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A Historical Journey of Love Valentine’s Day is a day dedicated to love and affection. While modern celebrations often involve flowers, chocolates, and romantic gestures, the history of Valentine’s Day is a fascinating journey that spans centuries and intertwines with various cultures.

The roots of Valentine’s Day can be traced back to ancient Rome, where mid-February marked the celebration of Lupercalia. This pagan festival was dedicated to fertility and the coming of spring. During the festivities, young men would draw names of women from a jar and become their companions for the duration of the festival.

These matches sometimes led to marriages, and the celebration became known for its romantic associations.

The true origin of Valentine’s Day, however, is believed to be associated with the Christian martyr St. Valentine.

The Catholic Church recognises several saints named Valentine or Valentinus, but the most commonly referred to is a priest who lived during the third century in Rome.

The story goes that Emperor Claudius II outlawed marriage for young men, believing that single men made better soldiers.

St. Valentine, sympathetic to the plight of young lovers, defied the emperor’s decree and continued to perform marriages in secret. Eventually, St. Valentine was discovered, imprisoned, and executed on February 14th, around the year 269 AD. Various legends surround St. Valentine, further adding to the mystery of his life. One popular tale suggests that, while in prison, Valentine sent a love note to the jailer’s daughter, with whom he had developed a close bond. The note was signed “from your Valentine,” a phrase that would later become synonymous with expressions of love on Valentine’s Day.

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Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, began to evolve during the Middle Ages. Chaucer, the English poet, is credited with associating the Day with romantic love in his work “Parliament of Fowls.” By the 17th century, exchanging handwritten notes and small tokens of affection became a common practice among friends and lovers on Valentine’s Day. In the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution paved the way for mass-produced Valentine’s Day cards. Esther A. Howland, known as the “Mother of the American Valentine,” began producing elaborate handmade cards adorned with lace, ribbons, and colourful illustrations.

These cards became immensely popular, and the commercialisation of Valentine’s Day was well underway.

Over time, Valentine’s Day spread beyond European borders and became a global celebration of love. Today, people around the world exchange cards, flowers, and gifts to express their affection for loved ones. The Day is not limited to romantic love; it also celebrates friendship and familial bonds.

Valentine’s Day, with its roots in ancient customs, Christian martyrdom, and literary influences, has transformed into a day dedicated to expressing love and affection. Whether through handwritten notes, elaborate cards, or thoughtful gestures, the celebration of Valentine’s Day continues to evolve, reminding us of the enduring power of love throughout history.

I however, believe we should demonstrate our love for someone EVERY Day – and not just February 14th – how about you?

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A WORTHY CONDUCTOR to train at the Royal Academy of Music. She later won a principal prize for singing (1953) and went on to sing at the Covent Garden Opera House, among others.

Sam Paling was a worthy conductor, inspiring many. Sam was organist and conductor of the Congregational Church in Sutton for 30yrs and was a founder member of the committee which inaugurated the Harmonic Choir in 1910.

In 1945 he helped form The Sutton Musical Society.

The Sutton Eastbourne Educational Institute Choir, also known as the Sutton Educational Institute Choir, was formed at the same time. The latter was often found playing at Sutton Baths Hall. It was set up with an executive committee consisting of John Purseglove, secretary; Walter Gray, treasurer; Alan Gregson A.T.C.L., Accompanist; Harold Dove and Sam Paling, Chairman and Conductor. These four made the decisions of what the choir would be doing and the well-known singers to invite to the various performances.

They did roughly fifteen performances per year.

the area, so they were available to sing with the choir should they be needed. All the members paid subs which went towards the expenses for the choir and meant that they never owed anything to the council who sponsored them, therefore, easily “paying their own way”.

Famous locals took some of the principal parts, especially when the choir sang the Messiah. Iris Bourne, a local soprano who was born at Skegby. Her father being Gershom Caunt, she was his youngest daughter. He was a well-known tenor, so she was bought up with music.

Following her demobilisation from the A.T.S. in 1946, while being taught by Fred Garnett, she won a scholarship

The Orchestra had people brought together from Notts and Derbys.

Alfred Fletcher, violinist and head of the orchestra, lived in Mansfield. He was a member of the Theatre Royal Orchestra and previously played for the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra.

Leonard Abbott, a local trumpet player was said to be responsible for the brass section of the orchestra during the Messiah. Clarinet, flute, oboe and bassoons were also involved in performances. The percussionist was Harold Jennings of Mansfield.

Some other famous singers who sang with the choir were Margaret Duckworth ARCM, a contralto lived further afield in Swinton Yorks.

John Kentish a tenor, who was previously with the Sadlers Wells Opera Company. Scott Joynt, a bass singer who had previously been at St Pauls Cathedral, and who came from Cheshire.

Tragically, Sam died while he was on the rostrum conducting the choir at the Baths Hall. He collapsed at the end of the first half of Mendelson’s Elijah in October 1957 at the age of 77.

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This month we revisit a walk that is a regular outing for us. It has all the ingredients of a good walk. We start off at a free car park and go straight onto the Stockley Trail, before diverting around the lovely Carr Vale Nature Reserve. Then, after re-joining the trail, we head off across country, providing us with pleasant views of Bolsover Castle, before finally re-joining the trail to bring us back to the start.

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Although it is mostly on trails and paths there may be some uneven and muddy terrain, depending on the weather so please wear appropriate footwear. As always, follow the countryside code, keeping dogs on leads where appropriate. There is one brief section of road, so please take plenty of care.

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6. Now continue straight ahead with a large pond over to your right. Continue to pass by a footpath with a width restrictor on your left and for quite some distance, leaving the large pond behind, keeping some trees on your left and open views to your right.

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8. Continue along the trail until reaching a signposted crossroads of footpaths. Turn left to pass through a gap into a field and continue along a signposted path to ‘Carr Vale’. At the far side cross straight over the road to continue along a signposted bridleway.

9. Continue gently uphill with a hedge on both sides. At the top of the hill when the hedge on the right comes to an end continue ahead and after a short distance pass a small bridge on your right and follow the path around to the left .

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If we look back a year, regular readers of this magazine may remember I wrote an article in the January 2023 issue about the year of the Water Rabbit, which ends on February 9th. I was born in another Water Rabbit year, and in the piece, I wrote about a prediction I had read based on my Chinese sign, “You are predicted many challenges with frequent life changes. You’re advised to be more careful about all aspects of your lives in 2023.”

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This February, we are doubly blessed: Chinese New Year and a leap year to boot! That’s right; this month has 29 days – it’s the four-yearly let’s stick another 24 hours into the year to make our Gregorian calendar work. The Chinese are onto something following the lunar cycles!

Leap years are not generally something I notice; I mean, what’s one more day in the bleakest of months? Now, if the extra day was in May, June, or July, it would be more appreciated…wouldn’t it?

However, this year will be the first time since 2020 (the last leap year) that I will be able to correctly mark the anniversary of the death of my dad. Being an awkward and somewhat belligerent Yorkshire bloke, he decided to shuffle off this mortal coil on February 29th, 2020! This year, I will raise a glass of his favourite red wine, remember the good times he and I shared and tell him another great-grandchild is on his or her way.

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BLACKBIRDS ARRIVE IN ABUNDANCE For some months now, flocks of winter-visiting thrushes have been pouring across the peak and North Derbyshire on migration from northern Europe to the warmer climes of southwest England. Many of these flocks are made up of two species I regard as the ‘Vikings’ of our bird world, the Fieldfares and Redwings, also known as the ‘winter thrushes’. These flocks of from tens to hundreds of birds at a time fly through but also pause for a while to feast on the berries of hawthorns, hollies, and rowans. However, often not noticed as migrant birds are the hundreds of Blackbirds, one of our common resident species of thrush. Yet there are large numbers of European Blackbirds arriving from autumn onwards. These drop down into parks, woods, and gardens across the region, and unlike our territorial resident birds are happy to flock up into small groups. The British residents are generally aggressive towards any incomers to their patch. What’s more, the local birds breed early and specially so if there is a mild winter, and so they really take a dim view of any incursions to their territory.

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If you planted bulbs such as narcissus or hyacinth indoors for Xmas time flowering, you can give them a new lease of life by re-planting them outside in the garden where they will flower next spring.

Remove the old flower heads, but don’t cut back leaves. They will appreciate a potash feed once replanted. Plant the hyacinths in gritty soil, narcissus will take ordinary soil.

It’s not really worth sowing hardy flower seeds yet as the low levels of natural light mean they will grow straggly and weak unless you provide artificial warmth and light. Better to give them another month to get a stronger start.

But you could start rocket and other half-hardy lettuces such as mizuna under cover to give you some spring salad greens. And while you’re in planting mode you can push lily bulbs in now, but as they start to grow watch out for the dreaded red lily beetle which overwinters in soil and leaf mould.

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This is the time for pruning evergreen shrubs, hydrangea, cornus, buddleia and climbing and bush roses. Buddleia will welcome what seems like pretty harsh pruning – right back to two or three feet. Cornus can be taken back to two to three inches. Roses you can take back by a third of their original length to keep the same height. But if it’s very cold leave roses until early March.

Remove dead stems from evergreen grasses to give the new stems room to grow. You can usually pull them out by hand, combing through with your finger and giving a good tug.

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