Rural Voice - Bakewell & Villages Edition - March 2021

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Hi Readers, What to say?! I’ve thought long and hard on this and there are a lot of opinions about a lot of things and I don’t think my inbox can take anymore ‘opinions’ on what I’ve written – so I’m going with 2 unrelated things this month……take it as you will….

1. I was lucky enough to go to uni and apart from the life style/nightlife, the best thing I learned was about sources of information. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary, multiple sources and analyse, analyse, analyse! There are several experts in every field, they don’t always agree and there are flaws in every study, opinion, findings – it was my job to find them. Find the conflicting opinions, read them all, and critique them – it’s hard when you don’t personally agree but as my tutor said to me on many, many occasions…….my opinion doesn’t matter. #justsaying 2. It was my birthday this month – lockdown birthday – I think we’ve nearly all had one by now and some people are coming up to birthday lockdown number 2. Last year we were throwing axes and watching the ice hockey. However, I did make the best of it….Mr Emily organised a Zoom murder mystery evening with the fam-i-lam! We all got into character, we all stayed in our own homes and we all

had some nice drinks (which helped with the accents no end…honest!!).

Most fun and excitement we’ve all had in nearly a year – I highly recommend it!

Finally, lots for everyone to read this month. Just so you know, we are still allowed to work and our distributors can’t deliver from home so are ok to continue, whilst adhering to the rules.

Most people were wonderful last month as anticipated but just note, if you don’t want to receive the mag, just put a visible note in the window and we won’t deliver in future.

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It’s Not My Fault!

Is it just me, or are we currently living in a society where individuals increasingly refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions?

Personal responsibility; accepting our mistakes (and learning from them!) and utilising common sense, seem to be attributes we are losing.

But are these attributes inbuilt or are they learned behaviours that override our basic programming?

I was always taught to accept that I would mess up, that we all do, and that it is normal to do so. I was also taught to hold my hands up and admit to my mistakes. Life lessons I passed onto my own children. Looking around, it seems that many people find it easier to pass the buck rather than admit and accept that they are fallible.

‘Blame culture’ has been seen as another import from our US cousins…but is it? Or is the desire to hold someone other than ourselves responsible for our actions simply basic human nature, one that we can (should?) learn to override?

Personally, I believe that ‘compensation culture’ (rather than blame) IS a US import…’where there’s blame there’s a claim’ comes to mind, but that we humans as a species have always tried to blame someone, or something else for our own failings.

Think about it, in order to survive, our earliest ancestors needed to somehow balance the desire to ‘look after number one’, with the need to ensure the safety of a tribe/family unit. It must have been tempting to shift the blame, if things went badly when looking after number one took priority, to an outside influence or to someone else. “It wasn’t my fault…”

Perhaps that’s even how religion came about – if there’s a ‘greater power’ in charge of everything, then nothing is ever going to be our fault. The ‘buck’ can permanently be passed!

Back to my initial point though, the whole Covid 19 crisis seems to have

highlighted the best AND the worst in modern society. So many people have refused to accept responsibility for keeping themselves (and therefore others) safe and healthy. So many have adopted an ‘I’m alright Jack’ mentality and merrily gone about life however they wanted.

At the other end of the scale are those who have become obsessive and are happily reporting on friends and neighbours whilst telling themselves ‘it’s for their own good’.

The very worst of us though are the politicians, companies and corporations who are profiting during the crisis by dishing out contracts based solely (or so it would appear) on connections rather than ability. How many of these people will ever admit their incompetence though? None, I would guess, because in their minds they are doing the right thing…for them at least.

Let’s all try to override our inbuilt selfish, self-led, programming in 2021 and learn to accept responsibility for our own actions. Let’s teach our children and grandchildren that only by working together, by collaborating, by being compassionate, can we ever hope to rise and find our truest selves.

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Time to get going again in the garden, tidying up, making soil and containers ready, planting and watching out for pests which are also on the move.

It may seem like forever since we planted anything but now is the time to put summer flowering bulbs and tubers such as lilies, dahlias and gladioli into their garden locations. They should be planted two to three times their own depth and one bulb’s width apart, though you can make that a bit wider if planting in the soil rather than a container. Nose (shoot) up, and remember to water unless soil or compost is already wet.

Putting a mulch – an inch or 3cm deep covering of organic matter from a compost heap - on your soil will improve its growing quality, slow down weeds, and retain moisture. If you haven’t got home grown mulch it’s worth asking your local council if they sell any made from their green waste collections.

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Most overwintered container plants will benefit from re-potting every other year – even if it’s to the same pot.

Lift, replace about a third of the compost to give them a new lease of life and re-plant. If you’re not re-potting, remove the top couple of inches of compost from your pot and replace with new stuff.

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Try not to let your containers get too waterlogged, so don’t leave standing water in their drainage dishes. Plants need oxygen as well as water and roots will just rot if left standing in water.

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After the great wetness and the long freeze it seems that spring is on its way across the Peak District.

In recent weeks birds have started to sing and to display around potential nesting territories.

Blue tits and other smaller birds can be Snowdrops seen prospecting nest-boxes and other suitable locations. There are still plenty of continental blackbirds around and gardens sometimes have ten to fifteen or more at once.

The local birds that are nesting often take a dim view of this incursion en masse into their territorial patch. From northern Europe there have been major late-winter arrivals of the winter thrushes – redwing and fieldfare from Iceland and Scandinavia, but these now gather prior to the long haul back north.

The earliest flowers were the groups of snowdrops appearing from late January onwards and then yellow garden crocuses in borders, lawns and on verges. At the same time, many wildflowers never fully stopped flowering with blooms present throughout the winter. Ox-eye daisy, red campion, hogweed, and cow parsley were certainly around until early January.

Now the flowers of pussy willow are emerging and the trailing blooms of hazel line the hedgerows and Male Blackbird woodland edges along lane-sides and in sheltered valleys. I have even seen a very early honesty plant in full flower. Now though, the real spring flowers are coming to life with lesser celandine lighting up shady damp places such as in woods and in churchyards too. Another early species is the cousin of the dandelion, the coltsfoot, which produces yellow daisy-like flowers on narrow stems before it sends up large, rather coarse leaves in the shape supposedly of

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Spring is on its way a colt’s foot. Along rivers and canals the much larger butterbur also has flowers that appear well before their massive leaves of early summer.

Other birds are active too, with ravens reported displaying at sites around the Peak, and both common buzzard and red kite doing well. This time of year is good for seeing these Blue Tit splendid birds as they display over their breeding territories. Tawny owls have been noisily active in local woods for some time now as they are one of our earlier breeders. Also in the woods, there are great spotted woodpeckers drumming from treetops and making their presence heard with loud ‘chip-chip-chip’ calls.

Often close by the loud calls of nuthatches are also ringing out. In scrubby areas and woodland edges I have seen numerous bullfinches and they have also been singing; something heard relatively infrequently. On waterways and water bodies the various species of ducks such as mallard and tufted ducks have been paired up for quite a while and no doubt there are some early ducklings around too. Similarly both coot and moorhen have become much more territorial in their behaviour and far less tolerant of intruders. The altogether more delicate little grebes or dabchicks are also on site and defending their stretch of river or canal.

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