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From the Editor Hello Readers!!

So, we’ve done explosive fireworks front covers for the November edition for years, so we fancied a change this year and have gone for ‘World Nursery Rhyme Week’.

It is my thought that parents and kids of all ages haven’t had it easy over the last year or so and nursery rhymes promote the importance of childhood development and education in the early years of education & who doesn’t love to cast their minds back – I wonder, can you name them all? Check out our Facebook page to see the others.

Here at Voice HQ we’ve got our Christmas spirit going this month! Check out our handmade wreaths on Facebook!! Now, don’t judge us too harshly, as some of us are more creative than others and some of us follow the rules more than others!

Nevertheless, it was great fun to do and I’m sure you’ll all be surprised to learn, we all got a little bit competitive with each other over this one. Why not have a go yourself; based on the next panic buying situation being toilet rolls (again!), we should all have plenty of tubes left over!!!

Whilst we’re talking Christmas, the next edition is the last one of 2021 – thank crikey for that – how many more years can we say ‘next year will be better’?! Although,

in fairness, 2021 was significantly better than 2020 for many of us, but I am splitting hairs! Anyway, I digress – this is your last call for any community notices or events or anything Christmas related to be posted. If you have anything you want to tell people about, now is your time, get in touch today.

Oooh, I also forgot to mention last month that we launched our 11th Magazine in the Clay Cross area. Eleven mags for eleven years, each year is beyond my wildest expectations, and I am thankful for our lovely readers, fantastic advertisers and contributors and the best team in the world.

I think we might need to recruit some new team members next year at this rate with the plans I have in mind but we’ll need some special people to fit in with this crowd!

Happy Reading,

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY(Part One) Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?

It’s the time that every Santa has a ball.

Does he ride a red nosed reindeer?

Does he turn up on his sleigh?

Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?

We all are aware of the religious origins of Christmas but what of the traditions that surround it?

Do you hang up a Stocking like many do?

What lies behind this particular tradition? Well, according to legend, the original Saint Nicholas put gold coins in the stockings of three poor sisters. One night, the girls left their stockings drying over the fireplace. Saint Nicholas knew the family was very poor, so he threw three bags of gold coins down the chimney. The money landed in the sisters’ stockings. Since then, children have hung up their Christmas stockings on Christmas Eve, hoping to find them filled with gifts in the morning.

Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce.

It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking towards his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles. The custom spread all over the world. The Christmas tree first arrived in England in 1841. It was brought over from Germany by Prince Albert to remind him of his homeland. The royal tree was decorated with hand-blown glass ornaments, and soon the custom was copied by families around the country.

What then of the Christmas Tree? Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians b r o u g h t decorated trees into their homes.

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Paula Pestell (chair), Monica & Rex Powell, Marilyn Wells and Hilary Wells (all pictured) along with Judith Moore (Secretary), Fred Booth (Treasurer) and Rhona Redfern who sadly passed away this month, were the last remaining eight members of the group, most recognised for their coffee mornings within the village of Bilsthorpe, generating thousands of pounds for the hospice over the years. Unfortunately, it hasn’t yet been possible to track the actual total donated to the hospice however the members did hand over some very special items of interest and a lot of history which will be displayed for the Hospice’s 30th Anniversary celebrations next year.

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A new charitable organisation in Derby and the Amber Valley is dedicated to helping adults learn to read. Free, face-to-face reading coaching starts this Autumn.

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Read Easy Derby & District is a charitable organisation recently set up in Derby to help adults living in Derby and the Amber Valley learn to read. This reading coaching is run by trained Coaches, and is absolutely free of charge.

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A team of dedicated and friendly Reading Coaches will work with Readers to build their confidence. We use a phonics-based reading scheme, especially designed for adults. Starting in November, individual reading sessions will be face-to-face and take place twice a week.

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Book Review

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is likely to be one of the strangest books you’ll read this year. It’s the winner of this year’s Women’s Prize – presumably because it’s written by a woman rather than about women, although there is one strong female character.

There’s been lots of promotion of this novel over the last few months and it might be fair to say it’s marmite. You’ll either love the mystery, the mind-games and the maze-like quality of the story, and there’s a lot of that to love, or you’ll be irritated and bored.

Without giving too much of the story away – no spoilers here – it’s about Piranesi, who lives in the House, a huge world-like labyrinth of halls, full of statues, crashing tides, birds – and one other living human being, appropriately called The Other.

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INSTRUCTIONS: 1. On the cardboard draw a circle – I used a dinner plate to draw round.

2. Draw a smaller circle inside the large one – I used a tea plate to draw round.

3. Cut out the centre of the circle – I find it easier to cut the centre circle into quarters, top to bottom and side to side, you are then cutting out smaller pieces. Take care not to cut into the main circle.

4. Paint the circle in the colour of your choice and set to one side to dry.

5. Paint the inside and outside of the toilet rolls with your choice of colours, 3 rolls in each contrasting colour, and set to one side to dry. I didn’t paint mine until after I cut the strips which is time consuming.

6. When the rolls are dry squash them flat and cut them into approximately 1 cm strips – I got 10 strips from each roll i.e., 2 flowers.

7. Put a small amount of glue (approximately ½ to 1cm ONLY) on one side at the bottom of one strip, stick another strip to it, and repeat to stick another strip, 3 in total. If you have a spring peg or a bulldog clip it will help to clip them together to dry. It saves you having to hold them. N.B. Make sure you are only sticking a small section at the bottom of each strip. PICTURE 1.

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The Dark Side of Nursery Rhymes Nursery rhymes…nonsense for kids, or coded messages containing dark undertones? Read on to see why the latter may be closer to the truth than we would maybe like to think!

“Nursery rhymes”, with their distinctive sing-song rhythms and melodies; date back centuries, as far back as the 14th Century in fact. Modern childhood psychologists believe they can help a child’s mental development and spatial reasoning, but it is doubtful our antecedents were thinking in those terms when the majority of the ditties were composed. Let’s have a quick look at a few of the best known rhymes: Baa Baa Black Sheep refers to the wool tax imposed by Edward I, when new rules said a third of the cost of a sack of wool went to him, another went to the church and the last to the farmer. In the original rhyme, the ‘little boy who lived down the lane’ ended up with nothing!

The phrase ‘black sheep of the family’ stems from the fact that the wool from black sheep could not be successfully dyed and thus had less value.

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary is believed to be about Queen Mary (aka Bloody Mary) and concerns the torture and murder of Protestants, the garden being an allusion to graveyards full of Protestant martyrs, whilst “silver bells” were thumbscrews and “cockleshells” are thought to be instruments of torture which were attached to male genitals. Nice. Not! Oranges and Lemons describes a condemned man’s journey towards his execution in London, passing various churches on his way.

Rock-a-bye Baby alludes to the rumour that the son of King James II was actually another man’s son, smuggled into the delivery room in order to ensure a Catholic would once more ascend to the throne of England. An early recorded version of the rhyme ends with the footnote “This may serve as a warning to the Proud and Ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last.”

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Ring a Ring o Roses, we’re all familiar with the idea that this rhyme, and the associated little dance so beloved of kids, is connected with the Great Plague of 1665. The ‘rosie’ being the distinctive rash that developed on the skin of sufferers, and the ‘posies’ referring to the scented flowers required to camouflage the hideous stench of decaying flesh and rotting bodies.

Even the seemingly innocuous ditty Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, may refer to the persecution of Catholics in the 16th and 17th century, when Catholic priests were often burnt at the stake. Whilst Lucy Locket is actually connected to an argument between two prostitutes in the 18th century!

So much time has elapsed since these nursery rhymes were first written that modern day mothers singing them with their children can be forgiven for not realising the death, destruction, and darkness so many of them allude to. And anyway - who really cares these days, they’re fun, kids enjoy then and they’re part of our heritage and tradition.

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This month we go back 4 years to October 2017 to revisit a perfect autumnal walk. This walk has a bit of everything. We begin walking through a country park with some great views before looping round to pass the historic and picturesque Annesley All Saints Church and then onto the pretty Annesley Forest.

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Turn right and continue until reaching a T junction of roads. Turn right and after a short distance turn right again along ‘Moseley Road’.

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I looked across at my husband in the dark of this Autumn morning and almost perfectly in sync we said, “it’s too early!”. The reality was that at ten to seven on a Monday morning with three dogs to sort out and both of us with businesses to run, it really wasn’t too early, it just felt like it. Maybe you quite fancied a lie-in this morning or certainly like the idea of getting a little more sleep in your life?

But what about those mornings when you know you’ve had enough shut eye, but everything still feels like it’s in the ‘too hard’ box? Fatigue or just feeling weary often has nothing to do with sleep, instead it’s about the need for another kind of rest. Sleep of course IS a form of rest, but rest comes in many forms and it just maybe that it’s one of these other types of rest that your body is craving.

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Social Rest: in these weird times of Pandemic normal social activities have been curtailed and whilst the beginnings of returning to our old patterns is welcome, it can also be exhausting.

Those who are more introverted in nature get their energy from time spent alone, so if that’s you, be sure to hold something back.

Spiritual Rest: whether its faith led activities, volunteering your time to causes you feel strongly about or spending time exploring your purpose and goals, time spent on the ‘inner you’ always refreshes.

Physical Rest: other than sleep, there are active ways in which our bodies can get some respite.

Exercising regularly believe it or not rests the body as exerting our muscles fully can help us to fully discharge the tension in our bodies, rather than holding onto a permanent state of tension which is never quite dispelled. It doesn’t have to be hugely exerting either: a relaxation class, yoga or massage will bring the same effect.

Rolling different rest type activities together can be really effective. Go for a walk (Physical) with a friend (Social) or turn off your phone (Sensory) and count your blessings (Spiritual). And it could just be that a lie-in is exactly what you need after all!

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Calling the two captains together, the umpire suggested that the tie be settled upon the toss of a farthing. Clarrie Flint, Hilcote captain, wasn’t having this and asked for five minutes grace as he had a possible solution. This was granted and he instructed his players to quickly spread out and make a specific request of the spectators lining the touchline.

As they returned in the gathering gloom, Clarrie asked the opposition to line up for kick off and for the umpire to restart the game. They looked puzzled, but at the high-pitched sound of the whistle, the Harena was instantly bathed in bright light.

George, understandably captivated, wanted to know how this apparent miracle had been achieved. It was no miracle. The players had apparently asked colliers on the touchline to strap their Humphry Davy Safety Lamps to the foreheads of many of the boys present, and then lift the youngsters onto their shoulders. As the whistle sounded, lamps were switched on and hey presto, Hilcote Harena became the first stadium in the entire world to stage floodlit football! Not only that, Hacademicals went on to score the winner and secure that tie at Notts County.

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Climate Change: It’s Already Here.

Climate change will affect us all - in fact, it already is - Voice Magazines have decided to run a series of articles addressing the issues, and we’ve called upon Hope Valley Climate Action (HVCA) to be our guides and information partners going forwards.

HVCA was established in late 2019, and as their name suggests, it is based in and around the Hope Valley in the Peak District; its aims are to address the climate emergency by reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity.

The group was granted Charity status at the end of 2020 and is run by a board of trustees. The work they are doing, and the messages they are sharing, are just as relevant to the rest of the Voice Magazine distribution areas, and we’re delighted to have them on board.

It’s rather appropriate that a climate action group be founded in the Hope Valley, as arguably the area and those surrounding it could be said to have been the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution (although Ironbridge in Shropshire may disagree). In 1771, Richard Arkwright chose Cromford, a small village some 20 miles from the Hope Valley, to be the location of the first water-driven spinning factory. This factory soon had over 300 workers, rising to 800 by 1789, and the factory model of production was adopted across the world. The ever increasing mechanisation, and use of fossil fuels to drive it, led inexorably to the situation we find ourselves in today.

Time may be running out for the world to completely halt climate change, but taking action now could mitigate the effects and. This month (November 2021) sees Glasgow hosting COP26 - the UN’s 26th annual global climate summit. World leaders and thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens will gather together for twelve days. This COP (which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’) is seen by many experts as being uniquely

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Countries at COP26 are being asked for ambitious emissions reductions targets to reach net-zero by the middle of the century. In order to achieve this, the phase-out of coal and other fossil fuels will need to be hugely accelerated; deforestation will have to be stopped, and investment in alternative fuel sources massively increased.

International financial institutions in both the private and public sectors will need to work together to secure trillions of dollars in funding for the future to be secured for our children and grandchildren.

Will the attending countries be able to work together in order to protect the planet we all call home? Who knows! But there is one certainty we can’t ignore - and that is that if they don’t, we may well lose the opportunity to repair the damage we humans have done. We can all help, even the smallest of changes can have a big long term effect.

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We’re largely getting to the stage of making things ready for next year’s garden, while still looking forward to some over-winter colour and looking after the most vulnerable areas.

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Which isn’t to say you shouldn’t create wildlife habitats around the garden, just maybe not round your prize perennials.

If you’re wanting to divide and replant perennials which flower before next July – the likes of oriental poppies or lungwort – it’s best to do them now. Replant the same day if you can so they don’t suffer too much shock.

Roses planted in exposed spots, should be pruned now to stop windrock over the winter. Cut off most of this year’s growth and if there’s any sign of blackspot, don’t put cuttings in the compost as it will transmit the disease.

Tulip bulbs should be planted by the end of November. And hopefully there will be a good bit of colour this winter if you plant outdoor cyclamen, (not the big showy ones, they’re not usually hardy enough to survive the cold), hellebores and winter pansies.

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