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Love is in the air this month, what with February being the month of love. There are lots of caring and considerate awareness days this month and we’ve selected a few, of which, the lovely Laura has obliged and written an article for most of them. It’s nice to be nice and it’s a rare commodity seemingly these days.

Month 1 of New Year’s Resolutions and I’m doing quite well so far. I forgot how much I love reading and I will read anything & everything pretty much. So much so, Kev-John from our distribution team read my column last month and is sending some Jack Reacher books my way. Apparently, I just have to disassociate the book from the film, as the main character has a different stature to what was portrayed on screen!

Anyway, I’m off to grab another one/six of those digestives before Jan ends …see you in March!

Happy Reading,

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Anyway, being the all or nothing person I am, I subsequently decided over New Year that, rather than set Resolutions for the year, I would do 1 minichallenge a month (that’s the theory at least). For Feb, I am going with ‘no sugar’ Feb. I will confess, I am a sugar addict! I would literally be half the size if I stepped away from all the refined sugar that migrates its way into my mouth most hours of the day! I did this

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Just to re-cap, we got through Christmas and New Year relatively unscathed from the dreaded ‘C’ word but upon reflection I think that’s probably down to a massive reduction of parties that we attended – mind you, I think I’ve put on a good stone in weight, you wouldn’t believe the amount of wine and cheese there was at the work meetings that took place!!😜 Anyway, that’s enough of that talk.

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We hope that 2022 sees you in good spirit. Things have changed in so many ways over the last 2 years but the choir’s determination helped it enjoy a very active end to 2021. It’s now looking to future engagements and, as we’ve said before, we need your help. Why not come along to Palmer Morewood Social Club, meet the choir and sample some music and fun on a Thursday evening at 6.30. It’s enjoyable, it’s sociable, it’s charitable and it’s good for you - so why not give it a go, you have nothing to lose.

Chairman Mick Mullarkey said “Don’t be put off, just come along, listen and have a go. Firstly we are a choir, secondly we are a group of ‘nice’ guys and thirdly we enjoy ourselves; chances are it’s more fun than you thought it would be”.

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The Care Conundrum (for You can Care Week) If there is one thing this wretched and protracted “pandemic” has highlighted, it is just how much we rely on the caring profession and how underappreciated many of the people working in that sector are.

We pay footballers, actors, and celebrities obscene amounts of money for doing things they love. They’re put on pedestals, worshipped by the masses, and consequently, youngsters aspire to be like them - to earn silly money, dress in designer clothes, and take constant selfies. Is this what we want to encourage our kids to do - or should we be pointing them in other directions? After all, does the world need yet another vacuous “c” list celeb - or do we really need more nurses, doctors, and care home workers?

The thing with the caring professions is that people are often said to have a “vocation” or a “passion” for that kind of occupation. Personally, I’m not sure that anyone has a passion for changing bedpans and dressing bedsores, but what they do have is care and empathy for other human beings. Are these traits learnable? I doubt it. The requisite skills can be taught - compassion comes from within, but the society we live in today seems to not really value such caring skills, preferring instead to monetise the perfect pout or “on point” eyebrows.

Could you become a carer? Could you imagine taking home minimum wage for a 12-hour shift during which you may have been spat at, mopped up vomit, wiped someone’s bottom, made beds, fed patients…and all the other things a care worker does during an average day.

Do you think minimum wage is sufficient recompense for all that care and attention? I certainly don’t, but I also understand the economics of running a care home (or the NHS for that matter).

The problem is we have been corralled into thinking it’s fine for a footballer to make millions, it’s fine for a politician to have several lucrative jobs in addition to being an MP, and it’s fine for celebs to make a fortune based purely on their looks; but it’s unacceptable to pay well to do the sort of jobs that most of us don’t actually want to do…the dirty jobs, the ones with long and antisocial shifts, the ones that are seen as unskilled! Until we can switch mindsets and understand that we NEED carers, but we don’t need so-called celebrities, people working in the sector will continue to be undervalued.

What, I wonder, will happen when NO youngster wants a career in the caring profession? Who will look after the ageing population then - and let’s face it, we’re all going to get older, even the celebrities.

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THE CHARM OF THE HERBALIST Things came to a head for Percy Wilkinson, the third generation of the herbalists, in 1937 when he was accused of deliberately confusing the name of their shop with the word “pharmacy”.

The 1933 Pharmacy and Poisons Act had determined that only registered and qualified pharmacists could advertise their shop as a pharmacy or chemist. When an inspector visited Wilkinsons, however, he found that in the sign “D. Wilkinson and Sons. The Herbal Charmacy”, the letter “C” in “Charmacy” was in Old English type, which made it look like a “P”. The British Pharmaceutical Society charged that it was a deliberate attempt to make people believe that the firm were qualified chemists.

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Ripley has a number of long-lived independent shops, but one of the longest lasting must have been Wilkinsons herbalists, which had a shop in the town for over a hundred years. It was started

by David Wilkinson, a former stonemason from Crich, in the 1870s, and carried on by his son Henry and his grandsons David and Percy. At one time in the late 1930s, both David and Percy seem to have shops, one in Oxford Street and one in Chapel Street.

Herbal cures such as those sold by Wilkinsons have gone in and out of fashion over the years.

Known since medieval times, in the late 19th century, they offered poor people a cheap alternative to the doctor; as the medical profession became more regulated, they were frowned upon as being unscientific and supplanted by chemists like that of John Wain, who came to Ripley in 1859.

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The inspector also bought a bottle of medicinal paraffin with a label saying “Herbal Pharmacy”, but with the last word crossed out in pencil. In his defence, Wilkinson claimed that “Charmacy” was clearly printed, and that all their labels had been altered before the Act came into force.

The magistrates didn’t believe him and fined him 20 shillings (and two guineas fees).

Nevertheless, he continued trading until 1977, though not under the sign of “Charmacy”.

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Carbon Footprints In the aftermath of COP26 there has been lots of talk about the best ways to reduce our carbon footprints and the spotlight has shifted from the demons of road and air travel to the way our food is produced and the impact of our diets. Lots of people are moving to vegetarian and vegan diets in the hope of reducing their impact on the climate and biodiversity loss.

Of course, there are many health, ethical, and cultural connections to our diets, which may sway our thinking over that of carbon emissions reduction. There are far too many regional complications to provide a single ‘perfect’ diet choice for an individual, but a move away from meat at each meal would certainly lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

But it’s not all about what we eat.

The carbon storage capacity of forests has been a given for many years now, so HVCA have been involved in several initiatives to stop cutting down trees and grow a lot more. We have recently become much more aware of the carbon storage capacity of healthy peat bogs.

Britain’s peat bogs hold more carbon than all the forests of Europe so we are very supportive of the work of Moors for the Future to restore degraded upland peat bogs in the Dark Peak. We are much less aware of the carbon storage capacity of our humble farm soil but it seems to make sense that healthy well managed farm soils will be species rich, carbon rich and productive.

Mob grazing (short duration, high density grazing with a longer than usual grass recovery period) has been shown to increase stored carbon in the soil because the practice of intensively

grazing then resting the field encourages strong growth of the grass. On the other hand, ploughing decreases stored carbon by disturbing the soil organisms and exposing nutrients to the oxidising effects of the atmosphere.

Paradoxically, the carbon footprint of intensively reared food is lower per weight of meat produced. A steak or chop from extensive, nature-friendly farming has a higher carbon footprint per kg, although the extensive farm probably has lower annual carbon emissions while producing less food.

Including livestock in an arable rotation increases stored carbon in the soil. So increasing biodiversity and storing more CO2 involves some intelligent trade offs.

Similarly, we have to be careful about where we plant our trees. Tree planting in the wrong place can lead to species and carbon loss, for example on moorlands and grasslands due to soil disturbance during preparation and planting. It is still a good thing to do in the right places, such as land which has been forested in recent history. That often means bracken covered hillsides which were mostly deforested in the First World War. There is no one size fits all when it comes to reducing our carbon footprint, but we CAN all do our bit.

HVCA was established in late 2019, and as their name suggests, it is based in and around the Hope Valley in the Peak District; its aims are to address the climate emergency by reducing carbon emissions and increasing biodiversity. The group was granted Charity status at the end of 2020 and is run by a board of trustees. The work they are doing, and the messages they are sharing, are just as relevant to the rest of the Voice Magazine distribution areas, and we’re delighted to have them on board.

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INTRODUCING BRITISH DIVERS MARINE LIFE RESCUE British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is a nationwide charity dedicated to the rescue of marine mammals - seals, porpoises, dolphins and whales – around our coastline. The organisation has over 2500 volunteer ‘Marine Mammal Medics’, ready to respond to any of the 2000+ callouts the charity’s hotline receives every year.

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coastguards as Annie. Annie stranded at Chapel St Leonards in August 2020 and medics from Tibshelf responded to the urgent call out. With heavy rain, thunder and lightening they made it to the coast as night fell. It was found that not only had Annie stranded, but she was pregnant and in labour on the beach. Medics entered the water with Annie and with coastguards holding onto the medics to try and stabilise them in the two metre waves crashing about them, Annie was given medical aid and assessed. Medics and coastguards clung to each other in the terrible weather, shielding Annie from the worst of the battering sea for more than an hour, whilst crews from RNLI Skegness battled their way through the storm. Annie was gently loaded onto the lifeboat and with medics on board she was taken out to sea where the water was much calmer, here she was re-assessed before being lowered gently over the side. Both Annie and her baby survived.

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Research your breed! The average dog lives for around 13 years, so making sure that you choose a breed that will fit in with your lifestyle is essential before you start looking at puppies that you read up on the breeds you are interested in to make sure you know what to expect.

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Buy online without seeing the puppy or its mother!

Whilst it may seem convenient to pick a puppy from a picture and order it for delivery once weaned, these puppies are usually very poorly bred (often abroad) and are most likely to have serious health concerns.

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It takes a stout heart to brave a cold winters day for a dog walk but once you get going it’s amazing how much better you feel with a lung full of fresh air and a few miles under your belt. This month’s walk was first featured 3 years back but ranked highly as a winter walk because of its length, varied terrain and good paths, although there are a few muddy bits but try and find a walk without some mud at the moment!

A moderate walk with a varied terrain. The route should take around 2 1/2 hours. There are some stretches along 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.

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Standing with your back to the car park entrance continue straight ahead to the far end of the car park to bear left to climb some steps. Keep straight ahead, firstly with a fence on your right then a lake.

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Keep ahead, going through woodland and the footpath will begin to climb. As the path begins to level off you

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Cross over a wooden footbridge, climb some steps and then continue straight ahead to climb a 2nd set of steps. At a major intersection of footpaths ignore the path on the left and straight on and instead bear slightly right to take the footpath going down some steps.

Continue down a 2nd set of steps and cross over a wooden footbridge.

Climb some steps then continue straight ahead ignoring a path to the immediate left. Continue ahead

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Continue until reaching a split in the path. Then keep right and continue along the same level passing a marker post on your left. Continue straight ahead for some distance along the same level passing another maker posts on your left.

At a third marker post ignore the footpath going steep downhill to your right and continue straight ahead, then at a split in the path ignore the path to the left going uphill and keep right staying on a path that is relatively level.

Keep ahead for some distance to pass another marker post on your left and then a little further on, continue to pass another marker post on your left. After this marker post, ignore a path to the left and then continue for a short distance before dropping downhill to a cross a bridge.

Continue uphill through woodland. Eventually the footpath levels with a stream in the small gully on your left. The footpath begins to climb once more and you will pass a farm building on your right. Upon reaching a large metal gate directly in front of you, pass through a gap to pass by the gate, ignore a marked footpath on your left and continue straight ahead onto a road.

Continue along the road and then take the 1st road on the right called ‘Brooke Drive’. Continue along ‘Brooke Drive’ for some distance and then around to the left. At a T-junction turn right along the road for a very short distance and then take the 1st road on the left called ‘Recreation Road’.

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lane. At the end of the lane bear slightly right of some double gates along a marked footpath with a hedge on your right and a wall on your left.

After a short distance pass through a metal chicane and to a T-junction. Turn right along the lane, ignore a marked footpath on the left and continue ahead. After some distance you will come to 2 houses one on each side of the lane. Immediately after passing the house on the right, turn right along a signposted footpath.

Continue to enter a field and keep ahead with a hedge on your left. At the far side of the field to pass through a gap in the trees. Continue straight ahead across the centre of another field to pass through a gap adjacent to a large metal gate.

Keep ahead to reach a main road. Cross over and turn right and continue for some distance until reaching house number ‘151’ on the left and immediately after turn left onto a lane and signposted footpath.

After some distance pass by a telegraph pole on your left keep ahead to head gently downhill. Immediately after passing beneath some power cables and just prior to entering some woodland turn left onto a footpath.

Keep on the footpath to pass a pylon on your left.

Then pass a marker post on your left and enter the woodland. Follow the footpath and pass another marker posts on your right. After a short distance cross over a stile and into a field with open views to your right.

Continue ahead ignoring a marked footpath going uphill to your left. Keep ahead to drop steep downhill and cross over a footbridge. Climb some steps and continue along the edge of another field passing by an aerial/mast on your left.

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Just just prior to reaching some houses turn right and head downhill along the edge of the field. Near the bottom of the hill and then upon reaching a stone structure on your left, turn left to exit the field. Turn left along the lane and then turn right along a main road.

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Continue along the main road past a bus shelter and then downhill to reach a large metal gate on your right.

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The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire regiment)

Formed in 1881, The Sherwood Foresters was an infantry regiment of the British Army. After nearly 90 years of service, it merged with the Worcestershire Regiment in 1970. Its traditions are now continued by the Mercian Regiment.

Origins The Sherwood Foresters was formed in 1881 during the Childers reforms of the British Army. The rifle volunteers and militia units of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire were merged with two regular regiments, the 45th (Nottinghamshire) (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment of Foof and the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot. The regular regiments became the new unit’s 1st and 2nd Battalions.

Deployments Immediately after formation, 2nd Battalion was deployed to Egypt for the 1882 conflict there. It then went to the North West Frontier, where it took part in the Tirah Expedition and won its first Victoria Cross on the Heights of Dargai. In contrast, 1st Battalion was put on garrison duty in Ireland for the first 12 years of its life, before being sent to the Boer War in 1899.

Both battalions redeployed back to England on the outbreak of the First World War (1914-18). During the conflict, the regiment raised 13 battalions for home service and 20 for foreign service. These fought in Gallipoli and Italy as well as on the Western Front, gaining 57 battle honours.

World War Two Used during the interwar period as occupation and garrison troops, both battalions were back in action in Norway, France and North Africa in the early years of the Second World War (1939-45).

1st Battalion was captured at Tobruk in June 1942 and 16th Battalion was renamed to replace it. This served at home and in Germany. 2nd Battalion moved to Italy after its North African service.

The regiment also raised 10 Territorial and hostilitiesonly battalions, these went on to serve at home, in France, North Africa, Italy, and Singapore and Malaya.

Members of the 1/5th Battalion were captured at Singapore in 1942 and forced by the Japanese to labour on the notorious Thai-Burma ‘death’ railway.

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Legacy In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with The Worcestershire Regiment to form The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot).

Its traditions are now continued by 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters).

Regimental museums The National Army Museum works together with Regimental and Corps Museums across the country to help provide a network of military museums for everyone to visit and enjoy.

Explore the history and collections of the Sherwood Foresters by visiting the Museum of the Mercian Regiment at Nottingham Castle, and Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

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The First Signs of Springtime At this time of year nature emerges from the challenges of winter season with the optimism of spring and summer ahead. Changing winter weather patterns mean seasonal fluxes are no longer as predictable as they once were.

Many wildflowers have remained in bloom throughout the colder months. Some plants are frosted back but many survive for much or all of the winter. On the high moors for example, green bracken fronds have turned golden-brown, and deciduous purple moor-grass (Molinia) has turned pale straw colour across extensive areas of wet moor and bog. Both these plants are now viewed as ‘problem species’ by conservation managers as they have spread and this has implications for wildlife. However, what most people including site managers often don’t realise, is that this is a quirk of history and of what I have called ‘cultural severance’. This is the ending of traditional management and countryside usage by local people like farmers (and historically peasants). In this case, purple moor-grass was harvested as ‘moor hay’ from moors and heaths across and around the Peak.

Bracken was also cut and harvested as animal bedding and every farm in the upland zone had a ‘bracken stack’ close by the farm and its cowsheds. It was this use of local plants and vegetation which kept ‘pest’ species in check. Ending that usage combined with air pollution especially nitrogen fallout from powerstations and car exhausts triggered a modern-day crisis of moorland management; maybe we need to learn from history.

on waste or disturbed ground look for the yellow dandelionlike flowers of coltsfoot. At the same time, birdlife is responding to longer days and shorter nights. An early breeding species is the tawny owl active in woods, parks, and gardens across the area. Breeding tawnies are highly territorial and hence very vocal from December through until March. But don’t approach too close to a nest-site as they will defend it against all comers – including you!

Also in woods and gardens there are blackbirds, robins, and others all singing and displaying. On rivers, canals, and lakes, waterbirds are holding territories and forming pairs; some like mallards already have ducklings in abundance. The beautiful little grebes or dabchicks are paired and actively displaying and foraging within their chosen patch. Worth looking for along the Peak District rivers such as the Wye, Derwent, and Lathkill for example, there is a rather special bird of the area, the dipper. During the breeding season with their distinctive white breasts, these birds fly up and down stream to patrol their territory; every so often stopping to bob or dip on a suitable stone or rock. However, listen for the distinctively sweet, rippling warble of the male dipper, from October to July but most easily heard around February or March.

Nevertheless, spring will soon be on its way and bracken-beds will show green shoots of recovery. Lower down the hill, woodlands start to burst into life with the first spring flowers such as the white wood anemone and golden yellow lesser celandine. Along watercourses, the peculiar flowers of great butterbur emerge and Professor Ian D. Rotherham, researcher, writer, broadcaster on wildlife and environmental issues in the Peak District and elsewhere, is contactable on info@hallamec.plus.com. Follow his website www.ukeconet.org, blog ianswalkonthewildside, Twitter @IanThewildside 46 Don’t forget to mention Voice& Magazines when responding to the Ads

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No hard and fast rules for February in the garden.

Everything depends on the weather and if there is a promise of really cold weather it is best to err on the cautious side.

Still, there will be good signs of the approaching growing season – snowdrops in abundance. Once they’ve flowered you can lift and divide while they still keep their green foliage and they’ll reward you with more plants next year.

Speaking of bulbs this is a good time to start getting many summer bulbs in the ground. Alliums planted now should still be in time for late spring/early summer flowering and anemones are good to go, but do soak them overnight to give them a head start. Check how hardy the plants will be, this info is on the packet to ensure you don’t risk frost damage.

Prune climbing and shrub roses if you haven’t already and cut back old growth on sedums as you see the new growth starting to come through.

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Strawberries, surprisingly being hardy perennials will have survived the winter but may be looking a bit bedraggled by now. Take off old brown growth to encourage the plant to put out new shoots and if you want an early picking, put them under a cloche from the end of this month and into early March, remembering to keep them watered.

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