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From the Editor Dear Readers,

Sarah has joined our Voice and Artliff team this month on our customer account management side and, as we haven’t scared her off yet, I think she might quite like us! Lisa has already scheduled some time to work on her little avatar, so that’s it now, no backsies!

Well, firstly, the whole team (with the exception of Paul, who had it in January), fell foul of the dreaded Covid. We all said that we’ve done so well to dodge it up to this point but we’ve all had varying levels of illness with it; our golden oldies from the over 50 club were hit with the worst symptoms and we lost them for 5 days (alongside our young gun, Hayleigh). Danielle made a valiant effort but fell at Beeches Brook and took to her bed from Tuesday to Friday! However, despite sharing a small little portacabin and van with them, our distribution team swatted it away like a fly and had no ill effects whatsoever. Liam and I had, what we thought was a cold! It was only when everyone else went down that we realised that it may not have been a cold!! Anyway, we’re all back & fighting fit now, which is a far cry from what the words ‘we’ve had covid’ used to do to us all 2yrs ago!! We’d have had a plague cross placed on the outside of building!

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What do I have to talk to you about this month? Lots has happened but I can’t fit it all in!

Anyway, now we’re all covid free, we thought it was time to expand our team a little. But firstly, we lost Maggi to retirement! I didn’t question her decision based on the fact that she was so busy in her day-to-day life that she barely had time to work! So, I don’t worry about

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In other news, May brings about my youngest cousins wedding. He is about 7yrs younger than me and I can remember holding him when he was newly born.

Cute as a button he was, age isn’t always kind to everyone (only joking ) but he has bagged himself the loveliest partner in crime as his soul mate and as self-appointed chief bridesmaid, I can’t wait to share their special day – it’s been a long time coming!!

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With a wedding and the holiday season beginning, I’m hoping for a quieter May but somehow, I doubt it!!

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Platinum Celebrations Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth on 6 February 1952 following the death of her father George IV. Although King George had been ill for some time, his death whilst Princess Elizabeth was on a tour of Kenya with her husband Prince Philip, must have shaken her to the core. She was a mother of two young children (Charles and Anne) and her father was a mere 56 years old when he died, in normal circumstances she could have expected him to reign for many more years, but instead she was thrust into the spotlight as Queen at the tender age of 26.

The Queen’s coronation took place in Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953. The ceremony was conducted by Dr Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and, at the Queen’s request, it became the first televised coronation, viewed by more than 20 million around the globe.

This coming June we are celebrating her Majesty’s 70 years as Queen, making her the longest reigning monarch not only in the UK, but placing her at number 4 in the list of the world’s longest reigning sovereigns. By the time of the Jubilee Bank Holiday on 3 June she will have moved into 3rd position, only a few days behind Rama IX of Thailand who reigned for 70 years, 126 days. To put things in perspective Rama, and the first placed long time monarch, Louis XIV of France (72 years, 110 days as king), ascended to their thrones at the age of 4 and 5 respectively!

There have been momentous changes in the way we live since her Majesty became Queen. In 1952 the world was still very much living in the shadows of World War II, in the UK sugar, butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fat, bacon, meat and tea were all still rationed. TVs were still uncommon in the average household; men were very much the breadwinners (after the war years of women in the workplace); homosexuality was illegal; decimalisation hadn’t yet happened; the

death penalty was still in force; the race for space hadn’t yet begun; Watson and Crick hadn’t yet published their discovery of the structure of DNA, and foods like spaghetti and curry were unknown to most people!

Houses had no central heating, no double glazing, no fitted kitchens with shiny time saving appliances, and owning one’s own house was not taken for granted. The average cost of a new house around 1952 (lots of house building was taking place to replace homes destroyed during the war) was £1,891 (around £65,224 in today’s money) and the average salary was £10 a week (roughly £339). In 2022 we take so much for granted, don’t we? Warm houses, hot water at the turn of a tap, a huge variety and choice of foodstuffs, eating out, holidays overseas, etc. etc… are our lives anymore content though?

The only thing unchanged since 1952 is her Majesty Queen Elizabeth - raise a glass in celebration of her record breaking reign!

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All Around the Shire Recollections of a Simpler Time Our glorious Queen will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee this year and we shall celebrate with her.

She became Queen at the age of 25 on the death of her father, King George VI, on 6th February 1952. Her coronation was held the following year on 2nd June 1953. It took 16 months to prepare for the historic occasion.

Throughout the land and the commonwealth, celebrations were held including street parties.

“Peace Parties” for children had been started in 1919 to celebrate the end of World War 1. For the Queen’s coronation in 1953 communities came together once again to provide a memorable party. Britain was still struggling to recover from the second World War and many foods were still rationed including sugar, butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fats and meat. Sweets, eggs and cream had only just come ‘off ration’ in February, March and April of 1953.

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ensured that every child who attended had a memory of this special event. In living rooms where there was a small black and white television, family and neighbours crammed to watch the procession and the ceremony take place at Westminster Abbey.

Many children were given a coronation mug at school, but coins, medals, ceramics, pencils, photographs were also available. The dish of Coronation Chicken was specially created for the coronation reception.

This year of celebrations will also be memorable for many and will give a much-needed boost to the morale of the nation as it did 70 years ago.

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It is just over sixty-years since Fred Gent collapsed and died while sitting on the platform at the Annual Conference of the National Union of Teachers at Scarborough.

To many, his name will resonate as the local school for both Pinxton and South Normanton is named after him – but who was he?

At the time of his death, he was affectionately known as the ‘Father’ of Derbyshire County Council and had been a member of the County Education Committee.

Fred Gent lived at ‘Craiglands’ on Victoria Road and was aged eighty-two when he died. He was born into a mining family and, as a boy at Pinxton’s Kirkstead School, he showed such promise that his Headmaster wanted him to become a pupil teacher. At the age of twelve however, he secured himself employment at the local pit, without the knowledge of his parents.

In 1922 he became a member of Pinxton Parish Council. Seven years later his colleagues elected him Chairman of the Council and later, in 1932, he became a Derbyshire County Councillor and a member of the Education Committee.

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Locally, he was better known as the milkman; he and his wife ran a dairy business. He relinquished the business when he was elected as Chairman of the County Education Committee, as the office called for a greater use of his time. In 1944 he played a major part in the introduction of changes to the educational system brought in under the 1944 Educational Act including the building of many new schools.

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It was, therefore, a fitting compliment to him when his colleagues on the Education Committee agreed to name the new secondary school for both Pinxton and South Normanton Parishes after him.

When he died, Fred Gent was also a member of the Council of both Nottingham and Manchester Universities, the Institute of Education, and The County Councils Association.

Jack Longland, the Director of Education for Derbyshire said, ‘I have never known a Chairman of Education, who worked so hard and was so well informed on the latest trends and development in education’.

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DAD’S ARMY IN THE NAPOLEONIC ERA PART ONE

In 1810, after seven years of the Napoleonic Wars, the prime minister, Lord Liverpool, penned a memorandum stating that Britain’s military was: “as large a force … as the Population and Finances of the Country could well support”.

The movements of the French military led to the mass mobilisation of a generation of men to defend Britain against revolutionary and then Napoleonic France between 1793 and 1815 is overlooked and largely forgotten. An astonishing one in four men served in some kind of capacity during these wars, a figure that exceeds those of World War I. We all know of the Home Guard of WW2, often immortalised by the TV series, but during the early 19th century these volunteers played a crucial role.

The First Great War At its peak, there were 250,000 men in the British Army, plus 80,000 serving in the militia, a particular form of home defence force raised during wartime, as well as 140,000 in the Royal Navy… These figures were matched by part-time soldiers raised across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland – there were 450,000 of these during the height of the invasion scare in the run up to the Battle of Trafalgar of 1805.

The composition of the Britain’s military was quite different to that in World War I as so many were not in full-time military service but enlisted as parttime soldiers to be used in case of an invasion. As these soldiers were never used in combat, their experience has been mostly forgotten.

But the impact of these part-time soldiers, known as Volunteers, was widespread across the UK. They formed the bulk of Britain’s military effort and were established in almost every town across the country.

As well as meeting up for training (about 20 days a year), they also became involved in the civic and social life of their areas and their members.

As these soldiers still continued in their civilian lives, they tended to be quite representative of the social make-up of their locality. Sometimes, involvement in the Volunteers was a way to improve one’s social standing.

Other units, especially cavalry (often known as the Yeomanry), were particularly exclusive. The additional cost of the uniforms and equipment of some units, beyond what the government provided, meant that being a member of these units was quite a financial commitment.

Many volunteer units participated in the Royal Jubilee celebrations of 1809. Their activities were frequently reported in newspapers. They regularly appeared at weddings and funerals. Given the numbers involved, there’s a good chance that anyone who had an ancestor in the UK during these wars could find something about them – even if it is just records of them getting paid for their time.

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We pay footballers, actors, and celebrities obscene amounts of money for doing things they love. They’re put on pedestals, worshipped by the masses, and consequently, youngsters aspire to be like them - to earn silly money, dress in designer clothes, and take constant selfies. Is this what we want to encourage our kids to do - or should we be pointing them in other directions? After all, does the world need yet another vacuous “c” list celeb - or do we really need more nurses, doctors, and care home workers?

The thing with the caring professions is that people are often said to have a “vocation” or a “passion” for that kind of occupation. Personally, I’m not sure that anyone has a passion for changing bedpans and dressing bedsores, but what they do have is care and empathy for other human beings. Are these traits learnable? I doubt it. The requisite skills can be taught - compassion comes from within, but the society we live in today seems to not really value such caring skills, preferring instead to monetise the perfect pout or “on point” eyebrows.

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Do you think minimum wage is sufficient recompense for all that care and attention? I certainly don’t, but I also understand the economics of running a care home (or the NHS for that matter).

The problem is we have been corralled into thinking it’s fine for a footballer to make millions, it’s fine for a politician to have several lucrative jobs in addition to being an MP, and it’s fine for celebs to make a fortune based purely on their looks; but it’s unacceptable to pay well to do the sort of jobs that most of us don’t actually want to do…the dirty jobs, the ones with long and antisocial shifts, the ones that are seen as unskilled! Until we can switch mindsets and understand that we NEED carers, but we don’t need so-called celebrities, people working in the sector will continue to be undervalued.

What, I wonder, will happen when NO youngster wants a career in the caring profession? Who will look after the ageing population then - and let’s face it, we’re all going to get older, even the celebrities.

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My Mess is a Bit of a Life – yes you did read that correctly – is how author Georgia Pritchett described herself to a friend – meaning of course to say it the other way round.

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But for the rest of us mortals Ms Pritchett’s account of her life will probably give you glorious moments of recognition, amusement, entertainment and maybe the odd gulp in the throat.

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This is a great walk for the summer months ahead.

We originally featured it in 2015 and there have been a couple of small changes but the route is great and there is a lovely mix of countryside with some cracking views. The dogs also loved this walk and even found a stream to splash around in and there was plenty of opportunity to go off lead so it got their double paw of approval.

5½ MILE CIRCULAR FROM GRASSMOOR COUNTRY PARK.

A gentle walk for you and your dog. This medium length walk should 2 1/2 hours. There are some sections of uneven terrain and a number of stiles to cross. There are a couple of busy road sections, so please take plenty of care and make sure you wear appropriate footwear for the conditions.

START: GRASSMOOR COUNTRY PARK, BIRKIN LANE, OFF B6039 BETWEEN TEMPLE NORMANTON AND GRASSMOOR. 1.

From the car park standing with your back to the road and keeping a pond on your right, continue straight ahead to join a trail. Bear right and pass a second pond on your right.

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After the second pond you will begin to gently descend.

Upon reaching a large metal gate, take the path to the right of the gate and continue to pass through a small metal gate. After a very short distance and prior to a main road turn left onto a signposted footpath.

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After passing a bunker on your right and reaching a marker post on your left, bear right to cut across the golf course, taking care for any flying golf balls! Pass through a line of trees and ‘hole 8’ on your left and then follow the path round to the left to gently descend.

Cross a gravel path and keep ahead, passing a pond on your right. Take care crossing the fairway to head to a wooden footbridge and pass by the club house and car park on your right.

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After crossing over 4 stiles you will cross an open field whilst gently climbing uphill. Upon reaching a hedgerow stretching out ahead of you, continue straight with this hedge on your right. Where this hedgerow ends, continue straight now with a different hedge on your left. After a short distance, pass through a gap and continue straight with a hedge on both sides.

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Continue to cross over a stile and then cross a field with a hedge on your left. At the far side pass through a metal gate and then turn right onto a single track tarmac road. At the end of the road, turn right along a main road. After a short distance turn left through a signposted gate and into a field.

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Continue straight with a hedge on your left. Where the hedge ends, continue straight towards a telegraph pole. Just beyond the telegraph pole, turn left over a stile and follow a path between two buildings to a main road.

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Continue straight along the bridleway until reaching a road. Turn right along the road and head steeply downhill.

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When nearing the bottom of the hill and just prior to a metal fence and pond on your right, turn right. Pass immediately through a gap in the metal fence and continue to skirt around the edge of the pond which is now on your left. Cross over a wooden footbridge between two ponds and continue until you reach the car park.

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New Puppy Shopping List Adding a new furry friend into your family can be a big step, and it’s important to ensure you have the correct items at home to make the transition as smooth as possible for your pup.

Here at Scarsdale, we have listed a few essential things for a shopping list: 1. Bedding • Puppies will have accidents so make sure bedding is washable! Specially made blankets like vet beds help to keep your puppy dry if they’re accident prone. Also keep size in mind as puppies can grow rapidly.

• Lots of owner’s crate train puppies so they have a safe haven in the house. If you decide to do this, check they can comfortably stand up and stretch out, and seek advice on how to train them correctly.

2. Collars and Leads • Your puppy won’t be able to go for walks until it’s fully vaccinated, but they should wear a collar with a name tag. Also consider if you’ll be using a collar or harness for walks, so training can gradually be introduced. Also, bear is mind the breed, for example short nosed dogs like pugs would benefit from harness walking to minimise pressure on the windpipe.

3. Toys • Playing with toys is an important part of your puppy’s training and development. Don’t cut corners here and use household objects! Sticks can splinter and cause injuries, whilst socks can cause blockages of the gastrointestinal tract.

• It’s a good idea to consider toy size too, a chew toy for a Chihuahua may be too small and soft for a Labrador. Feel free to seek advice if you’re unsure!

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The club has seen varying levels of success over the course of history and has regularly run several adult men’s rugby teams and a women’s team in the past. Recently the club launched their mini and junior section, offering rugby to children from the local community.

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W E I V ' A 'C Sixty-Odd Years Ago in Somercotes

My dad was born in Somercotes. More specifically Coupland Place. Does anyone remember it?

He used to tell me that he could tell whereabouts in Somercotes someone came from by their accent!

Most of it was knocked down many years ago but, curiously, the developers left a few houses standing.

My grandparents house is one of the few.

I remember it well. As you walked down the entry and turned right you arrived at my grandparents house. Next door to them were the Simpsons...no not those Simpsons! In my memory they had three boys named Keith, Donald and an older one. Joined over the entry were two more terraces, one owned

by Jim Millington and his wife and next door was a lady named Dolly, who I think was a relation of theirs.

Across the road were the Moffats and just down the lane were the Ellis kids, Alan and Ann. I still occasionally see Ann in The Gate at Swanwick although she won’t remember me. Somewhere near the Ellis family were a couple of brothers named Bowskill. I bumped into one of them when I became a Cabinet Member at the County Council. He was “significant” in Children’s Services.

At the end of the street was West’s (Wessers) corner shop where I was sent to buy grandads Capstan Full Strength or Senior Service. On the opposite corner was Abbots...in my young eyes a “posh” shop.

Turning left between the two shops led to Sleetmoor Lane. On the left hand side was a friend of grandma’s who, apparently, “suffered with her nerves”. Nobody spoke of depression and anxiety back then.

Across the road and facing Sleetmoor Lane was the Salem Chapel and as you turned right onto Sleetmoor Lane you soon arrived at the Coop. I remember the loose tea and butter and the fantastic hand operated bacon slicer. There was no self-service back then.

Somercotes seemed to have everything. Swains Bus Garage, Alec Smalley’s Barber Shop...years before that “modern upstart” Gary Birch arrived. Next door was ace bike mechanic Tommy Sims. Working back up the other side I recall the Derbyshire Building Society, the wool shop where you could “put wool by” until you could afford it, Billy Fletchers Snooker Hall. Then up to the main road with Edgar White Jewellers, Tarlton Shoes, Burnett Toys and Beastall’s pop factory. I remember pop coming out on carts through the archway. Then back down the entry, past Dickie Skinners shop to Coupland Place.

There were as many pubs as houses and they all seemed busy.

Were they happy days? Well I never remember being sad or miserable.

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Fancy a Cocktail?

Cocktail - it’s a strange word for a mix of “mainly spirits, water, sugar, and bitters”, don’t you agree? I decided to have a look to see if there’s any traceable etymology and here’s what I found.

The Egg-Cup Theory: one source of the word cocktail is said to be from the mispronunciation of the French word coquetier (pronounced cocktay in English) which means egg-cup! The story goes that in the late 18th century Antoine Amédée Peychaud, a New Orleans apothecary who invented Peychaud bitters, served brandy with these bitters in egg-cups. These teeny drinks earned the moniker coquetier which became mangled to cocktail.

The Dregs Theory: In days of old (and possibly even now in less salacious drinking establishments!) a landlord would mix together the dregs of the almost empty barrels and resell the resultant mixture at a discount. This doesn’t make sense as a derivative for the word cocktail unless you know that dregs were commonly referred to as tailings, and that the tap (spigot) of a barrel was sometimes called a cock.

The Horse’s Tail Theory: A horse with a docked tail was often described as a “cock tail” in the 17th century because the docked tail apparently resembled a rooster’s short spikey tail. Working horses such as those that pulled coaches, and horse used for hunting often had their tails docked for practical purposes. Thoroughbreds however did not have docked tails, meaning that if an “ordinary” horse was entered into a race its “cock tail” made it easy to spot.

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tail showed a horse had been changed, in the same way that adding other ingredients to a spirit changed the drink. Horse racing and drinking go together like gin and tonic, so the theory holds that the word “cock tail” was adopted to mean an adulterated (changed) spirit.

The word cocktail wasn’t really defined as we know it until 1806, when The Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York (an early newspaper) , pinned the cocktail down to what we follow today: “a stimulating liquor composed of any kind of sugar, water and bitters”.

If you look online today there are literally thousands of different cocktail recipes, but the International Bartenders Association (IBA) only recognises 77 in their annual World Cocktail Competition.

Tastes in cocktails varies around the world, in 2021 in the UK Just Eat for Business found that Espresso Martinis were the most popular concoction. The US seems to favour tequila based Margaritas; the French love a Mimosa; Germans apparently love a U-Boot (beer and a shot glass filled with vodka that is sunk into the glass of beer!); in Spain, Sangria takes the top spot and in Italy it’s a Bellini.

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Like his Dad, Horace was a contented collier, but was determined that his own children would have an education giving them the opportunity for a career with minimum danger, and in particular, eliminate the need for a scrub in an old tin bath in front of a roaring fire at the end of the working day.

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where I lived was a huge community effort with the Street decorated and a long table laden with food and drink: Prospect Street in Alfreton was another venue and fortunately we have a number of photographs which have stood the test of time. You may even recognise yourself!

On the 28th July 1977, the Queen came to Derbyshire and visited the Police Headquarters at Butterley where she was greeted by many hundreds of local schoolchildren before travelling up through Alfreton on her way to Chesterfield. The Rotary Club of Alfreton weighed in by burying a Time Capsule at the Watchorn which is to remain in place until 2077. Quite what will be made of the contents by then we can only guess!

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The season behind and the summer ahead Mansfield Hockey Club are a friendly and competitive club, based at Kingsway Park in Kirkby in Ashfield. We cater to members of all abilities and of ages 13+, with our oldest member being 78 years old!

Despite some laudable results across the club the biggest victory, for everyone involved in hockey, is the completion of a full season after Covid-19 wrecked the previous two.

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Wall growing or ground cover plants such as aubrietia and alyssum can now be given a haircut after flowering to encourage new growth and perhaps more flowers.

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Gardens full of song birds Wherever you are across the region this is a great time to be a wildlife gardener. Of course the flocks of birds visiting the wintertime feeders have dropped away but if is still worth keeping food out if you want to attract a variety of species into the garden.

Where your garden is does of course make a big difference to what you might expect, but anywhere can be made attractive with a little effort. Now, as winter has eventually ended the spring is a good time to reap the dividends of a little forward planning. Things do change but at present the best foods seem to be sunflower hearts for finches and titmice, and fat-balls for long-tailed tits, but also jackdaws and magpies.

The great spotted woodpeckers love peanuts and that seems to be their staple at the birdtable. However, the absolute winner is my idea of low-cost apples spiked onto either specially pruned cotoneaster bushes or else onto the metal prongs of bird-feeders. These are a tremendous magnet for many different small birds from robins and blackbirds, to blue tits, great tits, and blackcaps. I also get ring-necked parakeets but maybe that is for another article.

In recent years, there have been winners such as goldfinches, and losers like greenfinches. The latter have suffered from a nasty viral disease and numbers plummeted. However, it does seem that there is a bit of a revival and I now have three pairs visiting regularly. These are along with two pairs of siskins, which is nice and also a pair of chaffinches. Other regular birds at the feeders are the great spotted woodpeckers with the female proving more

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I am looking forward to the red-capped juveniles in the middle of the summer. A pair of nuthatches also visits and you can hear their loud songs and calls in the nearby woodland.

In recent weeks, the evening chorus in woods and gardens has been growing with mistle thrushes, song thrushes, blackbirds, robins, and great tits. These are now joined by blackcaps and chiffchaffs with woodpeckers drumming intermittently in the background. I also had a garden warbler visit but so far didn’t hear it sing.

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A few weeks back our local birds came down and landed in the wood only a few yards from the garden, and then this week there were three pairs low overhead and dive-bombing each other. This is an amazing recovery from just a few decades back when, along with ravens and peregrines, they were extinct across the Peak. It is so exciting to have them back. It also seems that the red kite population in the Peak District and north Derbyshire is on a steady upward track. Now this is a bird which is both stunning and potentially bold. I expect them to be visiting gardens in the region anytime soon.

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