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From the Editor Dear Readers, Well, it’s all doom and gloom at the moment, isn’t it? Except the weather (at the time of writing at least!) A summer of discontent, a cost-of-living crisis, war in Europe and a rumbling pandemic that just won’t go away. It’s starting to feel like we’re on season 2 of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”! (I’m claiming the rights on that one Netflix & I need a big budget to hire 1 of the Hemsworth’s please!). Our time to do something about this will come if you want to but for now, if you’re anything like me, my time is preoccupied with just trying to balance the books and effectively stand still.

Sad times at the minute.

Onto far more cheerful things though. I hope you all love our bright and beautiful front covers this month.

Our team spend a lot of time coming up with creative ideas, working with our sister company, Artliff Design and Print. And this month is a cracker in my opinion.

If you haven’t figured it out, to celebrate World Emoji Day (more on that on page 4) we have created an emoji for all of the people who work on the mags. My Emoji is obviously the one with the stunning shoes and is shrugging her shoulders and rolling her eyes as I try to figure out how to keep everyone facing forwards…

(I am known for being a bit of an eye roller!) Each of the Emoji’s reflects the personalities of the team and as you can see we’re quite an eclectic bunch! It was

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great fun doing them so, as a giggle, why don’t you have a think about what your own emoji would look like. If you’re really creative you could even draw it.

We’d love to see them!

I ended last month on a cliff hanger (not really, but I do like to big up my part sometimes!) with the crutches for the wedding. Needless to say, despite my protestations, the cousins would not delay the wedding for me (rude!), so I crammed my trotter into a beautiful shoe (of course!) and hobbled down the aisle with a massive wincing grin – job done! And in true Cinders style, once I landed at the reception, I whipped the shoes off and donned some slippers for the rest of the evening. Staying classy to the end!

Next month, I’ll tell you all about my camping experience with the team…..at Ynot festival…..eeek!

Who’s joining us!

See you next month,

x Emily And all the VOICE MAGAZINES TEAM

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Smile it’s Emoji Time!

Emojis - love ‘em, loathe ‘em, use them or not; I would imagine that most of us know what they are by now.

Do you know how long they’ve been around for though?

It’s perhaps longer than you may think…

Not unsurprisingly, emojis first surfaced in Japan.

Japanese has a pictorial based written language (like Chinese) and the word “emoji” itself actually derives from three Japanese characters (or kanji). (“e,” picture, 文 (“mo,” write) and 字 (“ji,” character).

The first set of emojis were developed in Japan in 1997 for a mobile phone named the SkyWalker DP-211SW. There were 90 designs, including ones we would recognise today, “thumbs up”, for example, but they were basic.

1999 saw the development of symbols that were more pictorial for use on another Japanese mobile phone service. This set of 176 emojis kickstarted the widespread use of emojis. Their creator Shigetaka Kurita had only 144 pixels in which to design the emojis, meaning they look clunky and awkward when compared with the ones we see today.

Today people use emojis constantly; in fact, you could (if you were so inclined) probably create an entire sentence using the images. There’s even a TV show which features a game where emojis are used to describe TV shows, films and books; contestants have to guess the answer based on a set of emojis created by one of the other players. The accuracy of the emoji use varies tremendously though - it seems one person’s translation can be very different to another’s!

It’s funny, isn’t it? The world’s first written languages were highly pictorial - think Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Archaic Chinese, Linear B (Mycenaean Greek), Linear A (Minoan Crete) and the Cuneiform scripts of the Sumerians; it appears we are coming full circle!

MSN messenger, the online computer based messaging program (anyone remember that?) created 30 “emoticons” for use on the platform in 2003. But emoji use on phones was mainly confined to Japan until 2010, when emojis were incorporated into Unicode (an international encoding system which gives every letter, digit or symbol a unique numeric value across different programs and platforms - basically, it means that just about every language can be assigned and identified using the system). 722 emojis for both iPhones and Android phones were released that year.

There are now close to 3,000 emojis listed in the official Unicode list and even an online Emojipedia (created in 2013). The creator of this reference website also established World Emoji Day, held on July 17th each year (www.worldemojiday.com).

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The choice of date apparently references the date shown on an iPhone calendar emoji (I don’t have an iPhone, so I can’t check this!).

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ALFRETON MALE VOICE CHOIR Alfreton Male Voice Choir has been pleased to honour the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and, along with the rest of the nation, send their good wishes for the future. On Thursday 2nd June, Alfreton Town Council marked the occasion with the lighting of a Beacon at the new Alfreton Park Special School. The evening began with the opportunity to tour this most impressively serviced facility, followed by the choir performance in the main hall. Following this, we all went outside where the beacon was lit by John Walker and Chris Nieper to a rousing chorus of God Save the Queen.

On Sunday 5th June we were at South Wingfield Social Club rounding off their 3 days of Jubilee celebrations; to an enthusiastic audience we began, and ended, with the National Anthem and in between sang a varied programme, John recited some agricultural themed monologues and Mick, as usual, added some laughs.

Chairman Mick said ‘’It has been a privilege to be involved in the celebrations in recognition of the Queen’s 70 years of service and we look forward to many years to come. The Queen brought the country together, song unites the community and Thursdays unite the choir.

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The last remaining laws relating to gay sex were not repealed (in England and Wales) until 2003, when “the gross indecency law” passed in 1885, and the criminalisation of sodomy were finally wiped from the legal pantheon. The gross indecency law was the one used to convict Alan Turing (the man who helped crack the German Enigma Code in WW2) and was the reason the playwright Oscar Wilde was jailed in 1895. Northern Ireland did not repeal the sodomy law until 2008 and Scotland not until 2013 - meaning that gay sex did not cease to be a criminal act in the UK as an entirety until a mere 9 years ago!

In the face of such inequality, it’s hardly surprising that gay men and the wider LGBTQ community have felt the need to celebrate their identities, and nowhere is this better expressed than in the various Pride marches that take place around the country. Of course, the LGBTQ community is not comprised simply of gay men; lesbian women, bisexual people and transgender individuals also stand up for their rights to love anyone they like without fear of persecution.

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At the end of the day, whatever your personal opinion is of Pride, gay rights, or LGBTQ - every person on the planet deserves to live a peaceful life with people they love. What goes on behind closed doors, as long as consensual, is really no one else’s business…is it?

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If you ever needed proof of the valuable service that your Voice Magazine brings to the community, I have it.

You’ll recall that last month I introduced you to George’s wife, Gill, a former teacher. Within days of the last edition being distributed, I received a number of emails from local people who were convinced that I was referring to someone who had taught them. I was able to confirm that she was – sorry, but ‘data protection’ forbids me from being more specific – and in every case, they had fond memories of ‘Miss’. Many of the youngsters that Gill had taught in a career, beginning in 1971, were now grandparents themselves, and in some cases, their own offspring had gone on to benefit from her teaching.

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“My Mum’s a Prostitute!”. Although I didn’t fully appreciate the reasons, until a little older, I’ll never forget the look on your face.

There was the time when Michael, who at seven years of age I was convinced I’d end up marrying – I got out of jail there as he turned out to be a bit of a wrong’un – put up his hand and asked “Miss, can I go to the toilet?”. You replied something like “OK Michael, but what’s the magic word?”. We all laughed, even you, as looking unsure, he replied, “Abracadabra?”

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July is blissful in the garden, full of brilliant smells and abundance. But there are some things you can do, in addition to sitting and admiring all your earlier hard work.

I know this column sounds like a broken record with the “deadhead” mantra, but it’s all about making the most of what you have got. The aim of deadheading is to produce more and better flowers. With roses, unless you want to produce hips later in the year, just snap the flower head off below the bud once it’s finished – it comes away very easily. This means the buds just behind have more room to grow. But once you’ve gone beyond the original flourish of buds, cut back a few inches to just above a lower leaf joint which will prompt the rose to put out more buds faster.

When foxgloves and delphiniums have gone over, deadhead the flowering spike – don’t take the whole stem as there may be a cluster of buds either just below the spike or further down the plant which will flower subsequently.

With plants where the first flush of flowers has gone completely, for instance early perennials such as poppies, cut back to ground level after flowering to produce more strong foliage and perhaps blooms. And perennial geraniums will produce more foliage and possibly flowers later in the season if you take the shears to them below existing foliage, leaving just the stems.

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You can pinch out the main shoots of cosmos and fuchsias to create bushier plants – again more flowers, - though it can be a bit heart-breaking to take out buds which are about to bloom.

We’re always looking forward so now is the time to plant gladioli and acidanthera bulbs and tubers for autumn colour.

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Book Review

If you are tempted to think politics is boring, read Sasha Swire’s Diary of an MP’s Wife – Inside and Outside Power.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Corbynista or Boris’s biggest fan, this is a fascinating, knowledgeable, gossipy, funny and sometimes startling account of the Cameron years of government and beyond.

Sasha Swire is the wife of former Tory MP Sir Hugo Swire and for 20 years she kept a diary of the goings on at the highest level of government. But she was no typical political wife, standing silently and steadfastly one step behind her husband or flower arranging for constituency dinners. As a former journalist, old habits die hard and she had her mental notebook at her side through it all.

She and Hugo were close chums of the Camerons – would be interesting to know if they still are – and her insights into the crises, jokes, nicknames and behind the scenes snarkiness of that set of people are very revealing of the characters and events of the time.

The book is set against a backdrop of boozy dinners at Chequers and weekends in Cornwall, but amidst the truly funny political gossip is a fiercely political understanding. Her father was former Secretary of State for defence Sir John Knott and from childhood she’s known her way round politics. She’s sceptical, but she applies that to friends and foes alike.

It goes without saying that the book is indiscreet and outrageous – George Osborne is Boy George, the Camerons along with the rest of the country called Theresa May the Maybot, Michael Gove comes out of everything pretty badly and Dominic Cummings, she says, is someone who thinks he is more important than h e is and looks “like one of those amoebas you find in jars in school science labs”. And after he’d resigned from parliament David Cameron retreated to watching box sets of Game of Thrones in front of the telly.

No more spoilers. The dedication to her husband reads “Sorry”. - If you’re a reader you won’t be.

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CQC Rated Outstanding for Care Our aim at Edward House is to provide a relaxed family atmosphere that everyone can enjoy. We have been caring for the elderly and retired members of our community since 1994 and in that period of time have developed close friendships with our residents and their families. We want everyone to be included in life at Edward House and we encourage family members to visit and take an active part in the ongoing care of their loved one and the social activities of the home.

Our recently extended home is now able to offer 44 bedrooms, ten of which are brand new ensuite rooms. All our bedrooms are individually and tastefully decorated for residents to make their own.

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