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Things to do!

We’re all having to change our usual ways of living in the current climate. But that doesn’t mean that we have to be bored - and to be honest most of us would relish the opportunity to have some time at home. So let us help inspire you with some ideas to keep busy!

HAVE A SORT OUT - whether it’s your wardrobe, that dreaded cupbord you’ve been ignoring for years or even boxes in the loft from last time you moved!

Charity stores will be grateful for the donations once we are all back out and about!

INDULGE IN SOME SELF CARE - a relaxing bubble bath, manicure and meditation - you’ve got time to treat yourself

GET LOST IN A GOOD BOOK (OR TWO) - with everything so digital these days, reconnect with a paper copy of a favourite or try something different.

There’s bound to be a book lurking in your collection you’ve never got around to reading.

BINGE ON A BOXSET - again whether it’s an old favourite or something totally new. Be entertained!

EXERCISE THE GREY MATTER - puzzles like crosswords, wordsearches and sudoku are great ways to keep your brain sharp.

KEEP A JOURNAL OR DIARY - whether its an online blog or a paper diary, write down your thoughts and what you’ve been doing. As well as good for mental health, it’s a great way to reconnect with writing.

ORGANISE YOUR PHOTOS - most people will have biscuit tins or their computer drive. It’s a great time to relive great memories and organise photos into albums!

LEARN A NEW SKILL OR HOBBY - is there something you’ve been keen to learn but never had the time. With many resources online it’s easier than ever to find information or online learning resources.

READY, STEADY... COOK! Release your inner Delia Smith and cook up a storm in the kitchen. Whether that’s sweet treats or trying out a more complex recipe out of a cook book you’ve never had the time or inclination to create.

DELETE THOSE EMAILS - do you have 1,000,000,001 unread emails sat in your inbox? Dejunk and get them all filed into folders.

SOW YOUR SEEDS! It’s the very start of spring so a great time to get your garden sorted or plant some containers. Whether your preference is flowers or vegetables, growing your own is something to be proud of. Plus it’s great to get some fresh air!

NOT SO TAXING - if you are self employed why not get your tax return in order to avoid the January panic next year!

MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL... have a plan! Days can seem long and monotomous if you don’t have a routine or schedule. Make a list of things you would like to get done - that could be daily tasks as well as longer term projects. Split your days up into sections and fill each with things to do so you have a sort of timetable to keep you on track. If you have children to care for this will be really important to keep them entertained. Put the planner somewhere prominant so everyone knows what’s happening today or even later in the week.

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KEEP MOVING - don’t forget to keep active! Pop on your favourite music and dance around the kitchen, find a workout DVD or practical some yoga. Just remember to build active time into your day.

DIG OUT A BOARD GAME - a great way to get the family together for fun! And let’s face it some of them like Monopoly can go on for a while!

REMEMBER TO CONNECT WITH OTHERS - pick up the phone, video call or if you are able to post a letter to friends / family not near you. The elderly inparticular will really appreciate you reaching out.

MAKE TRAVEL PLANS - ok, ok so we aren’t going to be going on far flung holidays for a while but write your dream list of destinations to go in the future.

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Slimming World Recipe Soy Ginger Chicken Noodles Fancy a takeaway? Why not save the Syns and indulge in this cracking fake-away recipe instead? Yum! Serves: 4

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Method: 1. Put the ginger and garlic in a small food processor or blender, add a few tablespoons of water and blitz until finely chopped.

2. Put the ginger and garlic paste in a large non-stick saucepan and add the Marmite, miso, half the onions and 400ml boiling water. Stir well and bring to the boil over a high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes, adding the soy sauce 1 minute before the end.

3. Meanwhile, cook the noodles according to the pack instructions and drain well.

4. Place a large non-stick wok or frying pan over a high heat and spray with low-calorie cooking spray. Stir-fry the chicken for 5-6 minutes or until cooked through, then transfer to a plate.

5. Add the broccoli, baby corn, remaining onions and a good splash of water to the wok and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add the mushrooms and soya beans and cook for a further 2 minutes.

6. Return the chicken to the wok and add the sauce and noodles. Bring everything to a simmer, adding a little water if you want it saucier, and serve piping hot.

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Ingredients: • 40g fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped • 5 large garlic cloves, peeled • ½ tsp Marmite • 1½ tbsp red miso paste • 2 large onions, sliced • 4 tbsp reduced-salt soy sauce • 200g dried medium egg or soba noodles • Low-calorie cooking spray • 4 skinless and boneless chicken breasts, cut into strips • 125g broccoli, cut into small florets • 125g baby corn, each cut into 5 rounds • 125g shiitake mushrooms, quartered • 100g frozen soya beans (edamame)

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Book Review

Turmoil and terror in Tudor England. Sounds like Hilary Mantel’s latest prize-winner?

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It’s 850 pages long, but absolutely engrossing, fact and fiction blended brilliantly to produce a book built on historical research – Mr Samson has been a historian and a lawyer in his time – but which is a pageturner you can’t wait to dive back into.

This is a historical epic, with so much detail that you feel like you’re personally being absorbed into Tudor life. The plot has the running theme of a number of murders, but intertwined with that is the retelling of a true-life explosive rebellion by the peasantry which threatens the future of the country.

This is the time, just after the death of Henry the Eighth, when England is sliding into war and economic collapse. As always, it’s the people at the bottom who suffer most, particularly when the Tudor gentry are milking the country dry.

If you’ve read any of the Shardlake books before you’ll know that C J Samson is very good at immersing his readers in a compulsively fascinating story with very strong characterisation. If you haven’t read any, you’re in for a treat with this one.

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Keeping Kids Busy As we write this the majority of schools are still operating normally however given the uncertainty of where we are things are changing rapidly. If you find yourself in the situation of having your children at home, there are resources to help you get through it!

It’s understandable that children are going to feel anxious about what is happening and the ongoing news coverage. And for most adults it’s a worrying time financially and managing to keep going as normally as possible. We need to keep in mind that even relatively small changes in routine can be very overwhelming for children so its crucial to try and portray this as an adventure to reassure them everything will be fine.

There are lots of resources out there to help you plan and schedule, particularly if you are also trying to work from home as well as occupy youngsters. We’ve found this fab itinerary online of a sample daily routine which can be flexed to your own circumstances.

We are pretty sure schools will, if it does come to closures, have arrangements for work children can do but below are some free online home schooling websites you can access to help. We will post ideas and share links to our own Voice Magazines social media pages for as long as this situation continues: www.tts-group.co.uk

www.scholastic.com/learnathome www.home-education.org.uk

www.twinkl.co.uk (offering some free resources) Tutoring company Kip McGrath can provide online tutoring for primary and secondary school age children. Contact them for more information: www.kipmcgrath.co.uk/online-tutoring If you have babies and toddlers check out social media as many activity providers are doing video sessions so you can still do things with your little one whilst classes are not running.

Make sure you also take some time for yourself. This is very stressful time for parents and self care is so important.

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Krafty Kids Stuck indoors and looking for some easy activities to keep the kids busy? Don’t worry as James (age 6), our resident ‘Krafty Kids Konsultant’, is at hand with some quick projects you can all try at home with the kids using stuff you have in your arts stash or around the house!

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How to make it: • Take a clean loo roll or kitchen roll cardboard inner • Paint the inner with whatever colour you want to!

• While you are waiting for the paint to dry, get some colourful card and cut out two identical thin oval shapes for the ears.

• Using a different coloured piece of card cut out two slightly smaller ovals to the previous ones • Glue the smaller ovals in the centre of the larger ones • Next put a line of glue all around the edge of the front of your ear shapes and stick on little pieces of cotton wool • Stick the completed ears to your painted inner • Make your bunny face with felt pens and any decorations you choose, like googly eyes!

Fu nky Frog Door Hanger What you’ll need: • Thin card • White paper • Black felt tip pen • Glue & sticky tape • Things to trace around!

How to make it: • Take the empty egg carton and carefully cut the base cut longways down the middle (you don’t need the lid).

• Take one of the sections and paint green all over. Leave to dry.

• Using the pencil/pen make two small holes in one of the front sections of your egg carton shape for the caterpillar’s feelers.

• Cut two sections of drinking straw or pipe cleaner (about 5cm each) and carefully push through the holes you just made.

• Next to decorate! Get creative to decorate your caterpillar! Draw on or use googly eyes, then stick on shapes or use felt tips to make your caterpillar super funky!

James’ Room

How to make it: • Take a piece of card and cut three identical length strips for the arms and legs. One of these strips should be cut in half to make shorter lengths for the arms. Zig zag fold each of the strips.

• Cut out feet and hand shapes like shown in the picture and stick one to the end of each arm/leg strip.

• Trace around a teaplate and cut out to make the main body shape, then using a different colour cut out a slightly smaller circle.

• Stick the smaller circle onto the larger one as shown.

• Stick the arms and legs onto the body shape.

• Draw an oval shape onto a piece of card and before cutting out draw on two small circles at the top for the eyes.

• Trace and cut out two smaller circles on white paper for the eyes.

Using a black felt pen draw on the eyes. Stick onto the face shape at the top. Draw on the nose and mouth.

• Stick the head to the top of the body shape.

• Take a length of string and attach to the top of the head ready to hang on your door! Why not write your name on frog’s tummy?

Fingerprint Sheep Card What you’ll need: • Colourful card • Paint • Black felt tip pen • Small plastic plate

How to make it: • Fold your piece of card in half • Put a small amount of white paint on the plastic plate • Dip your fingertip in the paint and then press onto the card to make a fingerprint • Repeat until you have created the body of the sheep • Using your thumb dipped in the paint make the sheep’s head with a thumbprint • When the paint is dry use the black felt tip to draw your sheep’s legs, eyes, nose and ears.

• If you want to add some flowers to your card then use a different coloured paint using your fingertip to create the petals and middles of the flower.

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Welcome to...

Alfreton

Welcome back!

During this difficult time, it is important we focus on the positives and the future. When this international crisis is over, we will have to rebuild and we all have a huge role to play in that. Supporting local businesses has never been more important if they are going to survive and thrive in the future. They are the backbone of our local economy and they provide so many essential services that I cannot imagine life without them. So please do what you can. Even if you can’t use them today think about the future, buy a voucher, get a quote, book in a job for when this is over, it can always be moved fi things change.

In the long term we will all have to adapt, offering new types of services, products and working in new ways, our local businesses included. If we take a moment to look back to the past we can see that the world has changed massively over the last 100 years, from the Industrial Revolution, through World Wars, the demise of traditional industries such as coal and steel to the I.T. Communications Revolution. And throughout it all we have still had local businesses and shops.

This month we are bringing you a few then and now pictures of Kings Street. There is a great display on Kings Street, along with lots of other displays, pictures and other resources at the Alfreton and District Heritage Trust. A massive thank you goes out to them for loaning us the original photos and all their other support.

The first is a fantastic colourised picture of the Market square at the top of King Street c 1900s, back when Alfreton had a Horse Market. We have juxtaposed this with a photo of the same street taken last month. A lot of the buildings remain the same but the eagle eyed amongst you may notice that where the War Memorial now stands there is a building, which was the ‘Moot Hall’, which used to house a prison beneath it and was demolished in 1914.

Thank you to all the advertisers who have got involved… it really couldn’t happen without you.

Thank you to Alfreton and District Heritage Trust. We have more about them on page 43 but you can also check out their Facebook page, visit them online at alfretonanddistrictheritagetrust.wordpress.com, or in person at Alfreton Heritage Centre, Heritage Chapel, Rodgers Lane, Alfreton DE55 7FF between 2-4pm on Sundays.

I would also like to say a huge thankyou to our own Danielle, who was instrumental in pulling the feature together, from concept to publication.

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Thinking of a Spring Move?

If you are thinking of a Spring move then you’re not the only one.

Spring signals new beginnings, flowers spring to life, new-born animals and brighter evenings can make us feel restless as we anticipate the lighter and warmer months.

Some call it ‘Spring Fever’ but the sudden change of season has a physiological impact on the body. Increased serotonin makes us happier, a decrease in melatonin makes us less sleepy, and it’s this energy which makes us want to move, redecorate or spend more time outdoors.

And the timing couldn’t be better With Rightmove reporting the biggest average asking price rise in the four weeks between December 8th and January 11th since it began its asking price index, your property could have dramatically increased in value.

As well as strong asking prices, enquiries are also up compared to the same time last year showing that buyer confidence in the market has well and truly returned.

Moving should always be exciting and stress free. There’s a reason why we are the number one agent in Alfreton helping people move home for over 25 years, we offer fantastic service and staff to provide support and regular updates every step of the way.

Brighter nights mean more opportunity to be out and about viewing potential homes, the new-found boost in happiness hormones puts us in a good mood and what starts as a spring clean can quickly become a complete move.

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Then Now These photographs show the House of Confinement, located on Kings Street.

As you can see, whilst the building remains the same, everything else has changed around it.

The cottage next to it is gone, replaced with a new row of houses behind.

The Grade II listed building dates back to the 1820’s and was thought to house prisoners before they were moved to the Derby Gaol. There is an information board on the site provided by the Town Council and Alfreton and District Heritage Trust have more information.

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The original photograph is thought to date to around the 1950’s or 1960’s.

The other picture nearly got me killed as I kept having to step out into the street to try and get the right shot, with the cars coming up the road behind me!

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