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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.

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

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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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National Volunteer’s Week Celebrations at John Eastwood Hospice Despite the downpour, volunteers of John Eastwood Hospice thoroughly enjoyed their street party on 1st June to celebrate, not only the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, but also National Volunteer’s Week.

Staff at John Eastwood Hospice like to recognise the work of the volunteers annually and what better time to acknowledge the support received. Volunteer’s Week takes place 1-7 June every year. It's a chance to thank volunteers for the fantastic contribution they make to our community.

Provided with an afternoon tea, fun, games and music during the afternoon, the volunteers were able to meet as a whole team at the Hospice for the first time since COVID 19 struck two years ago.

Long Service Awards were presented to those volunteers who have assisted with our services for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years. Seven volunteers were presented with certificates and badges for a commitment of 35 years despite the Hospice officially opening in 1992. These volunteers started their voluntary positions within Support Groups throughout the community, these were originally set up to raise funds in order to build the hospice. Today just two of these support groups remain in Edwinstowe and Warsop and they continue to fundraise solely for the Hospice.

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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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As we looked forward to the summer and beyond, we really want to focus on growing the club, but more specifically, the girls we have and the U12/ U14s. This means we are looking for girls of all ages between 3 and 16 to come and give rugby a go and also looking for boys in Years 6,7,8 and 9.

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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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Model of Kirkby MPD & Station at Elizabethan Model Railway Society Exhibition. Summit Centre 2021

STEAMING BACK TO KIRKBY LOCO’ PROJECT

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he ‘Steaming Back to Kirkby Loco’ Project is a Heritage Project set up in conjunction with Mind2Minds Education and Kirkby Heritage Centre (project HQ) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Loco Sheds and Sidings at Kirkby-in-Ashfield, and is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Due to Covid, commemorations of the 50th Anniversary were deferred until 2022.

The project focuses on the area around the Motive Power Depot (MPD), marking the 50th Anniversary of the closure of the depot.

The Loco shed was along Low Moor Road in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, where the allocation peaked at 63 steam engines between 1950-1959. The Sidings extended as far as Kirkby Hardwick, now the site of Sutton Parkway Station on the Robin Hood Line.

From the early days to the subsequent boom time, several railway lines passed through Kirkby. Coal transportation was a major reason for the MPD in the town as many local collieries were served from Kirkby, which also boasted seven passenger stations throughout its history, though not all at the same time.

Railway history in Kirkby is prolific. Dating back over 200 years to when the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was built. Kirkby MPD, planned in the late 19th century by the Midland Railway Company, opened in 1903 and closed in 1970.

The Steaming Back to Kirkby Loco project comprises railway heritage walks, a short history course on the town’s railways, a folk train, the ‘Singing the Steam’ concert, exhibitions and plans for an extensive website. It brings together a lasting record of Kirkby’s railway history from people within the community who have recollections, photographs and items of interest. The project also includes recorded oral history, which captures not only the living memory of people who worked and travelled on steam trains, but also recent events like Kirkby railway station opening on the Robin Hood Line in 1996, as we record history in the making.

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You can follow activities on Facebook just type ‘Steaming Back to Kirkby’ to find us. Or, you can drop-in to meet us at Kirkby Heritage Centre on Kingsway on Tuesdays between 10am to 12noon during 2022, or make specific by e-mail to kirkbympd16b@gmail.com 42 Don’t forgetenquires to mention Voice Magazines when responding to the Ads

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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.

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Gardener’s Calendar

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.

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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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