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From the Editor Dearest Readers (I feel like Lady Whistledown!!), What a strange month it has been and, as predicted, busy!

As you all know, I stay out of all things political in here both nationally and locally – point of principle - but just sometimes, I have to shake my head publicly and then go back to try and deal with, like most of you I’m sure, the worsening cost of living crisis, rising costs of food, heating etc, nevermind the costs of trying to run a business! Our 5th paper price increase of the year has landed this month – it’ll be a strange month when we don’t get one! And what is being done to help the – you know – constituents?? Still, onwards we trundle in our daily lives and let’s hope that the powers that be in whatever capacity, notice the cliff edge before we drive over it at full pelt!

Anyway, speaking of being ‘shaken down’ on the way in and the way out – we went to Centre Parcs for the previously mentioned Cousins ‘Sten do’ (stag and hen do – Sten is the nicer version!) and jeez, I felt like a fatted calf being shuffled from one financial pilfering zone to another!! Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that it works brilliantly from some people. However, I’m not sure it’s for me anymore. For example, nobody can come as a day visitor anymore (so all the people who were part of the wedding brigade could not obtain a day pass – it’s a thing of the past since covid apparently!) and if you left the site (which you could do freely btw), crikey me, if you came back in, well, I haven’t felt like that since a check point in Egypt (only missing the sub machine gun!), your answers had to be swift, accurate, personal and without hesitation!

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Also – and this one has really stuck in my gullet – I sold a kidney to obtain a 3hr spa session in the evening which began at 6pm. Obviously, when you can’t get in your villa until 4pm, you have a mad dash to get your car, follow the snaking line of cars to get somewhere near your villa, unload and drive your car back to the car park, then collect your bike and head over to the Spa. I can’t think why but I had Benny Hill music in my head during that particular event #stressful…..you need a spa after that ordeal! Anyhow, you get chucked out at 9pm, get out your wet gear, walk into the centre cos you’re hungry, only to find that everywhere stops seating people at 9pm, you can’t get a takeaway from the 17 items (yes I counted) takeaway list because you should have booked a slot in the afternoon, the supermarket is not open to sort yourself out AND you obvs can’t get a Deliveroo or just eat or anything external because ‘you shall not pass!’ I haven’t been told what time to go to bed since I was a kid and even that was negotiable – ask my parents! Anyway, because of various other disasters before we left home - egg and cheese omelette with a slice a bread it was #rocknroll.

Ultimately, a fun time was had by all ….. until 4 days before the wedding and I’m on crutches!!!!

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Our Oceans are in Danger When you look at a satellite image of our planet, you may wonder - as I do - why we have named it Earth, given that the vast majority of the surface is covered by water. Any extra-terrestrial flying past could be forgiven for thinking that the beautiful green and blue globe below them was a water world.

Planet Earth is 71% covered by oceans, and it was in these very oceans that, until recently, scientists believe life itself developed. However, newer research suggests that the first single cell organisms developed in “muddy pools” on land and not in the depth of the primordial oceans.

The scientific debate is still open, and no doubt will switch back and forth between muddy puddles and the ocean depths as the origin of life, but one thing does seem clear - water was necessary for life on this planet to begin.

Sadly, given the very clear indications that water, and thus the oceans that cover the planet, are vital to life’s existence, we humans have done a pretty poor job of looking after our rivers and seas. We’ve overfished, hunted and killed our close cousins, the whales, to dangerous levels, and allowed pollution to enter the oceans, seas and waterways of the world.

A quick internet search revealed that there are thought to be 5.25 TRILLION pieces of plastic rubbish currently polluting our oceans. 269,000 tons float on the surface, while some four billion plastic microfibres per km2 litter the deep sea. I hadn’t even heard of plastic microfibres, so had to look that up too…they are described as very small thread-like fibres that can come from both natural and synthetic fabrics. By 2050, ocean plastic will outweigh all of the ocean’s fish!

These plastics can have a massive impact on life in the seas; fish and other sea life can ingest them, causing digestion problems which pass up the food chain and

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ultimately to us - and that’s before factoring in chemical and heavy metal pollution. The floating debris blocks out the sunlight, which prevents light from reaching corals and plant life, thus inhibiting their growth.

Statistics show that as much as 27 per cent of monitored reef formations have been lost, and as much as 32 per cent are at risk of being lost within the next 32 years.

Sitting in our inland homes, it is very difficult to see how we can do anything to improve this dire situation - it feels like anything we do try will be a mere “drop in the ocean”, but it shouldn’t stop us from trying to do our part should it? There are some steps we can all take…

• Reduce your use of single-use plastics • Support legislation to curb plastic production and waste • Recycle properly • Avoid products containing microbeads (found in some household and beauty products) We only have one planet, we need to look after all of it - including the oceans, seas and rivers.

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Suffragettes were an activist women’s organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner “Votes for Women”, fought for women’s right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women’s suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all women over the age of 21. When by 1903 women in Britain had not been enfranchised, Pankhurst decided that women had to “do the work ourselves”; the WSPU motto became “deeds, not words.”

The suffragettes heckled politicians, tried to storm parliament, were attacked and sexually assaulted during battles with the police, chained themselves to railings, smashed windows, carried out a nationwide bombing and arson campaign, and faced anger and ridicule in the media. When imprisoned they went on hunger strike, to which the government responded by force-feeding them. The first suffragette to be force fed was Evaline Hilda Burkitt. The death of one suffragette, Emily Davison, when she ran in front of the King’s horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, made headlines around the world.

The WSPU campaign had varying levels of support from within the suffragette movement; breakaway groups formed, and within the WSPU itself not all members supported the direct action. Hard to imagine they were seen as a ‘terrorist movement’!

They were active in our part of the Midlands – The Workers Dreadnought paper issued on Saturday November 2nd, 1918, records that Sylvia Pankhurst was brought before the Petty Sessional Division in Eckington. It records she caused ‘a mutiny, sedition or disaffection amongst his Majesty’s Forces or amongst the civilian population ‘. The charge arose from a speech given by Pankhurst on 28th September to Cresswell Local Labour Party. She was taken to Renishaw Police Station cells and arrested.

She was fined £50 and £8 12s in costs.

The suffragette campaign was suspended when World War I broke out in 1914. After the war, the Representation of the People Act 1918 gave the vote to women over the age of 30 who met certain property qualifications. Ten years later, women gained electoral equality with men when the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 gave all women the right to vote at age 21.

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During our reminiscence sessions, these are always the items which are guaranteed to produce a grimace and a chorus of “Oooh, I remember using Izal” followed by floods of memories of freezing cold outside privies, newspaper on string and the dreaded slippery toilet paper. In theory, there was a rough side and a smooth side but, either way, it didn’t do the job.

Outside toilets could be either shared with other families or one per household. It was my dad’s job, as a small boy, to cut up newspaper into rectangles and hang on a big nail on the door of the outside loo.

Post-war sanitation meant that new houses began to have indoor plumbing fitted as standard and the problem with trying to flush newspaper was that there were continual blockages.

Thank goodness for the arrival of soft toilet paper which appeared in our shops in 1942. However, the high cost meant that many homes could not afford the luxury until the 1960s or 70s.

Our reliance on soft toilet paper today is evidenced by panic buying at the beginning of lockdown during the recent pandemic.

This is one occasion I don’t yearn for days My husband has a story which originated from his relatives in gone by when we had to manage with shiny the North East but is replicated in families up and down the country. It goes like this: the latch didn’t work very well on the medicated toilet paper or when newsprint was imprinted on bottoms. outside toilet, so you had to sing hymns to let people know the toilet was occupied. If it was a quick job, it was “Onward Christian Soldiers”, if it was a bit longer, it was “Fight the Good Fight” and if it was a long job, it was” Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow”.

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It’s as safe as it can be, to put bedding plants out now, so go for it! Though have some fleece ready, just in case of a flash frost.

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If your forget-me-nots develop powdery mildew (overcrowding) pull them out, or the mildew may spread to other nearby plants.

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The Peak District and Derbyshire are famed for their wildflower meadows – although traditional hay meadows took a bad knock during the 1970s and 1980s with around 95% destroyed by intensive farming.

Nevertheless, in recent decades there has been a gradual but perhaps accelerating recovery in many areas. There are newly created sites on restoration areas but also farming grassland, which in the era of reduced fertilisers is beginning to recover. The first signs are generally the emergence of fields of tall, golden meadow buttercups and followed by swathes of oxeye daisies. Orchids may follow along with other less common flowers. A great place to see this is on the National Trust estate at Longshaw and close by the Grouse Inn at Froggatt. Over the last few years these have developed into glorious flower meadows and full of birds, bees, and butterflies too. We even had curlews breeding there a few years back and in the evenings a barn owl’s ghostly appearance is not unusual.

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For livestock be it cattle or horses, such hay is tastier, richer, and more nutritious that say ryegrass hay which is bulky but problematic because its quality is low. Interestingly too, the meadow plants are powered by networks of underground fungi called ‘mycorrhizas’ which form an invisible network interconnecting plants roots and enabling nutrients and water to be shared throughout the community.

Soil conditions include the amount of organic matter from decomposing plant material, associated nutrient, but also water. Wet meadows have a particularly distinctive and rich flora with wonderful fragrant flowers such as meadowsweet, common fleabane, purple loosestrife, marsh marigold, and in spring, lady’s smock. Scarlet pimpernel appears and then disappears where there is a little disturbance – maybe a tractor rut or a molehill.

On drier sites and where there is less grazing then meadow cranesbill thrives; a marker increasingly of meadow communities along roadside verges.

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