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From the Editor Dear Readers, As I type, whilst sat on what feels like the face of the Sun (42 degrees), we’re going through a bit of a heatwave apparently. I’m all for a bit of warmth and sun on my face but usually, I like to be near water to cool down and/or aircon and a nice cocktail or fruity cider in hand – I currently have none of the above – very sad times! I genuinely thought about sleeping in the car last night but reconsidered when I realised how irritating it would be to the neighbours to hear my car ticking away and then keep kicking in to keep the aircon cool! Maybe I should start having a nice spot of gin in my bottom drawer for such occasions, it’d go down a treat with the warm cordial I am enduring to ‘stay hydrated’! pffft, ‘stay hydrated’ Fat chance of that!

I’d need to down 6 gallons every 20mins to get close!

Anyway, thunderstorms are due so every cloud and all that, I guess!

So, have you seen our front covers this month in homage to World Elephant Day. Laura has written about them in her article and personally speaking, I adore elephants.

A few years back, we were lucky enough to have a close encounter with an elephant whilst travelling and whilst I was fortunate enough to wash her feet & feed her a ball of hay a few of the other tourists got up on her back and were sprayed from her trunk. For me it was such an amazing experience, getting to be so close to such a beautiful animal but I still struggle with it. Even though it was in a nature reserve and they were fed and well looked after, I can’t help but feel that the allure of western money to make them perform for the tourists is just too much.

Why can’t we just leave them be (protect and preserve where necessary) and not poach them, so that they can just be peaceful in their natural habitat? I appreciate that this is controversial for many and has many perspectives

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attached to it and I know people who have straddled an Elephants back and been sprayed or enjoyed other parlour tricks at the hands of their handler, so it is only my opinion but I often think about that beautiful elephant, laying on her side in the river whilst I scratched her feet – she may have enjoyed it, but personally speaking it has given me a different perspective when a holiday involves animals, but then again, isn’t that what travel is all about – broadening horizons & challenging opinions?!

In other news, it appears that I had jumped the gun a bit last month – the YNot outing won’t be reported upon until next month but we are starting to prep – we’ve got fancy dress to plan apparently!! We’ve drawn our winners, so big congratulations to those and we’ll see you there. I mean, we haven’t decided for definite yet but there is a fair chance that we’ll be closed on Friday 29th July and Monday 1st August as the team are planning for a big

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Gadgeteers Summer Reading Challenge 2022 AT SOUTH NORMANTON LIBRARY The theme for the Summer Reading Challenge for 2022 is Gadgeteers.

It’s completely free to take part. Children just need to sign up at the library and they will be given a booklet that folds out into a wall poster. The aim is for them to read 6 books over the summer holidays. Each time they return one of the 6 books to the library they will receive a sticker that they can stick onto their poster. Once they have completed the challenge, they receive a certificate and a medal. The challenge starts on July 9th and lasts for the entire summer holidays. Although the theme is gadgeteers children can read any books in any format as part of the challenge.

We also have a Summer Reading Challenge Children’s craft event at the library on August 2nd, 10am - 11am. The event is free to attend, and places can be booked on Eventbrite or by contacting the library.

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We believe that our children settle easier into nursery life by the introduction of ‘Monkey’ to them when they first join us. Every child gets

their own monkey before they start with us, as well as a range of activities they can do before they start nursery. Children can then bring their monkey into nursery, where they sit on our ‘Monkey Shelf’, watching us whilst we learn.

We provide a range of additional activities to engage the children in their learning. We have our own ‘Long Wavy Grass’, where we take part in Forest School activities, as well as in the ‘Big Forest’. We have also provided; balance bike and scooter training; visits to a working farm; art activities with Alfreton Pottery and taken part in the Primary Engineering Award.

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ELEPHANT FACTS In honour of World Elephant Day on August 12th, here are some facts you may find interesting.

The elephants we see today (and there are THREE species, not just two – more on this in a mo) share a common ancestor with the Woolly Mammoths who roamed the Ice Age World between 300,000 years ago to around 10,000 years ago.

This common ancestor was part of a group of herbivores named Proboscidea, whose origins date back sixty million years.

Most proboscideans were relatively small compared to modern elephants and would have borne little resemblance to the animals we know today.

Some six million years ago, proboscideans began to separate into different species. DNA research shows that the African elephants were the first to diverge, whilst Woolly Mammoths and Asian Elephants followed suit around 440,000 years later.

Now back to the fact that there are THREE distinct species of elephant around today, and these are: •

The African savanna elephant

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The Asian elephant

DNA shows the two African species diverged about 2.6 million years ago.

The African savanna elephant is the largest living land animal; an adult can tip the scales at 16,500 lbs (7,500 kg) and stand 10–13 ft (3–4 m) tall at the shoulder.

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Forest elephants are smaller than the savannadwelling species and have thinner, straighter tusks.

The remaining 150,000 or so forest elephants are found mainly in the dense forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon An Asian elephant weighs about 12,000 lbs (5,500 kg) and stands about 10 ft (3 m) tall.

Apart from the differences in sizes, there are several other ways to distinguish the three species visually: Ears African elephants have much larger ears than their Asian counterparts, and it’s possible to tell the difference between the savanna-dwelling species, whose ears closely resemble the outline of the continent of Africa, and the forest livers with more oval-shaped ears.

Head shape Both species of African elephants have a rounded, dome-like skull (the forest elephants being smaller), whilst the Indian elephant has a very distinct twin domed head with a clearly defined indent running down the middle.

Toenails!

African forest elephants have five toenails on the front feet and four on the back, while African savanna elephants have four on the front and three on the back. Asian elephants have five toenails on the front and four on the back.

Trunks African elephants have a kind of two-finger arrangement at the end of their trunks, giving them tremendous dexterity; Indian elephants, however, have only one “finger”.

One final note, all three species of elephants are considered to be at risk. Some African populations are increasing, mainly in Southern Africa, whilst in other areas, they are being poached to near extinction level, and Asian elephant numbers have declined by 50% in the last three generations!

Could you imagine a world without elephants?

I know I couldn’t.

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author.

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South Normanton Pre-School Hello from South Normanton Pre-School What a busy summer term we had! We began by celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we decorated the learning environment with red, white, and blue and had a tea party to celebrate. The children loved the tea party but were a little disappointed that the Queen didn’t come! We talked about how long the Queen had been our Queen (‘a very, very long time’), where she lived (‘in a palace in London’) and looked at lots of pictures of her.

We then began our transitions to school. Teachers from the primary schools came to visit and meet our children and then our children visited their new school to have a look around. We had lots of discussions about school and what it will be like.

We finished the term with a leavers concert at the Postmill centre, parents were invited to come and watch the children sing their favourite songs and be presented with their leavers certificate and present.

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Next stop is our new school year which begins in September. We will be welcoming more new children into pre-school and welcoming back our existing children. We still have limited availability in our two year room and availability in our pre-school room so if you have a child who is 2 or 3 years old and you would like them to come to pre-school, please email

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“Reckitt’s blue bag!” and stories of washing day come alive.

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There was clean laundry before washing machines and twin-tubs, but the physical The dolly blue was created by a firm called Reckitt. In the work was hard. However, even something 1850s, Isaac Reckitt’s company had started to manufacture as small as a blue bag can unlock a blueing agents for laundry using aquamarine which is a deep washing line of memories that remind blue pigment made from grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. us of the people and places who were Artificial pigment was created in 1882 and the firm began to important to us when we were young. make serious money. The contents of the bag were baking soda and synthetic aquamarine and cost one penny. In the Janet and Paul Barrass are middle of the 20th century, the All Around the Shire. bags were replaced by a cube of Find us on or email: blue whitener.

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Luckenbooth, it has to be said, is a very strange book, not your normal summer holiday read, but if you’re looking for something more than a bit dark and decidedly different, this could be worth a punt.

10 Luckenbooth Close Edinburgh has descended from its heyday as a fine residence to a series of seedy squats. But its walls reveal many histories, starting with the arrival of the devil’s daughter, a curse on the building and the impact it has on the lives of the people on its nine floors over the same number of decades.

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Things were different though. In the late 50s, when I was about 4 years old, every man aged 30 or more seemed to wear a jacket and tie to go for his Sunday lunchtime pint. Weirdly lots of them wore a collar, tie, sleeveless sweater and a jacket on top. I never really understood the sweater...

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3 MILE CIRCULAR WALK FROM HOMESFORD TEA ROOMS, ON THE A6 NEAR WHATSTANDWELL A nice short but fun packed walk for you and your dog! There are some uphill sections on this walk so should it take around 1½ hours to complete. There is a range of terrain, which can be muddy and uneven, although unlikely during a heatwave! There are also a few sections of road, so take plenty of care and make sure you wear appropriate footwear.

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Scarsdale Opens for Alfreton’s Awesome Pets Scarsdale Vets opened its doors for Alfreton’s awesome pets and their amazing owners across the community with their official open day on 25th June.

The lovely new staff who are raring to go and welcome new clients with open arms as well as senior members of Scarsdale, set up a day jam packed with entertainment, goodies, and prizes, which was ultimately topped off with the official ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Amber Valley.

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Originally, the idea was to hold a coffee morning on a Saturday where men could come and join me for a brew and a chat for 30-45 minutes.

Unfortunately, there weren’t any cafes open for me to do this, so at the end of January 2022, I went down to route of creating a private Facebook group for men so they can have a safe and secure platform to open up about their mental health and life struggles with other like-minded men.

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The main reason of the group was to help men face to face and, on April 28th, we hosted our first men’s peer support group at the Church Hall in South Normanton. Our meetings are held every Thursday at 7:30pm, are free to attend and refreshments are provided.

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Joke Time!

I like a joke as much as the next person but I have real difficulty telling them! Either I forget the punchline, miss a vital something, or…as my other half repeatedly says, I meander all over the place and end up telling a “mini-story” instead of a quick joke!

But where do jokes come from?

I thought I’d do some digging to see if I could find a plausible origin story.

Turns out there isn’t one – what a surprise.

If you think about it though, jokes must have always been around in both a physical, slapstick, falling over AND in the verbal, play on words sense. I say this because I bet humans have always needed to laugh at each other – it seems to be a default, we laugh at ourselves, and we laugh at others, don’t we?

When it comes to looking at recorded jokes, Wikipedia shares the following with us: The oldest identified joke is an ancient Sumerian proverb from 1900 BC containing toilet humour: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.” Its records were dated to the Old Babylonian period, and the joke may go as far back as 2300 BC. The second oldest joke found on the Westcar Papyrus and believed to be about Sneferu was from Ancient Egypt circa 1600 BC: “How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish.”

Isn’t it nice to know that toilet humour and sex were the subjects of “jokes” dating back thousands of years? Some things never change.

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My “research” then moved to look for the world’s funniest joke, and I discovered that good old Reader’s Digest has an article called… The 100 Funniest Jokes from the Last 100 Years.

Here are a few I picked out.

Why don’t pirates take a shower before they walk the plank?

They just wash up on shore.

Two Hollywood stars ran into each other at the door of their psychiatrist’s office.

“Hello, there,” said one. “Are you coming or going?”

“If I knew that,” said the other, “I wouldn’t be here.”

“My son had to give up his career because of fallen arches.”

“He’s an athlete?”

“No—an architect.”

These give you an indication of the quality (or not) of the remaining 97 puns. Personally, I think the Ancient Egyptian one is funnier, but then again, I’m not a joke connoisseur! Perhaps Reader’s Digest should be advised to steer clear of the humour business.

I’ll finish by asking you, the readers if you have a favourite joke? I’m not sure I do, and yet I came across this one whilst writing this article, and it did make me laugh… simplicity and a play on words. “ I went to the zoo the other day, there was only one dog in it, it was a shitzu.”

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“In that same lesson I pointed out the North & South Poles explaining how uncomfortable it would be for us from Derbyshire, living at either extreme. At this, Kevin asked ‘Miss. How do polar bears keep warm? Is it to do with the penguins?’”

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“I’m not sure how we got round to it, but during the time of Bill Clinton’s presidency of the USA, I mentioned that to Americans, his wife, Hillary, was known as First Lady. This totally confused Monica who asked, ‘Please Miss, wasn’t Eve the first lady?’”

“I asked the class one day, what they would do to make the world a better place for everyone. There were a number of sensible suggestions, but the one that sticks in my memory came from Paul who said, ‘I’d like a McDonald’s on my street’” We finished that particular lesson by doing some writing. Perhaps, influenced by his pal’s request for a McDonald’s, one boy began writing furiously but stopped to ask, ‘Please Miss, how do you spell KFC?’” “One day, it must have been about thirty years ago, we were discussing mathematical symbols for addition, division, subtraction etc., and I asked the class if they knew the difference between < & >. Sean put his hand up and said ‘Is the one on the right for fast forward and the one on the left for rewind?’”

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In Praise of the Peak’s Starlings It is always a worry when a one-time commonplace bird suddenly drops in numbers and appears to be on a long-term downward slide.

This was indeed how things seemed for the starling which was once one of our most familiar birds but for some time appeared to be joining a long list of formerly ‘common or garden’ birds but which was becoming fewer and fewer in number each year. Various theories were put forwards as to the cause of the decline, but it seemed that factors like, the drying up of wetland habitats in upland moors and bogs for example, were a problem. In summer, in places like the Peak District, post-breeding flocks of starlings gather with local birds boosted by immigrants from the continent until, by the autumn into mid-winter, they grow into the now famous ‘murmurations’. These are such as at Stony Middleton where over a million birds may flock together in the late afternoon to roost overnight. However, in the mid to late summer they will have moved onto upland pastures, moors, and bogs where they habitually gorge on the vast numbers of emerging craneflies (daddy-long-legs) whose leather-jacket larvae thrive in damp turf. Longterm drying of the moors has meant fewer craneflies and hence it seemed, less starlings. I wonder if rewetting the great peat-bogs is now helping the starling to recover.

a simple pale buff. These are highly gregarious birds with a good level of intelligence and complex behaviours. They are excellent mimics and often make calls and snippets of songs pinched from other species that they have been mixing with. Indeed, you can tell where your birds have come from by their calls. I have heard very passable renditions of for instance green woodpecker, curlew, golden plover, redshank, and lapwing. For the latter species, I assume the starlings had been feeding on a wetland or coastal area.

These beautiful birds are deeply embedded in our culture. In Russia for example, the return of the starlings in spring is awaited much as we anticipate the swallow, swift, and house martin. As often the case with such distinct and interesting birds, local people have developed numerous common ‘folk’ names for the starling over the centuries. As documented by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey in their seminal ‘Birds Britannica’, these names vary from Starnel in the English Midlands, to Shepster, Sheppy, Shebster, Shep, Stinker, Shitlegs (Northern England of course), Scootie, Stirling, Stirlin, and Stirleen. Anyway, whatever we choose to call them it is wonderful to have them back again.

Now, whatever the reason, it does seem that there is a recovery happening. Where I live for instance, the starlings are nesting in my neighbour’s roof where a ridge-tile has slipped. The numbers visiting my bird feeders have risen dramatically, and the starlings also love to bathe in the pond or the birdbath. They really cannot resist an offering of dried mealworms, and at times, I have up to twenty or so birds now mixing adults, with their typically splendid plumage of myriad colours, and the youngsters which are

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