Rural Voice - Darley Dale & Villages Edition - October 2021

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Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback regarding last month’s front covers & the mags in general, it is hugely appreciated. I have said before, feedback (preferably positive where possible!!) is always welcomed and keeps our little team motivated to keep trying different things. When we receive a lovely e-mail, like we have from some readers this month, it truly lifts us all and I am so proud of our team & how they’ve all remained positive over the last 18 months, so thank you, it’s nice to be nice!

I will do an introduction editorial to the team once we’ve got the website up and running. I’m conscious that I keep mentioning team members & it’d be better to put a face to a name! However, I think it’s fair to give a special mention to Danielle regarding the feedback on the mags, as she has and is continuing to do a sterling job on the community engagement aspect of Voice Magazines – all these new articles, are pretty much down to Danielle’s vision for what people would like to read more about….so much so, I think she’ll be looking for some support soon!

Mr Emily & I went on our hollibobs, whilst the rest of the team supported our very own Paul during his boxing debut for an Ultimate White Collar Boxing event in Pride Park. Paul originally signed up around November 2019 for the event in April 2020 but for obvious reasons, he has had the date scheduled and rescheduled a good

3 or 4 times! This has been a nightmare for him, not least as he’s been having to stop and start his training.

Anyway, it finally happened on the 11th September, the team donned their glad rags and I speak for all of us when I say that we couldn’t be any prouder of his performance and his resolve to keep picking himself up, start training again and stand up in the ring. He raised some fantastic money for cancer research with some of our lovely advertisers supporting him both by donating and attending. Watch out Anthony Joshua, Paul is coming for your crown!

The Voice ladies also had a fabulous outing this month to the Somercotes Cineroom to see ‘Little Women’.

What an absolutely fabulous initiative and really well done to the organisers, we all loved it – read our thoughts in this months Swanwick edition or online.

It’s ‘Cruella’ next!

In other news, it’s the Christmas editions for the next two magazines – and no! I still haven’t sorted any Christmas shopping out…..I tried…..and then the moment passed again!!! Anyway, get your adverts and events in, the team are waiting to hear from you!

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Book Review Fans of TV show Pointless will know and probably love Richard Osman’s sly wit. And it comes shining through in his Thursday Murder Club series of novels which have become a huge word of mouth success. People love them.

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Halloween - Spooky or Commercialised?

Who doesn’t love Halloween - well, ME for one! That could be because I am in the (err umm) slightly older age bracket and simply don’t get what amounts to the Americanisation of the day…I mean, giving kids carte blanche to knock on doors and expect sweeties cannot be a good idea - surely?! But taking a step back from the sugar fuelled fest of today, who knows the real reason we mark the 31st of October?

The origins of what we now know as Halloween are very ancient indeed, dating back to the pre-Christian Celtic peoples of Britain (and Northern Europe). The feast of Samhain (which is actually pronounce ‘sowain’) marked the end of their year sensible really as it’s the end of the growing and harvesting season and the beginning of the winter months. It was seen as the most important one of the four quarterly “fire festivals”.

At that time of year it was thought the veil between the living and the dead thinned, and the souls of the dead would return to visit their homes and families. As evil spirits and otherworldly beings could also breach “the veil” at this time, people would dress up in animal and monster costumes to confuse the potential visitors and avoid kidnap. Individual hearth fires would be allowed to die down and communal bonfires would be lit for roasting sacrificial cattle, the people would feast (whilst ensuring a share was left for the spirits, ancestors, and faery folk!) and a flame from the bonfire would be used to re-light their hearth fires.

When the Roman’s invaded Celtic lands they incorporated their own gods, Feralia, commemorating the passing of the dead, and Pomona, the goddess of the harvest. The advent of Christianity saw attempts to transmute Samhain into a Christian celebration, and in the 5th century A.D. Pope Boniface moved the festival to May

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13th as a day to commemorate saints and martyrs. Funnily enough, this didn’t stop the fire festivals and so in the 9th century Pope Gregory moved the festival back to the original time of year, calling the day (1 November) All Saints Day. The day before became known as holy, or hallowed eve, which eventually became Halloween (een being another word for eve).

Some of the traditions we see today can be traced back to the original Celtic Samhain, dressing up for example, whilst “trick or treating” may have derived from early Scottish and Irish traditions of going from door to door singing songs for the dead in return for “soul cakes”. Hollowed out and carved turnips with candles inside, known as Jack O’ Lanterns (after a legendary character) originated in Ireland and were taken to the US by immigrants who switched to using readily available (and easier to carve) pumpkins.

Would Halloween be such a feature in UK life, particularly for children, without the influence of the US? Personally, I think not - it certainly wasn’t prominent in my childhood… although that was many moons ago!

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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NEW include Maria Valentina Baby – trendy clothes and shoes for baby and children. Christmas Board Games – Christmas Eve The Race To Help Santa!, Grace’s Book Adventures – kid’s books and colouring activity sets.

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Do you ever feel you’re missing out on a ‘normal’ teenage life?

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The motorway is 193 miles (311 km) long and was constructed in four phases. Most of the motorway was opened between 1959 and 1968.

There had been plans before the Second World War for a motorway network in the UK. Early ideas were put forward by Lord Montagu to build a ‘motorway like road’ from London to Birmingham in 1923, but it was a further 26 years before the Special Roads Act 1949 was passed, which allowed for the construction of roads limited to specific vehicle classifications, and in the 1950s, the country’s first motorways were given the government go-ahead.

The M1 was Britain’s first full-length motorway and opened in 1959, passing through the Derbyshire countryside. The early M1 had no speed limits, crash barriers or lighting, and had soft shoulders rather than hard and was a very different scene to the one we know of today.

The Derbyshire section of the M1 involved many local communities either losing land to the new road or being part of the workforce and companies they constructed it. Farm fields were suddenly divided or in some instances farm buildings were completely razed to the ground.

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It may feel like we’re heading towards less activity in the garden, but there’s actually loads to do this month.

Tidying things up before winter is a given, but some areas deserve more attention.

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Chesterfield & District Beekeeping Association Chesterfield & District Beekeeping Association (CDBKA) has been in existence since 1947. Current membership stands at over 200 which is a record for the Association. Members have a wide range of age and experience, very few of whom meet the stereotypical beekeeper image –white, male, retired and bearded!

Many are women, and young working people are now joining, thanks to the now-raised profile of bees and pollinators.

We are a friendly bunch, with the experienced beekeepers always happy to give advice on the issues that can flummox newer beekeepers, or ‘newbees’ as we affectionately call them. Our region covers the South Yorkshire border down to the Matlock area taking in parts of Nottingham and Mansfield, however our base is Hasland, near Chesterfield. We have a small apiary where we teach and groups of ‘newbees’ who can gain ‘hands-on’ experience before they have their own bees.

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During the season our apiary managers welcome members of the public to don a bee suit (which we loan them), open up the hives and invite them to take a closer look at our bees. Most find this closeness a little scary but fascinating.

Honeybees are our passion and this is what we want to share with the non-beekeeping public. Not so much to encourage them to keep bees themselves but to care about them, and help by planting the right flowers in their gardens, reducing their use of pesticides and understanding what bees and all other pollinators need.

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The autumnal fungi gently emerge Fungi are part of our ‘invisible biodiversity’ and in many ways make everything else happen in nature and ecology. Fungi breakdown or decompose dead animals and plants and without them many ecological systems would not work. What’s more, these decomposition activities are vital to release much-needed nutrients for plants and animals to thrive. However, there is much more to fungal activity than this. For example, without the power of these microbes we would not have bread, wine, or beer, which would be a great shame. However, we would also be without antibiotics provided by Penicillium fungi and incidentally, there would not be any smelly blue cheeses either. Nevertheless, there is much more since largely unseen fungi infect the roots of great trees and it is they that help the tree take up essential nutrients and water from the soil. Wefts of fungal hyphae envelope the tree roots and in exchange for sugars (made in the tree’s leaves from sunlight and carbon dioxide from the air), the ‘mycorrhizal’ fungus pumps mineral nutrition back into the living plant. Other fungi support the growth of wildflowers and grasses in meadows, especially in the limestone dales of the Peak. Yet other species power the common heather to domination of vast swathes of our region’s uplands. Amazingly, much of this activity goes on unseen. We sometimes do spot the familiar ‘mushrooms’, and especially so in late summer and autumn. However, it is worth remembering that what you see here is virtually the just the ‘flower’ of a flowering plant. The serious business end of the fungus extends more widely and sometimes vastly, and is the hidden hyphae that power the fungal ecology. Out of sight, out of mind; but this may be a problem since many important fungi are suffering because of climate change and the way that we manage our wider environments. This could be bad news because if they are compromised, then so will we be.

It seems that whilst fungi are not always appreciated (and yes, they do cause diseases in humans, in our animals, and in our crops for example), they are hugely important in very many ways. Adapted to many different modes of life and with varying ecologies, fungi come in a great variety of shapes, forms, and colours. Some fungi such as brackets on old trees like oak, beech, and birch, are very large and often long-lived. Others mushrooms on acidic grasslands especially are brightly coloured, sometimes almost day-glow; pink or orange waxcaps that break down dead leaves and other organic material in the soil. Others are tiny yellow, needle-like fungi, which may be mycorrhizal on green plants. A great place to find some very special ‘mushrooms’ is in the grasslands around the Peak District Eastern Moors and especially on the National Trust’s Longshaw estate near Fox House.

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