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From the Editor Dear Readers, Well, it’s all doom and gloom at the moment, isn’t it? Except the weather (at the time of writing at least!) A summer of discontent, a cost-of-living crisis, war in Europe and a rumbling pandemic that just won’t go away. It’s starting to feel like we’re on season 2 of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”! (I’m claiming the rights on that one Netflix & I need a big budget to hire 1 of the Hemsworth’s please!). Our time to do something about this will come if you want to but for now, if you’re anything like me, my time is preoccupied with just trying to balance the books and effectively stand still. Sad times at the minute. Onto far more cheerful things though. I hope you all love our bright and beautiful front covers this month. Our team spend a lot of time coming up with creative ideas, working with our sister company, Artliff Design and Print. And this month is a cracker in my opinion. If you haven’t figured it out, to celebrate World Emoji Day (more on that on page 4) we have created an emoji for all of the people who work on the mags. My Emoji is obviously the one with the stunning shoes and is shrugging her shoulders and rolling her eyes as I try to figure out how to keep everyone facing forwards… (I am known for being a bit of an eye roller!) Each of the Emoji’s reflects the personalities of the team and as

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you can see we’re quite an eclectic bunch! It was great fun doing them so, as a giggle, why don’t you have a think about what your own emoji would look like. If you’re really creative you could even draw it. We’d love to see them! I ended last month on a cliff hanger (not really, but I do like to big up my part sometimes!) with the crutches for the wedding. Needless to say, despite my protestations, the cousins would not delay the wedding for me (rude!), so I crammed my trotter into a beautiful shoe (of course!) and hobbled down the aisle with a massive wincing grin – job done! And in true Cinders style, once I landed at the reception, I whipped the shoes off and donned some slippers for the rest of the evening. Staying classy to the end! Next month, I’ll tell you all about my camping experience with the team…..at Ynot festival…..eeek! Who’s joining us! See you next month,

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Smile it’s Emoji Time! Emojis - love ‘em, loathe ‘em, use them or not; I would imagine that most of us know what they are by now. Do you know how long they’ve been around for though? It’s perhaps longer than you may think… Not unsurprisingly, emojis first surfaced in Japan. Japanese has a pictorial based written language (like Chinese) and the word “emoji” itself actually derives from three Japanese characters (or kanji). (“e,” picture, 文 (“mo,” write) and 字 (“ji,” character). The first set of emojis were developed in Japan in 1997 for a mobile phone named the SkyWalker DP-211SW. There were 90 designs, including ones we would recognise today, “thumbs up”, for example, but they were basic. 1999 saw the development of symbols that were more pictorial for use on another Japanese mobile phone service. This set of 176 emojis kickstarted the widespread use of emojis. Their creator Shigetaka Kurita had only 144 pixels in which to design the emojis, meaning they look clunky and awkward when compared with the ones we see today.

Today people use emojis constantly; in fact, you could (if you were so inclined) probably create an entire sentence using the images. There’s even a TV show which features a game where emojis are used to describe TV shows, films and books; contestants have to guess the answer based on a set of emojis created by one of the other players. The accuracy of the emoji use varies tremendously though - it seems one person’s translation can be very different to another’s! It’s funny, isn’t it? The world’s first written languages were highly pictorial - think Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Archaic Chinese, Linear B (Mycenaean Greek), Linear A (Minoan Crete) and the Cuneiform scripts of the Sumerians; it appears we are coming full circle!

MSN messenger, the online computer based messaging program (anyone remember that?) created 30 “emoticons” for use on the platform in 2003. But emoji use on phones was mainly confined to Japan until 2010, when emojis were incorporated into Unicode (an international encoding system which gives every letter, digit or symbol a unique numeric value across different programs and platforms - basically, it means that just about every language can be assigned and identified using the system). 722 emojis for both iPhones and Android phones were released that year. There are now close to 3,000 emojis listed in the official Unicode list and even an online Emojipedia (created in 2013). The creator of this reference website also established World Emoji Day, held on July 17th each year (www.worldemojiday.com).

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WHITE WATSON OF BAKEWEL a renowned Bakewell resident White Watson was writer, artist, ette silhou t, alogis geologist, miner gardener, and plantsman. at Whitely White Watson was born in April 1760 el Watson Samu ts paren to eld, Sheffi Hall, s Wood family of a from ended Desc . and Mary White developed a stonemasons and sculptors he soon as a child keen interest in minerals and fossils. Even ’s shop. uncle his in sell to mens he collected speci become to l schoo left he age, At 14 years of n, owner apprentice to his uncle Henry Watso rd in the of the water driven Marble Mill in Ashfo n and maso l menta monu a as d Water. Watson traine himself as carver. By 1782 Watson was advertising g his uncle sculptor and engraver as well as helpin run the business. Henry did work for the Chatsworth Estate, providing and installing the wonderful black and white flooring we see today in the Great Hall. his wife Ann, For many years White Watson, and he created a ran the Bath House in Bakewell where a museum of librar y and reading room, along with y. A keen geology, natural histor y, and archaeolog was Watson horticulturist and expert plantsman it who laid out the original Bath Gardens. ettes, very He was also known for making silhou ed many includ These time. the at fashionable Ann Greaves local worthies and included one of examples of of Bakewell pudding fame. Other tion and by collec shire Devon the in these are held Sheffield Museums. Duke of He was commissioned to carve the ly above Rutland’s Arms, which still stands proud in the Hotel Arms nd Rutla the to nce the main entra sum of centre of town. Watson received the grand £10 for his efforts. variet y of White Watson made notes on a great taught He life. l socia ell Bakew ing subjects, includ and, known the children of the Duke of Devonshire

even invited for his interesting conversation, he was 1806. to the Duke’s grand birthday dinner in geology and Regarded as a leading expert in of tablets series a d create n Watso mineralogy l rocks actua sing Enca . showing geological strata g. This meant from the area in a black marble settin ons of the he was able to illustrate cross -secti of his strata Derbyshire landscape. A fine example ell Old tablets can be seen displayed in Bakew

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