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From the Editor Dear Readers, As I type, whilst sat on what feels like the face of the Sun (42 degrees), we’re going through a bit of a heatwave apparently.

I’m all for a bit of warmth and sun on my face but usually, I like to be near water to cool down and/ or aircon and a nice cocktail or fruity cider in hand – I currently have none of the above – very sad times! I genuinely thought about sleeping in the car last night but reconsidered when I realised how irritating it would be to the neighbours to hear my car ticking away and then keep kicking in to keep the aircon cool! Maybe I should start having a nice spot of gin in my bottom drawer for such occasions, it’d go down a treat with the warm cordial I am enduring to ‘stay hydrated’! pffft, ‘stay hydrated’ Fat chance of that! I’d need to down 6 gallons every 20mins to get close! Anyway, thunderstorms are due so every cloud and all that, I guess!

So, have you seen our front covers this month in homage to World Elephant Day. Laura has written about them in her article and personally speaking, I adore elephants. A few years back, we were lucky enough to have a close encounter with an elephant whilst travelling and whilst I was fortunate enough to wash her feet & feed her a ball of hay a few of the other tourists got up on her back and were sprayed from her trunk. For me it was such an amazing experience, getting to be so close to such a beautiful animal but I still struggle with it. Even though it was in a nature reserve and they were fed and well looked after, I can’t help but feel that the allure of western money to make them perform for the tourists is just too much.

Why can’t we just leave them be (protect and preserve where necessary) and not poach them, so that they can

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just be peaceful in their natural habitat? I appreciate that this is controversial for many and has many perspectives attached to it and I know people who have straddled an Elephants back and been sprayed or enjoyed other parlour tricks at the hands of their handler, so it is only my opinion but I often think about that beautiful elephant, laying on her side in the river whilst I scratched her feet – she may have enjoyed it, but personally speaking it has given me a different perspective when a holiday involves animals, but then again, isn’t that what travel is all about – broadening horizons & challenging opinions?!

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ELEPHANT FACTS In honour of World Elephant Day on August 12th, here are some facts you may find interesting.

The elephants we see today (and there are THREE species, not just two – more on this in a mo) share a common ancestor with the Woolly Mammoths who roamed the Ice Age World between 300,000 years ago to around 10,000 years ago.

This common ancestor was part of a group of herbivores named Proboscidea, whose origins date back sixty million years.

Most proboscideans were relatively small compared to modern elephants and would have borne little resemblance to the animals we know today.

Some six million years ago, proboscideans began to separate into different species. DNA research shows that the African elephants were the first to diverge, whilst Woolly Mammoths and Asian Elephants followed suit around 440,000 years later.

Now back to the fact that there are THREE distinct species of elephant around today, and these are: •

The African savanna elephant

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The Asian elephant

DNA shows the two African species diverged about 2.6 million years ago.

The African savanna elephant is the largest living land animal; an adult can tip the scales at 16,500 lbs (7,500 kg) and stand 10–13 ft (3–4 m) tall at the shoulder.

Forest elephants are smaller than the savannadwelling species and have thinner, straighter tusks.

The remaining 150,000 or so forest elephants are found mainly in the dense forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon An Asian elephant weighs about 12,000 lbs (5,500 kg) and stands about 10 ft (3 m) tall.

Apart from the differences in sizes, there are several other ways to distinguish the three species visually: Ears African elephants have much larger ears than their Asian counterparts, and it’s possible to tell the difference between the savanna-dwelling species, whose ears closely resemble the outline of the continent of Africa, and the forest livers with more oval-shaped ears.

Head shape Both species of African elephants have a rounded, dome-like skull (the forest elephants being smaller), whilst the Indian elephant has a very distinct twin domed head with a clearly defined indent running down the middle.

Toenails!

African forest elephants have five toenails on the front feet and four on the back, while African savanna elephants have four on the front and three on the back. Asian elephants have five toenails on the front and four on the back.

Trunks African elephants have a kind of two-finger arrangement at the end of their trunks, giving them tremendous dexterity; Indian elephants, however, have only one “finger”.

One final note, all three species of elephants are considered to be at risk. Some African populations are increasing, mainly in Southern Africa, whilst in other areas, they are being poached to near extinction level, and Asian elephant numbers have declined by 50% in the last three generations!

Could you imagine a world without elephants?

I know I couldn’t.

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Here at Swanwick Hall Cricket Club, we are not only committed to our senior sides and the children’s cricket but, we are now also very proud to announce the start of our women’s softball team this season. The women have really got off to an amazing start, beginning our training throughout the winter indoors and since the launch of our team, managing to secure sponsorship of the kit from Derbyshire Properties. We are extremely grateful for this and it certainly helps us look the part during our games and festivals. We aren’t pro by any means, we have a complete mix of all ages and abilities that just come together to go out and have some fun.

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Alfreton, was Wingfield Station, in South Wingfield near is Thompson. built in 1839-40 to the designs of Franc ures built for It forms part of a series of railway struct designed by two the North Midland Railway, which was engineers of the of the most important and influential enson. railway era, George and Robert Steph best preserved The line is considered to be one of the of railway examples of the pioneering phase eld Station thus development in England, and Wingfi of outstanding forms an early, rural railway ensemble interest. le sequence It’s the sole survivor of Thompson’s notab Leeds and and Derby en betwe ns statio esque of pictur England, and in ns statio y railwa st earlie the of is one rtioned building therefore the world. It is a subtly propo greatly admired was that ing detail of cy delica a with appreciated its by contemporary commentators, who ies. qualit l ectura archit d refine n is the Grade Sitting within the grounds of the Statio house and the II listed contemporary station master’s slightly later Parcel Shed building. and at risk Wingfield Station had been in private hands the considerable for many years. In 2015, thanks to Histor y Group, it efforts of the South Wingfield Local recognition of its was afforded Grade II* listed status in buildings are national significance. Only 8% of all listed designated Grade II* or Grade I. ed Amber Valley Since 2015 Historic England had assist with the owner.

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with one of Specialists began work in October 2021, lding on the their first tasks being the erection of scaffo work had to be trackside elevation of the building. This of time during a completed within a specified period Saturday night/Sunday morning. of work, which In June 2022 ASBC completed this phase ide elevations, primarily focused on repairs to the tracks and the roof of the roof and chimneys of the Station cal Completion, the Parcel Shed. Just prior to Practi been successful DHBT received the news that they had National Lotter y in securing a £667,000 grant from The ation project Heritage Fund. This means that the restor nable long-term can be completed, enabling a sustai use of the building as office space. e meaningful This phase of the project will also provid t opportunities heritage training and skills developmen about, share and as well as encouraging people to learn 8 week public celebrate their heritage. Alongside an activities will be opening period, a range of planned eer programme, delivered at Wingfield including a volunt ves and onpublic events, wildlife conservation initiati the offices will site interpretation. Following occupation, each year and be open to the public for at least 6 days the grounds will be accessible at all times.

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Parents/carers spend, each week (on average) an extra £325, when children are not at school. Then, when the school holidays are ending, the cost of children returning to school can easily be £400, for items like school uniforms, sports gear, equipment, and IT stuff.

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Cost of living - is rising and is having a big impact on all aspects of our finances. Here is information and advice, designed to ensure that you’re getting all the help that you are entitled to - https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/ community/cost-of-living/cost-of-living.aspx Derbyshire Discretionary Fund (DDF) - can provide grants or emergency cash payments if we are in urgent need of financial help following a crisis or disaster -https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/social-health/ adult-care-and-wellbeing/benefits-debt-and-legalmatters/managing-money-and-debt/derbyshirediscretionary-fund/derbyshire-discretionary-fundddf.aspx Household support fund (HSF) - is available to help Derbyshire residents facing financial hardship over the coming months by providing grants and other financial support, it is due to end on 30 September 2022 - https:// www.derbyshire.gov.uk/social-health/adult-careand-wellbeing/benefits-debt-and-legal-matters/ managing-money-and-debt/household-support-fund/ household-support-fund.aspx Cost of Living Support (Government website) https://costoflivingsupport.campaign.gov.uk/ General advice and information - including checking our benefits entitlement and search for grants, the following website is very insightful - https://www.turn2us.org.uk/ For personal support do contact us, whether by phone, text, email, or pop into our offices - based in the Thrive Building on the corner of the road leading to the Co-Op food store.

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Riddings PHARMACY ABOUT RIDDINGS PHARMACY Moh Dara, Pharmacist, took over running Riddings Pharmacy back in 2016. Moh has over 27 years’ experience working as a pharmacist, having spent many years working within Poole and Bournemouth.

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We’re back at Homesford for our third and final walk in this series. I hope you are enjoying it as much as we have! This month the walk was done without our four-legged friends due to the heatwave. So don’t worry that they are not in the pics. They will be back soon (weather permitting!) I have put these walks together as a series as the walk from last month can be combined with the walk from this month to make a 6-mile, figure of eight walk, if you like something a little more taxing. I hope you manage to enjoy the weather, we’ll be back to grumbling about the rain soon!

3 MILE CIRCULAR WALK FROM HOMESFORD TEA ROOMS, ON THE A6 NEAR WHATSTANDWELL A nice short but fun packed walk for you and your dog! There are some uphill sections on this walk so should it take around 1½ hours to complete. There is a range of terrain, which can be muddy and uneven, although unlikely during a heatwave! There are also a few sections of road, so take plenty of care and make sure you wear appropriate footwear.

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Immediately after the river bridge turn left to follow the footpath and continue until reaching a T junction of paths. Turn right along the first footpath signposted for ‘Holloway’. After a short distance you will pass another signpost for Ambergate on your left. Continue straight ahead, now going downhill until this path merges with another.

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Scarsdale Opens for Alfreton’s Awesome Pets Scarsdale Vets opened its doors for Alfreton’s awesome pets and their amazing owners across the community with their official open day on 25th June.

The lovely new staff who are raring to go and welcome new clients with open arms as well as senior members of Scarsdale, set up a day jam packed with entertainment, goodies, and prizes, which was ultimately topped off with the official ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Amber Valley.

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W E I V A 'C' When is old “old”?

When I was a nipper I regarded anyone above the age of about 16 as old. I don’t mean “old” in terms of waiting for the hearse to arrive...I mean old in terms of possessing a certain gravitas.

When I got to 16 I realised how mistaken I was.

I personally had about as much gravitas as Pinky and Perky, roaring around on an SX 200 and thinking the world belonged to me and my mates.

Things were different though. In the late 50s, when I was about 4 years old, every man aged 30 or more seemed to wear a jacket and tie to go for his Sunday lunchtime pint. Weirdly lots of them wore a collar, tie, sleeveless sweater and a jacket on top. I never really understood the sweater...

By the time I hit 30 things had changed. I was still in jeans and t shirt. The older men, now in their 50s were still in sweater and tie but they were a fading breed.

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We all got cars earlier and became more mobile.

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Monument.Try to imagine that as preparation for being sent to fight in the Great War. I’m now in my late 60s and still wear t shirts and shorts for everything other than the most formal occasions.

Is that laziness? Probably....but not definitely.

Maybe it’s because I still don’t feel as old as I’m supposed to. Maybe it’s because I’m not prepared to accept that age eventually wins.

I’ve heard it said that “70 is the new 50”. Does that mean that “30 is the new 10”? I’m not sure what it all means any more.

I know one thing though. Arrogant, selfish old men still send fresh faced young men to kill people they don’t know and have no argument with, as in Ukraine at the moment. Hopefully, one day they just won’t go and what can a handful of old warmongers do about it?

I was sorely tempted to use this months column to rejoice in the removal from office of the village idiot and inveterate liar that is Boris Johnson, a man with no moral compass, a man who needed “ethics advisors” and even they couldn’t keep him honest.

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If you’ve been paying attention over the past couple of months you won’t need reminding that during the worst of the pandemic, I helped the ‘shielding’ George and his wife, Gill, by doing their weekly shop.

On the doorstep, I really got to know Gill and particularly enjoyed hearing her reminisce on her days as a teacher at a local Roman Catholic primary school. I often told her that she had enough tales from her working life to fill a book.

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“In a lesson intended to give the kids an understanding that the earth was round and turned on its axis every 24 hours, I used a globe.

This seemed to go down well and led to some interesting questions and observations, including one I’d never heard before. One young girl put up her hand and said, ‘Please Miss. Where is the moon?’”

“In that same lesson I pointed out the North & South Poles explaining how uncomfortable it would be for us from Derbyshire, living at either extreme. At this, Kevin asked ‘Miss. How do polar bears keep warm? Is it to do with the penguins?’”

“In explaining one day that as we followed the teachings of Christ, we were Christians who practised the Roman Catholic faith, I opened up the topic to bring in other faiths that the children may have heard of. Although he couldn’t say it properly

and I struggled for a while to work out what he meant – one boy suggested humanitarianism. I asked if anyone knew what this was. Mary, a bright girl, always keen to answer quickly, put her hand up and asked, ‘Is it like vegetarianism, but they only eat humans?’”

“I’m not sure how we got round to it, but during the time of Bill Clinton’s presidency of the USA, I mentioned that to Americans, his wife, Hillary, was known as First Lady. This totally confused Monica who asked, ‘Please Miss, wasn’t Eve the first lady?’”

“I asked the class one day, what they would do to make the world a better place for everyone. There were a number of sensible suggestions, but the one that sticks in my memory came from Paul who said, ‘I’d like a McDonald’s on my street’” We finished that particular lesson by doing some writing. Perhaps, influenced by his pal’s request for a McDonald’s, one boy began writing furiously but stopped to ask, ‘Please Miss, how do you spell KFC?’” “One day, it must have been about thirty years ago, we were discussing mathematical symbols for addition, division, subtraction etc., and I asked the class if they knew the difference between < & >. Sean put his hand up and said ‘Is the one on the right for fast forward and the one on the left for rewind?’”

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I like a joke as much as the next person but I have real difficulty telling them! Either I forget the punchline, miss a vital something, or…as my other half repeatedly says, I meander all over the place and end up telling a “mini-story” instead of a quick joke!

But where do jokes come from?

I thought I’d do some digging to see if I could find a plausible origin story.

Turns out there isn’t one – what a surprise.

If you think about it though, jokes must have always been around in both a physical, slapstick, falling over AND in the verbal, play on words sense. I say this because I bet humans have always needed to laugh at each other – it seems to be a default, we laugh at ourselves, and we laugh at others, don’t we?

When it comes to looking at recorded jokes, Wikipedia shares the following with us: The oldest identified joke is an ancient Sumerian proverb from 1900 BC containing toilet humour: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.” Its records were dated to the Old Babylonian period, and the joke may go as far back as 2300 BC. The second oldest joke found on the Westcar Papyrus and believed to be about Sneferu was from Ancient Egypt circa 1600 BC: “How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish.”

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My “research” then moved to look for the world’s funniest joke, and I discovered that good old Reader’s Digest has an article called… The 100 Funniest Jokes from the Last 100 Years.

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Why don’t pirates take a shower before they walk the plank?

They just wash up on shore.

Two Hollywood stars ran into each other at the door of their psychiatrist’s office.

“Hello, there,” said one. “Are you coming or going?”

“If I knew that,” said the other, “I wouldn’t be here.”

“My son had to give up his career because of fallen arches.”

“He’s an athlete?”

“No—an architect.”

These give you an indication of the quality (or not) of the remaining 97 puns. Personally, I think the Ancient Egyptian one is funnier, but then again, I’m not a joke connoisseur! Perhaps Reader’s Digest should be advised to steer clear of the humour business.

I’ll finish by asking you, the readers if you have a favourite joke? I’m not sure I do, and yet I came across this one whilst writing this article, and it did make me laugh… simplicity and a play on words. “ I went to the zoo the other day, there was only one dog in it, it was a shitzu.”

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This was indeed how things seemed for the starling which was once one of our most familiar birds but for some time appeared to be joining a long list of formerly ‘common or garden’ birds but which was becoming fewer and fewer in number each year. Various theories were put forwards as to the cause of the decline, but it seemed that factors like, the drying up of wetland habitats in upland moors and bogs for example, were a problem. In summer, in places like the Peak District, post-breeding flocks of starlings gather with local birds boosted by immigrants from the continent until, by the autumn into mid-winter, they grow into the now famous ‘murmurations’. These are such as at Stony Middleton where over a million birds may flock together in the late afternoon to roost overnight. However, in the mid to late summer they will have moved onto upland pastures, moors, and bogs where they habitually gorge on the vast numbers of emerging craneflies (daddy-long-legs) whose leather-jacket larvae thrive in damp turf. Longterm drying of the moors has meant fewer craneflies and hence it seemed, less starlings. I wonder if rewetting the great peat-bogs is now helping the starling to recover.

a simple pale buff. These are highly gregarious birds with a good level of intelligence and complex behaviours. They are excellent mimics and often make calls and snippets of songs pinched from other species that they have been mixing with. Indeed, you can tell where your birds have come from by their calls. I have heard very passable renditions of for instance green woodpecker, curlew, golden plover, redshank, and lapwing. For the latter species, I assume the starlings had been feeding on a wetland or coastal area.

These beautiful birds are deeply embedded in our culture. In Russia for example, the return of the starlings in spring is awaited much as we anticipate the swallow, swift, and house martin. As often the case with such distinct and interesting birds, local people have developed numerous common ‘folk’ names for the starling over the centuries. As documented by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey in their seminal ‘Birds Britannica’, these names vary from Starnel in the English Midlands, to Shepster, Sheppy, Shebster, Shep, Stinker, Shitlegs (Northern England of course), Scootie, Stirling, Stirlin, and Stirleen. Anyway, whatever we choose to call them it is wonderful to have them back again.

Now, whatever the reason, it does seem that there is a recovery happening. Where I live for instance, the starlings are nesting in my neighbour’s roof where a ridge-tile has slipped. The numbers visiting my bird feeders have risen dramatically, and the starlings also love to bathe in the pond or the birdbath. They really cannot resist an offering of dried mealworms, and at times, I have up to twenty or so birds now mixing adults, with their typically splendid plumage of myriad colours, and the youngsters which are

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I was sitting on our allotment in this July heatwave a few days ago after doing some watering. I was searching in my mind for some the words in the hymn ‘We plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the land….’. There is one phrase about ‘soft refreshing rain’. If only! We haven’t had any decent rain for weeks now here on the LBLAA site. It’s a good job as much water as a plot holder needs is included in the plot rental charge. But I shouldn’t complain really when drought conditions are far worse in other parts of the world.

Some plants seem to be growing well in these conditions. Our sweetcorn varieties Swift and Incredible are shooting up really well probably because they are C4 plants which are adapted to hot, dry conditions. However, our silver beet and perpetual spinach plants are beginning to bolt, i.e. going to seed. Lettuces of all varieties are even worse for bolting and most plots have lettuces which are shooting up and even flowering - what a waste!

The reason plants like lettuce bolt was solved as long ago as 1931. Apparently there is a link between increasing day length and the switch from leaf production to flowering. This is photoperiodism. The plants somehow count daylight hours and switch to flowering to produce seeds to perpetuate their species once a threshold is passed. Heat and water stress make plants bolt even quicker so this hot dry spell just makes things worse bringing on premature flowering.

And have you noticed that the leaves of bolting lettuce plants taste quite bitter? This is due to the production of sesquiterpene lactones. This is an evolutionary response by the bolting plants to make the leaves less palatable to being eaten by insects, grubs and animals before flowering and seed production can take place. Clever things, lettuces!

To grow your own lettuces and watch them bolt in hot weather you need an allotment. Contact our plot bailiff Mick on 07725402033 to arrange a viewing.

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