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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 4) 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

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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!

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

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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 Watchorn Restaurant at The Abraham Lincoln Library Voice Magazines were invited for lunch at The Watchorn Restaurant at Abraham Library Restaurant, Alfreton (DE55 7AQ) this month. This beautiful historic building is now open to the public, serving lunches on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 11am- 3pm.

The Watchorn Restaurant has ramp access making the restaurant wheelchair friendly.

It boasts a lovely outside seating area for those sunny days and has a spacious car park directly opposite. We were met with such a welcoming atmosphere with a menu choice for everyone. All the staff were wonderfully attentive and they held a well-stocked bar! (unfortunately, being on a work lunch with the boss means it was soft drinks only for the Voice team! Sad times!).

The food served is all homecooked to order, there are hot and cold food choices offering vegetarian and vegan options. There is something for every palate whether you were wanting a light lunch or a full meal, they have plenty of choice on offer.

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THE WATCHORN RESTAURANT DERBY RD, ALFRETON, DE77 7AQ Lisa’s choice was Lasagne served with triple cooked chips, dressed salad and garlic bread.

As most of you might already know, the Voice team all seem to have a bit of a sweet tooth and the dessert menu soon caught our eyes.

After the usual debate – Do we have room?

Should we really be eating more food? Will we still be productive this afternoon after all this lovely food? The answers were a swift YES YES YES to all and our desserts were ordered and on their way. All desserts were served with pouring cream, accompanied by fresh strawberries and raspberries as a side garnish.

• Carrot Cake • Red Velvet Cheesecake • Black Forest Gateau • Warm Chocolate Fudge Cake • Lemon Meringue Pie • Profiteroles

Emily and Jude each enjoyed a traditional Cottage Pie, served with carrots, peas, Yorkshire puddings and jug of gravy.

Liam and Danielle both opted for the crispy fresh Scampi, served with triple cooked chips, a choice of peas or dressed side salad and tartar sauce on the side.

Michelle had a warm Sweet Chilli Chicken Wrap packed full of filling, served with triple cooked chips, and dressed salad.

All our staff went back to work in the afternoon with a contented smile and full bellies, we all really enjoyed our food and the trip out and, of course, we were still really productive that afternoon, honest!!!!!

Sarah and Hayleigh both selected the Fish and triple cooked chips. This came with either garden or mushy peas (Hayleigh and Sarah went with mushy peas) all served with granary bread & butter and tartar sauce on the side.

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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!

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W E I V A 'C' Aren’t we men a funny lot? We all claim to be proud of our individuality but in reality most of us are terrified of being different. We flock together like sheep.

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If you ever needed proof of the valuable service that your Voice Magazine brings to the community, I have it.

You’ll recall that last month I introduced you to George’s wife, Gill, a former teacher. Within days of the last edition being distributed, I received a number of emails from local people who were convinced that I was referring to someone who had taught them. I was able to confirm that she was – sorry, but ‘data protection’ forbids me from being more specific – and in every case, they had fond memories of ‘Miss’. Many of the youngsters that Gill had taught in a career, beginning in 1971, were now grandparents themselves, and in some cases, their own offspring had gone on to benefit from her teaching.

As a result of this development, a WhatsApp and Facebook group has been created – who’d have predicted that back in 1971? – and former teacher and pupils are now in regular contact, and happily reminiscing on ‘the happiest days of their lives’.

Remembering that these were 7/8 year old pupils attending a Roman Catholic primary school and living in more innocent times, here are some of Bridget’s memories

I can remember one day when doing ‘religious topics’, you reminded us that we were being raised as Roman Catholics and asked if we knew of any other Christian groups. I raised my hand and said “Protestant”. Joseph, who sat right behind me, immediately raised his hand and excitedly said,

“My Mum’s a Prostitute!”. Although I didn’t fully appreciate the reasons, until a little older, I’ll never forget the look on your face.

There was the time when Michael, who at seven years of age I was convinced I’d end up marrying – I got out of jail there as he turned out to be a bit of a wrong’un – put up his hand and asked “Miss, can I go to the toilet?”. You replied something like “OK Michael, but what’s the magic word?”. We all laughed, even you, as looking unsure, he replied, “Abracadabra?”

We used to have school dinners in the hall, with the older pupils going in first as they required minimum supervision and were better able to help themselves. In your class, we were about the middle group to join the queue. On one particular day, we passed a large crate of apples on the counter before moving down to collect whatever hot food was on offer. The lady supervisor had written a note saying ‘Please take one, but only ONE, as God is watching.’

Being good boys and girls in your class, we did as we were told of course, and just took the one.

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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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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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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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AQUARIUS AT CHESTERFIELD The Aquarius nightclub on Sheffield Road in Chesterfield first opened in 1972 as a cabaret club. It played host to some of the biggest stars of that era.

The club was the brainchild of JD Williamson, who also had entertainment businesses on the East coast. Local lad, Bernie Clifton, not only compered at the Aquarius but also booked the acts.

From Cannon and Ball to Marti Caine and Bob Monkhouse, the Aquarius welcomed the big names in show business.

By the 1980s, the Aquarius was more popular for its nightclub, enjoying a packed house every weekend.

Coaches full of revellers would turn up from around the region for a night out here.

The Aquarius finally closed its doors in 1999 – the end of an era.

Nearly a quarter of a decade later, a project is now underway to celebrate the Aquarius’ importance as a nightclub in Chesterfield. Hundreds of rare and never seen before images are to be restored and digitised.This collection is from the former Aquarius photographer, David Miller, who has agreed to work with us at Dirty Stopouts and Derbyshire Record Office to make these images publicly available.

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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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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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The expression ‘Where there’s muck there’s brass’ came to mind recently when I was clearing up horse manure which had spilt from the delivery trailer onto the access car track on our allotment site. The free horse manure we get is a mixture of horse dung with some straw, hay and bedding material such as wood shavings. There isn’t real ‘brass’ in it but it is still a valuable resource for plot holders in two ways. Firstly, after it has rotted down a bit pumpkins and squash seedlings like Crown Prince and Butternut can be planted directly into the composted manure heaps. Secondly, in late autumn once fully rotted down, the compost is a good soil conditioner. But be warned, unless the horse manure is extremely well composted (60oC, 1-2 weeks) some weed seeds will survive to germinate the next growing season.

Manure is a valuable fertiliser because it contains a broad range of nutrients such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) as well as micronutrients such as copper (Cu), manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn). Good old Growmore might have higher percentages by weight of N, P and K but compost from manure contains organic carbon which is vital for maintaining soil health, soil tilth and the capacity of soil to hold water. Manures are either ‘hot’ or ‘cold’. Hot manures like horse, sheep and cow contain 15-20% ammonia as revealed by the smell and can induce root burn when the ammonia and salts leach out of the manure if applied uncomposted too close to plants. Cold manures from rabbit and alpaca has virtually no smell at all and carries its high nitrogen levels in other ways. Cold manures are both higher in nutrients and gentler on plants without any rotting down required. I have a bag of chicken manure pellets in my shed and these are a convenient way of getting nitrogen into the soil. Use at a rate of 150g/sq metre but remember the smell can attract foxes. One year a fox dug up a row of my newly planted seed potatoes after I had sprinkled chicken pellets in the rows before covering them with soil. The fox must have been very disappointed at not finding any live chickens.

To compost your own delivery of horse manure you first need a plot so contact the LBLAA Plot Bailiff Mick on 07725 402 033.

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