Voice Magazines - Selston, Pinxton, Jacksdale & Westwood Edition - May 2021

MAY ‘21

SELSTON, PINXTON, JACKSDALE & WESTWOOD

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Riddings PHARMACY FREE PRESCRIPTION DELIVERY SERVICE We are a family owned independent pharmacy and pride ourselves on a high standard of personal service to our local and surrounding community.

Our reputation is built on our commitment to personal service and attention to details by our professional and experienced staff.

Our dispensing services include while-you-wait, collection and FREE DELIVERY options.

For NHS prescriptions, nominate Riddings Pharmacy at your surgery and we deliver your prescriptions free of charge.

Please call us for any queries or more information on 01773 606222.

ARE YOU SUFFERING AND NEED HELP WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING? Acid reflux • Back pain • Ear infections • Erectile dysfunction • Hives • Impetigo • Migraine • Period delay • Period pain • Throat infections • Urinary tract infections If so, our pharmacist provides private face to face or telephone consultation service and, if needed, can supply prescription medicines.

WE ARE SPECIALISED IN CARE,TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: Arthritis • IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) • Celiac & Crohn’s Fatigue and weaknesses • Recurrent UTI • Diabetic • Asthma and COPD

Free BP monitoring and inhalers technique demonstration Stockist of: Pharmanord vitamins • Optibac probiotics Avogel herbal remedies • BP monitors • Thermometers • Oximeters Riddings Pharmacy, 31 Greenhill Lane, Leabrooks, Alfreton, DE55 1LU

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From the Editor Hi Readers, This month I’m not going to talk about the dreaded ‘C’ word and I’m also not going to mention any bingo words, such as ‘restrictions’, ‘lockdown’, ‘rule of 6’ etc etc. It hasn’t gone away, it has affected everybody’s lives in one way or another, we shouldn’t be complacent but that said, I, like many of you, want my life back! And this month has seen the return of the shops.

I’m sure that you’re all aware by now that I am passionate about small business and that it is synonymous with ‘Shopping local’, which has never been more important than currently. Many of our local businesses have been unable to open and as such trade. The stress that they have endured trying to keep the wheels on, has at times been too much to bear and many shops & businesses, big and small, have fallen along the way. Having felt the pain ourselves to some degree (although we were fortunate enough to limp along from home), the people in these industries are my absolute heroes. The adaptability, resilience and fortitude that every business owner has shown, should be celebrated and the very least we can do is support them in their comeback.

Liam and I popped down to Alfreton Market during the opening week on a Saturday and met the traders, you can read all about our experience in our Alfreton & Swanwick editions and online. I may have mentioned this before, but when I was a kid, I had a stint on my cousin’s cheese stall and it proper gave me the bug! I love markets, car-boots, fairs etc and I really love trading on them.

Having spoken with many of the traders, we found such a mixed bag between, longevity, products sold, whether they kept running throughout lockdowns and how they had to adapt but what was apparent was the resolve of all

these people to carry on.

It was also wonderful to see a couple of start-up businesses which began trading through lockdown and are working hard to build a business from it.

I truly think that through dark times, opportunities arise and sometimes, we talk more about what we’ve lost than the successes that we have gained. I would urge anyone who spots an opportunity, to grab it with both hands and with that in mind, Alfreton Market has some cracking deals for crafts and start-up businesses & I believe that most local markets have similar incentives – so if your dream is retail, why not give them a call!

In other news and in the same vein, local elections – use your vote and use it wisely and don’t try and read anything into that other than – we only get a say if we turn up and vote, irrespective of your persuasion! We did want to run a feature about all the local elections etc but decided against it for fear of vitriol from the keyboard warriors who assume my position without question!

I’m off to enjoy the sunshine and visit some local independent traders #shoplocal ….it’s our future!!

Emily x P.S. Don’t forget to mention the ‘Voice’ when you use any of the companies in this magazine

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PHOENIX FLAT GREEN LAWN BOWLS CLUB ARE NOW SEEKING NEW MEMBERS, ANY AGE ANY EXPERIENCE FOR THE 2021 LEAGUE BOWLING SEASON We are now about to re-start our coaching programme for beginners new to the great game of flat green lawn bowls, no experience? No problem? We provide 3 hours of free training with our own club coach. We even supply the bowls while you are learning, free of charge. So (enjoy the clubs 4 f’s), fun, friendship, freedom and fresh air. You get all that in the game of outdoor bowls, We also have our own clubs regular weekly roll-ups for all club members, again free of charge. We believe you will love our friendly and welcoming environment, so come and have a go!

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Support Local Businesses!

The ‘pandemic’ may not be over yet - actually it may never be completely over, as viruses are pesky wee blighters that continually adapt and change - but at least we can now get out and about with a little more freedom.

Shopping is one of the things that many people say they have missed during the repeated lockdowns. Supermarket food shopping and online browsing doesn’t hold a candle to mooching round actual shops…well for some people anyway!

Evidence of this ‘must go shopping syndrome’ (MGSS) was all over the news when the restrictions were lifted, with multiple images of people queuing to get in the likes of Primark, other city centre department stores and out of town retail parks.

Great for those stores (and their shareholders!) but what about the small traders on your local high streets. The one man (and woman) bands who have struggled to survive during the crises, often with very little help from government.

Some of these small local retail outlets may have managed to stay open during lockdown, the ones providing essential services anyway, please don’t let them down now the economy is reopening, by heading elsewhere!

What about the cafes, hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, gift shops, and the myriad other small shops you can find in every town and village? Some haven’t survived, some may still find themselves unable to continue even though clientele is returning, and others will be testing the water - can they make up for the devastating losses of the last year, or should they give up?

The people who run these businesses are our friends, often our family, they are the lifeblood of our local communities and we cannot afford to lose them and their businesses. According to website

www.indieretail.uk, stats show that for every £1 spent with a local, independent business, between 50p-70p circulates back into the local economy. That same pound spent in a retail chain will see a mere 5p trickling down to local level, it’s a company’s shareholders who ultimately benefit.

Don’t kid yourself that your small spend won’t make a difference - it will! An article in The Independent just before Christmas 2020 said that, according to Visa, if we all spent £5 extra per week with small businesses it would help to keep them open in the long term.

It should be a no brainer really! Spend your hard earned cash in your local shops whenever you can. OK, maybe you have missed a little retail therapy in a shopping mall or large city centre - indulge yourself if you must, but remember that without your custom, local shops will close. If you don’t want to see your town or village denuded of its independent retailers and becoming a ghost town of boarded up shops, you need to spend your money there.

Simples.

So a fiver a week in your local shops, or a decimated local high street. Your choice.

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.

To find out more visit www.landgassociates. co.uk or contact Laura on 07736 351341

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Slimming World Recipe Zesty Salmon Pasta Summer is just about here, and the prospect of eating a tasty, fresh and filling bowl of salmon pasta whilst sat in the garden with a nice sparkly

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Method: 1. Cook the pasta according to the pack instructions, then drain and return to the pan, reserving 100ml of the pasta cooking water.

2. Meanwhile, spray a wide non-stick frying pan with low-calorie cooking spray and place over a medium-high heat. Add the salmon chunks and cook for 1-2 minutes or until just cooked, stirring occasionally. Transfer to a plate.

3. Add the peppers, garlic and green beans to the frying pan and cook for 6-8 minutes or until tender and lightly charred, stirring often. Add to the salmon cubes and mix gently.

4. Toss the salmon mixture through the pasta and stir in the fromage frais, lemon zest, chopped watercress and as much of the pasta water as you need to make a good sauce. Season lightly and divide between plates or shallow bowls. Scatter over the watercress sprigs and serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over.

Ingredients: • 500g dried fusilli pasta • Low-calorie cooking spray • 4 skinless and boneless salmon fillets, cut into bite-size chunks • 2 peppers (any colours), deseeded and chopped • 1 garlic clove, crushed • 300g green beans, trimmed and halved • 100g fat-free natural fromage frais • 1 large unwaxed lemon, zested and cut into wedges • Small bag of watercress, a few sprigs reserved, the rest chopped

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Family Run Coach Holidays Clair’s of Derbyshire is a small family run coach

2020 was very difficult for us all, however we

company, and we take pride in our operations.

put procedures in place to keep everyone safe,

We put the first brochure out in 2016 running

including giving away masks, distancing on the

just 12 tours that year, the tours became popular

coaches and fitting Hispacord units to the coaches

very quickly and in 2019 we ran more than 60

to kill pathogens in the air, and I’m pleased to say

tours. At the beginning it was just Clair driving

it worked a treat, we took 22 tours away in the

the coach, with Graham (her husband) in charge

summer last year when the restrictions were lifted

of the spanners, Pam (Clair’s mum) answering

and had no instances of contamination on the

the phone and not forgetting Matthew (Clair &

coaches throughout this period, all of the hotels

Grahams son) who likes to remind his mum of the

did a stunning job of keeping us safe and we are

commentary she should be giving. Since then, we

very grateful for those 3 months that we got to

have added more vehicles to our fleet and we get

spend doing what we enjoy so much. We are very

a helping hand from Matt who loves to take happy

much looking forward to 17th May when we will be

customers away on holidays and day trips just as

starting our tours once again.

byshire

much as Clair does.

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This walk originally featured in the magazines back in August 2014. The walk is one of my favourites, which we do quite often. It makes great use of a number of different trails and has a great variety of scenery, not least the views from the ‘Miner’, which is the highest point in Nottinghamshire.

The walk can be adapted, if you want to stick to the trails or if you want to shorten it. To shorten the route just jump from the end of point 5 to point 11, although you will miss out on the Miner!

6-mile circular from Brierly Forest Park A moderate and varied walk for you and your dog. The route should take around 3 hours. The route has a couple of decent inclines and there are stiles to cross. There are a few stretches of road so take care. The terrain is generally very good but as with all walks it depends on the conditions, so a good pair of boots are always advised.

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Continue along the trail passing a golf course on your left. Near the end of the golf course, you reach a cross roads of footpaths with a kissing gate on either side of the trail. Turn right, to enter a field. Continue across the field to the far side to enter the trees through a gap and continue across a wooden footbridge into another field.

Cross the field diagonally right and at the far side cross a stile adjacent to a telegraph pole into another field. Keeping the hedge on your right continue straight ahead. Ignore the stile on your right and continue to the far side of the field. Bear left and continue with the hedge on your right until you see a stile on your right. Cross the stile and a bridge into another field.

Take a slight diagonal left to cross the field, heading for a gap in the fence on the left-hand perimeter of this field. Pass through the gap and uphill onto the Silverhill Trail.

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Continue along this trail, passing a pond on your right and onto a T-junction with a large ‘Silverhill Wood’ sign on your right. Turn right here and continue winding gently uphill along the trail for approx.1 mile. At a fork in the path, bear left uphill. Pass through a large wooden gate and shortly after turn right to climb some steps to ‘The Miner’.

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At the top of the steps bear left, keeping ‘The Miner’ monument on your right and continue downhill along a footpath to re-join the trail. Continue downhill, through a wooden chicane, a metal width restrictor and onto a road.

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Bess of Hardwick - Part 3 Royal Relationships Part 3 - The previous two articles about Bess of Hardwick have focused on the material side of her life and legacy, but what was she like as a human being?

We can’t know for sure, but her ascendancy to the highest echelons, and her ability to hold onto her wealth, give us some hints. In modern parlance she would be called driven, shrewd, ambitious, perhaps ‘money grabbing’. She was probably all of these things, but she also appears to have had an uncanny ability to extricate or distance herself from scandal…particularly Royal scandal.

lived, when Bess found herself again embroiled in a royal scandal after she arranged for her daughter to marry the son of yet another claimant to the English throne. The Queen was furious when she found out a child was already on the way, which had it been a boy, could have held some title to the crown. That child, Arabella, ultimately became the focus of Bess’s dynastic plans.

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It may have been nearly seventy years since those intimate fireside chats with his grandad, but they remained fresh in George’s memory.

He wasn’t sure if it was the way Horace told the tales or just the fact that many of the late Victorian characters he was hearing about bore absolutely no resemblance to the heroes of his own childhood like Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse. Whatever, Horace almost seemed able to bring them to life. Here’s another good example.

With the Club doing well and drawing huge crowds to the Harena, there was a problem. Most of the players were colliers, with some not finishing their Saturday morning shift until 1.00pm. They’d then come to the stadium straight from the pit and be stripped naked and have buckets of water thrown over them to clear the accumulated muck & grime. A bit cleaner perhaps, but having not eaten anything since getting up for work at 4.30am, they needed sustenance to ensure they’d last a full ninety minutes.

Now, as Horace recalled, Mildred Mycroft was the mother of one of the star players during the glory days of the 1890’s. She was not only a keen supporter but recognised as one of the best cooks in the area, and when she was approached and asked if she’d provide a few snacks ‘for t’lads’ she was only too pleased to help out.

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Last month I told of our first experiences…..this is what happened next After 4 or 5 days we’d both got the hang of steering and braking.

My mates SX200 had a very modern facility that mine sadly lacked. When he activated his “kick start” a noise was born behind the side panels, the machine started to vibrate a bit and puffs of smoke emerged from a little pipe at the back.

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I could have been kicking mine until now and nothing would have happened – nothing other than a sore leg.

The previous owner, the aforementioned lunatic centre half, had modified my machine to improve it. What this improvement amounted to was a bloody great hole in the side panel to accommodate a carburettor apparently stolen from a Chieftan Tank.

Now, “improvement” is a word open to huge levels of interpretation. In this case it seemed to mean that the vehicle would no longer start easily and once it had been coaxed into life the ”improvement” further meant that it would overheat after about 10 miles.

Luckily it had a about 30 mirrors attached to each side of the headlight so the fact that it wouldn’t start, would stop soon after starting and threaten to set fire to my trousers after 10 miles were mere by-products of being “cool”.

Also on the plus side was the fact that 10 miles would get me to Heage Road in Ripley to see my first real girlfriend

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And….most importantly….it got me to The Regal. More about that in a later episode.

So we had the machines, the Parkas, the attitude. All we were lacking was the style. Where better to get that than the wonderful emporium that was Steelyards!!

Steelyards was a highly respected gents outfitters in Ripley, almost opposite The Regal and next door to the old Cooperative store. Heaven knows what they made of the young oiks coming in to buy “sta prest” and shirts with a weird pleat down the back made by Ben Sherman Steelyards didn’t last long after that, partly because I think I was one of the few people who actually paid for the stuff I bought. It was a common site to see slim young men of 10 stone walking in and coming out looking 12 stone and struggling under the weight of three pairs of trousers, 4 shirts and a mohair sweater!

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May flowers in the Peak 2021 Late spring into early summer sees our woodland flowers come to a spectacular peak. Swarms of bluebells have taken over from the wood anemones and will Wild Garlic merge with clouds of pungent wild garlic flowers and greater stitchwort too. With woods still full of dappled sunlight before the midsummer closure of the canopy throws everything into shade, the flowers dominate the senses in terms of both colour and fragrance. The sounds of spring birds in a rich chorus provide a backdrop to a seasonal feast of nature’s extravaganza. At this time of year the woods are busy places with birds supporting broods of youngsters and mammals like badgers and foxes with youngsters too. For the flowers this is the time, indeed a short window of opportunity, to attract vital pollinating insects and thus to set seed. The clouds of bluebells for example, are attended by bumblebees, honey bees, and hoverflies in abundance. Within a few months the woods will be dark, the ground floor dry, and the spring flowers merely a distant memory until the next year.

However, there is a rather secret life active in the old woods. As the trees like oak and birch burst into life they are followed by a host of hungry insects, the larvae of myriad moths that feed on oak especially. Indeed, the oak is famed for supporting hundreds of other species, mostly insects which either live in it or feed on it. It is these insect larvae i.e. caterpillars Anemone that parent birds gather to feed to their growing offspring. The birds depend on the insect larvae and the insects depend on the great oak trees; and thus the circle of life goes around.

Birds like blue tits and great tits have their annual breeding patterns carefully synchronised to match the available caterpillars. To make matters even more complicated, the oak’s leaves contain toxic chemicals called ‘tannins’ to help protect them against insect predation i.e. caterpillars, and

these are timed to reach their highest levels when caterpillars are most abundant. Of course with climate change many of these interconnected cycles are getting out of sync and that can cause problems.

The so-called ‘ancient woodlands’ are the richest in terms of their rare and unique biodiversity, and their tree canopies dominated by oaks and sometimes Woodland Flowers by planted beech trees, are host to diverse insect faunas. However, at the present time and for a variety of reasons these insects are under pressure and many populations across the whole of Europe have plummeted. If this continues then it may mean problems for the woodland birds which need insects as food for their young, and also for the woodland flowers which need to be pollinated. It appears that the ‘usual suspects’ for causing these problems are habitat loss and habitat change, and climatic shifts, plus various pesticide chemicals used in modern farming.

Steps are now being taken to limit or remove the worst of these but only time will tell if nature can bounce back. In the meantime, take a walk in the local woods and enjoy!

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