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Having spent time exploring Guernsey and its smaller Channel Island neighbours a couple of years ago, we decided it was time to have a look at Jersey, the largest island in the group, and its administrative capital.

Despite being part of the British Isles Jersey is semi-independent and as a result has become a centre for offshore banking. St Helier, the island’s main town, is filled with branch offices of all the major banks and finance companies. As a result, domestic property prices are high and parts of the island are quite crowded.

Despite this, there is much to attract holiday makers, especially around the coast, or amongst the farming communities further inland who are

taking advantage of the rich soil and mild climate.

reefs have trapped unwary vessels over the years. As recently as 1995, the ferry St Malo on its way to Sark came too close to the shore below la Corbière Point in mist during an exceptionally low tide and hit rocks near the lighthouse. Fortunately all the passengers and crew were safely rescued, but without the help of the RNLI lifeboat, it could have been a disaster.

All the best beaches are on the west and south coasts, with the stretch between St Helier and St Aubin being the most popular. For the rest, the coast offers an excellent system of well-marked footpaths and cycle routes connecting dramatically rocky headlands and tiny fishing harbours.

Due to exceptional tides, many of these headlands and off-shore

There is an excellent bus service covering the whole island. All buses conveniently start from the main bus station near Liberation Square in the centre of St Helier. Controlled by a timetable which flashes up on easy to follow screens together with the free map issued by the local council, removes all difficulties from route planning.

Gorey and although the field is steep, it is ideal for the purpose of growing Jersey Royals – winter rain cannot lie on the steep slope and, as a result, harvesting is always done from dry soil.

Jersey, like all the rest of the Channel Islands, is far closer to France than mainland Britain, the last piece of medieval France which was originally part of England. As a result and throughout the ages, it has been necessary to fortify the islands against attack from across the narrow stretch of water. This threat although never far away throughout later centuries came mainly during Elizabethan times, that was when Napoleon tried to conquer Europe and unexpectedly during World War 2. Whilst the island now lives at peace with all its neighbours, their predecessors have left with us the story of their turbulent past.

With the advantage of its mild climate, the island’s gardens are a year-round delight. The Botanic Gardens at Samares Manor are the place in order to visit and enjoy the semi-tropical plants blooming there in sheltered spots. Eric Young’s Orchid Foundation outside Oaklands Village a short bus ride to the north of St Helier has a range of exotic blooms competing with all the best for colour and shape.

This is where the famous Jersey Royal early potatoes are grown. The season was over when we visited their home ground at Gorey (pron. Go’ree).

Remembering the growers’ spring advert showing a farmer harvesting new potatoes growing on what seems an impossibly steep slope. This is true, the field is just above the harbour at

Left: One of the many sun drenched marinas around Jersey.

Above: Elizabeth Castle, St Helier, the HQ of Sir Walter Raleigh; who was by the way the High Sheriff of Jersey.

Bottom: A hawker at Gorey Castle.

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it right, a noon-day cannon is fired, driving greedy sea gulls away from the café.

The oldest of the island’s two fortresses, Mont Orgueil Castle has dominated Gorey’s harbour and protected the small town for at least 800 years. One of the finest and wellpreserved medieval castles, it has witnessed all of Jersey’s main events, from the Hundred Year’s War to the German Occupation in WW2. An exciting place to explore with narrow stairs leading to turrets with views of the French coast, or into secret rooms spookily decorated by strange statues and frescos. When we visited, a tame hawk was being put through its paces, flying between two posts fixed about thirty yards apart on a grassy ledge below the main part of the castle.

Martello towers dot the island’s coastline wherever there was the possibility of a landing place. Dating from the early nineteenth century when Napoleon rampaged across Europe as far as the outskirts of Moscow, they can also be found along the south coast of England and are all built to a standard design.

Standing about 40 feet high. Circular in design which is considered strongest against cannon fire, they typically held a garrison of 12-25 soldiers.

The islanders were the only part of Great Britain to be occupied by Germany during the Second World War. Virtually impossible to defend, the islanders were abandoned by Britain when France capitulated in June 1940. Following their invasion

by Germany, it was the start of five

Above: Gorey Castle on Mont Orgevil.

Above right: Corbié Point, scene of many ship wrecks Right: Napoleonic look-out tower.

Bottom: Entrance to the underground military hospital.

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difficult years. Despite them being of no strategic military interest, Adolph Hitler decided that his arch enemy Winston Churchill would be honour bound to try to retake the islands, and so Hitler decided to build a massive defence network. Using cement far better destined for the planned Atlantic Wall from Northern Norway to the Pyrenees and built by slave labour, the coastline of Jersey along with the other major Channel Islands, is ringed with massive concrete gun emplacements. Erected at the cost of many innocent lives, they are so strong that attempts to destroy these embarrassments to visiting German tourists have failed, and as a result they still stand helpless around the coast, waiting for the weather to do what dynamite has failed to do, all that is, apart from one beside the beach above St Aubin’s Bay which is now a café.

There is one feature remaining from the war that has become a popular

visitor attraction. This is the military hospital built in an underground stone quarry, again by slave labour. Despite a great loss of life, it was never finished and just like the gun emplacements was never used for its original purpose.

The Channel Islands was by-passed after the D-Day landings as fighting on the mainland concentrated on allied armies forcing their way to Berlin, their ultimate destination. As a result, the by now starving Jersey was not freed until a couple of days after VE Day and had to be supplied by the Red Cross. The only available allied soldiers ready to fight were a small contingent of commandos who landed on Sark one dark night in order to assess German troop numbers.

What followed was like something out of Dad’s Army. The German garrison was fast asleep, totally unprepared for such a rude awakening and so suffered the indignity of being marched to waiting boats, wearing nothing but their pyjamas.

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ike Norton, about which I wrote last year, Hazelbarrow – part of Norton in my opinion, but according to Historic England belonging to Eckington – is one of those places which were included in the considerable chunk of our county which was appropriated by the City of Sheffield in 1936 to boost rate income.

Hazelbarrow Hall, which Joseph Hunter described as a ‘good old mansion’, was a particularly venerable house, built in the 16th century (probably the 1570s) on an H-plan: that is with a central great hall with

entrance offset to one side, flanked by a pair of crosswings, quite long to the south (entrance front) and ending in coped gables. Of two storeys and attics, the house was constructed of ashlar, partly of

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A battered and ribbed buttress surviving from the hall, c. 1910. [MC]

coursed rubble and with ashlar dressings of coal measures sandstone, and latterly with a slate roof, although undoubtedly built with a rood of stone slates.

At the rear there was a stair tower containing a stone newel staircase, and an entrance there was equipped with a depressed four- centered arch in true 16th century style.

The entrance was not only offset from the centre of the 4 recessed great hall part, but was via an attached and gabled two storey porch facing across the courtyard, rather like one at Whittington Old Hall (now vanished and about which we will write in the future), and also at Barlborough Old Hall, although the latter, housed in a crenelated porch, is now plain. The windows were mullioned and transomed, superimposed eight-light ones gracing the gable ends of the cross-wings with cranked hood moulds, and un-transomed four-light windows to the central section and porch, whilst the attic windows were simple twolight mullioned ones, but still with hood moulds. Ancient panelling

Two elements of the old house as incorporated into the surviving farmhouse.

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apparently survived within, and a bowling alley was listed in a survey of 1635.

The surviving picture (a painting

by Miss Pearson of Norton Vicarage done shortly prior to demolition in 1810, and an ink copy by John Fenney Parkin of Sheffield) makes the house look pretty modest, but as tax was paid on eleven hearths in the 1670 Hearth Tax Assessment, it was in fact, bearing in mind its age, getting on for medium sized for a typical Derbyshire Gabled manor house.

The estate was small but ancient, having originally been held by a family who took their name from the estate, but an heiress transferred it briefly to a Lincolnshire family from whom it was purchased by Robert Selioke before 1313. The Seliokes were a local family, taking their name from Selloak in neighbouring Cold Aston, a locale now remembered in Selloak Spring Wood. Indeed, their coat-of-arms includes three oak leaves proper (i.e. in their natural colour), a herald’s take on their surname. These may be seen on an alabaster grave-slab in the church at Norton, which came to light during G E Street’s alterations in the 1880s.

His descendant in the ninth generation, William son of George Selioke, was the supposed builder of the house, but his son mortgated the estate in 1587 to William Dickenson of Sheffield who, after the foreclosure of which, sold it to Peter Frescheville of Staveley Hall, who let it to a family called Beverley, The heiress of Frescheville’s son 1st Lord Frescheville, disposed of it in 1635 for £2,450 to Anthony Morewood of the Oaks, the neighbouring estate.

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Somehow, it has a habit of continually changing hands: in 1670, the Morewoods sold it to lead merchant John Storey (who paid the hearth tax), from whom it passed on his death only four years later to John Wingfield (1651-1732), a descendant of the Wingfields of Leatheringsett in Norfolk and thus distant cousins of the Irish Viscounts Powerscourt.

A forebear had obtained land in Derbyshire by marriage with a coheiress of Sir Robert Goushill of Barlborough and John’s mother

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was the sister-in-law of Lord Frescheville’s co-heiress, demonstrating that the new owners were very nearly ‘family’ after all!

Wingfieold made various improvements to the house, including the provision of a pair of imposing rusticated gatepiers with large ball finials, the centrepiece of an ornamental timber screen which ran across the front of the house (like the surviving iron one in front of nearby Beauchief Hall) to enclose a cour d’honneur and an ornamental garden. The heiress of John brought the estate to her husband, Robert Newton of Mickleover – and also of Norton House, whom we met when that lost house was being described.

With the death of their son, Robert, unmarried in 1790, the Newtons let the house to the Jenkin family. His heirs included William Cunliffe-Shaw whose daughter Priscilla carried the estate to her husband Wingfield Wildman, whose mother had also been a Wingfield of Hazelbarrow. Wildman’s daughter, Harriet who in 1810 terminated the lease of the tenant Edward Jenkyns and pulled down the old house, this in spite of Robert Newton’s will specifying a legacy of £2,000 ‘to lay out and expend on improvement of the said house and place’. The site, I am told, lies just to the north of the farm, partly covered by tree planting.

Harriet’s heirs continued to own the estate throughout the 19th century, and had developed the closely adjacent home farm, in the rebuilding of which, a mullioned attic window and a Gothic doorcase were incorporated, whilst numerous pieces of walling were retained, along with the imposing gate piers which John Winfield added in the 1680s and which now rather prosaically provide a grand entrance to the stackyard.

The group, including the gatepiers, are now (with the farmhouse) listed grade II by Historic England.

Above left: The hall as sketched, probably from Miss Pearson’s view by J F Parkin. [MC] Above: The Selioke graveslab, 4th century, as revealed by alterations to Norton St. Wilfrid, 1882. [MC]

As regards the present century, the City of Sheffield, once possessed of the parish, proceeded to buy the farmhouse and the remaining estate (by then 250 acres) ‘as part of the green Belt’, which, miraculously, it has remained, with the farm still tenanted and worked.

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The ex-Ilkeston Co-operative building

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Ilkeston

A view from East Street to the Market Place, with a glimpse of Kilford’s loos to the left

by Maxwell Craven

Ilkeston

is a Derbyshire hill town which started as a local market centre and gradually changed into a centre of coal mining and later industry, ranging from iron foundries to fabric mills and lace works.

A nineteenth century map shows it hemmed in from all sides with the Erewash canal, the river and the Midland Railway to the east, the Nutbrook Canal and the Great Northern Railway to the west, with both railway companies adding lines to north and south. Indeed, the Midland built a line right into the town centre at the bottom of Bath Street, where from late Regency times had been built an hotel and pretty Gothic therapeutic baths fed by springs released by mining. That spur is long gone but the re-opening of Ilkeston Junction station (ex-MR) – thanks to local pressure bolstered by lobbying from the MP – recently has begun to reverse the isolation of the town from the rail system.

Yet the chief and most unexpected glory of Ilkeston is in its architecture. Whilst there are hardly any Georgian buildings, the town seems to have been served, at least over the century 1840 to 1940 by local architects of real flair. A wander around the town centre enables one to enjoy the best of these, for losses have been relatively minor, unlike some places one could name. Even the simple houses are pleasingly detailed.

Grade II listed, mildly Italianate Town Hall

The Art-Deco Ritz cinema, South Street

We parked in Market Street, and were impressed by the solid magnificence of the Rutland Mill, 26 bays wide and three storeys high, the original part sporting a pediment, flanked by octagonal knops with iron finials and a swagger entrance, all now apartments (what www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk | 37

Wharncliffe Road, H J Kilford’s jolly Elizabethan Cop-shop.

we used to call flats). Yet we loved the unassuming house next to it because of the iron anchor hanging over the door: clearly a pub sign, we thought and, on investigation it turns out that it was once (as we guessed) The Anchor, the landlord in 1908 being one Arthur Watchorn – could he have been a kinsman of the Alfreton-born US millionaire Robert Watchorn (18591944)?

Starting at the broad and handsome Market Place, one can quickly take the point about the quality of Ilkeston’s architecture. The chief landmark is St. Mary’s parish Church, much of which is a product of a heavy but really quite accomplished re-building of the Medieval church by Naylor & Sale of Derby 1910, only spoilt by the ugly concrete single storey parish rooms added to the right; how anyone could have allowed such an excrescence is beyond comprehension.

Nevertheless, there is a plenitude of compensation.

Opposite is the mildly Italianate Town Hall, built to a familiar formula but with just a little bit of extra proportion, built 1866 by a Nottingham man, R. C. Sutton. Cheek by jowl with which is the former co-op building, Art-Deco, but in a massively plain manner which works really quite well in context. As if those two styles are not enough, the south side of the Market Place is graced by the generously proportioned Edwardian Baroque (1903) Carnegie Library by Col. Maurice Hunter of Belper (the Strutts’ favourite architect) in brick and stone with a monumental entrance flanked by two full height bays, all set off by period ironwork. Indeed, wherever you look you see good quality iron. The side elevation facing South Street (down which proceed) has a row of bull-eye windows terminated by a pair of tall bays reminiscent of Rennie Mackintosh.

In fact, the side of the library makes an excellent transition via the Neo-Georgian (1922) former Post Office (by H. T. Rees, now a bar) to the truly monumental former Ritz Cinema (now Beacon bingo)

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The amazing 1913 Scala Cinema, Pimlico; there are few earlier surviving.

side beyond the cinema, dated on the gable 1784 and still, miraculously, in use. The cast iron windows look amazingly industrial. Actually, Queen Street yields yet another chapel, the Baptists’ this time. At first glance it looks almost late Roman with its tall severe brick curving end, like an apse, with equally tall windows in blind arcading. That the entrance portico is squeezed in on the end of this impressive end of the chapel suggests that the architect in 1858 (William Booker of Nottingham) rather threw away the chance to do something rather more spectacular!

Having enjoyed the chapel, we swung right again to Albert Street, but not before we had been really impressed by Queen’s Drive, a delightful street running straight as a die downhill, flanked by mature trees and with uniform, really well-designed houses, set back on either side; a really very agreeable piece of town planning.

Albert Street takes one to Wharncliffe Road, but on the east side we spied a modern phenomenon – a multi-storey car park – but one done really well, in the general style of a gabled mill with cast iron grilles inserted in the openings like mill windows. Why most places have to have brutalist concrete lumps for MSCPs instead of building something with a bit of refinement like this, which sits perfectly harmoniously in the streetscape, was beyond us. Nor did it detract from the really rather large United Reformed (formerly Congregationalist) Chapel, in brick by Ilkeston’s best architect, Henry Tatham Sudbury, which boasts fine window tracery (for 1905), a powerful tower and a copper spire.

I imagine the entirely un-local (Yorkshire) Earl of Wharncliffe must have owned a coal mine at Ilkeston in order to have a road named after him, but be that as it may, for domestic architecture the thoroughfare is a showpiece. At the top, cheek by jowl with the Coop, is the restrained but impressive Jacobean revival former Police Station (now offices) by H. J. Kilford of 1906; a stone ball at every angle! But, as the road runs downhill and curves gently to the right, we spotted a number of really fine villas, like no. 50 (almost Parker and Unwin in style for its date), the Red House by Tatham Sudbury of 1899, whose semis opposite are really very refined. We spotted houses we liked most of the way down until we reached a junction where the south end of the street called Pimlico joined; I imagine

Albert St., the best multistorey car park you’ll see in a long time.

One of the many fine villas on Wharncliffe Road

Erewash Museum and its spectacular cast iron urn by Handyside.

Market Place, Col. Hunter’s impressive Carnegie Library 1903.

Ilkestonian readers will know why it bears the name of the London district close to Victoria, but regrettably we didn’t!

Returning uphill on Pimlico, past the brand new college (replacing the Magistrates’ Courts) we encountered a gem, which I’d seen before – but Carole hadn’t: the Scala cinema, very early, dating from 1913 (listed II*), builder known, but not the architect. It is the epitome of bijou, with Edwardian Baroque detailing around its exuberant recessed porch, and the astonishing survival of a queuing shed on the right hand side; I bet there aren’t many queuers these days!

Rather than return to the Market Place, we went down Burns Street, alongside the Scala, where we noticed a small chapel directly behind it with splendidly Venetian windows, side and front, but done in muscular Norman revival by architect G. C Gilbert in 1849; a plethora of Sky aerials told us it had long been secularised! Yet this delightful street was lined with pleasant later Victorian houses, all those on the opposite side being embellished with a riot of iron brattishing which had survived WW2, mainly on the canted bays, and at the bottom, a really quite large semi-detached pair of villas with an extraordinary brick attic vying with the chimney stacks on the roof, once each with a separate coach house, but now all empty.

From Burns Street we took a ginnel which ran across the Mount Street car park (from which we had a terrific view north across the town towards Cotmanhay, including another Mill (Baileys). Mount Street took us into Bath Street, which once led down to the site of the former baths and which is Ilkeston’s main shopping street – whilst retail yet lives. It is pedestrianised and, looking up the steep rise back to East Street, one can barely imagine the 3ft 6in gauge tramcars teetering precipitously down!

We turned right to re-ascend and, crossing East Street, made for the Erewash Museum in Dalby House with its pleasant terraced gardens. This is another rare Georgian Survival, built for Derby corn miller Francis Agard shortly after 1778. It is of unconventional design for its date, being essentially only one room deep with pattern book fenestration and the entrance fiddled into a stubby wing to the rear. In front of it, the most elaborate Andrew Handyside cast iron urn known to mankind; inside, many engaging treasures: not to be missed.

To round off our tour we visited the fine church of St. Mary, reaching it by passing the public loos, wonderfully designed almost as a pod against the churchyard wall but in Arts-and-Crafts style with a ramped parapet, by Borough architect H. J. Kilford of Police Station fame, and all fronted with a splendid cast iron railing. Regrettably, we were unable to take the opportunity to comment on the interior.

The main west door of the church has wonderful wrought iron strapwork, almost certainly the work of Derby’s Edwin Haslam. The interior is spacious, with quite a bit of surviving medieval fabric but the restoration was over-done really and the building lacks the atmosphere one might have expected. We thus wound our way back to Market Street, stopping just down from where we parked our car, for (mainly liquid) refreshment, to restore ourselves, for our tour had been undertaken on a punishingly cold day!

Well, that’s our story, anyway. But, restorative or not, Ilkeston is very well worth a wander, for it is a very under-rated town. Further out, too, there are other treasures: two churches by Percy Currey of Derby (St. Barts., Hallam Fields and St. John’s, Nottingham Road) part-timber framed Little Hallam Old Hall and G H Widdows’s terrific grade II* listed Grammar School on King George V Avenue, to mention but a few.

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Gardening in April

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fter a few miserable months so far in terms of weather, April usually turns warmer and is one of my favourite months of the year for gardening. You start to see a lot more signs of Spring with early flowering plants, trees and bulbs.

This month also sees the start of “Grow Your Own” season, again with many new varieties of vegetables. With only having a very small back garden now I’m going to start doing a lot more veg growing in containers – look out for newer vegetable varieties that allow you to do this.

To spray less insecticide a good tip is to start companion planting, I used Blackpepper Mint and Basil to keep away greenfly and whitefly. Another tip, is to use White Alyssum (the summer bedding plant) planted in containers near plants or vegetables, thrips are attracted to the Aylssum and not your plants or veg.

Once the Alyssum is swamped with thrips simply dispose of them in the green waste wheelie bin.

Look out for the N.G.S Open Garden booklets The reason I love the open garden scheme is because these are “real” gardens that easily relate to our own gardens. Pick up a yellow booklet for dates and locations from any good Plant Nursery or Garden Centre and also look out for the yellow posters – the open gardens are a great source of inspiration.

Allotment or Vegetable Patch: • Still a good time to sow Green Manure • Buy vegetable plug plants (approx Easter weekend onwards) • Fertilise spring cabbage with a high nitrogen feed • Plant new Asparagus “crowns” • Potatoes, Shallots and Onion sets should still be available to buy • Feed fruit trees and bushes with sulphate of potash • Crops to sow directly outside or under cloches are peas, mange tout, mixed salad leaves, radish, cauliflower, turnip, lettuce, carrots, beetroot, cabbage, Brussels, broad beans, leeks, rocket, Swiss chard and spinach.

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egg plant to attract beneficial insects.

In the Greenhouse: • Protect any seedlings from cold • Water any seedling trays or pots with copper fungicide to help prevent damping off disease.

• Remember to increase ventilation on warm days • If too hot, put up shading to protect plants • Buy plug plants to grow on for pots, bedding displays and baskets.

• Sow French and runner beans in pots.

• Sow melons, cucumbers, marrows and courgettes in a heated propagator • Check plants regularly for signs of peat or disease • Plant tomatoes in grow bags or large pots.

General Garden Maintenance: • Repair or sow new lawns with grass seed.

• Apply moss killer to lawns – or sulphate of iron which is the active ingredient in moss killers.

• Rake out any dead grass from lawns.

• Start to feed the lawn with a suitable lawn fertiliser.

• Prune out any green shoots (reversion) off any variegated shrubs.

• Check that stakes are not rubbing against trees, or tree ties are not too tight.

• Cut away any “suckers” growing around the base of trees and shrubs.

• Last month’s top shrubs Forsythia and Ribes (flowering currants) prune back after flowers have finished.

• Sprinkle a handful of sulphate of potash around tulips to improve flowering • Sow sweet peas outside around the base of cane supports, obelisks or even try a hanging basket for them to trail down.

• Give Camelias, Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Pieris a good handful of ericaceous (acidic) fertiliser.

• Now is the ideal time to start to spray roses as a preventive for mildew, rust and blackspot.

• Keep topiary in check by giving a light clip now.

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My personal favourites are … Acer Palmatum `Sango Kaku` (Coloured stems) including a NEW variety called Acer Palmatum BI-Hoo – look out for this great variety, Acer Palmatum `Bloodgood` (the best upright red leaf maple), Acer Palmatum dissectum `Greenlace` (very finely cut, green leaf maple) , Acer Palmatum dissectum `Garnet` (very finely cut, red leaf maple) and Acer Shirasawanum `Aureum` (bright yellow leafed maple).

Spiraea x cinerea `Grefsheim`: or “bridal wreath”, currently mine at home is full of flower bud so this will look fantastic at this time of year, long flower racemes of pure white hang down almost weeping. Very easy to grow, likes most soils in full sun to part shade. I wouldn’t recommend this for a pot but planted in a border or an informal hedge, it makes a good feature. The R.H.S has given this plant the Award of Garden Merit. I pruned mine hard back last year, straight after flowering to a foot. Makes a neater plant plus encourages better flowering growth.

Cercis chinensis `Avondale`: Might be a bit hard to find this one but worth hunting it out. This is a beautiful species which is native to China, Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’ has bare stems which are studded with pretty, rich purple-pink flowers in late April or early May before the foliage emerges. This variety is mainly grown for its striking flowers but there is also Cercis canadensis `Forest Pansy`, which has beautiful deep plum red leaves and new this year, Cercis canadensis `Hearts of Gold` which has large bright yellow leaves.

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Val McDermid relishes the first three or four months of the year when she can concentrate on writing. She says she simply wants to keep on doing interesting work. “The ambition is always to get better, to become a better writer, for each book to be better than the one before.�

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er books have sold 16 million copies worldwide, been translated into 40 languages and recently her work topped the fiction, non-fiction and children’s book charts all in the same week. But Val McDermid isn’t sitting back basking in her success: she’s always looking for new challenges.

The 64-year-old crime writer is working on her next thriller, she’s been commissioned to write a play and she’s developing a graphic novel.

Apart from that, she’ll be speaking next month at Derby Book Festival and she’ll also be “murdering” songs – not my description – with her band Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers.

She will no doubt be promoting her current paperback, How The Dead Speak, the 11th book featuring clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan.

Val will probably talk too about her next release, the sixth involving cold-case detective Karen Pirie, which is due to be published in August.

ITV is working on a dramatization of the Karen Pirie novels although there is no date yet for transmission. It will do well to match the popularity of one of Val’s earlier TV series, Wire In The Blood, which was first broadcast from 2002 until 2009. It starred Robson Greene as Hill and Hermione Norris as Jordan.

She will no doubt be promoting her current paperback, How The Dead Speak, the 11th book featuring clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan.

Val thinks ITV did a really good job with the series: “I thought Robson Greene was a very good Tony Hill. I thought the scripts were great, as were the production values. “It’s still running on TV now, people still watch it.

People Tweet me: ‘I’ve just discovered Wire In The Blood, I think it’s amazing.’ If you look at it now you see a lot of things we pioneered that have been picked up subsequently by other crime series.”

Some of Val’s readers might be wondering why more of her work hasn’t transferred to the small screen. She says it’s the luck of the draw.

“All my books have been optioned pretty much at one time or another. Some have got made, others haven’t.

“I had a series called Traces at the end of last year on the Alibi channel. I created it, did the storyline and Amelia Bullmore (actor who appeared in the crime series Scott & Bailey) wrote the scripts. That was the most successful drama Alibi have ever shown.”

Val says she likes to be involved when her work is turned into television but she realises she can’t exert control over how it appears. “it’s a completely different medium and they have different storytelling values and different ways of telling stories.

“What you can do is work with people that you trust. I’ve said ‘no’ plenty of times because I didn’t like the people or I didn’t trust them or I thought they didn’t get what I was trying to do.”

She adds: “Ultimately what you want is good television. It doesn’t have to slavishly follow the books, it has to have the same sort of ambience as the book. What you want is for someone to make a good television series that brings more readers to your books because ultimately it’s about getting people to engage with the books which of course are much more dense, much more complex than the television series because you can’t compress 400 pages even into six hours of television and not leave stuff out.”

Val is renowned for her gritty novels and some commentators refer to her descriptions of violence. But when I bring up this part of her work she lets out a deep sigh and maintains that it is merely one strand. “The Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novels deal very directly with the nature of violence, what it is and the effect it has on people.

“Every week in this country three women are murdered by their partners. There’s serious sexual violence around us all the time and ignoring it is not going to make it go away. I think we have to deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be.”

Val McDermid was born on 4 June 1955 in Kirkcaldy, Fife to a working-class family.

She was the first student to be admitted to St Hilda’s College, Oxford from a Scottish state school. After graduating in English she

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became a journalist, working for 14 years on national newspapers in Glasgow and Manchester. She started writing her first novel, Report For Murder, in 1984. It was published three years later. It wasn’t until 1991 that she finally gave up her day job.

Val has so far published 32 novels. She mainly writes four series featuring Hill and Jordan, Karen Pirie, journalist Lindsay Gordon and private investigator Kate Branningan. There have also been nine stand-alone stories. She has penned two books of short stories, three non-fiction works including a picture book for children called My Granny Is A Pirate and a couple of radio plays.

So what drives her on to keep coming up with new projects?

“I like to take on new challenges. That’s how I keep interested in what I’m doing. I couldn’t just write one set of characters. I don’t understand how people can keep one single series going all through their career and never write anything else.

“I have a very low boredom threshold I’m afraid. I can’t write two books back to back with the same characters. So I try doing different things and when the opportunity arises I’ll grab it with both hands.” Just like Agatha Christie, Val has been dubbed the queen of crime, something she’s not entirely comfortable with.

“It’s very flattering but it’s also quite embarrassing really, particularly since I’m a republican. One journalist called me the shop steward of crime which I find much more satisfying in many ways.”

Away from her keyboard Val divides her time between south Manchester and Edinburgh where she lives with her partner and son. She is a staunch football fan and sponsors the shirts of Raith Rovers, “the mighty Raith” as she calls them, who this season are aiming for promotion to the Scottish Championship.

And she sings with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers who do “cover versions of songs about crime and murder, so everything from the Clash to Johnny Cash and everything in between. Last year we did Glastonbury, this year Derby!”

because it’s about the spread of a viral epidemic that more or less wipes out the population of the planet.

“I know the nuts and bolts of how to write a novel but with other things I’m very much the novice, the apprentice. And that’s really interesting, to be working with people who are much more expert in those fields than I am.

“I feel every time I do something like that I learn so much that I can take forward into the next project. I find that really exciting. Here I am in my mid 60s and I’m still learning new stuff and still being excited by it. And that’s probably the key for all of us: we should try to stay excited and discover new things.”

A mantra that everyone attending Derby Book Festival is probably going to adopt

As we go to print, Derby Book Festival is planning to go ahead. Check their website for the latest news: derbybookfestival.co.uk

Val McDermid will be appearing at Derby Theatre as part of Derby Book Festival on Friday 29th May. Later that evening she will be performing with Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers.

The festival will continue at various venues until 6th June.

But she relishes the first three or four months of the year when she can concentrate on writing. She says she simply wants to keep on doing interesting work. “The ambition is always to get better, to become a better writer, for each book to be better than the one before.”

She reckons that a play she has been commissioned to write by the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh will stretch her talents to the limit. She has also just seen the first draft of a graphic novel that’s being developed from a series of radio plays she did called Resistance. “It couldn’t be more timely really www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk | 51

Images Walk with Rambler: HOLYMOORSIDE DISTANCE: 3½miles (5.6km) of easy walking along farm lanes and woodland, plus by-roads and side lanes.

RECOMMENDED MAP: Ordnance Survey 1:25000 scale Explorer Map, Sheet 269, Chesterfield & Alfreton.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT: Stagecoach X17 from Matlock.

CAR PARKING: Roadside on Belland Lane, connecting the A632 Matlock/Chesterfield road to the B5057 Darley Dale /Two Dales road.

REFRESHMENTS: Bull’s Head in Holymoorside and Peak Edge Hotel near Stone Edge. High fields Farm Shop and Restaurant about a quarter of a mile to the west (Darley Dale Side) of Belland Lane is highly recommended.

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his short walk visits Holymoorside, one of Chesterfield’s satellites, a little bit of rural attachment left behind when the Industrial Revolution swept across the north Midlands.

The Bull’s Head

even a short-lived silver mine, but this failed a long time ago. What we do have from time gone by, are a couple of strategically placed pubs and a popular farm café, all within striking distance of the walk, whether it be at the start, or around the half-way point.

Apart from a street name, nothing remains of the one cotton mill that was powered by water from what is now the local duck pond. There was

Holymoorside village lies below the eastern edge of Beeley moor. The

village has many tales associated with its isolation. Local legend has it that there is a tunnel from Chander Hill Farm just off the Chatsworth Road, passing under Holy Moor to reach Harewood Grange, once a monastic farm. Despite all these myths and legends, there has never been an explanation of the term Holy Moor, or Holymoorside.

There are two ways to start the walk, the first and the main one described in the text, starts and finishes on Belland Lane just off the Darley Dale road near Stone Edge. The alternative uses public transport; the X17 Stagecoach Matlock/Chesterfield/Sheffield service from Matlock. Ask to be dropped at the Stone Edge stop on the A632 and follow the woodland path starting directly from the bus stop up to and across the golf course. This path joins the walk near the club house. The return bus stops opposite the point where the Bage Hill/High Lane road meets the A632 Chesterfield road.

Belland, or Belond is an old Derbyshire word for the disease cattle caught by grazing on grass contaminated by lead – there was a smelter nearby, its chimney still stands, a lonely sentinel on the adjacent skyline. The local pronunciation of Stone Edge is Stanage for some reason.

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From the car parked carefully on Belland Lane, walk down to the B5057 Darley Dale road and cross.

The alternative route joins the main at this point (see end of main description).

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Reaching the farm, turn left on to a path and follow it with more woodland on your right.

Walk on past the club house, continuing forwards for about 100 yards when the lane turns left towards a group of farm buildings.

Go forwards on a grassy path.

When the path reaches a track, continue forwards, downhill to a pond.

The lone stone chimney over to your left on walking down the lane, is the tangible remains of a lead smelter that once stood here. The fumes would pollute the surrounding land, poisoning grazing cattle, giving them the Derbyshire disease called ‘belland’.

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Follow the narrow lane opposite, down past a group of stone farm buildings and continue towards woodland to your front.

Look out for a sign post beside a small hut and turn left on a path leading towards woodland. Follow this along the edge of the trees and then into them.

continue to follow it until it passes the club house of Stanage Golf Club.

At the far side of the woods, follow a track along the right hand side of them.

When the track reaches a farm lane, turn right along it and follow it up to the farm.

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Walk round the edge of the pond until the track reaches houses on the outskirts of Holymoorside village.

Turn left to reach the Bull’s Head.

With the pub on your left, walk back up the road and climb the section called Cotton Mill Hill.

Look out for an un-signposted road junction and turn right on to Bage Hill. Follow this for about a mile. There is no footpath, so walk on your right hand side of the road and take a careful look out for traffic.

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In about three quarters of a mile, the road forks. Turn right and walk on until this road bears sharp right at a pair of houses.

If using the bus ignore the next set of instructions and climb up to the main road. Cross over in order to stand at the stop for Matlock. The X17 Stagecoach service is hourly.

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3 Sergei Podobedov 4 Brass For a Cause 4 DCU Spring Concert 7-11Annie 9-19 Markeaton Park Fair Funfair for all the family 10 The Jam’d Live 11 Derby River Boat Trips 17 Queen Machine Symphonic 25 Spring Gala Concert 26 Cycle Derby Sportive Spring Classic The Spring Classic Sportive offers three routes around the Staffordshire and South MAY 2 The Music of Queen 3 Resolution Run- Run the fun 5k race with the Derby Resolution 10 May Fest ‘Derby Arboretum’s Village Fayre’ Derby Theatre Box Office 01332 59 39 39 www.derbytheatre.co.uk Mar 28 to April 11 Treasure Island Set sail on the high seas for a spectacular swashbuckling adventure at Derby Theatre during Easter 2020. A pirate-filled production perfect for the whole family.

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Due to the coronavirus outbreak please check the websites for the current situation regarding events Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water.

Why not join us on one of our FREE beginners walks held on the first Sunday of every month? Booking is advisable as numbers are limited, contact Carsington 0330 678 0701. Future date, April 21st Derby RSPB Local Group Indoor Meeeting on April 8 at 7.30pm, we welcome Steve Lovell with a talk entitled “Around the world in 80 birds” Meet in the Grange Banqueting Suite, 457 Burton Road, Littleover, Derby, DE23 6XX. Admission for members is £2.50, for non-members £3.00 and juniors £1.00. Details www.rspb.org.uk/ groups/derby Also, join us on 26 April for a Birdwatching Walk at Cutthroat Bridge, Derbyshire Meet at 8.30am in the lay-by near the bridge on the A57 towards Sheffield. GR SK215875. This is a moorland walk which can be rough and steep in places and walking boots are needed.

We hope to see Ring Ouzel and possibly Mountain Hare. No facilities. The walk should finish around 12.00pm.Details on www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby Derby French Circle ( Cercle Français de Derby) Talks ,quizzes, conversation, social and cultural events. All levels of French spoken.

The DFC wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the Alliance Française de Londres for its programme of speakers.

Venue: St Edmunds Church Hall, Kings Croft, Allestree, Derby DE22 2FN on Friday 7.15pm as listed: Contact derbyfrenchcircle@ outlook,com Vendredi 17 avril ‘Johnny Halliday, un mythe français?’ – Maryse WRIGHT af Mercredi 29 avril Dîner annuel 19.30 – The Horseshoes, Kirk Langley Dimanche 10 mai Pétanque 12.00 Nutbrook Cricket Club, West Hallam Breadsall Memorial Hall Brookside Road, Breadsall, DE21 5LF SUNJAY Blues-folk troubadour Sunjay has been hailed for his exquisite and seemingly effortless guitar mastery and graceful bass voice, with a mature stage presence and captivating anecdotes. Superb twentieth century ‘new generation’ blues music.

Saturday, 16 May at 7.30 pm. Doors open 7 pm. Licensed bar. Tickets £11 from 01332 831577 or 831564. This is a Live & Local show in aid of hall funds, charity no 520424.

Spondon Historical Society Monday April 6th 2020 at 7.30 pm for Annual General Meeting. This is the first week of the month instead of the second week, as this is Easter Monday. As the Village Hall is not available on April 6th, the venue for this meeting will be The Old School, Chapel Street, Spondon. There will be a talk after

the meeting by one of the local shop keepers.

Members are £2.50 and visitors £4.00. hope to see as many as possible there.

Derby Chamber Music Society Friday 3rd April at 7.30pm at the Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB A concert by the Albany Piano Trio Beethoven: Piano Trio in D, Op.70 No.1 “Ghost” Judith Bingham: The Orchid and its Hunters (commission) Bloch: Three Nocturnes Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor and also Friday 24th April at 7.30pm A concert by the Enceladus Ensemble Schubert: Adagio and Rondo Concertante, D.487 Herbert Howells: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op.21 Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25. Tickets £15 and £14 (concessions) available at the door and online through WeGotTtickets www.derbychambermusic org www.derbychambermusic.org or telephone 01332 830585 Derby Book Festival May 29 to June 6. Derby Book Festival celebrates the joy of books and reading for all ages and interests. All are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman (Bloomsbury) Brian the Brave by Paul Stewart and Jane Porter (Otter-Barry) www.derbybookfestival.co.uk Derby & District National Trust Members’ Group.

17th March 7pm for our AGM, followed by “Iceland in Winter” presented by Colin Hobday who takes on a trip around Iceland taking in the spectacular and rugged landscape of winter. Landau Forte College, Fox Street, Derby. For more info contact the Membership Secretary on 01332 703512 or email derby.members@nationaltrust.org.uk.

Group Members £2.50 / visitors £5.00. Non members very welcome.

Darley Abbey Historical Group Friday 20 March ‘The Many behind the Few’,

by David Skillen Meetings start at 7pm at Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard off New Road, Darley Abbey, DE22 1DS There is a charge of £1.50. Contact Maria Gibson on 01332 552837 or visit their blog: https:// darleyabbeyhistoricalgroup.wordpress.com/ Arts Society Derby April 7th A talk on ‘The Gate of Heroes: On the China trail’. Time 7.15 pm at Landau Forte College, Fox St, Derby DE1 2LF. New members of the society are warmly welcomed;

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for details see https://theartssocietyderby. com/membership/ or phone 07815 963978.

Non-members may attend as guests for £6 per person.

The Derbyshire Singers Highfields School Matlock (DE4 5NA) Saturday 21st March 7.30pm The Derbyshire Singers, with The Derbyshire Sinfonia and Lizzie Ball (violin).

Brahms: A German Requiem (Rebecca Lea: soprano; Andrew Ashwin: Baritone) Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G Minor (Lizzie Ball: violin) Brahms: Academic Festival Overture The Good Companions Stage Society Presents “ANNIE” Repton 400 Hall Theatre on 7-11 April The musical tells the story of a fiery young orphan who escapes her life at the Orphanage, run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan, and finds herself staying with millionaire tycoon Oliver Warbucks. When Warbucks offers a cash reward for Annie’s birth parents to come forwards, Miss Hannigan hatches a plan with her Brother and his girlfriend to pose as Annie’s parents and claim the reward for themselves. Audiences will be familiar with a number of the songs from the show including Hard Knock Life, Maybe & Tomorrow.

The Good Companions’ production sees two 11-strong groups of orphan girls headed up by Felicity Holman (11) and nine-year old Daisy Hamilton who share the lead role.

Director Phil Simcox is excited at another challenging show; “we’re delighted to be welcomed back to Repton’s 400 Hall Theatre, it’s perfect for a show like this.

“Annie” is being performed at Evening performances at 7.30pm, Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. BSL signed performances take place on Wednesday and Thursday. Tickets £15.00 for all performances, available from Derby Live Box Office

Acosta Danza: Evolution

J.M. Barrie’s Quality Street Derby Theatre 14 April 2020 to Saturday 18 April 2020

Royal Concert Hall Friday 10 April Saturday 11 April Age Recommendation: 8+ Dance Consortium presents Acosta Danza: Evolution International ballet superstar Carlos Acosta and his critically acclaimed Cuban company Acosta Danza perform a programme of new and existing works.

Acosta makes a guest appearance in the iconic Rooster, choreographed by Christopher Bruce to music by the Rolling Stones. The company also perform new work, Paysage, Soudain, la nuit by visionary Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg and Impronta, which was created specially for Acosta Danza by Spanish choreographer Maria Rovira.

Inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky’s L’après midi d’un faune, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui completes the bill with masterpiece Faun, set to Debussy’s original score with additional music from Nitin Sawhney.

Phoebe Throssel lives on Quality Street, the bustling hub of a quaint northern town where she runs a school for unruly children.

Ten years since a tearful goodbye, an old flame returns from fighting Napoleon.

But the look of disappointment on Captain Valentine’s face when he greets a more mature, less glamorous Phoebe, spurs our determined heroine to action.

She becomes the wild and sparkling Miss Livvy, a younger alter-ego who soon entraps the clueless Captain. As their romance is rekindled, can she juggle

both personas? Or will her deception scandalise the town and wreck any future with the man she loves?

J.M. Barrie’s delicious farce, written years before his now much-loved Peter Pan, was so well known in its day that it gave its name to the UK’s most popular chocolates, made in Halifax since 1936.

In Laurie Sansom’s directorial debut for Northern Broadsides, this rare revival also features a commentary from the Quality Street™ factory workers, whose own stories of hapless romance and growing old disgracefully give the show a playful Yorkshire twist.

Jon Richardson: The Knitwit Buxton Opera House Thursday 17 September at 8pm

Stand-up comedian, and TV star Jon Richardson, has made his perfectionism and worrying into comedy gold. In his new tour Jon Richardson: The Knitwit Jon will be worrying about the big questions. Will the recycling be put out on the right day? Who is going to smooth over the top of the margarine? How many lights are on upstairs when everybody is downstairs?

Watch Jon pretend that these aren't his foremost concerns as he leaves home on his first tour since the last one.

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Tickets are priced at £23. Discounts are not available.

To buy tickets contact Buxton Opera House Box Office, Tel: 01298 72190 or visit: www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk

Malory Towers

Royal Centre Nottingham Tuesday 28 April - Saturday 2 May Malory Towers is a musical of high jinks, high drama and high spirits.

Darrell Rivers is starting school with an eager mind and fierce hearts. Unfortunately, she also has a quick temper! Can she learn to tolerate the infuriating Gwendoline Lacey, or value the kind hearted Sally Hope? Can she save the school play and rescue terrified Mary Lou from the grip of a raging storm? If she can do these things anywhere, she will do them at Malory Towers!

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Care home still exercising in 2020 Care home, Buddleia House, part of Milford Care, prove that wellbeing is still a big part of the day to day by taking part in yoga sessions.

Who says exercise is only part of a New Year resolution? Buddleia House, based in one of Milford Care’s two Nottinghamshire branches, host many yoga sessions with the residents in the care home and are still being active well into 2020. With as many as 15 attending the sessions at any one time, the yoga has proved to be very popular among the residents and offers the chance to increase their wellbeing and independence.

Yoga is a fantastic way of increasing strength, flexibility and heart health, according to yogajournal.com. These added exercises are all part of the home’s activity schedule, which includes trips to local attractions, games, reading, singing as well as chair Zumba!

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The carefully arranged grazing displays create a more relaxed social atmosphere, where guests gather around one table, and offer a variety of foods that can satisfy even the pickiest eaters. Grazing tables are popular abroad, especially in Australia, from where they originated.

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A Passion for Mosaic

Magdalena’s initial stab at mosaic, a beautiful self-portrait, re-ignited this passion and eventually led her to set up Minoan Mosaic Studio

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lthough it’s a while since I waved a hot glue gun in anger, I’m confident I could give craft queen Kirstie Allsopp a run for her money if only I had the time, money and patience to follow basic instructions.

Sadly, my previous attempts at crafting – toy making and calligraphy – only left me with a scar on my thumb and ink stains I’ll never get out of my dungarees.

But putting aside my husband’s complaints that my homemade Fox Terrier project was a waste of good pipe cleaners; I decide to have one more stab at mastering a craft without having paramedics on standby.

Thanks to the handmade boom (the £3bn UK craft market is currently growing by 4.5% a year) it really is possible to learn the basics of most crafts via workshops.

Although I was tempted by batiking in Belper and weaving woodland animals in the Peaks, I reached out to multi-media artist and animator Magdalena Aron (30), because her motto ‘If life gives you broken pieces, make a mosaic,’ appealed to both my artistic soul and my clumsy fingers. “Don’t worry,” Magdalena

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reassures when I tell her about the unhappy hour I’d spent unravelling thread from my sewing machine after completing a six-week sewing course. “We will be making heart-shaped mosaic but I can adapt the class to suit all levels from absolute beginners to professional artists.”

Transylvanian-born Magdalena has loved mosaics since visiting historical sites in Italy when she was a teenager.

Her initial stab at mosaic, a beautiful self-portrait, reignited this passion and eventually led her to set up Minoan Mosaic Studio in July 2019. Since then, she’s on a personal crusade to breathe new life into this 3,000year old discipline. In addition to Magdalena’s own projects, she sets aside regular Sunday mornings to host workshops for children and adults creating everything from decorated vases to Faberge-style eggs (workshops usually cost £25-30 for a session).

“Even people with no drawing or painting skills can be successful with mosaics,” Magdalena says. “I think the outcome of mosaic is more predictable than say painting and will teach patience and calm like no other medium. It’s so rewarding when tiny tiles come together to make a story. Once you try it, and find out how amazing it is, you’ll become addicted.”

The smiling faces of fellow students together with a

large cup of Italian coffee does much to allay my precraft nerves. Most of the attendees at Magdalena’s stunning workspace in Bank Mill Studios, Derby, have done previous workshops and they are potty about mosaic. “I’ve made a heart before and a thistle,” says Angie Bethwaite, of Littleover. “I’m hoping to make something different and don’t mind if it’s something challenging or fiddly. I’d love to make a butterfly.”

It’s a tribute to Magdalena’s teaching prowess (as a freelance instructor, she’s taught a variety of art and ceramic classes to children and adults over the past six years) that she doesn’t raise an eyebrow when others decide to do their own thing. She’s equally enthusiastic when Anna Pearman, of Borrowash, prepares to make a mosaic replicating patterns in her mum’s Persian rug. “I think we’ve all got the urge to be creative,” Anna says as she starts work on the intricate mosaic she intends to gift to her mum. “I tend to devote my weekends to learning a craft. That’s why I love my weekends so much.”

Before we are allowed to get too creative (we are all giddy with the excitement of rifling through the delicious assortment of candy coloured tiles) Magdalena gives us a safety briefing on how to handle the tools of the mosaic trade. “You have to be careful as chips can fly everywhere,” Magdalena says handing out safety goggles. “Even into your coffee so don’t leave cups on the table. It does happen, I was cleaning up after a session with a soft brush and a little piece flew into my eye. Keep the glasses on when cutting and use tweezers to pick up glass to avoid cuts.”

“It reminds me a bit of the welding course I once did,” Pauline Axby, of Sawley, laughs as she adjusts her goggles. “I can tile a wall so I might be able to put my skills to good use today. I’m also going to make a butterfly because I have the perfect spot for it at the top of my stairs. I love anything to do with nature.”

Although I stick to the allotted task – decorating a precut heart – I decide to add a flower cut from opaque glass using a wheeled nipper (a fancy tile cutter).

Thanks to Magdalena’s calm encouragement, it’s all done without loss of any fingers.

“It’s a lovely thing to do and in such a friendly atmosphere,” Jenny Woolley, of Mickleover, observes as we get busy with our nippers. “Everyone should make space in their life for crafts, it’s so relaxing.”

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calm. When Magdalena suggests we break for coffee and cream cakes, she almost has to click her fingers to get us back into the room.

“After teaching art to people for years, I can often see the positive effect on people’s moods. It’s like a yoga class for the mind,” Magdalena concludes. “It’s even more beneficial learning in a group as people support and inspire each other. I think we’ll live to see a day when people view art’s centres in the same way as they do the gym; one exercises the body, the other the mind.”

The positive effects of crafting certainly resonate with Gerry Henegan-Barr, a professional artist and holistic therapist from Nottingham. “My mum was big on craft.

She had five children in total so I think making things gave her an outlet from the family and much-needed time on her own,” Gerry recalls. “I also find arts and craft help you to work through life’s problems. It’s amazing how solutions to problems can just pop into your head while you’re crafting.”

Incredibly, after what seems like an hour, Magdalena says we are drawing to the end of three and a half hours. “I thought I had loads of time left, I’d better do some speed gluing,” laughs Sue Orchard, a fellow first-timer. “I have always wanted to try mosaic but I’ve never really had the time. I see doing crafts as a way to get me-time and I have really enjoyed it. It was totally absorbing and everyone was so friendly.”

The last ten minutes are spent listening to Magdalena

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give advice on how to grout our mosaics (the glued pieces have to dry for 24 hours) giving us a take-away pot to do this at home. All that remains is to admire everyone else’s mosaics which are all in varying stages of completion. Incredibly, I manage to finish mine with time to spare. Although my fellow students are all complimentary, I have a suspicion the pink slithers on my heart make my creation more meat-feast than masterpiece. We all have a giggle when one lady suggests my heart was clearly ‘inspired by Francis Bacon’. They all urge me to come back for more classes and I realise there’s more to workshops than making stuff; it’s also a handy way of making friends.

“I really enjoyed it,” Jenny Woolley echoes my thoughts as we leave. “It’s nice to have a laugh and joke with other people. Spending a day making something is so rewarding and I loved being able to put my own stamp on it. I can’t think of a more perfect way to spend the day.”

Minoan Mosaic Studio, Banks Mill, Bridge Street, Derby, is hosting two workshops in April. The first is on April 1st, from 18.00pm – 21.30pm. The second is on April 5th, from 10am – 13.30pm.

Magdalena will be leading a community mosaic project at Sharpe’s Pottery Museum, 23, West Street, Swadlincote. Sessions will be hosted in the museum on the 4th, 11th and 17th of April. 11am - 2pm.

For more details, visit Magdalena’s website; https:// www.minoanmosaic.com/workshops

If you want to hop onto a craft workshop, here’s Taste Derbyshire’s guide to just some of what’s on offer in the county.

Scrappy Quilts & Things 8th April 2020 Come and start a quilt or table mats, pot holders – anything to use up your pile of fabric scraps. Lots of ideas and techniques 10 am – 4 pm £35.00 – all things sewing.

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Tuesday chose fabrics and cut out – Wednesday start sewing!

1 pm – 4 pm Tuesday 10 am – 4 pm Wednesday £70.00 both days (does not include fabric, 10% off fabric for anyone on the workshop) Call 01335 360211/07914035172 to book What; Wax melt workshop When; April 16th, 1.30pm-4pm Tutor; Heather Brown, owner and candle-maker Where; By HeatherMay Gift Shop and Studio, 8-10 Chapel Street, Ripley, DE5 3DL Cost; £35 Contact; 01773 689293 What; Wet Felting When; April 7th, 10am-3.30pm Tutor; Alison Rose, Cheshire-based artist and felt maker

Where; The Art Room, Wilkin Hill, Barlow, Dronfield, S18 7TE Cost; £79 Contact; info@fieldbreaks.co.uk What; Willow sculptural forms When; April 25th, a one-day course Tutor; Emma Parkins, freelance artist specialising in willow weaving and sculpture Where; Zantium Studios, Godfrey Hole House, Godfrey Hole, Hopton, Wirksworth, DE4 4DF Cost: £95 Contact; 01629 824377 What: Dovedale landscape panel featuring applique and embroidery When; April 30th, 10.30am-3.30pm Tutor; Kath Perry, seamstress Where: Betty’s Sewing Box, Cokayne Avenue, Ashbourne, DE6 1EJ Cost; £50 Contact; www.bettys-sewing-box.co.uk Alternatively, look out for weekly, drop-in craft sessions at local cafes, art centres, libraries etc. These include; -

maker and demonstrator Where; Dot-Tea’s Emporium, 99-101, Bridge Street, Belper, DE56 1BA Cost; £6 including the cuppa Contact; helen@allthingsstampy. co.uk What; Sip & Paint (art plus a glass of wine) When; Wednesday evenings, 7pm9pm Tutor; Caroline Pilia, a designer and illustrator Where; Pitch Blue, Newbridge Works, Coldwell Street, Wirksworth, DE4 4FB Cost; £40 per month Contact; 07736 423 352

Amanda Volley showcases all that What; Cuppa and card When; Third Thursday of the month Tutor; Helen Read, a freelance card

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CLOSE TO THE EDGE? NEW FORD TECH STEERS CLEAR OF DITCHES AND DROPS TO HELP DRIVERS STAY ON THE ROAD Driving in rural areas can be tricky when unmarked road edges become ragged and give way to open land, muddy ditches and sheer drops. *Driving at night – in unlit areas especially – can be a challenge.

Most road fatalities in Europe occur on rural roads and – unlike in urban areas – car occupants make up the biggest share of those fatalities.

Now Ford has introduced new technology to help make rural driving easier. Road Edge Detection scans the road ahead and can gently steer the vehicle back on track when needed. **

determines when there are clear structural changes from the road to the area beside the road. It can also provide steering support on marked roads when the lane marking is obscured or hidden by snow, leaves or rain.

If the driver is still close to the edge following initial steering support, the system vibrates the steering wheel, to prompt the driver to steer. At night, the system uses the illumination from the headlights and functions as effectively as during the day.

Road Edge Detection as part of Lane-Keeping Aid is standard on Focus, Kuga and Puma, and will be part of the expanding driver assistance technologies being rolled out to new Ford vehicles.

How it works Designed for use on rural roads at speeds of 45-70mph, Road Edge Detection uses a camera located below the rearview mirror to monitor road edges 50m in front of the vehicle and 7m to the side.

Where a paved road becomes a soft verge, gravel hard shoulder or grass, the system provides gentle steering support as required to prevent the vehicle from drifting off the carriageway.

The system features an advanced algorithm, added to Ford’s existing Lane-Keeping Aid, that

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ALL-NEW PEUGEOT 208 AND 2008 SUV WIN AT FLEET NEWS AWARDS 2020

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he all-new PEUGEOT 208 and the all-new PEUGEOT 2008 SUV took home two of the ceremony’s top accolades. PEUGEOT’s all-new supermini was named 'Best Small Car' and the all-new PEUGEOT 2008 SUV 'Best Compact SUV' of the year.

Launched in January 2020, the all-new 208 is the first model in PEUGEOT’s range to be released under the new philosophy of ‘choose your PEUGEOT, choose your powertrain’ and is available as a full electric vehicle or with both efficient petrol and diesel engines. PEUGEOT‘s electrification strategy will see a full electric model range available by 2023.

Judges were particularly impressed with the technology and low running costs of the all-new PEUGEOT 208, making it a strong proposition for businesses and company car drivers. The all-new 2008 SUV was launched in February 2020 and was praised by Fleet News for its modern and distinctive styling, and high-quality interior.

The spacious new model measures 4.3m long, 1.77m wide and 1.55m high, with a maximum boot capacity of 1,467 litres.

The all-new PEUGEOT 208 and 2008 SUV feature the latest-generation 3D PEUGEOT i-Cockpit® with a compact multifunction steering wheel, a configurable 3D head-up display panel and either a 7” or 10” HD capacitive colour touchscreen. Further technological aids included are PEUGEOT Connect SOS and Assistance, Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop & Go function (depending on trim), Lane Positioning Assist and Mirror Screen® offering Apple CarPlay™ and Android Auto connectivity.

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