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Hi Readers, Well, aren’t we all giddy at the prospect of relative freedom after Boris’s recent announcement?! Things are looking up, Spring is here and finally, at long last, we all have something to look forward to! I’m not being blasé about it – I am genuinely happy about the prospect of some normality resuming. My first question to anyone I speak to is (and it usually stumps them!), what will be the first thing that you choose to do? For me, I will drive somewhere remote with the dogs and go for a lovely long walk in the countryside, where hopefully we can stop in a lovely local café for a coffee and cake (probably still take away at that point!). Then in April a lovely haircut to look forward to – my barnet is developing its own personality daily! I’m extremely envious of all these gentlemen who shave it off…. many more months and I would be tempted! After that, I’m also looking forward to a nice meander around the shops and going out for a meal somewhere. Thankfully our esteemed leaders have created a lovely spaced-out roadmap, for obvious reasons. However, after 1 year of the most exciting place to visit being my own garage – it’s a good job, as the excitement of all that in 1 day could be catastrophic ,had they decided to unleash all at once! No, much better to space it out a bit! Oooh, holidays – I know we don’t exactly have an answer on this yet but sunshine and sandy feet are calling…..might have to be Skeggy in the interim but later this year, I have everything crossed! Anyway, in other news, Rafa and Flake had a bit of an incident this month – the Vet has booked her holiday to Barbados based on how much we’ve spent on those pair in recent months! Sooo, we fancied a change to the daily walk and took them

to our locsl woods – all fine, lovely walk – 2hrs later, Flake starts shaking like he is going to fit , Rafa can’t really be raised and neither of them can walk properly. I honestly thought they had been poisoned. Of course this is on a Sunday night *eye roll*, emergency vets for us is in Derby. Long story short, looks like they had a taste of somebody’s left over cannabis and the vet said that they are basically stoned and they need to get it out of their system as quickly as possible but mostly, sleep it off! Honestly, it gave us such a fright and after doing 4 hour feeds supplemented with charcoal liquid for 12hrs, they are all fine. We can laugh about it now and particularly the bit where the Vet was trying to ask discreetly about whether it was ours (he asked in several different ways, about 6 times before the penny dropped!) ….. but I just thought that all our other 4-legged friends should be aware. The Vet said that there has been an increase in animal intoxication over the last year, which tells its own tale of how tough this last year has been on everyone! Fingers crossed for more movement at the end of this month,

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It’s Not My Fault! Is it just me, or are we currently living in a society where individuals increasingly refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions? Personal responsibility; accepting our mistakes (and learning from them!) and utilising common sense, seem to be attributes we are losing. But are these attributes inbuilt or are they learned behaviours that override our basic programming? I was always taught to accept that I would mess up, that we all do, and that it is normal to do so. I was also taught to hold my hands up and admit to my mistakes. Life lessons I passed onto my own children. Looking around, it seems that many people find it easier to pass the buck rather than admit and accept that they are fallible. ‘Blame culture’ has been seen as another import from our US cousins…but is it? Or is the desire to hold someone other than ourselves responsible for our actions simply basic human nature, one that we can (should?) learn to override? Personally, I believe that ‘compensation culture’ (rather than blame) IS a US import…’where there’s blame there’s a claim’ comes to mind, but that we humans as a species have always tried to blame someone, or something else for our own failings. Think about it, in order to survive, our earliest ancestors needed to somehow balance the desire to ‘look after number one’, with the need to ensure the safety of a tribe/family unit. It must have been tempting to shift the blame, if things went badly when looking after number one took priority, to an outside influence or to someone else. “It wasn’t my fault…” Perhaps that’s even how religion came about – if there’s a ‘greater power’ in charge of everything, then nothing is ever going to be our fault. The ‘buck’ can permanently be passed! Back to my initial point though, the whole Covid 19 crisis seems to have

highlighted the best AND the worst in modern society. So many people have refused to accept responsibility for keeping themselves (and therefore others) safe and healthy. So many have adopted an ‘I’m alright Jack’ mentality and merrily gone about life however they wanted. At the other end of the scale are those who have become obsessive and are happily reporting on friends and neighbours whilst telling themselves ‘it’s for their own good’. The very worst of us though are the politicians, companies and corporations who are profiting during the crisis by dishing out contracts based solely (or so it would appear) on connections rather than ability. How many of these people will ever admit their incompetence though? None, I would guess, because in their minds they are doing the right thing…for them at least. Let’s all try to override our inbuilt selfish, self-led, programming in 2021 and learn to accept responsibility for our own actions. Let’s teach our children and grandchildren that only by working together, by collaborating, by being compassionate, can we ever hope to rise and find our truest selves.

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing. To find out more visit www.landgassociates. co.uk or contact Laura on 07736 351341

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So here, for the benefit of the few (i.e. those who live and work in our rural communities) is a condensed list of ‘rules’ for the ‘many’ to adhere to the next time they get into their cars for a trip to the countryside (taken from https://www.gov.uk/government/ publications/the-countryside-code): Respect other people •

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Many of us may remember the TV advert from the 1970s featuring Joe and Petunia, an inoffensive but clueless couple ‘enjoying’ a visit to the countryside and leaving chaos in their wake. The content of that particular ad was based on The Countryside Code, a public information document drafted in the 50s and updated several times since. Aardman Studios (of Wallace and Grommit fame) produced an advert featuring the creature comfort characters when the code was revised in 2004. For some inexplicable reason however, many visitors seem to be oblivious of the Countryside Code – or maybe it’s simply that a certain section of the public feel rules do not apply to them. Judging by the illegal parking that went on over last summer,

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Castleton and its Caverns Part 1 - Who likes caves? If you’re a fan of underground spaces, spectacular stalagmites and stalactites, and eerie interiors, then you need to head out to Castleton in the High Peak area of the Derbyshire Peak District. With no less than four show caverns open to the public (in normal times of course) the pretty village nestled at the foot of Winnat’s Pass and Mam Tor (aka the ‘Shivering Mountain’) is a speleologists delight, but it has plenty of history to delight non troglodytes too. An iron age fort sits atop Mam Tor and there’s also evidence of bronze age occupation in the area. The first recorded mention of a settlement is in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it says “Pechesers being where “Arnbiorn and Hundingr held the land of William Peverel”. Peverel of course being one of the Norman Conquerors who bestowed his name to Peveril Castle, the ruins of which still look out over the village. The name Pechesers itself translates as ‘Peaks Arse’ – not quite so quaint a monika as Castleton! ‘Peaks Arse’ brings us back, in a roundabout way, to the caverns - ‘Devils Arse’ being a colloquial name for Peaks Cavern, one of the four show caves in the village! Peaks Cavern has the largest entrance to any cave in Britain, and the front of the enormous opening used to house a small village right up to 1915. The village consisting mainly of ropemakers and their families, the rope they produced being used in the local lead and mineral mines.

The cavern itself is largely natural, the only manmade intervention being to blast a tunnel in order to bypass another which required a small boat in order to pass through. From the entrance, a low passage nick named ‘Lumbago Walk’ as most adults need to crouch, leads into the two main caverns “The Great Cave” and “Roger Rain’s House”. The second named for its perpetual cascade of water. Continuing on you reach Pluto’s Dining Room and then the Devil’s Cellar where you can hear the source of the river Styx (not the one in the ‘underworld’ but an alternative name for Peaks Hole Water, the fast flowing stream that runs through the village!). It used to be possible for visitors to travel further into the system but worries around flooding issues means that only trained cavers are allowed past this point. Cavers who do continue past Devil’s Cellar can pick from several onward routes, which include a passage to Victoria Aven a large shaft traversable only by rope and harness, and two areas known as ‘sumps’ (Far and Far Extension). It was exploration by a team including local cavers which led to the discovery of Titan Shaft, at 141.5 metres (464 ft) it is the deepest known shaft of any cave in the UK.

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Part 2 - Speedwell We finished the previous article in Titan’s Shaft, Peak Cavern, but what us non cavers probably wouldn’t know is that the Peak Cavern is linked (underground of course) to Speedwell Cavern - the next show cavern we’re going to cover. Situated just outside the village of Castleton at the bottom of Winnat’s Pass; unlike Peak Cavern, with its impressive natural entrance; access to Speedwell Cavern is via a passage way excavated by miners in search of lead in the 18th century. This passage goes some 200m horizontally into the ground before reaching the cavern itself. As it is flooded, the only way to traverse the passage (known as an adit) is by boat. In times of old, the tour guides would propel the boats through the passage by dint of ‘walking’ their feet on the low ceiling! Nowadays the boats are motor driven. Conditions for the miners who excavated the adit must have been horrendous, deep underground in flooded tunnels, digging by hand in search of lead ore (galena). Speedwell turned out to be a poor return on financial investment however and mining stopped in the 1790s. By this point however the cavern had already become something of a tourist attraction, with visitors flocking to see the lead workings, travel on the boats down the adit and view the astonishing main cavern at the end of the boat ride. When you visit today, the guides will stop the boats every now and again to point out the visible marks of those early mining tools and will recount the story of how the mine was established and operated. The main cavern at Speedwell is one of the deepest in Britain and in the centre is the so

called “Bottomless Pit”, a vast underground lake which miners used to shovel in the rubble from their excavations. The name derived from the miners who noticed that the level of the water never rose, despite how much spoil they dumped in it. What those miners didn’t realise is that there is a small shaft at water level acting like a kind of natural overflow mechanism. Leading off from this subterranean cathedral is the “Far Canal”. It runs for 250m in manmade form, before entering a vast network of underground streams, caverns, and passageways, more than 13 miles long, which even connect through to Peak Cavern, underneath Peveril Castle. Your tourist journey ends back in the boat and through the adit until you reach the small landing platform at the end of the tunnel…you are then faced with the 105 steps back up to ground level! Our next article will feature Treak Cliff, followed by the Blue John cavern, and finally in this series we’ll look at how the Blue John mineral has shaped the fortunes of Castleton since it’s discovery.

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Bess and the Queen of Scots We touched briefly on Bess of Hardwick’s connection to the ill fated Mary Queen of Scots in previous articles, but the relationship is worthy of a piece of its own. Bess and Mary first became acquainted in 1569 when Queen Elizabeth I appointed Bess’s husband the Earl of Shrewsbury ‘keeper’ of the Scottish Queen. Mary had fled Scotland after she had been forced to abdicate the Scottish throne in favour of her infant son James. ‘Keeper’ was in fact a bit of a misnomer, jailer, would have been a more accurate word. Elizabeth deeply mistrusted her cousin Mary who had claimed title to the English throne in the past and was great-niece of King Henry VIII. Mary was also a devout Catholic and Elizabeth (with good reason) feared a Catholic uprising in England should Mary be allowed her freedom. Mary’s first incarceration was at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, for the next fifteen years she moved between the properties owned by Bess and her husband, namely, Tutbury, Sheffield Castle, Sheffield Manor Lodge, Wingfield Manor, and Chatsworth House. Reports say that 30 carts were needed to transport her belongings between the residences, and she had her own retinue of staff numbering at least 16. Hardly an uncomfortable imprisonment! Queen Elizabeth was obviously an astute business woman, as well as a canny politician, because in passing the custodianship of her cousin to the Shrewsbury’s, she also gave them the expense of looking after her AND the responsibility for her well being and behaviour. A case of ‘not on my watch’ should anything befall Mary, or she be implicated in any wrong doings. Although Bess was some 15 years older that the former Queen of Scots they do appear to have been on friendly terms – at least initially. They shared a love of embroidery and between them designed and worked on many pieces. The culmination of the work were two extraordinary wall hangings which still exist today, panels can

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Spring is on its way After the great wetness and the long freeze it seems that spring is on its way across the Peak District. In recent weeks birds have started to sing and to display around potential nesting territories. Blue tits and other smaller birds can be Snowdrops seen prospecting nest-boxes and other suitable locations. There are still plenty of continental blackbirds around and gardens sometimes have ten to fifteen or more at once. The local birds that are nesting often take a dim view of this incursion en masse into their territorial patch. From northern Europe there have been major late-winter arrivals of the winter thrushes – redwing and fieldfare from Iceland and Scandinavia, but these now gather prior to the long haul back north. The earliest flowers were the groups of snowdrops appearing from late January onwards and then yellow garden crocuses in borders, lawns and on verges. At the same time, many wildflowers never fully stopped flowering with blooms present throughout the winter. Ox-eye daisy, red campion, hogweed, and cow parsley were certainly around until early January. Now the flowers of pussy willow are emerging and the trailing blooms of hazel line the hedgerows and Male Blackbird woodland edges along lane-sides and in sheltered valleys. I have even seen a very early honesty plant in full flower. Now though, the real spring flowers are coming to life with lesser celandine lighting up shady damp places such as in woods and in churchyards too. Another early species is the cousin of the dandelion, the coltsfoot, which produces yellow daisy-like flowers on narrow stems before it sends up large, rather coarse leaves in the shape supposedly of

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