Wolf Safety Lamp Co of Leeds, in Sheffield, and in 1916 he purchased the entire English business of the company. From 1920, for more than ten years, he was also associated with the Concordia Co. (C.E.A.G.) of Dortmund.

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in 1919 and again in 1924, when the first two-part lamps were installed at Birchenwood Collieries, Kidsgrove. The first 4-volt (lead-acid accumulator) miner’s hand-lamp of modern design was produced by his Federation Lamp Co. in 1928; and the first alkaline battery with Edison tubular positive plates and concentric terminals was produced by that company in 1930. In 1932 he formed another company—the Wolf Safety Lamp (Hiring) Co.—and in 1933 he purchased the premises known as the Saxon Road Works, Heeley, Sheffield, which he reconstructed and equipped with new electrically operated machinery for the more economical production of his Wolf lamps and alkaline accumulators.

He joined The Institution as an Associate in 1896 and was elected an Associate Member in 1899 (just as the Boer War started) and a Member in 1909, in which year he organized and founded the Association of Mining Electrical Engineers.The same year saw the publication of his “Shot-Firer’s Guide”—a practical manual on electric blasting apparatus and explosives, and on the prevention of accidents in mines. His paper on “The Evolution of the Miner’s Electric Hand-Lamp,” for which he was awarded a premium, was published in the Journal in 1937. In many ways it was his daughter Monica who was the more famous engineer of the family, but certainly William’s grounding in the north Derbyshire coalfields was where many a miner are indebted to his engineering genius.

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International Day of Forests happens every year on March 21st. It was created by the U.N. (United Nations) in 2012 in recognition of the fact that our planet needs forests, and WE need to protect and care for them. A theme is selected each year; this year, it is forests and sustainable production and consumption; and people across the world are encouraged to plant trees and look after their local woodlands.

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Google Mjøstårnet (or The Wood Hotel) in Norway, 18 stories and 85.4-metrehigh. The entire building, including the elevator shafts, is made entirely from CLT (cross laminated timber), and columns made from glued laminated timber (known as, glulam made from wood that is planed then glued together to form columns or beams, which can be used in the place of concrete or steel).

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I think he might be having us on you know...

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George’s Footballing Tales are....... ......seemingly endless.

When Horace Twigg (my old mate George’s grandad – but you already know that!) gave up playing for Hilcote Hacademicals, he became the ‘man with the magic sponge’. On the flimsy premise that he’d once spent three days in hospital after breaking a leg in a fiercely contested match against Brinsley FC, known locally at the time as Brinsley Bruisers, the committee felt that he was well qualified.

Provided with a bucket, sponge and a generous supply of bandages – enough for the mummification of countless Egyptian Pharaohs – Horace was given a brief to ‘revive or patch up’ any injured Hilcote players. For years, he then travelled the length and breadth of the country and was a constant fixture on the touchline whenever and wherever Hilcote played.

Many a player was revived by Horace in that time. He claimed that there were actually days in the likes of January & February, when just the sight of him having to break the ice covered coating in his bucket before rushing on to treat a player, was enough to bring about an immediate Lazarus type recovery.

Horace was asked to stand down in 1919. This was after the committee had decided that another dimension was required and they enlisted the help of Warrant Officer Archibald (Tufty) MacNaughton.

He had returned from WW1 with a reputation as a first class ‘trainer of men’ and someone who had successfully carried out amputations in the trenches.

NB – why they thought that this might be helpful was never explained.

to the role, and Horace was relieved of his duties..... temporarily as it happens.

W/O MacNaughton’s idea of discipline was to insist that all players meet at 12 noon on a Saturday before a home game and take part in training exercises prior to the 3.00pm kick off. Spectators, including Horace, arriving early for the next game, were astonished to see their heroes, carrying a bag of coal on their backs, route marching up and down the pitch. The outcome, that afternoon, was inevitable, as the exhausted Hilcote players suffered a demoralising 8-0 defeat.

The following week, Hilcote, once more at home, were playing an important cup match against Westhouses Wanderers.

MacNaughton, convinced that the previous week’s defeat had simply been a result of a lack of fitness, instructed the players to arrive even earlier, at 11.00am.

According to Horace, there are conflicting reports as to what happened next, but what is certain is that Tommy Flint, captain, and man-mountain of a centre half, was seen chasing Tufty up Berristow Lane shouting ‘encouraging’ words that George has suggested dare not be repeated in Voice Magazine.

There was a happy ending however, as Horace was immediately re-instated, continued to apply the magic sponge for another ten years and upon his retirement, in a very moving ceremony in the Hilcote clubhouse, was presented with a brand new, suitably inscribed, personalised bucket.

Gaining his nickname from a bizarre hair style, Tufty had been asked to bring some military type discipline

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The Mere Hen or Water Hen A familiar bird of ponds, lakeside, canals, and rivers, the moorhen is distinctive and approachable too. Not a bird of moorlands, their name is a corruption of the old ‘mere-hen’.

They are highly territorial in their ‘patch’ which they need to defend against rivals but also against other birds such as the bigger and more aggressive coot. The pairs of moorhens are not faithful but promiscuous so inter-pair mating frequently take place. Known as ‘skitty coots’, moorhens always seem to be rather nervy and twitchy with a constant flickering of their tails (or scuts) with their striking white undersides that are a visible announcement of presence and ownership of territory. With oversized legs and feet, the moorhen on land can appear almost comical and as they run or walk have a sort of characteristic rhythmical pumping action with head and neck. The call during any anxious moments is usually a ‘krrrruk’ and a highpitched ‘kik-kik-kik’ and this is often the most classic sound of many of our wetlands.

Nationally there are perhaps a quarter of a million pairs breeding and in wintertime with European migrants, the numbers rise to around a million. These birds are found in almost every type of wetland in the lower lying regions including even muddy ditches and sometimes garden ponds. (I had one overwinter in my own garden a few years back). They are absent from higher ground of moors and peat bogs. When they occupy nest sites in less natural situations moorhens love to utilize articles discarded by humans such as shopping trolleys and car tyres for example. There may be more than one nest with one for the eggs and a secondary platform

for the young birds and adults as the chicks hatch out. A little like magpies it seems that moorhens have a penchant for brightly coloured often human objects with which to decorate their nesting platforms.

In the mid twentieth-century, youths might take moorhen eggs from the nest by either wading out or else using a dessert spoon attached to a bamboo cane to scoop the eggs one at a time.

For hungry mouths in the rural countryside, these eggs were a favourite fried treat. Recorded as far back as the 1500s, moorhens were hunted as ‘game’ for the table. Indeed during times of food shortage such as Second World War rationing, the strongly-flavoured dark meat was considered a welcome supplement to the diet of country dwellers. They might be driven into the water by teenagers and then pinned down with a forked stick, dragged out, and their necks wrung. They were then taken home to be presented to mother for stewing with vegetables.

They are still hunted in European countries such as Greece and in recent decades were even seen in Greek-Cypriot butchers’ shops around London; albeit obtained and sold illegally.

Whereas in Britain the moorhen is easy to see and if anything a bit of an extrovert, in Greece and the surrounding countries they have learned (with good reason) to keep out of sight.

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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.

But to ensure they keep on giving you the same show year on year, late March is the time to prune right back close to the ground. Cornus should be left uncut the year after planting, willow can be pruned first year. If you want to propagate new plants in a new spot just push one of your cut stems into the ground. It’s as easy as that.

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.

Top Tip:

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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