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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
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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: •
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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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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. Here are a few I picked out. 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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The school summer holidays are upon us, and for many it is a fantastic time to relax, and enjoy (hopefully!) the warmer weather, however, for many parents/carers the school holidays are a very taxing period, both timewise and financially. 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. A little planning on how and what we spend our money on could pay dividends. A budget will give us a clearer picture on what our income and outgoings are. To put a budget together we need our bank statements, receipts, bills, etc. at hand to keep the process running smoothly. By forecasting our expenditure, we should be able to see the difference start to add up over the course of a school year. The following points summarise how we put our budget together: 1. Make a note of your net income,
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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In Praise of the Peak’s Starlings It is always a worry when a one-time commonplace bird suddenly drops in numbers and appears to be on a long-term downward slide. 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.
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