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From the Editor Hello Readers!! So, we’ve done explosive fireworks front covers for the November edition for years, so we fancied a change this year and have gone for ‘World Nursery Rhyme Week’. It is my thought that parents and kids of all ages haven’t had it easy over the last year or so and nursery rhymes promote the importance of childhood development and education in the early years of education & who doesn’t love to cast their minds back – I wonder, can you name them all? Check out our Facebook page to see the others. Here at Voice HQ we’ve got our Christmas spirit going this month! Check out our handmade wreaths on Facebook!! Now, don’t judge us too harshly, as some of us are more creative than others and some of us follow the rules more than others! Nevertheless, it was great fun to do and I’m sure you’ll all be surprised to learn, we all got a little bit competitive with each other over this one. Why not have a go yourself; based on the next panic buying situation being toilet rolls (again!), we should all have plenty of tubes left over!!! Whilst we’re talking Christmas, the next edition is the last one of 2021 – thank crikey for that – how many more years can

we say ‘next year will be better’?! Although, in fairness, 2021 was significantly better than 2020 for many of us, but I am splitting hairs! Anyway, I digress – this is your last call for any community notices or events or anything Christmas related to be posted. If you have anything you want to tell people about, now is your time, get in touch today. Oooh, I also forgot to mention last month that we launched our 11th Magazine in the Clay Cross area. Eleven mags for eleven years, each year is beyond my wildest expectations, and I am thankful for our lovely readers, fantastic advertisers and contributors and the best team in the world. I think we might need to recruit some new team members next year at this rate with the plans I have in mind but we’ll need some special people to fit in with this crowd! Happy Reading,

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The Dark Side of Nursery Rhymes Nursery rhymes…nonsense for kids, or coded messages containing dark undertones? Read on to see why the latter may be closer to the truth than we would maybe like to think! “Nursery rhymes”, with their distinctive sing-song rhythms and melodies; date back centuries, as far back as the 14th Century in fact. Modern childhood psychologists believe they can help a child’s mental development and spatial reasoning, but it is doubtful our antecedents were thinking in those terms when the majority of the ditties were composed. Let’s have a quick look at a few of the best known rhymes: Baa Baa Black Sheep refers to the wool tax imposed by Edward I, when new rules said a third of the cost of a sack of wool went to him, another went to the church and the last to the farmer. In the original rhyme, the ‘little boy who lived down the lane’ ended up with nothing! The phrase ‘black sheep of the family’ stems from the fact that the wool from black sheep could not be successfully dyed and thus had less value. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary is believed to be about Queen Mary (aka Bloody Mary) and concerns the torture and murder of Protestants, the garden being an allusion to graveyards full of Protestant martyrs, whilst “silver bells” were thumbscrews and “cockleshells” are thought to be instruments of torture which were attached to male genitals. Nice. Not! Oranges and Lemons describes a condemned man’s journey towards his execution in London, passing various churches on his way. Rock-a-bye Baby alludes to the rumour that the son of King James II was actually another man’s son, smuggled into the delivery room in order to ensure a Catholic would once more ascend to the throne of England. An early recorded version of the rhyme ends with the footnote “This may serve as a warning to the Proud and Ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last.”

Ring a Ring o Roses, we’re all familiar with the idea that this rhyme, and the associated little dance so beloved of kids, is connected with the Great Plague of 1665. The ‘rosie’ being the distinctive rash that developed on the skin of sufferers, and the ‘posies’ referring to the scented flowers required to camouflage the hideous stench of decaying flesh and rotting bodies. Even the seemingly innocuous ditty Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, may refer to the persecution of Catholics in the 16th and 17th century, when Catholic priests were often burnt at the stake. Whilst Lucy Locket is actually connected to an argument between two prostitutes in the 18th century! So much time has elapsed since these nursery rhymes were first written that modern day mothers singing them with their children can be forgiven for not realising the death, destruction, and darkness so many of them allude to. And anyway - who really cares these days, they’re fun, kids enjoy then and they’re part of our heritage and tradition. 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. To find out more visit www.landgassociates. co.uk or contact Laura on 07736 351341

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This year, leading academics will discuss what triggered and sustained innovation in the first Industrial Revolution, with one talk focusing on modern entrepreneurship as a point of comparison. Our first speaker, Professor Joel Mokyr, Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Illinois and Sackler Professorial Fellow at Tel Aviv University, will talk on the ‘Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution: A Neglected Nexus’, to show how the development of applied science interacted with industrial change and expansion. Professor Emeritus John Styles of the University of Hertfordshire will discuss ‘Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution: Fibres, Fashion and Technical Innovation in British Cotton Textiles, 1630-1780’. He will consider how the progress from hand spinning to the Arkwright water frame and beyond was shaped by the changes in fashion in the 1760s-1770s.

Arkwright’s career might have come to move from Barber and Wigmaker to Machine Maker and Industrial Mogul. Dr Karolina Hutkova, London School of Economics will talk to us on The English East India Company’s Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850. She will discuss how technology transfer to the Bengal silk industry came from the same Italian silk factories that influenced the Derby Silk Mill and subsequently the ‘Silk Town’ of Macclesfield, and the effect that had on the Bengal workers. Professor Simon Mosey, Director of the Haydn Green

Institute for Innovation and The Arkwright Society returns forEntrepreneurship their at Nottingham University will discuss ‘Building a legacy of ingenuity through entrepreneurial organisations’ 7th Industrial Revolution Conference This talk will help us to consider how the minds of

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Dr Gill Cookson, Visiting Research Fellow, School of History at Leeds University will address Innovation in the Time of Arkwright through a contextual approach to this period. This will offer a view of how Richard Tickets are priced at £20! Book your place today at www.cromfordmills.org.uk/event/7th-annual-industrialrevolution-conference/ There will be 20 free places for students if they email Tricia Trice at ttrice@arkwrightsociety.org.uk from their university email - on a first come first served basis!

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How did you first get into fighting? I was introduced to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at the age of six and I really enjoyed it, and then a couple of years ago I discovered Mixed Martial Arts - MMA, which incorporates boxing, kickboxing, and Muay Thai (a Thai martial art). With MMA I learned how to strike an opponent which I’d never done before and I am also able to bring in my Jiu Jitsu grappling skills. I now prefer MMA over other fighting disciplines as it has a variety of martial arts combined so there is more to learn and master.

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This month we go back 4 years to October 2017 to revisit a perfect autumnal walk. This walk has a bit of everything. We begin walking through a country park with some great views before looping round to pass the historic and picturesque Annesley All Saints Church and then onto the pretty Annesley Forest. A mid length walk which should take you and your dog around 2 1/2 hours to complete. There is a mix of terrain, with some uneven and muddy bits, particularly depending on the weather so please wear appropriate footwear. There is one particularly busy road so be careful, keep dogs on leads if unsure and as always, follow the countryside code.

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Standing with your back to the car park entrance, walk straight ahead to pass through a large wooden gate, pass by a signboard reading ‘Newstead and Annesley Country Park’ on your right and then continue along a wide and well laid path.

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After a short distance pass through a metal width restrictor and then continue straight along the path going uphill. Near the top of the hill pass through some concrete post and, almost immediately, turn left along a footpath opposite a bungalow (No.9) to pass between some houses. Continue straight ahead to walk across the top of a cul-de-sac and then towards a block of garages. Thread between the garages and pass through a metal chicane to continue along a footpath. After a short distance pass by a graveyard on your right and then a church on your left. Immediately after the church cross over a crossroads of footpaths and continue straight ahead along a footpath into some trees. Continue downhill until you reach a road. Turn left along the road for a short distance and then turn right onto a lane going uphill passing a sign on your right reading ‘No unauthorised vehicles’.

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It’s important you’re also dressed for winter. Think about your own footwear when you’re venturing out with your dog and make sure you’re just as visible as your dog. Beware of deep snow The British weather is often unpredictable. Keep your dog on a lead if it’s snowing. There could be some deep pockets of snow or snow which maybe covering up some unsafe areas.

Don’t leave your dog in a car Leaving dogs in cars is dangerous all year round, even in winter. You should never leave your dog unattended in a car. Frozen ponds Don’t let your dog walk across frozen ponds. The ice may not be thick enough to take the weight of your dog. Anti-freeze is poisonous Even the smallest amounts of anti-freeze can have a very harmful and it can often have a fatal effect on your pet. Keep anti-freeze well out of pets’ reach and clean up any spillages right away. Check leads, collars and harnesses It’s a good idea to check items such as leads, collars and harnesses are all in working order. They can often get damaged by the winter weather e.g. wet weather may make metal clips rust. If you’re having difficulty choosing the correct sized harness or coat for your dog, please visit our pet care retrial store at Pride Veterinary Centre where our friendly retail team will be able to provide advice.

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We’re largely getting to the stage of making things ready for next year’s garden, while still looking forward to some over-winter colour and looking after the most vulnerable areas.

If you have parts of the lawn which get waterlogged during winter you can spike the area properly now and brush grit or sharp sand into the holes to help improve drainage. You’ll also help the lawn by raking up fallen leaves which block out light and harm grass growth. As much as possible also take piles of leaves away from bushes and shrubs otherwise slugs and snails might use them for overwintering. Which isn’t to say you shouldn’t create wildlife habitats around the garden, just maybe not round your prize perennials. If you’re wanting to divide and replant perennials which flower before next July – the likes of oriental poppies or lungwort – it’s best to do them now. Replant the same day if you can so they don’t suffer too much shock. Roses planted in exposed spots, should be pruned now to stop windrock over the winter. Cut off most of this year’s growth and if there’s any sign of blackspot, don’t put cuttings in the compost as it will transmit the disease. Tulip bulbs should be planted by the end of November. And hopefully there will be a good bit of colour this winter if you plant outdoor cyclamen, (not the big showy ones, they’re not usually hardy enough to survive the cold), hellebores and winter pansies.

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The Peak District Eastern Moors especially Big Moor have become well known for their feral populations of red deer – our largest and most magnificent British land mammal. Numbers have grown since the 1980s and with management culling on the core site of Big Moor there are probably somewhere between 200 and 300 animals across the estate. However, in the wider region beyond Big Moor, animals have dispersed over a considerable area; probably in part due to disturbance through the cull, which naturally makes the animals very nervous. Overall, the numbers are still rising and the area over which the red deer now roam has increased eastwards into Sheffield and Dronfield, northwards too, and Photo by Steve Smith west towards Eyam. Of course, there is a further western Peak population around the Roaches and the Staffordshire Moors. Historically the other main deer species you might see in and around the Peak was the back (melanistic) herd from Stanton deer park, and down into Matlock and Darley Dale. This is a medieval herd and well documented.

However, things are changing and there is another deer now spreading and increasingly commonly reported. This is the roe deer. Occurring mostly in smaller groups than the other two and considerably smaller, roe can be mistaken for young or female red deer and so wherever possible, records are best supported by a photograph. Twenty years ago, roe deer were very uncommon in the Peak but increasingly seen in the eastern lowlands both north and south of the area. Nevertheless, since then the roe deer have spread often unnoticed but to a point where they are now rather common. Tending to feed in fields and to hide away in woodland and scrub, the roe can be around but not detected. They are quite frequently observed around woodland

edges such as near the Grouse Inn at Froggatt, but are also penetrating deep into urban areas such as in the heart of Sheffield. In both town and country, they will turn up in back gardens and along roadsides and seem quite bold and unaffected by disturbance. In Sheffield for instance, they have been seen regularly around urban Meersbrook and Heeley, and find shelter in woods, cemeteries, and along watercourses too. In farmland and countryside with scattered woodlands, the roe deer is now the most likely to be spotted. From the White Peak to Bakewell and the Wye and Derwent valleys, the roe is present and doing well. Often though, they will see you before you see them and will be off like a shot. Moving between sites under cover of darkness, they can move into the suburbs and rural villages without detection. However, listen out for their distinctive barking which can be heard at night for over a quarter a mile or more. The final deer species that you might encounter locally is the exotic Asian muntjac; seen and heard to the east and south, but are generally rare in and around the Peak District.

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The mild spell of warm sunny autumn weather we have been having has been welcomed by the chap on our allotment site who has a mini-vineyard. The vines have put more sugar into the grapes as shown by the weekly readings he and his daughter-in-law have made using a refractometer, an instrument that reads the sugar content of grape juice giving some idea of when to harvest the grapes. Apparently his Solaris grapes were already at a high sugar content by the beginning of October like those grown commercially by nearby Amber Valley Wines. So they had already been harvested and were fermenting. I found them recently harvesting Rondo and Regent red grapes helped by his grandson; both varieties are very suitable for our area. They had collected about 15kg of mixed red grapes, which his grandson was then going to crush with his bare (well washed) feet in traditional style. He was annoyed that he had lost grapes nearer the ground to birds, a common problem on vineyards. He said that if he was starting again it would be on the other side of our allotment site where, in the absence of a clay layer near the surface, the vines would have extended their roots downwards better. Even so it shows that if you pick the right hardy varieties of grape, vines will do well in this area as shown by some commercial vineyards close by. He just has a row of white Phoenix grapes to pick now. Our Saturday morning vegetable stall is going from strength to strength with people even having to queue to be served sometimes. It’s pumpkin, squash time and brussels sprouts time but with the cooler weather the range of vegetables available will get shorter and it’s time for allotment holders to dig over the soil for overwintering. If you fancy starting up a mini-vineyard or just want to grow vegetables now their price is going up contact Mick our plot bailiff on 07725 402 033 or call by on a Saturday morning for a chat. Martin Rumsby

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