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From the Editor What do I have to talk to you about this month? Lots has happened but I can’t fit it all in!

Well, firstly, the whole team (with the exception of Paul, who had it in January), fell foul of the dreaded Covid. We all said that we’ve done so well to dodge it up to this point but we’ve all had varying levels of illness with it; our golden oldies from the over 50 club were hit with the worst symptoms and we lost them for 5 days (alongside our young gun, Hayleigh).

Danielle made a valiant effort but fell at Beeches Brook and took to her bed from Tuesday to Friday! However, despite sharing a small little portacabin and van with them, our distribution team swatted it away like a fly and had no ill effects whatsoever. Liam and I had, what we thought was a cold! It was only when everyone else went down that we realised that it may not have been a cold!! Anyway, we’re all back & fighting fit now, which is a far cry from what the words ‘we’ve had covid’ used to do to us all 2yrs ago!! We’d have had a plague cross placed on the outside of building!

Anyway, now we’re all covid free, we thought it was time to expand our team a little. But firstly, we lost Maggi to retirement! I didn’t question her decision based on the fact that she was so busy in her day-to-day life that she barely had time to work! So, I don’t worry about her falling foul of the sofa & tellybox as she was last spotted mushing some huskies somewhere in the UK!

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Sarah has joined our Voice and Artliff team this month on our customer account management side and, as we haven’t scared her off yet, I think she might quite like us! Lisa has already scheduled some time to work on her little avatar, so that’s it now, no backsies!

In other news, May brings about my youngest cousins wedding. He is about 7yrs younger than me and I can remember holding him when he was newly born.

Cute as a button he was, age isn’t always kind to everyone (only joking ) but he has bagged himself the loveliest partner in crime as his soul mate and as self-appointed chief bridesmaid, I can’t wait to share their special day – it’s been a long time coming!!

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With a wedding and the holiday season beginning, I’m hoping for a quieter May but somehow, I doubt it!!

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Alfreton Male Voice Choir

Practice at Palmer Morewood Social Club,

36 Hall St, Alfreton, DE55 7BU

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Local Author helps local Hospital Unit!

Roger West (local author) presents a cheque of £550.00 to Rachael Tomblin (Operations Assistant Trauma & Orthopaedics-Oncology Unit at Sherwood Forest Hospitals) at The Post Mill Centre South Normanton. The money was raised through a PowerPoint presentation of the South Normanton Colliery Disaster 1937.

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Platinum Celebrations Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth on 6 February 1952 following the death of her father George IV. Although King George had been ill for some time, his death whilst Princess Elizabeth was on a tour of Kenya with her husband Prince Philip, must have shaken her to the core. She was a mother of two young children (Charles and Anne) and her father was a mere 56 years old when he died, in normal circumstances she could have expected him to reign for many more years, but instead she was thrust into the spotlight as Queen at the tender age of 26.

The Queen’s coronation took place in Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953. The ceremony was conducted by Dr Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and, at the Queen’s request, it became the first televised coronation, viewed by more than 20 million around the globe.

This coming June we are celebrating her Majesty’s 70 years as Queen, making her the longest reigning monarch not only in the UK, but placing her at number 4 in the list of the world’s longest reigning sovereigns. By the time of the Jubilee Bank Holiday on 3 June she will have moved into 3rd position, only a few days behind Rama IX of Thailand who reigned for 70 years, 126 days. To put things in perspective Rama, and the first placed long time monarch, Louis XIV of France (72 years, 110 days as king), ascended to their thrones at the age of 4 and 5 respectively!

There have been momentous changes in the way we live since her Majesty became Queen. In 1952 the world was still very much living in the shadows of World War II, in the UK sugar, butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fat, bacon, meat and tea were all still rationed. TVs were still uncommon in the average household; men were very much the breadwinners (after the war years of women in the workplace); homosexuality was illegal; decimalisation hadn’t yet happened; the

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death penalty was still in force; the race for space hadn’t yet begun; Watson and Crick hadn’t yet published their discovery of the structure of DNA, and foods like spaghetti and curry were unknown to most people!

Houses had no central heating, no double glazing, no fitted kitchens with shiny time saving appliances, and owning one’s own house was not taken for granted. The average cost of a new house around 1952 (lots of house building was taking place to replace homes destroyed during the war) was £1,891 (around £65,224 in today’s money) and the average salary was £10 a week (roughly £339). In 2022 we take so much for granted, don’t we? Warm houses, hot water at the turn of a tap, a huge variety and choice of foodstuffs, eating out, holidays overseas, etc. etc… are our lives anymore content though?

The only thing unchanged since 1952 is her Majesty Queen Elizabeth - raise a glass in celebration of her record breaking reign!

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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Aubergine and Pepper Balti

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Fancy a Cocktail?

Cocktail - it’s a strange word for a mix of “mainly spirits, water, sugar, and bitters”, don’t you agree? I decided to have a look to see if there’s any traceable etymology and here’s what I found.

The Egg-Cup Theory: one source of the word cocktail is said to be from the mispronunciation of the French word coquetier (pronounced cocktay in English) which means egg-cup! The story goes that in the late 18th century Antoine Amédée Peychaud, a New Orleans apothecary who invented Peychaud bitters, served brandy with these bitters in egg-cups. These teeny drinks earned the moniker coquetier which became mangled to cocktail.

The Dregs Theory: In days of old (and possibly even now in less salacious drinking establishments!) a landlord would mix together the dregs of the almost empty barrels and resell the resultant mixture at a discount. This doesn’t make sense as a derivative for the word cocktail unless you know that dregs were commonly referred to as tailings, and that the tap (spigot) of a barrel was sometimes called a cock.

The Horse’s Tail Theory: A horse with a docked tail was often described as a “cock tail” in the 17th century because the docked tail apparently resembled a rooster’s short spikey tail. Working horses such as those that pulled coaches, and horse used for hunting often had their tails docked for practical purposes. Thoroughbreds however did not have docked tails, meaning that if an “ordinary” horse was entered into a race its “cock tail” made it easy to spot.

The connection between this theory and cocktails as drinks is pretty tenuous in my opinion. Race horses with cocked tails were sometimes noted to be friskier than undocked thoroughbreds (which seems odd) and so “cock your tail up” became a saying. Another version says that a cocked

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tail showed a horse had been changed, in the same way that adding other ingredients to a spirit changed the drink. Horse racing and drinking go together like gin and tonic, so the theory holds that the word “cock tail” was adopted to mean an adulterated (changed) spirit.

The word cocktail wasn’t really defined as we know it until 1806, when The Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York (an early newspaper) , pinned the cocktail down to what we follow today: “a stimulating liquor composed of any kind of sugar, water and bitters”.

If you look online today there are literally thousands of different cocktail recipes, but the International Bartenders Association (IBA) only recognises 77 in their annual World Cocktail Competition.

Tastes in cocktails varies around the world, in 2021 in the UK Just Eat for Business found that Espresso Martinis were the most popular concoction. The US seems to favour tequila based Margaritas; the French love a Mimosa; Germans apparently love a U-Boot (beer and a shot glass filled with vodka that is sunk into the glass of beer!); in Spain, Sangria takes the top spot and in Italy it’s a Bellini.

What’s your favourite?

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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Alfreton & District Heritage Trust

THE SILVER JUBILEE - 1977 The Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth marked the 25th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the thrones of both the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Nations. It was celebrated with large-scale parties and parades throughout the United Kingdom throughout 1977, culminating in June with the official “Jubilee Days”, held to coincide with the Queen’s Official Birthday.

The anniversary date itself was commemorated in Church services across the land on 6 February 1977, and celebrations continued throughout the month and beyond. June saw street parties spring up in almost every street, town and village throughout the country and Alfreton was no exception with many a street being closed to traffic to enable the celebrations to go ahead. Certainly, the one at Derwent Grove, Alfreton,

where I lived was a huge community effort with the Street decorated and a long table laden with food and drink: Prospect Street in Alfreton was another venue and fortunately we have a number of photographs which have stood the test of time. You may even recognise yourself!

On the 28th July 1977, the Queen came to Derbyshire and visited the Police Headquarters at Butterley where she was greeted by many hundreds of local schoolchildren before travelling up through Alfreton on her way to Chesterfield. The Rotary Club of Alfreton weighed in by burying a Time Capsule at the Watchorn which is to remain in place until 2077. Quite what will be made of the contents by then we can only guess!

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We originally featured it in 2015 and there have been a couple of small changes but the route is great and there is a lovely mix of countryside with some cracking views. The dogs also loved this walk and even found a stream to splash around in and there was plenty of opportunity to go off lead so it got their double paw of approval.

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A gentle walk for you and your dog. This medium length walk should 2 1/2 hours. There are some sections of uneven terrain and a number of stiles to cross. There are a couple of busy road sections, so please take plenty of care and make sure you wear appropriate footwear for the conditions.

START: GRASSMOOR COUNTRY PARK, BIRKIN LANE, OFF B6039 BETWEEN TEMPLE NORMANTON AND GRASSMOOR. 1.

From the car park standing with your back to the road and keeping a pond on your right, continue straight ahead to join a trail. Bear right and pass a second pond on your right.

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After passing a bunker on your right and reaching a marker post on your left, bear right to cut across the golf course, taking care for any flying golf balls! Pass through a line of trees and ‘hole 8’ on your left and then follow the path round to the left to gently descend.

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When nearing the bottom of the hill and just prior to a metal fence and pond on your right, turn right. Pass immediately through a gap in the metal fence and continue to skirt around the edge of the pond which is now on your left. Cross over a wooden footbridge between two ponds and continue until you reach the car park.

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Woman – “That’s no problem at all. I just use their surnames”.

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