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From the Editor Howdi Readers, So, one of the fun things we get to do with the magazines and have done for a while is find out about the many National Days that we have in place.

This month, Laura has written about ‘British Pudding Day’ which fits in beautifully with the return of Noel, Prue, Blue Eyes Hollywood and now Hammond (Alison, not the Hamster for Top Gear!). I have to say, I’m fairly late to the ‘GBBO’ party, having only started watching it when it moved to Channel 4 but nothing symbolises winter better than ice-cream week during the summer heat wave (remember those heat waves and how we craved the cooler weather #carefulwhatyouwishfor!). I do wonder whether I’m drawn to that programme in particular because I have a bit of a sweet-tooth? It’s fair to say, I do lose interest a bit on bread week!

Anyways, I think everyone has their ‘go to’ winter TV programme don’t they? Whether it is ‘Dancing on Ice’, ‘Strictly’ or one of the talent shows but for me – Tuesday night is my guilty pleasure, vicariously eating all those wonderful, delicious calories through the screen!!

Whilst we’re talking about the swift move to winter, seeing as Autumn has been bypassed this year! And we’re into the year of the floods already. Some of our team have been hit and our heartfelt commiserations go out to everyone who has been affected.

Meanwhile, the man in the red suit is donning his boots as I type! It’s clearly Christmas!!! Well, not quite but it feels like it at Voice HQ as we have already been busily working on our Christmas editions for the last month or so. So, for us Christmas is already old (Santa’s) hat, but for the rest of you it’s last chance if you want to get something in the magazine in time for Christmas.

So if you have a fair, fayre, fete, festival, feast, fiesta, messages of good will to your customers or just a plain old party don’t forget to let us know.

Finally, for all those wondering, my much-feted finger is (I know it was the reason you picked up the magazine this month!), the good news is it’s just about healed (as much as it’s going to be!).

So, I’m back, terrorising the pitches and courts of Hockey and Netball with renewed vigour!

Well, at least for the first few games before my old bod gets a bit tired and achy and the deep heat/tiger balm and ibuprofen/ paracetamol/glucosamine ritual begins again – it’s not much fun getting older is it? But like my dad says “it’s better than the alternative”!!!

Have a good month, Happy Reading

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BRITISH PUDDING DAY 9TH NOVEMBER I didn’t know there was a day set aside in celebration of the British pudding…so naturally I had to investigate.

I also didn’t know about “National Roast Dinner Day” on November 4th – what have I been doing to not be aware of special days set aside to celebrate two things I enjoy immensely? And, as a note to whoever sets the dates for these days, why didn’t you have Roast Dinner day and Pudding day at the same time? I mean, who wants to wait four days for pudding after the roast beef and yorkies?

Shall we have a brief look at the loveliness that is the British pudding?

Top of my list has to be sticky toffee pudding. Who can resist the sweet, sticky unctuousness of a traditional STP? There has to be lashings of toffee sauce – thick and gooey, never runny – and a wellplaced scoop of vanilla ice cream, which melts and blends with the fudgy deliciousness.

Steamed treacle sponge is another favourite. I like to add a tiny bit of lemon zest to my steamed sponge – trust me, it adds a bit of “je ne sais quoi”.

Smother your portion with custard – not crème anglaise – good old-fashioned custard (made with powder from a tin), and dive in. Heaven.

Veering off piste to cold puds, there are Sherry Trifles and Eton Messes to be consumed. I mean, what’s not to like about lashings of whipped cream accompanying fruit (and booze)?

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How about a good old-fashioned crumble? Apple, apple and blackberry, or my favourite, rhubarb.

One of the quickest and easiest puddings to make, the biggest decision is what to serve with it, pouring cream, ice cream, or custard. Such a hard life!

Delving into the realm of “nursery room puds”, aka as still served to Jacob Rees Mogg by his nanny (probably)! We have spotted dick, jam roly poly, and Eve’s pudding. I accepted I was working class when I realised jam roly poly did not mean a slice from a shop bought jam roll cake covered in Bird’s custard. Delicious certainly, but not as served to Little Lord Fauntleroy’s around the land!

I suppose rice pudding falls into the category of nursery room food but, done properly, it can be a thing of joy. Forget the stuff that comes in cans (nice though that is) and make your own. Easy peasy, especially in a slow cooker – add the ingredients, stir and leave it alone. Beloved of school dinner cooks, who can forget tapioca (frogspawn) and semolina? Now, oddly, I used to really enjoy tinned semolina; I think because it tasted of evaporated milk. The stuff served at school though…urgh…it was often so thick you could slice it!

If I’ve overlooked some of your personal favourites, I apologise, but I hope I’ve given you the excuse to get cooking up some puds!

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Heritage of Bakewell NOVEMBER 2023

REMEMBRANCE DAY barbed wire, became known as ‘noman’s-land’.

Life in the trenches was horrendous with rats running freely, nibbling at toes, fingers and noses. Makeshift toilets overflowed and mingled with water that gathered in the bottom of the trenches. Men’s feet rotted as they stood. During winter, the cold was terrible to bear, in summer the constant stench of dead bodies, lice and swarms of flies made life unbearable.

On the 4th of August 1914 Britain declared war against Germany because Germany had invaded Belgium and refused to withdraw.

Britain began the First World War without a mass conscripted army.

Lord Kitchener (already a British Army officer) was appointed Secretary of State for War. His challenge was to organise the largest volunteer army Britain had ever seen, and he did it.

The image of his poster, encouraging recruits to sign up, became a familiar sight. He asked the men of Britain to, ‘Fight for King and Country.’ In a wave of patriotism, thousands volunteered and after only eight weeks almost three-quarters of a million men had joined up. Friends, relatives and workmates encouraged each other to enlist so they could serve together. They became known as the Pals battalions. Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross, running temporary hospitals in the UK, helping refugees and driving ambulances in France.

The government, the general public and ‘our brave lads’ who volunteered to go to the front to fight, were all convinced the war would be over by Christmas. Sadly, it wasn’t to be.

By the winter of 1915 both British and German soldiers dug long ditches called trenches to live in. The land between, which was littered with

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Battles raged, each side shooting at the other. Taking turns on the ‘front line’ would have been terrifying for soldiers, some barely old enough to enlist. Sometimes men were ordered to ‘go over the top’. That meant leaving the ‘safety’ of the trenches to fight the enemy in an effort to gain ground.

After each battle no-man’s-land would be littered with fatalities, soldiers had to look at friends and comrades lying dead where they had fallen.

By the end of the war the trenches, known as the Western Front, stretched from the Belgium coast to Switzerland. Over five million British soldiers spent time in the trenches.

In 1918 an armistice was signed by all the parties involved, agreeing a time to cease fighting. At the 11th hour, of the 11th day, in the 11th month of 1918, the war finally ended.

By that time over 18 million people had been killed worldwide.

Remembrance Day was first observed at 11am on the 11th of November 1919 and was originally called Armistice Day. At 11am a two-minute silence is held for us to remember those who died. Known as the Great War, people believed WW1 would be the ‘war to end all wars.’ Sadly, only 21 years later war broke out again.

In 1939, when Hitler’s German troops invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany and WW2 began.

This war lasted 6 years with an estimated 64 million people being killed during the conflict. That would be almost the entire population of the United Kingdom.

Scores of poppies bloomed across the former battlefields of France and Belgium and a poppy soon became the most recognisable symbol of Remembrance Day. In May 1922, the British Legion donated £2,000 to provide employment for veterans who had been injured during the war. A factory was set up to produce the paper poppies we buy today, it was and still is, a great success.

The poppies are intended to signify remembrance of those who died and a desire for a peaceful future.

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A strong memory I have from my childhood is sticking the green shield stamps we obtained from our shopping into the little orange books provided. 40 stamps on each page. I remember the gum getting on my fingers and face.

But then there was the excitement of choosing which item to send away for. In our house, it was usually glass tumblers or cutlery. However, if you had a spare 81 and a half books, a twin tub washing machine could be yours!

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After a period when customers were allowed to use a mixture of cash and stamps to purchase catalogue goods, the company eventually became Argos stores in 1973 and cash only was required.

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NATURE NOTES FROM THE PEAK DISTRICT

OWLS ACROSS THE PEAK I think the most exciting of our owls is the ghostly barn owl or ‘screech owl’ so named because of how they hiss, yap, and snore. In summer they will often hunt well before nightfall along riversides, field edges and the like. Once almost extinct in the Peak this species has recovered thanks to conservation action by wildlife groups and importantly by individuals too. Nationally we now have around 5,000 breeding pairs and up to 25,000 birds overwintering. I know quite a few people who have put barn owl boxes in old trees, in large out-buildings, and even in their garages. Since the 1990s, these actions have been hugely successful in bringing this bird back from the brink and it is now doing really well.

In Derbyshire alone, there are now over 150 breeding pairs of these gorgeous birds. It really is marvellous to once again have the almost spectral apparition of nearwhite barn owls gracing farmland, moorland edge, and around our Peak District villages.

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Our most familiar and common owl is the tawny which is seen wherever there are trees such as in parks, gardens, woods etc. They also hunt over the Peak District moorlands where they scour the evening landscape for small mammals. In car headlights they can appear very pale and may cause confusion with barn owls but they are much larger. In fact there are five main species of owls which you might see or hear across the Peak District. These are the familiar little owl, tawny owl, and barn owl, and the less obvious short-eared owls and long-eared owls. These latter two are more localised as breeding birds and also as winter visitors. Their numbers fluctuate dramatically from year to year because they follow peaks and

troughs in small mammal populations. Short-tailed voles are one of their main prey items and have ‘boom – bust’ populations with large numbers crashing to very few and when this happens, the owls move out to pastures new.

Of the more noticeable species, the little owl is an exotic (or non-native) bird and long-known to countrymen as the ‘Frenchie’; introduced to England from France in the early 1900s. You can look out for them on telegraph poles, near tumble-down buildings, and around rocky areas on the moorland edge.

However, being tiny, they are easy to miss. The first time I saw one was on the Peak’s moorland fringe west of Sheffield near Bradfield. I spotted this whilst chatting to an elderly ‘countryman’ (complete with deerstalker hat). He was the one that introduced me to the name ‘Frenchie’. Little owls are busy little birds which, feeding on large insects, small mammals, and the like are ever active. Introduced in the late 1800s by ‘acclimatization societies’ of enthusiasts for releasing exotic species into the countryside ‘Frenchies’ were not always popular with farmers and landowners. They worried about possible impacts on baby game-birds.

However, in the 1930s, there was a national enquiry established by gamekeepers, the shooting fraternity, and ornithologists. This showed the owls to be innocent of the charges and today we just enjoy them as a delightful addition to local avifauna. There is one other species I have heard of in the Peak and this was undoubtedly an escapee from a collection and which was reported to me by a local farmer, an eagle owl.

Sadly this flew into an overhead cable and ended its time in a local taxidermist’s!

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Have your salvias flourished in that slightly shaded corner of the garden, has the abundant rain proved too much for your salad leaves which have been continually eaten by slugs? How can you work out a way to stop that happening again?

Keeping a diary of these thoughts can be invaluable next season so you can adjust your plans. You might imagine you’ll remember the changes you want to make; but an aide memoire doesn’t harm.

If you haven’t used all your spring bulbs, or maybe haven’t got round to starting to plant them with the amount of rain and then warm weather we’ve been having, don’t despair. Most bulbs will survive fine so long as you get them in before the ground is really frosted. And if you have any spares you can always make a container bulb lasagne – (garden not oven!) and to be honest the more variety you can get into the container the better as they’ll probably flower at different times and you get a constant show of colour.

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