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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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THE DRIVE(WAY) TO SUCCESS!

After 5 years of continued growth Next Generation Home Improvements based on Butterley Hill in Ripley, have now established themselves as the leading installers of resin driveways & patios in The Midlands. They now have over 50 members in their team from the local area, ranging from resin layers, ground workers, surveyors, administrators, customer care staff and sales & marketing operatives, and have just taken on 4 local trainees who are quickly learning their trade.

To ensure their success continues they have invested in an upgraded operations unit in Sutton in Ashfield and as well as a redesigned display unit on the reception of their head office at Butterley Hill, where prospective customers are welcome to go and view different styles of resin driveways & composite fencing available to them.

They firmly believe that their success has been due to the quality of their workmanship. Director Lee Goddard points out “We only use our own highly skilled tradesmen to lay each driveway by hand to make sure we get the perfect finish. On top of this, we will only use the highest quality of materials, meaning that our customers will be left

with a glorious driveway or patio that they can be proud of”.

Asked why he believes that the company is going from strength to strength, Sales Manager Bradley Stocks explained “Resin driveways are now the fastest growing home improvement in the UK and are getting more & more popular all the time. This is because how attractive they look, the fact they are non slip, and mainly because they require no ongoing maintenance like traditional surfaces.

We get a lot of our work from word of mouth & recommendations so because we make sure our customers are happy, we get more work on the back of it. We also now offer composite fencing which is also incredibly popular due to it not needing to be painted or stained”.

Anybody wishing for any help, advice or information is welcomed to call into see their display at 25 Butterley Hill, Ripley or alternatively call on 01773 303181. They are also offer free, no obligation quotations.

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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)?

OK, that’s enough of fridge puddings, it is November after all. What else is there in the lexicon of British puddings?

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!

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

Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

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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!

The stamps were introduced into the UK in 1958 from America and were given to shoppers by retailers who participated in the scheme to encourage shoppers to spend money in their filling station, supermarket, or corner shop. The first loyalty scheme in this country had been the Co-op Dividend. Can you remember your or your mum’s divvi number?

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Larger stamps were also introduced, for example a stamp worth 40 small stamps.

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.

I came across a woman during one of our reminiscence sessions who told me that she still uses a casserole dish her mother bought using stamps. Do you have any green shield memories or items you still use from its catalogue?

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Pinxton & South Normanton: History Group NOVEMBER 2023

PINXTON PARISH CHURCH Searching through my records for a suitable topic on which to base this month’s contribution, I came across a newspaper article from the 1960’s headed ‘Restoration Work Reveals Ancient Wall’.

It was a reminder I had never previously commented on Pinxton Parish Church, despite its antiquity and importance. I decided this should be rectified.

Most Parish Churches, like Pinxton, sit proudly on the highest point in the village. However, unlike most, Pinxton Church was originally isolated from the centre of occupancy in the village, being the best part of a mile from the original site of the 1002 AD ‘Snodeswic’, as Pinxton was then called.

No-one would profess Pinxton Church to be the prettiest church in the land, but its origins date back further than most other churches. Confirmation of this was uncovered in the early 1960’s when restoration work was initiated by the then Reverend Gwyther. Ancient stone walls were uncovered, which the experts that were called in, dated the stonework to at least 1150 AD. This was prior to the recorded date of the first incumbent of 1196.

It is probably not a co-incidence, that date of 1150 is also synonymous with the capstone discovered in the 1950’s from the site of the former Pinxton Castle.

The Church was originally constructed on land which formed part of a stronghouse, occupied by the Norman Lord of the Manor, one Drago (or Drago) Fitz Ponce. This was the man who’s name the village was named after, Ponce’s tun or Ponkeston, which eventually evolved into the name we know today.

In the 1920’s plans were submitted to build a new Church on the same site,

by Reverend Sydney Coke. While this project failed for lack of committed financial support, plans of this new church have recently surfaced and will be retained in the Church archives for posterity.

While the Church cannot be regarded as picturesque, there can be few parish churches which can boast archaeological evidence from this early date. The Church tower was built on the wall of the former ‘safe’ house of the Norman Lord.

Sketch of the Church drawn in 1795

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• Creatures that lay eggs do not have belly buttons.

• The average driver will spend six months of his/ her life waiting for traffic lights to change from red to green.

• Babies do not have kneecaps.

• William Shakespeare was the first to use Jessica as a girl’s name. NB – we had an attractive girl called Jessica McIntosh in our class and this probably helped us to remember.

• It is only when a person reaches 106 years of age that the chances of them reaching their next birthday become less than 50/50. I can sense your disbelief, but just take some time to think that through.

• Schoolmaster is an anagram of ‘The Classroom’.

There would have been many more, but with my wife (that’s Mrs Musings to you) shouting “Your tea is ready!” this nostalgic conversation had to end.

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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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