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Recipe of The Month - Meringue Kisses Method: 1. Preheat the oven to 110C. Drawing freehand or using a 6.5cm heartshaped cutter as a template, draw eight hearts on to two sheets of baking parchment. Turn them over and lay onto two baking sheets. Don’t grease the paper as meringue will be used to secure the corners. Weigh a spotlessly clean bowl, then weigh the egg whites in it. Calculate their weight, double it and weigh that quantity of caster sugar into a separate bowl.

2. Whisk the egg whites until they stand in soft peaks and the fluffy mixture doesn’t slip around in the bowl. You should be able to turn it upside down over your head without the mixture falling out. Whisk in the sugar, a tablespoon at a time, making sure each spoonful dissolves before adding the next. Dip a cocktail stick into the food colouring and add it to the meringue until you reach the depth of colour you

want. Dot a little of the meringue under the corners of each piece of parchment to secure it to the baking sheet.

3. Spoon the rest of the meringue into a piping bag with a 1cm round nozzle and pipe inside the heart templates. Bake for about 1.5 hours, until they come away easily from the paper. Leave to cool in the oven.

4. Set a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water, making sure the bottom of the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Melt the white chocolate in the bowl, then spoon it over the base of each meringue and leave to set. Whip the cream and icing sugar in a bowl until thick and glossy. Swirl in the cherry jam. Take two meringue hearts and sandwich them together with the sweet jam cream. Serve dusted with a little extra icing sugar and a couple of ripe cherries.

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With Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day coming up, we’ve got a delicious recipe for you this month that are perfect to treat the ones you love.

Ingredients (serves four): • 3 large egg whites • 200g caster sugar • Pink food colouring • 50g white chocolate (chopped) For the filling: • 300ml double cream • 1tbsp icing sugar (plus extra for sprinkling)

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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!

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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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Put YOURSELF First this Valentine’s Day February - the forgotten month, or perhaps the month we want to forget - it’s usually wet, grey and cold, Christmas is long gone, the New Year resolutions already abandoned, and the summer hols seem aeons away…

What better month to celebrate L.O.V.E.? Valentine’s Day - the annual love fest beloved by manufacturers of fake red roses and schmaltzy greeting cards. Who remembers NOT receiving cards from secret admirers and feeling crushed because of the lack?

I certainly do, albeit many years ago!

These days my other half and I have a pact; we don’t send each other a card, flowers or chocolates - in fact, we don’t even acknowledge the day, we’re secure in our feelings and don’t need extravagant demonstrations of affection - it’s so much less stressful!

I have an alternative idea for you this Valentine’s Day - instead of sending your love outwards via cards and flowers, turn the love back onto yourself! How often have you put yourself last on your personal to-do list? How often have you prioritised someone else’s needs above your own? And how often have you thought it selfish to do things just for you - things that make your heart sing?

Sharing your love with others IS important; I’m not saying it isn’t, but giving yourself time for self-care, selfappreciation - and YES, self-love, is equally vital. We’ve all heard the phrase “you can’t pour from an empty jug”, keeping YOU happy, content and fulfilled is key to you being able to share yourself and your love with the world. It ISN’T selfish to take time out just for you, and it’s time more of us realised that and stopped acting like

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martyrs at the beck and call of family, friends and work colleagues.

Take time to go for a solo walk, swim, shopping trip - whatever floats - your boat do it and enjoy it! Buy something frivolous just for you. Buy yourself flowers, a frothy coffee in a nice café, get a new hairstyle, a new outfit (visit charity stores if you’re on a budget, there can be some amazing finds if you take the time to browse). And don’t be afraid to say NO. It’s your life, your time and if someone asks for something that you don’t want to do - tell them - that doesn’t mean turning into a grouch; it just means you introduce a new set of boundaries for others to respect. I’m not saying, “don’t help others” - I am saying “it’s not always your job to”.

This may all take some getting used to, especially if you have always been a giver, but persevere. Eventually, doing things for YOU will become more natural, second nature even, and I bet you will feel better for respecting your own wants and needs - and we all know that when WE feel good, we are better equipped to deal with everything the world throws at us. Win. WIn. These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

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Sutton Heritage Society Memories of The Old Library (Part One)

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A snowy night in Canada may seem a long way from a well-remembered building demolished in recent years in Sutton-in-Ashfield, but there is a connection. The link is memories……

My father, Harold Hepworth, was Chief Librarian in Sutton for over 40 years, from 1925 to 1967. My visits to the Library began at a very early age, and were not really to borrow books. It was a place to go on Saturday mornings, and get out of my mother’s way, and perhaps get in the way of my Dad and his assistants. I used to cross Sutton to get from Carsic Lane to the top of Oates Hill, where the Library stood.

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my Dad thought that was a good use of a Library, a public place to be used by all. The room to the right was the children’s library. Really, I think my Dad chose most of the books for me, Arthur Ransome, Malcolm Saville, Garry Hogg, even Enid Blyton. On the left was the staff room, where most of the administrative work was done, and where I probably wreaked most havoc, especially with the typewriter, which I must have misaligned on many occasions, a more robust instrument than modern affairs. It took me over forty years or more to begin to type properly, and that with the assistance of a computer keyboard, which is kinder with errors.

I spent many an hour in that staff room on a Saturday morning. Beyond and a little to the left were the toilets, and also the stairs down to the side door entrance, and down to the basement.

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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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Draycott Confectionery Ltd who trade at Ilkeston, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Allenton markets return to ALFRETON Market Hall after 25 years absence.

When the Market opened on Institute Lane in the early 70s, Peter Whilde was amongst the markets first traders. Peter’s family had owned bakery shops on King Street & Mansfield Road, Alfreton before and just after World War ||: his grandparents are both buried in the town cemetery. His two sons Phillip & Steven are now running the company, thus making their return a family affair.

Draycott Confectionery Ltd are renowned for selling top brand cakes, biscuits, & sweets at discounted prices since 1964.

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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.

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

Continue ahead and keep left staying close to a chain link fence on your left.

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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.

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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.

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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.

10. 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’.

11. Continue along Recreation Road as it becomes a 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.

12. 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.

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steps and cross over a wooden footbridge.

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13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Continue along the main road past a bus shelter and then downhill to reach a large metal gate on your right. Pass through a gap next the metal gate and follow a footpath going downhill. Pass by a BMX track on your left and continue until you have a lake directly in front of you. Follow the tarmac path to keep the lake on your right and cross over a bridge back into the car park.

This walk is for illustrative purposes only. Voice Magazines takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.

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We’ve had around a month between games, from the middle of December to the middle of January. So, the return is always an ‘interesting’ one! One or two of us have probably had a few too many mince pies and most of us take a week or two to break ourselves back into playing. For some of our more ‘mature’ players stiff backs and tight hamstrings are the common complaints due to the playing position hockey requires, but it’s all quickly forgotten the moment the whistle blows on a Saturday!

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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.

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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.

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