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From the Editor Dear Readers, Well, it’s all doom and gloom at the moment, isn’t it? Except the weather (at the time of writing at least!)

A summer of discontent, a cost-of-living crisis, war in Europe and a rumbling pandemic that just won’t go away. It’s starting to feel like we’re on season 2 of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”!

(I’m claiming the rights on that one Netflix & I need a big budget to hire 1 of the Hemsworth’s please!). Our time to do something about this will come if you want to but for now, if you’re anything like me, my time is preoccupied with just trying to balance the books and effectively stand still. Sad times at the minute.

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Next month, I’ll tell you all about my camping experience with the team…..at Ynot festival…..eeek! Who’s joining us!

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Onto far more cheerful things though. I hope you all love our bright and beautiful front covers this month. Our team spend a lot of time coming up with creative ideas, working with our sister company, Artliff Design and Print. And this month is a cracker in my opinion. If you haven’t figured it out, to celebrate World Emoji Day (more on that on page 6) we have created an emoji for all of the people who work on the mags.

My Emoji is obviously the one with the stunning shoes and is shrugging her shoulders and rolling her eyes as I try to figure out how to keep everyone facing forwards… (I am known for being a bit of an eye roller!) Each of the Emoji’s reflects the personalities of the team and as you can see we’re quite an eclectic bunch! It was great fun doing them so, as a giggle, why don’t you have a think about what your own emoji would look like. If you’re really creative you could even draw it. We’d love to see them!

I ended last month on a cliff hanger (not really, but I do like to big up my part sometimes!) with the crutches for the wedding.

Needless to say, despite my protestations, the cousins would not delay the wedding for me (rude!), so I crammed my trotter into a beautiful shoe (of course!) and hobbled down the aisle with a massive wincing grin – job done! And in true Cinders style, once I landed at the reception, I whipped the shoes off and donned some slippers for the rest of the evening. Staying classy to the end!

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Smile it’s Emoji Time!

Emojis - love ‘em, loathe ‘em, use them or not; I would imagine that most of us know what they are by now.

Do you know how long they’ve been around for though?

It’s perhaps longer than you may think…

Not unsurprisingly, emojis first surfaced in Japan.

Japanese has a pictorial based written language (like Chinese) and the word “emoji” itself actually derives from three Japanese characters (or kanji). (“e,” picture, 文 (“mo,” write) and 字 (“ji,” character).

The first set of emojis were developed in Japan in 1997 for a mobile phone named the SkyWalker DP-211SW. There were 90 designs, including ones we would recognise today, “thumbs up”, for example, but they were basic.

1999 saw the development of symbols that were more pictorial for use on another Japanese mobile phone service. This set of 176 emojis kickstarted the widespread use of emojis. Their creator Shigetaka Kurita had only 144 pixels in which to design the emojis, meaning they look clunky and awkward when compared with the ones we see today.

Today people use emojis constantly; in fact, you could (if you were so inclined) probably create an entire sentence using the images. There’s even a TV show which features a game where emojis are used to describe TV shows, films and books; contestants have to guess the answer based on a set of emojis created by one of the other players. The accuracy of the emoji use varies tremendously though - it seems one person’s translation can be very different to another’s!

It’s funny, isn’t it? The world’s first written languages were highly pictorial - think Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Archaic Chinese, Linear B (Mycenaean Greek), Linear A (Minoan Crete) and the Cuneiform scripts of the Sumerians; it appears we are coming full circle!

MSN messenger, the online computer based messaging program (anyone remember that?) created 30 “emoticons” for use on the platform in 2003. But emoji use on phones was mainly confined to Japan until 2010, when emojis were incorporated into Unicode (an international encoding system which gives every letter, digit or symbol a unique numeric value across different programs and platforms - basically, it means that just about every language can be assigned and identified using the system). 722 emojis for both iPhones and Android phones were released that year.

There are now close to 3,000 emojis listed in the official Unicode list and even an online Emojipedia (created in 2013). The creator of this reference website also established World Emoji Day, held on July 17th each year (www.worldemojiday.com).

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The choice of date apparently references the date shown on an iPhone calendar emoji (I don’t have an iPhone, so I can’t check this!).

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FOOTBALL: IT IS MORE THAN A GAME NEW TUPTON IVANHOE FC

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The 2021/22 season has, once again, been an enormous success on and off the pitch for New Tupton Ivanhoe F.C.

New Tupton Ivanhoe F.C. is a community club, so its activity reaches way beyond playing football.

On the pitch, the club had a record number of teams taking part in the North Derbyshire Youth Football League, the Kick Start League, and the Sheffield League.

There was success on the pitch with league cup and tournament wins across various age groups. This culminated with all the winning teams being presented with a special medal by Tupton Parish Council as part of the Tupton Community Awards.

Off the pitch, the club welcomed Ron Atkinson to Tupton Village Hall in a joint fundraising event for Miller Foundation.

The season ended with a successful Summer Festival of Football, over 200 teams attended from across the region to compete for the prizes and thousands of spectators came to watch.

Over the season, investment continued in the development of the club’s facilities, the cafe and bar became operational at the A1 Garage Doors Arena.

Further maintenance was carried out on pitch one and two and plans put in place to increase the number of pitches the club has access to as the number of teams continue to grow.

The club also launched a new project to bring back a derelict MUGA into use as an all-weather training facility for the young people of Tupton. Fundraising has started and will continue into the new season with the hope that the facility will be ready for winter training in 2022.

Mark Kelly, a coach, supported by others in the club, successfully climbed Snowden just 3 months after having one of his legs amputated. He raised over £8,000 for several local charities.

There was continued support at other Tupton events, with coaches, players and volunteers getting involved with the Christmas celebrations, Summer Galas, and the Jubilee Celebrations.

Antony Maidens, ‘New Tupton Ivanhoe F.C.’ Chairman said “What a year it has been as we have emerged from the Covid Pandemic. The club continues to grow from strength to strength. A big thank you to everyone who volunteers their time to support the club, as a coach or behind the scenes. We are a community club and achieve so much because of the family spirit we have.”

The club now looks forward to the 2022/23 season.

They will have 26 teams from under 7’s to first team and will continue to run Little Ivanhoes for under 6’s and the Wildcats Centre. To find out more about the club visit www.newtuptonivanhoefc.co.uk

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We are really excited and hope you can join us for some wonderful local and community projects this year.

We have: Tuesday 26th July - The Community Involvement Team will be coming down to make fruit kebabs with the children and play Boccia.

Tuesday 2nd August - The Love Exploring Team will be launching their Mini Beast Adventure and we will be running mini beasts and microscopes sessions alongside.

Tuesday 9th August - The Community Involvement Team will be wand making Tuesday 16th August - Yorkshire Owl Rescue will be bringing the birds down to the park, providing a wonderful opportunity to get up close to these stunning birds.

Tuesday 23rd August - Rupert Oxley will be providing a drumming circle.

Tuesday 30th August - First Art will be puppet making and having a theatre show Find us on: Google Maps - Kenning Park Forest School & Facebook - Kenning Park Community Forest School

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If you are tempted to think politics is boring, read Sasha Swire’s Diary of an MP’s Wife – Inside and Outside Power.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Corbynista or Boris’s biggest fan, this is a fascinating, knowledgeable, gossipy, funny and sometimes startling account of the Cameron years of government and beyond.

Sasha Swire is the wife of former Tory MP Sir Hugo Swire and for 20 years she kept a diary of the goings on at the highest level of government. But she was no typical political wife, standing silently and steadfastly one step behind her husband or flower arranging for constituency dinners. As a former journalist, old habits die hard and she had her mental notebook at her side through it all.

She and Hugo were close chums of the Camerons – would be interesting to know if they still are – and her insights into the crises, jokes, nicknames and behind the scenes snarkiness of that set of people are very revealing of the characters and events of the time.

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Bailey Boo is back again, and back again at his new haunt, with another walk that departs from Homesford Tea Rooms. This is a nice short walk, which is often handy in these summer months as we try and keep our doggy’s cool in the warm weather. Bailey loved this walk as did his Mum and Dad, not least because of the opportunity for a coffee and cake at Lauretta’s!

A nice short but fun packed walk for you and your dog!

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The hospice added the figure is ‘the largest amount ever received by the hospice from a council appeal’

“I always hoped we could hand over a substantial amount of money to the charity, but this has surpassed my expectations and I couldn’t be more delighted.

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“I’d therefore like to thank everyone who helped organise or attend events for helping me raise such a large sum for such a worthy cause.”

Cllr Thacker and Consort Jean Spencer, handed over the cheque during a special presentation event at Ashgate Hospice on Monday 23 May.

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SELF-CARE FOR BUBBLE BATH HATERS

Is it just me? Am I the only woman who flinches at the mention of a spa day or a Prosecco fuelled bubble bath? I’m a hugger so it’s not the idea of being touched that bothers me. Although, I have to say, that being pummelled, wiped, exfoliated, and generally messed about with holds pretty much zero appeal to me. I just get so BORED. Loafing around doing nothing (and being done to) is just not for me.

I don’t want to mislead you into imagining that I’m physically constantly on the go, but mentally, my happy productive place is to have many ‘tabs’ open, just like my computer. Often, that means juggling an open phone, iPad, good old fashioned notebook and a pen at the same time. Which is tricky if you’re covered in some mystic oil and balancing remnants from Stonehenge between your shoulder blades!

And yet, I get the self-care mantra thing that surrounds us; so many of the clients coming to me for support are burned out and worn down by stresses, responsibilities and caring for others.

None of us are exempt from the need to take care of ourselves, but when did it become the accepted wisdom that we have to halt everyday life and take time out to be engaging in self-care?

If we are genuinely looking after ourselves to be as well as we can and be fit enough to manage the responsibilities of the people and tasks in our lives, that is not a switch to turn off and on. Selfcare, at a fundamental level, looks like listening to our bodies…. eating well and eating well every day, not just when we want to drop some pounds.

Recognising if we’ve fallen into destructive habits of misusing alcohol to escape from the day… being proactive about getting better sleep (if we’re constantly complaining about being tired).

It’s also about recognising what gives you energy and brings you joy or satisfaction. I’ve often written on this page about Personality Profiling (get yours free at www.16personalities.com) that can confirm whether you get your energy from being alone or being with others. Being an Introvert, or an Extravert has nothing to do with whether you are sociable or not, it’s about what charges your batteries.

If you are an Introvert by nature, you will naturally be drawn to solitary hobbies like fishing or painting, whist the Extraverts among us will feel refreshed by engaging in activities with others, like Zumba or a walking group. Self-care is being aware of this and letting it influence your decisions. So, when faced with an invitation to lunch with a group of friends, the Extravert knows that this is what selfcare looks like for them, whilst an Introvert may still go to lunch, but can be aware that they’ll need some time alone afterwards to recharge.

Aside from that, it’s horses for courses in terms of lifestyle: a busy working parent who never gets a minute to themselves will probably love the gift of a massage (unless they’re like me!), whereas someone with a more solitary life might prefer your company over a cup of coffee.

Don’t get me wrong, if your idea of a good time is a bubble bath, go for it! Here’s to looking after ourselves EVERYDAY.

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Pride for All It’s hard to believe that homosexuality was still considered a crime in the UK right up until 1967 when it was decriminalised…or so the story goes. Yet a closer look at the laws relating to homosexual relationships shows that 1967 was only the start. It is estimated that 15,000-plus gay men were convicted in the decades that followed the 1967 liberalisation, and the age of consent was only reduced to 16, the same as for heterosexuals, in 2001. It took Northern Ireland a further 8 years to catch up.

The last remaining laws relating to gay sex were not repealed (in England and Wales) until 2003, when “the gross indecency law” passed in 1885, and the criminalisation of sodomy were finally wiped from the legal pantheon. The gross indecency law was the one used to convict Alan Turing (the man who helped crack the German Enigma Code in WW2) and was the reason the playwright Oscar Wilde was jailed in 1895. Northern Ireland did not repeal the sodomy law until 2008 and Scotland not until 2013 - meaning that gay sex did not cease to be a criminal act in the UK as an entirety until a mere 9 years ago!

In the face of such inequality, it’s hardly surprising that gay men and the wider LGBTQ community have felt the need to celebrate their identities, and nowhere is this better expressed than in the various Pride marches that take place around the country. Of course, the LGBTQ community is not comprised simply of gay men; lesbian women, bisexual people and transgender individuals also stand up for their rights to love anyone they like without fear of persecution.

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At the end of the day, whatever your personal opinion is of Pride, gay rights, or LGBTQ - every person on the planet deserves to live a peaceful life with people they love. What goes on behind closed doors, as long as consensual, is really no one else’s business…is 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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July is blissful in the garden, full of brilliant smells and abundance. But there are some things you can do, in addition to sitting and admiring all your earlier hard work.

I know this column sounds like a broken record with the “deadhead” mantra, but it’s all about making the most of what you have got. The aim of deadheading is to produce more and better flowers. With roses, unless you want to produce hips later in the year, just snap the flower head off below the bud once it’s finished – it comes away very easily. This means the buds just behind have more room to grow. But once you’ve gone beyond the original flourish of buds, cut back a few inches to just above a lower leaf joint which will prompt the rose to put out more buds faster.

When foxgloves and delphiniums have gone over, deadhead the flowering spike – don’t take the whole stem as there may be a cluster of buds either just below the spike or further down the plant which will flower subsequently.

With plants where the first flush of flowers has gone completely, for instance early perennials such as poppies, cut back to ground level after flowering to produce more strong foliage and perhaps blooms. And perennial geraniums will produce more foliage and possibly flowers later in the season if you take the shears to them below existing foliage, leaving just the stems.

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In the Ancient Woods Derbyshire and the Peak District are justifiably wellknown for their rich ancient woodlands dominated by carpets of bluebells in the spring and early summer.

These irreplaceable habitats retain their unique attraction throughout the year as seasons blend and morph and the magic of the ancient woods continues to change in tune with the annual cycle. These wonderful places resulted from the ‘enclosure’ of trees from the once widespread wood pastures of ‘wooded commons’ around a thousand years ago. The enclosed woods were protected from grazing animals so that trees cut down routinely to be re-grown as ‘coppice’ were not damaged. Along with the tall timber trees these coppices or springs produced the important economic outputs from the carefully managed woods – fuelwood and charcoal. Indeed, these woodlands were a mainstay of the local community and especially of the metal smelting and working industries from the early medieval times through until the nineteenth century. Once busy working woods full of woodmen and their families, charcoalmen, tan-bark peelers, and other workers such as the ubiquitous sawyers, these places are now quiet havens for wildlife or else increasingly they are countryside were people recreate in numbers; once working woods now leisurely landscapes.

Nevertheless, if you walk quietly through the woods, pausing now and then to take in the unique atmosphere and perhaps to listen to the drone of insects or the song of the woodland birds, think about the people who went before you. Generations of wood workers have left their marks in the landscape and you can find their charcoal hearths, the remains of their coppiced

trees, and perhaps the circles on the woodland floor where their wigwam homes once stood. Go quietly and softly through the ancient woods and you tread in the footsteps of the ghosts of generations who lived and worked there over countless centuries.

Yet often in the hurly burly of modern living we fail to see, hear, or touch this remarkable heritage of our ancestry even when it is all around us. The wildflowers of the ancient woods reflect the history of people in these special places. The bluebell, the wood anemone, the wild garlic and more are there in part at least because of how the woods were once worked. Each manor or parish would have its wood or woods and these were vital for everyday subsistence and survival. Today we value these places as green lungs and for the benefits they bring to our health and wellbeing; in the past the wood-fuel they provided was essential for many poorer people during the long, cold, dark winter months in the Peaks. We are separated from much of the necessity for survival of the woods, and despite this they still provide health and wellbeing, biodiversity, moderation of the excesses of climate change, and even protection from flood-risk. Mostly these are things we take for granted whereas our ancestors valued and protected their woods and trees as essential resources to be protected and nurtured. When things went wrong such as when woods around Matlock were exhausted by industrial exploitation, then this became a serious problem.

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.

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