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Hi Readers, Well, aren’t we all giddy at the prospect of relative freedom after Boris’s recent announcement?!

Things are looking up, Spring is here and finally, at long last, we all have something to look forward to!

I’m not being blasé about it – I am genuinely happy about the prospect of some normality resuming. My first question to anyone I speak to is (and it usually stumps them!), what will be the first thing that you choose to do?

For me, I will drive somewhere remote with the dogs and go for a lovely long walk in the countryside, where hopefully we can stop in a lovely local café for a coffee and cake (probably still take away at that point!).

Then in April a lovely haircut to look forward to – my barnet is developing its own personality daily!

I’m extremely envious of all these gentlemen who shave it off…. many more months and I would be tempted!

After that, I’m also looking forward to a nice meander around the shops and going out for a meal somewhere. Thankfully our esteemed leaders have created a lovely spaced-out roadmap, for obvious reasons. However, after 1 year of the most exciting place to visit being my own garage – it’s a good job, as the excitement of all that in 1 day could be catastrophic ,had they decided to unleash all at once! No, much better to space it out a bit!

Oooh, holidays – I know we don’t exactly have an answer on this yet but sunshine and sandy feet are calling…..might have to be Skeggy in the interim but later this year, I have everything crossed!

Anyway, in other news, Rafa and Flake had a bit of an incident this month – the Vet has booked her holiday to Barbados based on how much we’ve spent on those pair in recent months!

Sooo, we fancied a change to the daily walk and

took them to our local woods – all fine, lovely walk – 2hrs later, Flake starts shaking like he is going to fit , Rafa can’t really be raised and neither of them can walk properly. I honestly thought they had been poisoned. Of course this is on a Sunday night *eye roll*, emergency vets for us is in Derby.

Long story short, looks like they had a taste of somebody’s left over cannabis and the vet said that they are basically stoned and they need to get it out of their system as quickly as possible but mostly, sleep it off! Honestly, it gave us such a fright and after doing 4 hour feeds supplemented with charcoal liquid for 12hrs, they are all fine.

We can laugh about it now and particularly the bit where the Vet was trying to ask discreetly about whether it was ours (he asked in several different ways, about 6 times before the penny dropped!) ….. but I just thought that all our other 4-legged friends should be aware. The Vet said that there has been an increase in animal intoxication over the last year, which tells its own tale of how tough this last year has been on everyone!

Fingers crossed for more movement at the end of this month,

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Nurses – We Salute You! The Covid 19 pandemic continues to hold us in its tenacious grasp and we give thanks to our NHS doctors and nurses for being there to care for us (although a salary increase would benefit them more in my opinion) but how often do we stop to think about the history of nursing?

But back to nursing. Pre 16th century the term nurse was generally taken to mean “wet nurse”, that is a woman who breastfeeds the babies of other women.

The very word “nurse” actually stems from the Latin word “nutrire”, meaning to suckle.

If you needed medical care that couldn’t be provided by your family or the local wise woman (such women later being regarded as “witches” by the church) you took yourself of to the nearest monastery or convent.

These religious centres were often funded by the wealthy elite as a way of “buying their way into heaven”. Wealthy families would also offer large dowries for their daughters to become “brides of Christ” and this money would finance a convent’s provision of aid to the poor and sick. The “nursing” care provided to the sick, dying and injured was more akin to religious support than any type of medical provision – but it was doubtless better than nothing at all.

It wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century that nursing began to be recognised as a valued profession, the couple of hundred years in between having relegated nursing to the lowest of domestic services. As medicine became more scientific, with drugs, surgery, etc, it became apparent that a more skilled form of nursing care was required.

When Florence Nightingale arrived in the Crimea in 1855 she actually capitalised on that need, rather than creating a new kind of nursing she formalised it, and so “Nightingale Nursing” was developed. A fund set up by members of the public to support Florence’s style of care raised the equivalent in today’s money of £2mill, and upon her return to England she used those funds to establish a training school for nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital, London.

Modern nursing, begun by Florence Nightingale and cherished (by the public, at least) today.

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Look After Yourself In all the advice, warnings and other information being fed to us about Covid 19 from the government and health officials, one thing conspicuously missing has been how to balance our own immune systems and strengthen our bodies.

Surely, in amongst all the scary stuff about wearing face masks and constant hand washing, it would have been useful to show people that changing diets and eating more healthily could be a major influencer in how they react to the virus?

(ideally half your plate should be vegetables) nuts, seeds, and legumes.

Cut out (or greatly limit) white bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice and DITCH the sweet stuff! Sugar is one of the most inflammatory substances we can put into our body!

Perhaps someone, somewhere, decided that it would be too difficult for us to understand. Perhaps it was easier to try and keep everyone frightened and in face coverings instead of offering useful dietary advice? Or perhaps I’m being a conspiracy theorist?

Move more! You don’t have to join a gym to get fitter. Go for walks, use the stairs instead of lifts, set your mobile or wearable device to remind you to get of your bum every hour or so. Dance – as well, or as badly as you like. Just move more and your body will thank you.

Doctors and scientists agree that you cannot BOOST your immune system – that simply isn’t possible. What you can do however is boost your physical health by eating healthily, exercising, and getting enough sleep. Becoming physically fitter and healthier gives your body and immune system a fighting chance should you be exposed to Covid 19. In other words, you may still catch it, but you have a better chance of not becoming seriously unwell.

Sleep isn’t just a time for us to relax after our busy days, it is also the time our bodies can set about repairing and renewing and our brains can process and store memories. Sleep deprivation, particularly when not enough REM and deep sleep occurs, can cause physical problems. We all know how groggy we feel and how badly we perform after a bad night’s sleep! Everyone has different sleep requirements though, so figure out what works best for you and make sure you get it.

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Castleton and its Caverns Part 1 - Who likes caves?

If you’re a fan of underground spaces, spectacular stalagmites and stalactites, and eerie interiors, then you need to head out to Castleton in the High Peak area of the Derbyshire Peak District.

With no less than four show caverns open to the public (in normal times of course) the pretty village nestled at the foot of Winnat’s Pass and Mam Tor (aka the ‘Shivering Mountain’) is a speleologists delight, but it has plenty of history to delight non troglodytes too.

An iron age fort sits atop Mam Tor and there’s also evidence of bronze age occupation in the area. The first recorded mention of a settlement is in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it says “Pechesers being where “Arnbiorn and Hundingr held the land of William Peverel”. Peverel of course being one of the Norman Conquerors who bestowed his name to Peveril Castle, the ruins of which still look out over the village. The name Pechesers itself translates as ‘Peaks Arse’ – not quite so quaint a monika as Castleton!

‘Peaks Arse’ brings us back, in a roundabout way, to the caverns - ‘Devils Arse’ being a colloquial name for Peaks Cavern, one of the four show caves in the village!

Peaks Cavern has the largest entrance to any cave in Britain, and the front of the enormous opening used to house a small village right up to 1915. The village consisting mainly of ropemakers and their families, the rope they produced being used in the local lead and mineral mines.

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The cavern itself is largely natural, the only manmade intervention being to blast a tunnel in order to bypass another which required a small boat in order to pass through. From the entrance, a low passage nick named ‘Lumbago Walk’ as most adults need to crouch, leads into the two main caverns “The Great Cave” and “Roger Rain’s House”. The second named for its perpetual cascade of water. Continuing on you reach Pluto’s Dining Room and then the Devil’s Cellar where you can hear the source of the river Styx (not the one in the ‘underworld’ but an alternative name for Peaks Hole Water, the fast flowing stream that runs through the village!). It used to be possible for visitors to travel further into the system but worries around flooding issues means that only trained cavers are allowed past this point.

Cavers who do continue past Devil’s Cellar can pick from several onward routes, which include a passage to Victoria Aven a large shaft traversable only by rope and harness, and two areas known as ‘sumps’ (Far and Far Extension). It was exploration by a team including local cavers which led to the discovery of Titan Shaft, at 141.5 metres (464 ft) it is the deepest known shaft of any cave in the UK.

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Part 2 - Speedwell We finished the previous article in Titan’s Shaft, Peak Cavern, but what us non cavers probably wouldn’t know is that the Peak Cavern is linked (underground of course) to Speedwell Cavern - the next show cavern we’re going to cover.

Situated just outside the village of Castleton at the bottom of Winnat’s Pass; unlike Peak Cavern, with its impressive natural entrance; access to Speedwell Cavern is via a passage way excavated by miners in search of lead in the 18th century. This passage goes some 200m horizontally into the ground before reaching the cavern itself. As it is flooded, the only way to traverse the passage (known as an adit) is by boat. In times of old, the tour guides would propel the boats through the passage by dint of ‘walking’ their feet on the low ceiling!

Nowadays the boats are motor driven.

Conditions for the miners who excavated the adit must have been horrendous, deep underground in flooded tunnels, digging by hand in search of lead ore (galena). Speedwell turned out to be a poor return on financial investment however and mining stopped in the 1790s. By this point however the cavern had already become something of a tourist attraction, with visitors flocking to see the lead workings, travel on the boats down the adit and view the astonishing main cavern at the end of the boat ride.

When you visit today, the guides will stop the boats every now and again to point out the visible marks of those early mining tools and will recount the story of how the mine was established and operated.

The main cavern at Speedwell is one of the deepest in Britain and in the centre is the so

called “Bottomless Pit”, a vast underground lake which miners used to shovel in the rubble from their excavations. The name derived from the miners who noticed that the level of the water never rose, despite how much spoil they dumped in it. What those miners didn’t realise is that there is a small shaft at water level acting like a kind of natural overflow mechanism.

Leading off from this subterranean cathedral is the “Far Canal”. It runs for 250m in manmade form, before entering a vast network of underground streams, caverns, and passageways, more than 13 miles long, which even connect through to Peak Cavern, underneath Peveril Castle.

Your tourist journey ends back in the boat and through the adit until you reach the small landing platform at the end of the tunnel…you are then faced with the 105 steps back up to ground level!

Our next article will feature Treak Cliff, followed by the Blue John cavern, and finally in this series we’ll look at how the Blue John mineral has shaped the fortunes of Castleton since it’s discovery.

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

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Bess and the Queen of Scots We touched briefly on Bess of Hardwick’s connection to the ill fated Mary Queen of Scots in previous articles, but the relationship is worthy of a piece of its own.

Bess and Mary first became acquainted in 1569 when Queen Elizabeth I appointed Bess’s husband the Earl of Shrewsbury ‘keeper’ of the Scottish Queen. Mary had fled Scotland after she had been forced to abdicate the Scottish throne in favour of her infant son James.

‘Keeper’ was in fact a bit of a misnomer, jailer, would have been a more accurate word.

Elizabeth deeply mistrusted her cousin Mary who had claimed title to the English throne in the past and was great-niece of King Henry VIII. Mary was also a devout Catholic and Elizabeth (with good reason) feared a Catholic uprising in England should Mary be allowed her freedom.

Mary’s first incarceration was at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, for the next fifteen years she moved between the properties owned by Bess and her husband, namely, Tutbury, Sheffield Castle, Sheffield Manor Lodge, Wingfield Manor, and Chatsworth House. Reports say that 30 carts were needed to transport her belongings between the residences, and she had her own retinue of staff numbering at least 16. Hardly an uncomfortable imprisonment!

Queen Elizabeth was obviously an astute business woman, as well as a canny politician, because in passing the custodianship of her cousin to the Shrewsbury’s, she also gave them the expense of looking after her AND the responsibility for her well being and behaviour. A case of ‘not on my watch’ should anything befall Mary, or she be implicated in any wrong doings.

Although Bess was some 15 years older that the former Queen of Scots they do appear to have been on friendly terms – at least initially.

They shared a love of embroidery and between them designed and worked on many pieces. The culmination of the work were two extraordinary wall hangings which still exist today, panels can

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be seen to bear the initials of both Mary and Bess.

The relationship between the two women crumbled as Mary was angry at Bess’s dynastic ambitions for her granddaughter Arabella, which could have damaged the chances of Mary’s son James ultimately ascending to the English throne.

Mary even went as far as to destroy Bess’s already strained and tenuous accord with Queen Elizabeth by writing (to Elizabeth) that Bess had said “that had I been her own queen she could not have done more for me”. And that Bess had also claimed Elizabeth’s famed virginity was a lie.

The Shrewsbury’s responsibilities for imprisoning Mary quite possibly affected the couple’s marriage, causing their ultimate final estrangement. The early indications were that the marriage was a love match but the financial strain of looking after Mary, and the absence from court circles this entailed for the Earl, is thought to have driven a wedge between them.

Bess, as we know, outlived her husband and both Queens…the ultimate survivor, even in the face of royal plots and intrigues!

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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.

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Spring is on its way 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

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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