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Hi Readers, Here we are, three quarters of the way through the year….I’m not even going to tell you how many days until the dreaded ‘C’ word, but it isn’t many and I have no doubt it’ll be upon us before long!!

Every year, I have a plan! It starts around now and it involves me getting organised by purchasing some gifts for our loved ones…..and this is where the plan ends until around the 18th December!! I mean, it’s the same time every year! I don’t know what I’m surprised but yet I am doomed to repeat the same mistake like some kind of merry ground hog day!

I suppose the only exception was last year as we knew we weren’t going to see some of the family, so what happened there was a ridiculously elongated gift obtaining session! It started around the 18th as usual (remember covid was initially planning to take a Christmas week hiatus!) and then sort of rolled into a cycle of sporadic gift buying – forgot what we bought them – bought more gifts – hunt down Christmas paper – wrapped gifts – can’t remember what they are – buy more presents…until we

saw the family in June! Anyway, this year is going to be different!!

Honest!!

Perhaps our front covers will help this month with the stress of it!

In honour of International doodle day, we’ve changed the material of our front covers so that you can whip out your felt tip pens/crayons/paints and join in the fun. Laura has written a cracking article on this, see page 47 for details and keep your eyes peeled on our social media where we will be posting some of our attempts and please feel free to share yours!

Happy Reading,

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A Fair Cop The Spinning Peacock, The Automatic Stock Exchange, The Town Broker….these and others were stalls at Ripley Fair in the 1930s.

They were basically games of chance, like large roulette wheels, but often with the names of towns, or football teams, for example, instead of numbers. Punters bought a ticket for 2d with the name of a town or team on it and when the spinner stopped against one the ticket with that name on won the prize. It was a form of lottery.

The stalls themselves were circular and sometimes quite elaborate, with carved figures and animals (like the salvaged peacock shown here) in the centre and on the spinning arm and flashing lights around the perimeter.

And for ten years or so they earned their owners regular visits from the police.

The problem was that under the Gaming Act of 1845 any game that had no element of skill to it was illegal as the punters were, in effect, betting. Some of the games attempted to get around this by providing buttons for each of the participants, supposedly to slow or stop the spinner, though they apparently had no effect at all!

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So, each year from 1929 until 1950 (when they were banned by the council), the stallholder would be reported and fined, usually £2 for each occasion. Margaret James of Swadlingcote, for example, was fined every year from 1929 to 1934 for her Spinning Peacock.

Later in the 30s, some stallholders introduced fruit machines, imported from America. These too earned fines. The stallholders came to expect them, and build the costs into their finances.

Quite why Ripley should have been so keen on suppressing the games is a mystery. William Hill, in 1931 claimed that he had been running his Spinning Peacock stall for eight years previously “at all the principle fairs between Scotland and Cornwall” without being fined.

The stalls were eventually banned at Hull Fair in 1938 and at the Goose Fair in 1947 but the only other local fair where there were fines was at Ilkeston. It may have been a more personal issue: in both Ripley and Ilkeston the charges were brought by the same policemen!

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The Jingle Jog takes you on a 5km (3.1 miles) route around the picturesque Markeaton Park with over 500 runners dressed as Santa!

Your own event Firewalk Thursday 21st October Looking to challenge yourself? We are looking for brave “soles” to take on our fundraising fire walk. Can you take on the challenge to hotfoot it over wood embers burning at 1236 degrees Fahrenheit and fundraise to support our NHS. Location TBC.

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FOCUS ON LEARNING Voice Magazines recently had the pleasure of chatting to Sandra Smith, a secondary school maths teacher of 29 years standing. Sandra, who hails originally from Nottingham, has created a series of exercise books aimed primarily at 11 to 16 year olds but also suitable for a younger age range.

We asked her what had inspired her and how these books could help children succeed both at school and in life.

Talking to Sandra it is crystal clear that she is absolutely passionate about teaching and helping children to learn and grow…this is her WHY, her driving purpose and is what led to the creation of the books. The original idea of blank books with a contents page at the front, came to her back in November 2015 after she had asked the class she was teaching to locate a particular piece of work and saw how difficult that was for the children. Sandra jotted down that germ of an idea in a notebook, but it was November 2019 before she began to think about it again, and this time she realised that adding simple motivational quotes to each page would make the concept even stronger. In her own words, “it only takes one word or key phrase to inspire a child and sow the seeds for them to take charge of their own learning.”

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with your children at home could help them to stay on track, as Sandra’s experience has shown that children respond in an overwhelmingly positive way to the design, layout, and motivational quotes, and actually enjoy using the books which helps the learning process.

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

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Over the last year many of us have changed the way we do things, at Derbyshire Adult Community Education we’ve rethought the courses we offer. We have both online and centre based courses available in the Autumn term. You can upskill and gain a qualification or have a go at one of our wide range of leisure classes. We have many courses to help improve your wellbeing or to help you get fit.

Get inspired, make friends and start a new journey of discovery!

The first two weeks of September are for our FREE online taster sessions. These are an opportunity to find out more about some of the longer courses coming up this term. We have a number of new online courses that are ideal if you are living on your own, wanting to make new friends or thinking about first steps exercise including: Easy Meals for One, Chair Based Yoga, Creative Get Together and Lower Impact Zumba for Wellbeing.

Our live online courses are delivered using freely available video conferencing software, either Zoom or Microsoft Teams. We make it as easy as possible for you to join a course, whatever device you have. You will be sent a link a few days before the course together with information about any resources you need for the course. Your tutor will guide you through the course activities

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Over the next two editions we’re excited to share an interview with Jacob Whittle, the 16 year old swimmer from Alfreton who became the youngest swimmer ever to make the British Olympic team. This month we look at how he began his swimming career.

Did you always love the water?

Yes I did - my mum first took me to a mother and toddler session when I was maybe 1 year old and we went together every week. As soon as I was old enough my parents signed me up in a learn to swim programme - they aren’t swimmers but wanted me to learn to swim and not to be afraid of the water.

How old were you when you first learned to swim?

I was 3 years old, possibly younger, I just transitioned from the mother and toddler water rhymes sessions where me and my mum were in the water together singing nursery rhymes. I went every week to learn to swim sessions on a Saturday at Water Meadows, Mansfield.

When did you realise you had the ability to swim competitively?

I joined Ripley Amateur Swimming Club & Life-Saving (RASCALS) when I was 8 or 9, but I was 10 before I attended my first swimming competition. Derbyshire County Championships was my first major competition, and I didn’t make a final but the following year at the same competition I pretty much won every event I swam. At that age I was swimming all strokes and distances. I competed at the Regional Championships (East Midlands) and came away with a handful of gold medals, and I was given the opportunity to supplement my training at RASCALS by joining Dervenio Excel on a part time basis, moving to full time 6 months later as part of their national squad. From the age of 12 I was selected each year to be part of the talent programmes for Swim England. In 2019 at the age of 14, I qualified for the British Swimming Championships and whilst there I swam a huge lifetime best breaking the British record for aged 14 in 100m Freestyle. As a result of this competition I was selected for the European Junior Championships and European Youth Olympic Festival. Later that year I was selected onto British Swimming’s Podium Potential Programme.

How many hours a day do you train?

Usually it is 4hrs per day in the pool and then I also do gym and circuit sessions a few times a week too.

Do you eat a special diet?

No, but I eat a balanced healthy diet, with lots of greens, lots of food rich in iron, fish, chicken, plenty of carbs, lots of fruit, milk and I also drink lots of water. At the end of the day I am a teenager and my parents have always allowed me to eat like a teenager in moderation, which means I will have treats sometimes!

Next month, Jacob tells us about his Olympic experience.

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There is a serious side to National Doodle Day, it was initially dreamt up in 2004 as a way to raise funds and awareness for epilepsy support and research in the UK. Celebrities were encouraged to create a doodle and add their signature with the resulting, ahem, ‘artwork’ sold off via eBay. Do you doodle - now that’s not a question you get asked every day is it? The theory goes that because we tend to doodle almost without knowing we’re doing it, our innermost feelings or demons can be revealed as we let go of consciously thinking and just let the pen or pencil do its thing. You may start of just scribbling on the notepad in front of you whilst you’re on hold to the council / telecom provider / bank (or whatever) only to see a monster with goggly eyes appearing in front of you (this is especially prevalent when waiting in an interminable queue to speak to anyone who says you owe them money!).

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