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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.

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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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Salon’s seasonal spirit helps hospice Pampering and prize-winning to raise cash for a local hospice was in abundance at West Nottinghamshire College’s Revive salon, as staff and students held their Christmas charity fundraising day.

The doors to the salon were opened to the public to enjoy the festivities and treatments performed by hairdressing and beauty therapy students on Friday 3 December.

A total of £412 was raised through ticket sales and raffle entries for the John Eastwood Hospice Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield. Guests paid a £5 fee to enjoy either blow-dried or curled hair styles, file and polish or a whole new make-up look.

A bumper selection of prizes kindly donated by local businesses were raffled off to guests. Prizes included over £100 worth of Revive hair and beauty treatments, Mansfield Town FC match tickets, Nottingham Panthers ice hockey match tickets, lunch and dinner vouchers for the college’s Refined restaurant, Cannon Hall Farm tickets, and a Blooming Wonderful flower bouquet.

Guest Alicia Rhodes won two prizes in the raffle. She said: “I come here quite regularly with my mum for treatments and meals at the restaurant. We’ve been there this morning and it means we can come again with my prize! I’ve had my hair curled today which I’m really pleased with.

“The salons are set-up really professionally and the students behave very professionally. We’ve had a lovely day with mince pies and drinks and I’ve won two wonderful prizes with the flowers and gift vouchers. Well done to everyone’s efforts today.”

Head of hairdressing, beauty therapy, sport and public services, Sarah Morley said: “I’m so very proud of all of our staff and students who organised and got involved in the Christmas fundraiser.

“It was a massive success and it was great to see everyone enjoying their treatments and socialising with our hard-working students at the end of a very successful term. I’m delighted with the amount raised which we’ll be presenting to the hospice very soon.”

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Sutton Heritage Society Memories of The Old Library (Part Two)

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Beyond the main desk were two rooms. Initially, the right hand side was adult shelves, and the left was the newspaper side. In 1953 the functions were switched from left to right, and the right hand side split into a reference section and a newspaper area.

At the far end from the main desk was my Dad’s small office. Later it served as an outer office for the room behind, part of an addition connected to activities in the basement.

The basement was devoted to activities of the ARP Wardens Wardens (Air Raid Precaution Wardens whose aim was to protect civilians from the danger of air-raids). My Dad was a member of the ARP Wardens.

The basement being used in this way added an element of mystery to the Library for me in my early years. After the war I became more familiar with the basement, and the leftovers from the war effort. The pins with coloured knobs particularly fascinated me.

But there were also sheaves of coloured papers in triplicate for official despatches, I suppose.

Most of his time as Chief Librarian, my Dad doubled as the boilerman. The furnace and boiler gave him some anguish on more than one occasion. There were the occasional nights when someone, often the cleaners, sometimes the police, would come knocking at our

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door in the wee hours demanding Dad’s attention to the furnace. I am not sure that added much to our respectability in the community.

The boiler room was a good place to force rhubarb roots, and get delicious sticks of pink rhubarb way ahead of the regular season. Later Sutton Urban District Council bought an automatic loader for the furnace, but this needed periodic loading and finely graded coal, cubes about a cubic inch in size. In later years I earned a bob (5p) or two shoveling tons of this type of coal into the boiler room. It had to be fine to go through the grill on the hopper, and thence be wormed through into the furnace. Not surprisingly, things went wrong mechanically sometimes. (I wonder now whether there was some asbestos in the boiler room, whether around the water pipes or in board form).

So this was the place Dad worked, first as a volunteer in the early 1920’s and later as Chief Librarian.

Recently I found a brief note in his diary for 1941, 9137 borrowers, 38000 population, equals 24.04%, a highly creditable coverage I would say. The Library certainly had an impact in those days, and truly reflected the community it was based in.

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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.

It’s a great snapshot of an era, but the storylines are pure crime, with a bit of ethics for good measure. It’s Val McDermid’s 35th book and the first of five moving through the decades with Allie Burns as the protagonist. Watch this space.

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The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire regiment)

Following on from last month’s article about our local regiment, here at Voice Magazines we discovered that two members of our staff had interesting family connections to the regiment. Lisa Artliff’s greatgrandfather served in World War I and Danielle Briggs’s grandfather in World War II. Family records and memories have given us some facts that bring the article to life: GEORGE HENRY DYKE (LISA’S GREAT-GRANDAD) – WORLD WAR I George was born in 1885 in Suffolk and moved to Derbyshire where he worked in Blackwell Colliery. He married Clara and they lived in Angel Row in South Normanton (just down the road from the Voice Magazines offices). When war broke out, they had two small sons Ernest (Lisa’s grandad) and Robert. George enlisted with the Notts and Derby regiment in August 1914 – he was paid a weekly allowance for his wife and children of 2 shillings and 4 pence (about 12p in today’s money!!).

He was E (LISA’S GREAT posted to France a year GEORGE HENRY DYK WAR I GRANDAD) – WORLD later in August 2015 His war records show that he saw action at the battles of Thiepval, Beaumont Hamel, Agincourt, Givinchy, and the Somme. George was wounded in the neck and arm in the Battle of Agincourt in November 1916.

He was hospitalised in Etaples and returned to active service in July 1917. He was wounded once again in the dreadful battle of the Somme in February 1918 and was repatriated to the UK. After time spent in hospitals in Poole and Ripon, his care organised by the Sherwood Foresters, he was finally returned to Derbyshire in December 1918 and discharged from the army in January 2019.

He returned to South Normanton, to Clara and had two more children and despite having been injured in the war lived to a ripe old age.

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MOVING ON TO WORLD WAR II CHARLES FRANCIS BRIGGS (DANIELLE’S GRANDAD) WORLD WAR II At the start of World War II, Charles lived in Carlton, Nottingham where he worked for Messrs William and Co Ltd of Colwick as a French Polisher. He enlisted in July 1939 and joined the 2/5th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters, who embodied in September 1939. After 8 months of training and guard duties they were transferred to Rennes in France to complete training and work on airfield BRIGGS construction.

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WAR II) During May 1940 the battalion moved towards the Franco/Belgian border and onwards towards Dunkirk.

They played an important part in defending the surrounding area despite a lack of heavy equipment and a worthy part in the withdrawal to and defence of Dunkirk

The Battalion returned to the UK, first to Scotland and then to East Anglia and Kent. Charles took advantage of this to marry his sweetheart Lillian at Carlton in 1941. Soon, however, they were separated as the Battalion was sent to South Africa on the appropriately named ship “Derbyshire” in December 1942.

In South Africa they patrolled the hilly countryside of the front. In March 1943 the enemy attacked and in this period of fighting Corporal Briggs was taken Prisoner of War by the Germans. He was held in various Stalags until he was repatriated in 1945 and finally discharged in April 1946.

Charles thankfully returned to Nottingham after his imprisonment, continued his trade as a French Polisher, and after the war he and Lillian had a son Rodney (Danielle’s dad) and two daughters Glenys and June.

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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.

When woodlands and forests are carefully managed, the wood produced is a sustainable and renewable resource that can be used for so many things. We probably all think of the wood we burn in our now fashionable log burners, but what else is wood used for?

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And what about construction? The 20th and early 21st centuries has seen the building industry rely almost exclusively on concrete and steel to construct our towns and cities, but in 2020 a group of Yale University scientists proposed that wood could largely replace these materials. Don’t believe it’s possible?

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).

The next time you are in woodland, go and hug a tree - I’m an inveterate tree hugger - and thank it and its brethren for the good work they undertake on our behalf. A world without trees is unthinkable; we need them far more than they need us, and we should cherish our woodlands and forests.

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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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Mansfield Hockey Club are back on form Mansfield Hockey Club are a friendly and competitive club, based at Kingsway Park in Kirkby in Ashfield. We cater to members of all abilities and of ages 13+, with our oldest member being 78 years old!

After a tricky return from the Christmas break the 1st XI are back on form with back-to-back 4-1 wins, which has kept them right in the action at the top of the league. With 2 points separating 3 teams and some proper ‘6-pointers’ coming up, it’s an exciting time!

Elsewhere across the club there has been a mixed bag of results since the return to playing, with some big wins and losses. There aren’t many draws in hockey as there are normally plenty of goals. This makes it a fun sport to play.

(Even as a defender we still try to get in on the action!)

Most of the clubs teams are sitting around midtable but with several fixtures still to play there will be no let-up in our resolve to finish as high up the league as possible.

This can be seen in the commitment of the players and coaches to attend training, despite the recent storms! The only thing that normally stops play is a frozen pitch, with a hardcore of players who turn up, wind, rain or shine. As anyone who has played in driving sleet will tell you, it’s not much fun at the time, but it makes the victory (and drinks afterwards) that much sweeter!

As I’ve mentioned before there are five men’s teams playing at a range of levels and the club has an affiliation with Ashfield Aztecs Ladies Hockey Club through which they help run the Mansfield Aztecs Junior Hockey Club. So, there are opportunities for everyone who want to get involved. Just drop us a line using the details below.

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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’.

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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

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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.

Professor Ian D. Rotherham, researcher, writer, broadcaster on wildlife and environmental issues in the Peak District and elsewhere, is contactable on info@hallamec.plus.com. Follow his website www.ukeconet.org, ianswalkonthewildside, & Twitter @IanThewildside 54 Don’t blog forget to mention Voice Magazines when responding to the Ads

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