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From the Editor Happy New Year Readers!

Or is it? At the time of writing (due to printer close downs over the holiday season), we aren’t actually at Christmas yet and everything hangs in the balance once more – Omicron! I, like many of you I’m sure, was hopeful that the worst of the pandemic times are behind us but, as it currently stands, we do not know how this variant is or isn’t going to transpire – anyway, shoulder shrug, see what happens and onwards we move!

Following from our covers this month I’ve already made my New Year’s resolutions but they are toned down massively on normal - as what I’m really wanting is a nice long break, in the sunshine, preferably with lots of books! I love reading but barely get chance these days, so I’m going to see if I can stick to this one – 1 book per month, no excuses! What’s your plans for 2022?

In terms of the mags, I am loving seeing all the articles/contributions, especially the heritage articles. Across all the magazines, they are absolutely fantastic and so interesting for each area – I’m very thankful to all the people that make the effort and send these articles over each month to us, we love printing them and I hope you all love reading them as much as I do?

With that in mind, we’re hoping to bring you even more content next year, with some big household names, all being well. We’ll keep our powder dry until everything is fully confirmed but safe to say it’s very exciting if it does happen.

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Final note to mention, thank you to everyone for bearing with us in terms of delivery last month and possibly the coming few months. In between storms, covid & other illnesses and holidays, we do have to extend a little extra time to our fabulous distribution team at this time of year as sometimes it isn’t safe or they simply aren’t well enough to deliver, but we massively appreciate your patience on this.

Once more unto the breach…….See you in the Feb edition, Happy Reading,

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ASHFIELD THERAPY CENTRE Once upon a time...well in 2008, Your Feet First Foot Health Clinic opened in Kirkby-in-Ashfield.

It was a small, one Practitioner clinic, which thrived over the next 11 years.

We're Lyndsey and Dave and in late 2018, we took over the family business and set to work looking after Kirkby's feet!

Like everyone else, we could never have imagined that 18 months later, we'd be navigating our way through the Covid-19 pandemic as a small, healthcare business.

employ a virtual reception service to handle the overwhelming number of calls regarding treatment, screening patients for Covid-19 and to handle the volume of reschedule requests.

We spoke to colleagues across health and wellbeing and found that we weren't alone. We were all struggling to navigate the new rules and what they meant for our businesses and the future.

This is when the idea of Ashfield Therapy Centre was born.

We wanted to create a space that not only And it was rough! worked for our business, but that would work for It became clear very other health and wellbeing quickly that our space was businesses and no longer big enough. We practitioners who were had to close our waiting looking for space. area, create time buffers between patients and It's been a long journey,

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to opening, but in October we moved our busy foot health clinic permanently into the space.

While we settle in, we've mostly been alone in the space.

Being practitioners ourselves, we've worked hard to create a calm, functional environment and we're loving working in our space.

Our move has enabled us to grow our business and hopefully will help others to do the same.

That will all start to change in the New Year though, when we will hopefully be fully ready for Lyndsey is currently business. studying for a Masters in Podiatry to widen the scope We've already had some of treatment that we can taster sessions with offer in our Clinic. We're holistic practitioners, and hoping to expand our team even a psychic medium! in the coming months as demand increases, so keep From mid-January, we're an eye out for some new hoping to open the Centre faces! fully for bookings.

We are aiming to provide safe, high quality spaces that can be booked on a truly flexible basis (no contracts, just pay as you go!).

If you are a practitioner who thinks that our Centre could be the place for you, drop us an email to register your interest at hello@ ashfieldtherapycentre.co.uk

More than that though, we're hoping to create a great space, where local people can access excellent health and wellbeing practitioners without having to travel to Nottingham or Mansfield!

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Twelve support groups were initially launched whilst John Eastwood Hospice was in the planning stage to help with fundraising in order to fund for the construction of the building. Today just two of the original support groups remain operational, in Edwinstowe and Warsop.

Set up over 35 years ago, Edwinstowe Support Group has gone from strength to strength and this year presented the Hospice with their annual donation of £15,000.

Coffee mornings and stalls at events have always been a huge success within the community and more recently, a member of Edwinstowe Support Group has introduced a Facebook selling page in which donated items are sold raising funds for the hospice. This has proven to be very popular and a small team of volunteers are now involved in the day to day management of this initiative.

The profile of the support group has meant that it has been able to maintain a similar number of members throughout the years, with leavers being replaced by newcomers. New members explained that they wished to give something back to the hospice because they had shared experience of cancer and other life limiting illnesses. Phil Robinson, Chair of the Support Group said “although the groups were not intended to support bereaved families, it has indeed happened as we have provided a way for people to `give back` to the hospice by joining the group.”

We thank the members of Edwinstowe Support Group for their continued dedication and commitment to the work that they do and congratulate them on the success of the group for over 35 years.

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“The body is in the library” sounds like the start of an Agatha Christie, or a game of Cluedo.

And Snow, by Irish writer John Banville has strong echoes of the traditional murder mystery – run down country house, aristocratic family – police inspector looking for clues, and yes a dead body, though one mutilated in a way which Miss Christie might not have risked writing about.

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How many have thought about researching their family trees. Many people give up simply because they don’t know where to start. Let’s look at some simple things which you can do to start you off on that journey, and where you can get the information you need.

Get a piece of paper (or the handy grid below) and pen/ pencil. Start writing………..

What was your dads name – and mums before she married. Do you know who their brothers and sisters were?

They both had parents, your grandparents. Do you know their names? What about any of their brothers and sisters.

Ask around your relatives if you aren’t aware of any.

Somebody in the family will probably know.

Having original information is important. While talking to relatives, you may well find that one or more of your ancestors had a name you knew them by, but it might have been more of a nickname, or a middle name. Their Christian name could be something totally different. It’s things like that which will help in your search.

When you have all the information together, then you can start looking. Start with the most recent first, and check any deaths. Copies of original church records can be found in your local libraries or archives. Records are online, on microfiche, on film or in paper form. Libraries have available computers for the public to use, and a wealth of reference resources which might be useful. Try to get original certificates from the register office. Any relatives you find from Scotland, you will be able to print copies of original documents at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk Original documents like birth, marriage and death certificates help to stop you researching the wrong tree.

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Grandma’s Dad

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Dad’s Dad

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When you have the full information, check the date in the local newspaper. Many will remember the Notts Free Press, these can still be found in Sutton Library, along with the Ashfield edition of the CHAD. The Mansfield Edition of the CHAD will be at Mansfield Library.

Sometimes they are in book form, and sometimes on film. An obituary in one of the papers could confirm and add to the rest of the family members which you already know.

Sutton Cemetery opened 1893 and prior to that the burials would have taken place in the churchyard.

Huthwaite Cemetery opened 1889. Cemetery records are also found in the libraries. One thing to look out for when searching is the changes in spelling of the names.

As you go through the centuries, sometimes the name will be slightly different, and sometimes as with census records, if you don’t view the original photograph of the census, but look at the transcription, it may have been wrongly transcribed and not be your family at all.

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Check marriage dates, again easy to do in the same way at the library. Back to the local newspaper, for details on the marriage, and in some of the older newspapers it will also tell you what people bought for the couple at the time of their marriage. The same with birth dates.

Years’ ago many children died in infancy and just using census records is not the answer, you will also need to check any death records just in case.

Do be mindful that some people may have been missed, or wrongly transcribed.

Naturally moving from the census, you could check the electoral rolls, again although administered through the council, found in some libraries and archives, and also online. There are two versions of the electoral roll now, as people were allowed to opt out from about 2002.

Prior to then you should find all the information.

You could also come across numerous people with the same Christian name in the same household, and wider family. This is mainly because they were named after descendants.

If you are wanting non-conformist records, Nottingham Archives, or the churches themselves. Many local people would have been born in a different part of the country, travelling to the Notts area for industry, such as the mines and factories. This would mostly show up on census records. Don’t just look at one year though, in case it has been filled in wrongly.

The latest set of census records (1921) should be available from 6th January 2022. There is 100 years to wait from when the census was taken. The 1931 census was unfortunately damaged during the war, so will not be available. Each census has more information than the previous one. Census records will help you find complete families.

What might you find on a census? Names, age, address when the census was taken, who was living in the same house, the job they were doing, whether married or not, and the place where they were born. The 1911 census even shows the number of rooms they were living in.

If you find an area, and don’t know what it was like, check in the libraries’ photographs. Notts ones can be found online at inspire picture archive. www.inspireculture. org.uk/heritage/inspire -picture - archive/and Derbyshire photos at www.picturethepast.org.uk/ There is a wealth of photographic material on both sites, or you can see original photographs in the libraries themselves.

To be continued...

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A moderate walk with a varied terrain. The route should take around 2 1/2 hours. There are some stretches along country roads, so take care. And of course, as usual at this time of the year there are some uneven and muddy parts so a good pair of boots or wellies is highly recommended.

START: HOLY CROSS CHURCH, CHURCH LANE, MORTON, DERBYSHIRE, DE55 6GU 1.

Begin at the church on Church Lane in Morton. 2.

On street parking is normally available nearby. With the church on your right head along Church Lane, before following the road around to the right to continue along Higham Lane.

Walk along this country road for just under 600 meters, taking care to watch out for traffic as there are no footpaths. The road bends right then left twice, on the second time take a footpath sign for ‘Mickley Lane’ on your right, between a road sign and a gate.

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Follow this path into a field a cross the stile and pass through a gate, keep ahead to pass through another gate. Continue ahead past a pylon on your right and at the corner of the field pass through the hedge and carry on ahead to cross three fields via the stiles available.

At the end of the third field go through a gate and keep ahead, with the hedge on your right. Cross a stile and then at the corner of the next field pass through a gate before turning right to pass through another gate.

Carry on ahead towards a metal gate marked ‘footpath’. Walk straight ahead through the farm yard following the clearly marked ‘footpath’ signs in white paint. Take caution here as there may be a loose, barking dog in the farm yard.

Carry on ahead through a field with a caravan park on your left to reach a wooded area. Join the path straight ahead of you and follow this to reach Morton Road. Pass through the gate and cross with care. Carry on ahead following the footpath sign. Keeping to the main path until you reach a stile at a cross roads with a rough farm road. Carry on ahead with the wooded area on your right then turn right at the first opportunity to keep the wooded area on your right and solar panels on your left.

Follow this track straight ahead to cross a stile, then keep to the right-hand path to cross the rail bridge and pass into Padley Wood. Keep to the main track and cross a small footbridge. When you meet the fields join the path straight ahead with the hedge on your right and follow it uphill.

the path alongside a field with the hedge on your left. (Take care not to take the path downhill and through a gate.)

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At the corner of the field turn right and continue with the hedge on your left. At the next corner pass through the hedge, take a gate on your right and turn left along a farm track. At the bottom of the track you meet Padley Wood Lane. Turn right here.

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10. Pass through a gate and continue along the path as it takes you over a rail bridge and then back onto to a hedge lined track. Carry on along this track as it joins Evershilll Lane.

Walk along the lane for a fair distance as it brings you back into Morton. Keep to the lane until you meet the B6014 Stretton Road.

11. Cross the road and turn left on the road and follow it back towards the church. Turn right after a red brick house to pass through the Church Yard and bring you back to where you began.

FINISH: HOLY CROSS CHURCH, CHURCH LANE, MORTON, DERBYSHIRE, DE55 6GU

Carry on along this path for a fair distance entering into the edge of a wooded area.

After leaving the wood carry on the corner of a field. Here you will meet a crossroad of paths. Take the gate on your right and follow

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Happy New Year!

In the 21st Century, we see January 1st as the start of a brand new year - but did you know that this wasn’t always the case?

In fact the month of January didn’t even exist until around 700 BCE when it and February were added to the Roman calendar. At that point in history the start of the new year was widely regarded as being March 1st - to coincide with the start of new life in spring. In about 45 BCE Julius Caesar (yes, the one who invaded Britain, lusted after Cleopatra, and was stabbed to death by the members of his senate) introduced a new calendar to the Roman empire - one based on the movement of the earth around the sun, and much more accurate than the old lunar based system. This calendar became known as the Julian Calendar and it was decreed that January 1st be recognised as the start of a new year throughout Roman territories.

It doesn’t end there though…

New Year was still a moveable feast right up to the acceptance of (another!) new calendar system in 1582 - the Gregorian calendar, which is still used today. The day was celebrated 25 December; 1 March; 25 March and also on the movable feast of Easter; depending on where you were in Europe. Very confusing!

Even more confusing if you were in Britain because, believe it or not, until 1752 Britain (except Scotland) and its Empire had retained March 25 as the official start of the year.

Now we’ve established when January 1st became recognised as the start of a new year, let’s take a look to see when ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ became common.

Historians tell us that Babylonians were the first to make new year resolutions

around 2000 BCE, although their new year was in springtime when they held a big festival lasting for 12 days. Citizens swore to pay off debts to their gods, and promised to return borrowed goods. It sounds a bit ‘resolutionary’ but not much!

The actual phrase ‘New Year Resolution’ was first used in a Boston newspaper in 1813 according to Mirriam Webster (a website, not a person) “And yet, I believe there are multitudes of people, accustomed to receive injunctions of new year resolutions, who will sin all the month of December, with a serious determination of beginning the new year with new resolutions and new behaviour, and with the full belief that they shall thus expiate and wipe away all their former faults.”

Now that sounds familiar! It would be even more appropriate to add “And the resolutions will be broken within the month”!

Personally I think spring is a much more sensible time to set new intentions - the days are getting longer and everything feels so much more alive with possibility than dark cold January! What do you think? Will you be making (and breaking) any resolutions this year?

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If you’re itching to be outside this is a good time for planting bare root roses, and pruning overgrown honeysuckle back hard to promote new growth in spring.

Perennials such as stonecrop, otherwise known as sedum can be trimmed. Old stems may be looking very leggy and bedraggled so take them out, but be careful not to damage new growth coming through.

Plants which have been forced for inside growing for Xmas can be put outside to let them die down once they’ve done their job. You can plant hyacinths in the garden and they should grow next year outside, but narcissus such as paper whites need to be lifted and stored as bulbs to be planted for indoor growing again next year.

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Most indoor plants need less water over the winter when they enjoy a dormant period. But they still need good light and plants such as fuchsias and begonias which you may be overwintering indoors to protect from frost need a minimum of 5 degrees heat to keep them going. If they’re on a window sill, don’t leave them behind the curtain overnight as the temperature can drop dramatically even in a centrally heated house.

Clean your pots ready for spring planting. Yes it’s boring, but then you’re good to go come seed sowing time. Some recommend diluted bleach to kill off pathogens, but a less drastic solution is a cupful of white vinegar in a washing up bowl of warm soapy water.

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