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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!

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 Riddings Woods, just off Church Lane – 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!

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!

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

Anyway, in other news, Rafa and Flake had a bit of an incident this month – the Vet has

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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…”

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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.

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She is our biggest fan, she’s our rock, and always puts

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others needs before her own.

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So, for Mother’s Day this year, as well as the card and

old, but even more so through the Menopause years.

flowers you send her, how about you ask her if she’s OK?

Without self-care or ‘ME ‘time, how can someone be the

When she replies ‘of course’, ask her if she’s’ REALLY OK.

best Mother, Wife, Daughter or friend.

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Taking time for a walk daily, nourishing your body with

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is to be a care giver. When a woman gets to her middle

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some time dedicated to self-care.

out of the blue.

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Growing up, we might learn about the hot flushes,

off. Time off ‘being Mum’. Time off on a regular basis.

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Time off to be herself again.

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RAFA AND FLAKE RECOMMEND – local walks

Now that the Prime Minister has announced the easing of restrictions, we are all looking forward to days out with our dogs over the summer months. The everpopular Rambles with Rafa and Flake will be back in the magazine soon.

Meanwhile Spring is on its way. Lighter morning and evenings are with us, the weather is improving, trees are budding, flowers beginning to bloom and we and our dogs are all able to get out more. One of the positive sides of walking from our own homes is discovering the plethora of attractive green spaces in our own area. Here are a few of our favourites, one of which is bound to be local to you.

One of the finest resources for walking locally is the Derbyshire Phoenix Greenways https://www.derbyshire. gov.uk/leisure/countryside/access/ greenways/phoenix-greenways/thephoenix-greenways.aspx The Greenways are trails converted from the old colliery railways and lead a network of tracks around the quiet backways of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. On these you and your four-footed companion can have a short stroll or a long hike depending on your mood. Maps are available on the website and there are many circular walks. Some of our local trails are as follows TIBSHELF PONDS – parking off Tibshelf High Street opposite the butchers A lovely place for a short stroll. Open green areas, woodland, and of course the ponds (dogs on leads around these).

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PARK, WILLIAMPTHORPE PONDS and HOLMEWOOD WOODLANDS. Plenty of benches along the way to have a quick break for a drink or sandwich.

BLACKWELL TRAIL – parking Fordbridge Lane, Blackwell - 3.5 miles from Westhouses to Huthwaite. Attractive trail alongside a stream passing through Hilcote where there is now a new Wildlife Garden off Pasture Lane which is well worth a visit SILVERHILL TRAIL – parking at Teversal Visitor Centre (NG17 3HJ) or Blackwell Village A pleasant 4.5 mile trail from Blackwell to Teversal with lots of vestiges of the old railways for the enthusiast. This joins up with the TEVERSAL TRAIL which in turn leads to PLEASLEY PIT COUNTRY PARK (parking NG19 7EY) These are just a few of the many routes you can take from the Greenways.

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MIDLAND RAILWAY CENTRE/ BUTTERLEY COUNTRY PARK https://www.midlandrailway-butterley. co.uk/country-park/ - Although the Railway Centre itself is currently closed, there are still pleasant walks to be had around the country park.

BE A RESPONSIBLE DOG OWNER We hope that these suggestions have given you some great ideas for local walks with your dogs (Rafa and Flake can thoroughly recommend them). As everywhere is a little more crowded at the moment it is more important than ever that we are all kind and respectful to others. So please remember the following: ✔

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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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A request from George – remember him?

Like a lot of people of his age, George has been sensibly shielding for the last twelve months. He got in touch recently however, to say that he still enjoys reading his Voice Magazine, but missed the regular monthly football column from Barry Cooper. He went on to ask if I would be interested in hearing a few footballing tales passed down to him from his maternal grandad. As an avid follower of the ‘beautiful game’ myself – and as you’re about to find out - I was only too pleased to oblige.

George’s grandad, Horace Twigg, was still a teenager in 1887 when he made his debut for Hilcote Hacademicals. He was to spend the next fifty years involved with the Club in some capacity or other, and while dandling baby George on his knee, would amuse him with tales of the characters he had encountered. Here’s one for starters.

Alfred Hardstaff was groundsman at Hilcote Harena, once known as the Wembley of the East Midlands. NB – George was unable to explain why the Harena got this name when Wembley wasn’t built until 1923! The stadium is no longer with us of course, having been burnt to the ground after an unfortunate accident with a flamethrower whilst the Sherwood Foresters were undergoing training before leaving Blighty for Flanders. Prior to taking up his position as head groundsman for the Hacademicals, Alfred had started at Chesterfield FC as a trainee weed killer when Saltergate opened in 1871. He had gone on to develop all the necessary skills of a fully trained groundsman and it was said that when it came to

fork plunging, divot replacing, net hanging, mole bashing and white line painting, he was the best in all Derbyshire. It was quite a coup then when he came to Hilcote in 1885.

Within weeks, it was clear that his hard work, knowledge and skill would provide the Hilcote team with the finest playing surface for many a mile. It was so good, George had been told, that during the summer months, Alfred carefully cut holes in the turf to allow local golfers to come and practise putting. His grandad had also said, although George thought he might have been teasing him, that the grass had been so finely manicured that local billiard players had been known to come, lie on their bellies, and pot a few balls to improve their game. This was a very successful period for Hilcote Hacademicals FC. Most opposing teams, not used to the pristine playing surface at Hilcote, continued to use the traditional up’n’under style, and Hilcote didn’t lose a single home game for 18 years.

It wasn’t to last however, and following the infamous Normanton Brook flooding in 1903, and his wife leaving him for a philandering rat catcher from Jacksdale, Alfred had apparently taken to drink. He was subsequently sacked for ‘behaviour unbecoming of a Head Groundsman’, left the area, and was last heard of working as a Knocker-Up in Kidderminster.

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View from the Allotment Yes, the View from the Allotment is back for this month! Instead, I am writing this piece as a change from my Grandad’s highly riveting and exciting pieces that would put you in a coma after three lines!

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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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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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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.

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