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Dear Readers, I’m not the biggest fan of August, truth be told, so I’m quite glad to see the back of it in one way. Expensive holidays, lots of the team on hols, can never get a strong netball squad together! And it signifies the beginning of the end of summer. Throw in a few personal sadness issues this month and it’s taken over from Jan as the rubbish month this year! However, such is life, nothing is all bad and I went camping for the first time in probably 20 years. I mean, I say camping, I had a glamping wigwam bell tent thingy with an electric power point and a memory foam mattress but it still counts! Tell you what though, I could cope with most of it but the toilets…..I mean……do they do that stuff to their toilets at home or just turn into an animal when they are camping/going to festivals? I don’t want to cast aspersions here, each to their own but what is the maximum number of people you need in a group to turn feral, lol??! Anyway, a good time was had by all, have a read about it on pg 28-29. I also had a fandabbydosy time at the Commonwealth games for 1 full day of Netball games. Absolutely exhausting (and no, I wasn’t even playing!!) but I didn’t get to the 2012 Olympics so I’ve resolved, ever since then, to make sure I attend these sporting events. It’s great for the cities involved and I only wished that I’d managed to get tickets for some other sports as well – lt was so well organised and managed. So, I don’t want to be the first to say it, but as we’re promoting and giving away tickets to Matlock Illuminations this month – we are clearly on the downhill run to the man in the red suit month. I’m not sure what this year’s festivities will bring, bearing in mind the misery and the pinch we’re all experiencing amid this cost-of-living crisis, which is imminent but hopefully this month we’ll have an active Government in place. Whatever your ‘team’ you can’t be happy with it at the minute – so we all live in hope that they exact the power to work in our best interests, which we choose to bestow upon them….if not, is it revolution time yet?! Asking for a friend? Thank you so much for the lovely feedback on last month’s front covers and articles. It’s always lovely to get such wonderful feedback – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – it’s really easy to phone up irate and complain about something, but as a society we don’t bother to do nice things very often, seemingly. However, a few readers have taken the time to write to us and also call us this month and it’s been really lovely – so thank you, you are appreciated. It’s nice to be nice! This month we have the Macmillan Coffee Morning on our front covers with another funky new design style and Laura has written another cracking article. I had no idea about the history and what a wonderful legacy he set up –truly visionary & incredibly altruistic. He was clearly ahead of his time. Happy reading,

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Next Generation Home improvements, based on Butterley Hill in Ripley, are now in their 13th year since starting trading in 2010. The company specialises in installing high quality resin-bound driveways and patios, as well as maintenance free composite fencing and aluminium gates to the local people of Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire. Like many construction companies, Covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns were an enormous challenge for Next Generation Home Improvements in terms of supply chain and the necessary working restrictions. But the company has gone from strength to strength since then with many customers trusting us to undertake work on their property and being delighted with the finished results. Sales Director, Lee Goddard says “We are a local company that employs all our staff from the local area. We pride ourselves on working to high standards & offering unrivalled customer service. We understand the importance of treating every potential customer properly, from initially quoting for a job, through correctly surveying the work, making sure the customer is delighted with the finished work and also our after-care service. The majority of our work comes through recommendations, so if we deliver a high standard of work we often benefit from extra work from envious friends or neighbours” Lee pinpoints the company’s key to success down to the unrivalled dedication & skill of their fitting teams and also the high quality of products that the company use which means the installations don’t just look good, they require no maintenance & stay looking good in the long term. The company would be delighted to quote on any customers work involving resin driveways, patios, composite fencing or gates. Simply drop them a call on 01773 303181

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The first home visits, offering practical support to those in need, began in the 1930s, and by the 1970s, Macmillan nurses were established, enabling people to stay in their own homes whilst undergoing Douglastreatment.

Macmillan had envisioned “homes for cancer patients”, and although he sadly died of cancer himself in 1969, Macmillan played a key role in the creation of the hospice care system in the 70s and 80s.

Coffee and Cake against Cancer Macmillan Coffee Morning 2022

Time for a quick history lesson…

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Fast forwarding to today, Macmillan offers a wide range of support to individuals, employers and health care Financialprofessionals.grantsare available to help with the extra costs living with cancer can bring, as well as advice on claiming benefits and what to do if paying bills is difficult. And, of course, simply knowing that there are people on the other end of a telephone ready to help can bring great relief to someone newly diagnosed. Email and online chat services are also offered for those of us who prefer the written word.

Finally, when we think of Macmillan, most of us will picture the nurses. These specialists have experience and qualifications in cancer care and are able to help individuals through diagnosis, treatment, aftercare and with ongoing support. Within this group of extraordinary individuals are palliative care nurses who help manage the symptoms of advanced cancer. They are experts in managing symptoms such as pain, sickness or breathlessness and can also help and support family members.

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After 111 years, the charity’s ethos has never deviated from Douglas Macmillan’s original statement – “we stand for Betterness”, and has sought to overturn the stigma and dread surrounding a diagnosis of cancer. With an estimated 50% of us expected to experience cancer at some point in our lives, perhaps that destigmatisation has been Douglas Macmillan’s most important legacy.

It seems like the Macmillan Coffee Morning has been around forever, doesn’t it? But would it surprise you to know that the first one was held in 1990, and on a very small scale? It did me.

This year’s Macmillan Coffee Morning is scheduled for Friday, 30th September – will you be taking part?

Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

In 1911 a young man by the name of Douglas Macmillan watched his father die of cancer; the pain and suffering he saw inspired him to found the “Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer”.

Somewhat fittingly, Douglas used £10 that his father had given him to set up the society. That £10, equivalent to roughly £1200 today, was the start of the Macmillan story. In the early days, they hand delivered food and coal to people in need, as well as arranging holidays and trips for people with cancer (and their families).

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author.

Since that inauspicious start, the annual coffee morning has raised a staggering £290million for Macmillan - £11million last year alone, but what does that money fund? How will the price of your coffee and cake on 30th September help people in the UK?

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Hundreds of thousands of young men, from both wars, were expected to return and slip straight back into civilian life. Many of them struggled, families suffered as a father who was unable to deal with the horrors of war, but couldn’t talk about his experiences, became remote, closed off - or worse, violent. The

Simply coping is not healthy long term, learning to talk about our issues openly and honestly - whilst not being typically British - is the very best thing we can do, both for our own health and those of the people we love. If you spot someone behaving out of character, seeming down, or struggling with life, ASK THEM IF THEY ARE OK…and don’t take “yes I’m fine” as a response to mean that they are indeed “fine”. The younger generations are better at discussing feelings and needs, having grown up with social media (more about that and mental health in another edition) and are more likely to ask for help…but even they struggle to admit to mental health issues, suicide is the biggest cause of death for young men.

If the events of the past couple of years have highlighted anything, it is that our mental (good) health is as important as our physical wellbeing. Isolation, fear, and loneliness have contributed to an avalanche of mental health issues for both young and old alike. As I’m sitting here typing this article, I can already hear the internal mumblings of some of our readers… ”we never bothered about mental health in our day, we just got on with it”; “youth of today”; “snowflakes”; “pull your socks up”…etc., etc. I can hear them because these are the kind of things my dad would have said!

Let’s all make a promise to help each other to become more open when it comes to talking about our mental health.

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But did “we just get on with it” in the past?

Look back to the World Wars of the first half of the 20th century; soldiers were routinely returned to the front line in WW1 despite (to modern eyes) clearly suffering from PTSD, or shellshockfailure to comply would equal desertion, for which the penalty was death.

beloved “stiff upper lip” and “carry on regardless” British mantras, in reflection, were actually the very worst approach for everyone’s mental health!

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To a certain extent I think, yes, people did just battle on through depression and other mental health issues - but they did so because of the stigma of admitting to a) not being able to cope - men especially b) the fear that they would be carted off “by the men in white coats”

Mental health was equated with weakness, with being locked up in the lunatic asylum, with being a failure. No one talked about their feelings and if they did make it so far as actually speaking to a GP, they would be either dismissed as a malingerer or prescribed tranquilizers and other mood altering medications.

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6 players were put forward from MAJHC to the UK Lions East Midlands hockey trials. For the boys there was Jack Tait (GK) and Harrison Shooter. For the girls we had Ava Walker (GK), Emily Chesterton, Megan Laws and Emily Lee. All of the players have been a part of our MAJHC system from the early days of its creation, learning from their coaches at training and gaining valuable experience through playing intournaments in Nottinghamshire and TheDerbyshire.trialswere held over 6 weeks of training at the Nottingham Hockey Centre. Here their hockey skills were improved and assessed by coaches who selected their squad for the final Alltournament.ofour players were successful in making the final squad and participated in the 3-day tournament held in July 2022. The tournament was an opportunity for some of our players to experience their first full-sized game and play against skilled and experienced opposition. Our players had an amazing experience at the hands of excellent team managers/coaches, which has left them with a thirst for learning more about their sport and a drive to better themselves as they grow into adult hockey. A few of our players, Jack, Ava and Emily Lee were on the young side to be participating in this event but actually thrived and demonstrated that although they were 2 years younger than most other players, they could match their skill and drive to succeed. These 3 will be of age to enter the county set up come September and I don’t think there will be anything stopping them as they shine.

Player in profile: Ben Lee Ben is a shining example both for MAJHC and how skill, determination and hardwork can reap its rewards!

Ben started playing hockey when he was about 10 years old, he picked up a stick like it was part of him and loved it immediately. He started with Mansfield Junior Hockey Club (now MAJHC) on the very first day of its creation and hasn’t looked Hockeyback.very quickly became central to his sporting life, aged 13 he began playing for Mansfield Hockey Club and joined Notts County Hockey in the Academy Centre Squad. The new experience and players just spurred him on to wanting more hockey, to strive to be better and learn more. In March 2019 (aged 14) he was asked to play for the first team at Mansfield, he claimed his spot and literally nobody has been able to catch him down that right wing!

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In February 2020 he was invited to trial for the U15’s East Midlands Performance Centre Squad. Unfortunately, 15 minutes into the trial Covid struck and England Hockey put a freeze on all hockey. He was re-invited in September 2020, successfully completed the trials and became an U17 East Midlands PC squad member. 2 years later he’s flourished and to his delight represented the U17 East Midlands squad at the Performance Centre Challenge Cup 2022.

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Back in the day, 1 year BC (Before Covid), YNot invited Voice Magazines to come and join them as VIP guests at their famous Peak District festival at Pikehall. Always happy to oblige, the Voice Team set about promoting the festival and preparing for a weekend of music and fun.

It has been 3 Years in the waiting, but Voice Magazines hit the festival scene at long last!

Michelle & Family, Danielle & her son, Lisa & Family and Neil and his Family all arrived on the Thursday afternoon/ early evening and made the most of it. They pitched up their tents and headed straight for THE BIG GIN (that’s the main stage, not the bottle!). They all emersed themselves in the music of The Kooks for the evening and soaked up the Sarahatmosphere.&herhusband arrived next, for Friday lunchtime for a bit of afternoon chill with Gabrielle before Emily & Liam arrived in the evening, just in time for the Manic Street Preachers and the Stereophonics

This invite was put on hold whilst the world mourned their social lives but then we got the call, YNot 2022 was ON, the cheers were heard throughout the Midlands from our office! As the line up grew so did our excitement. Bell tents were purchased by the Directors (Emily, not the camping type) and festival tents by the masses.

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Saturday Morning, not entirely bright eyed and bushy tailed!, saw the Voice Team on tour, when we all fully embraced the 80’s films themed fancy dress for Saturday by donning our Care Bear t’s and tutus for the day! Who doesn’t love the ‘Care Bear Countdown’?! Most of us (mentioning no names of those not attending Emily & Liam!) made the morning workout with the wonderful Mr Motivator (what an honor), which was truly fabulous and he set us up for the day, ready for a day of music and dancing, rounded off with the Levellers and the Courteeners.

There were stages aplenty with a myriad of talent for all tastes but between the 17 of us we visited all the stages and were truly entertained for the whole weekend. The days flew by with band after band never failing to get us up dancing and singing, swaying, and laughing. Even Mr Blobby made an appearance with the show stopping “Raised by Owls” performing in the Giant Squid. What a weekend. What an atmosphere. What a festival. Only Lisa’s husband and daughter stayed til the Monday morning as the rest of us are clearly lightweights! However, the whole extended Voice Team recommend attending the 2023 YNot festival – if it is even a patch on the comeback of 2022 – it should not be missed!!

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Example: The Supreme Court judgment ensures leave must be paid at the rate of an ordinary week’s wages (or if pay varies every week, then an average of all the weeks worked in a year). Annual leave calculations are based on weeks, as a person can work a full week or part of one. The law says that someone working a full year is entitled to at least 5.6 weeks of annual leave (28 days for anyone working full-time hours in a week and this can include the eight bank holidays). The judgment means that an employee working all year, but say, for just two days a week is entitled to 11.2 days a year (2 x 5.6 weeks, so 2.24 weeks or 11.2 days).

“This judgment gives clarity on the method of calculating holiday pay for people in Mrs Brazel’s position working on permanent ‘zero-hours’ contracts and who are not required to work every week of the leave year. The judgment will be of particular interest to termtime workers at schools, colleges and universities, as well as many other types of workers whose working patterns do not fit the traditional ‘full-time’ model.”

Part-time music teacher wins landmark case in the Supreme Court on holiday pay calculations for ‘part-year’ workers

The UK’s highest court confirmed the rights of part-year and zero hours contract workers to the full 5.6 weeks’ statutory paid holiday provided for under the Working Time Regulations 1998. They rejected the argument from the school that the entitlement of such workers, should be reduced on a pro-rata basis.

Partner Carl Wright at Hopkins Solicitors commented: “We are obviously delighted with both the outcome of the appeal and to have been able to clarify the law for the benefit of all of those workers who, like Mrs Brazel, work on term time only contracts. As a consequence of this decision, term time only workers will be entitled to the same minimum annual holiday as those that are contracted to work all year round”. You can find a copy of the full judgement on the Supreme Court website.

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Thanks to the judgement, it will no longer be possible for employers to argue staff who don’t work all year are only entitled to pro-rata holiday based on the hours they work. Today’s decision is also good news for anyone working irregular hours or on zero-hours contracts. From now on, all workers will be due the same legal minimum of 5.6 weeks (28 days for full-time employees), even if there are months during the year when they don’t work.

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Hopkins Solicitors on 20th of July 2022, saw a landmark judgment in favour of their music teacher client, Mrs Lesley Brazel, by the UK Supreme Court. This decision today follows her case being heard before an employment tribunal (in 2017), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (in 2018) and most recently the Court of Appeal (in 2019).

Our client Lesley Brazel, the part time music teacher said, “After an eight year legal process I am pleased to have finally secured a basic employment right in accordance with the law and as stated in my employment contract. I would like to thank the Incorporated Society of Musicians, ARAG Insurance, and the legal teams at Hopkins Solicitors and 3PB Barristers, for their outstanding professional, legal and financial assistance throughout. I am an alumna of the Harpur Trust and I have worked for them as a visiting music teacher at Bedford Girls’ School and it’s legacy schools for 20 years, pursuing a career which I am passionate about. Emotionally it has not been an easy journey. I am indebted to my family and friends for giving me the self-confidence to see this through and for their continued encouragement and support throughout this time.”

3PB Barristers were instructed in this appeal by Hopkins Solicitors LLP to act on behalf of clarinet and saxophone teacher Mrs Lesley Brazel, who teaches at the independent Bedford Girls’ School run by the Harpur Trust. She was supported over several years of legal action by the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) and ARAG who provide legal expenses insurance to the ISM’s Mathewlandmark-brazel-case/https://www.3pb.co.uk/3pb-employment-barristers-win-in-members.GullickQCof3PBsaidtoday:

HEREWE’RETOhelp Offices in Mansfield, Sutton, Kirkby and Nottingham. We offer consultations by telephone, video or in-person. Please Note: We may suggest some employees ring ACAS first, as they offer free employment law advice. 01623 782 www.hopkins-solicitors.co.uk783 Employment Law Experts You Can Trust At some stage of your working life, you may experience a serious issue with your employer. Work problems can cause stress that affects your daily life, your family life and your health. All employers have legal responsibilities whether they employ 1 or 10,000 staff. We are passionate about helping you understand your legal rights, and about helping you find a solution. > Redundancy / Unfair Dismissal > Settlement Agreements > Discrimination / Bullying at Work > Disputes about holiday pay HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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The Newspapers of the day describing an Air Raid on a North Midlands Town (due to the strict wartime censorship rules in place at the time, the location of the raid wasn’t given out) but it was Alfreton and the surrounding villages of Riddings, Somercotes, Westhouses, Stonebroom and Morton that were the target, intentionally or otherwise. What do we know of this raid?

TUESDAY 8th April 1941 RAID IN NORTH MIDLANDS PLUCKY RESCUES ONE DEATH FROM SHOCK

A North Midlands town and adjoining countryside was the scene of an enemy raid on Tuesday night, when hundreds of incendiary bombs were scattered over a wide area. Thanks to fire-watchers, incendiaries were quickly put out, and in most of the country areas there were no casualties and little damage. In one town an elderly man died from shock. A house occupied by Mr and Mrs W H Bullimore was wrecked and an adjoining house occupied by Mr and Mrs Druckley was damaged. There was one death as a result of shock, Mr H M Ollerenshaw, an elderly undertaker who lived in a house in the centre of the bombed area. Two persons, Mr J H Wetton and Mr J Vasey, were taken to hospital after treatment at a first aid post. Mr Wetton was in the act of dealing with a bomb when it exploded and he received head and abdominal injuries. Mr Vasey received injuries to his arm through coming into collision with a vehicle. One resident described the scene as like thousands of fireworks exploding, and the sky was lit up for some time.

The raid took place on the evening of 8th April 1941, starting around 10.30pm. There was no “Alert” warning for the town and the Air-Raid Siren, which was on the roof of Alfreton House, remained silent throughout. Indeed, it was at 3am the following morning when a “Raid Alert sounded and this proved to be a false alarm! So it was that hundreds of mixed type incendiary bombs rained down on the area and the first indication the people had was when houses and other properties were hit. The German bombers responsible were known to be flying north and it is possible that the bombs were jettisoned when the bomber force had failed to locate their intended target or for some other reason. Certainly the Clyde area of Scotland and Coventry were on the agenda for the Luftwaffe that night but we will never know for sure where the intended target was. Of course, it was no consolation for Alfreton and the surrounding area. Sadly Mr John Henry Wetton was to die on the 10th April, 1941, the second fatality of the raid. Next Time – the aftermath and personal recollections.

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The third mum, laughingly acknowledging the coincidence, said that, remarkably, her boy had also been conceived in the back of a car. She hadn’t previously thought of the link but could now see why her husband had suggested Morris for a boy and she’d happily go along with that.

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The midwife then asked the other mums and each said that they remained undecided.However, one of them, an Italian, said that my sister-in-law had given her an idea, and as her boy had been conceived in the back of a car, he’d be given the name Ford.

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This is a bit of a long shot, but there just might be a reader out there who can put my nephew in touch with three people. Although they almost certainly won’t know him, it’s possible that they live locally, eagerly look forward to reading their copy of Voice Magazine, and crucially, .........were born on 7th July 1976. It’s quite a complicated story, so let’s take this in easy steps. My brother and his heavily pregnant wife, moved to Somercotes from Arbroath in May 1976. As a result – and don’t read too much into this statement as it’s merely a fact! - their child became the first English baby in our family. He, for indeed he was a boy, along with a number of other babies on that day, was safely delivered at the Kings Mill Maternity Unit. After all the usual physical checks, he was declared a ‘fit and bonny bairn’, and with his mother, subsequently transferred to a ward in which three other first-time mums were recovering from their ordeal earlier that day.

The fourth mother, again previously undecided, and without a hint of embarrassment, stated that conception had occurred in a bus shelter on the A38 in Derby, and for no other reason than she liked the name, her baby boy was to be called Well,Mark.my nephew, whilst still an infant returned to Scotland when my brother was offered a job in Kirkintilloch and has remained north of the border ever However,since.having recently turned 46, and now a proud dad himself, he was wondering if it might be possible to track down those three other babies that he met briefly on 7th/8th July 1976, and asked me to make enquiries. That’s where you come in dear reader. If anyone knows the current whereabouts of 46 year old Morris Oxford, Ford Cortina or Mark Eaton Park, can they please get in touch.

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Not long afterwards, the midwife popped around to check how they were all doing and asked if they had chosen names for the new arrivals. My brother’s wife, never one to knowingly turn down the chance of having a blether, said that as the child had been conceived in Scotland, it had been decided in advance that, if a boy, the baby was to be called Scot.

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In 1577 it was reported that Ripley and Pentrich had 10 alehouses (in what must have been very small places), most of which would brew their own beer. In the early 1700s, Charles Horne ran an alehouse at the gates of Butterley Hall, then owned by his family. There was also a brewery, as the name indicated, in Malthouse Yard. In the nineteenth century, though, there was one commercial brewery in the town, variously known as Ripley Old Brewery, Greenwich Brewery or Queens Brewery. It was probably started around 1807 by the Fletcher family, one of whom, William Henry, was also one of Ripley’s first doctors. They seem to have run the Red Lion at one time, but later became “common brewers”, selling their beer to pubs. The brewery was situated on either side of Cromford Road, just behind the Market Place, where Amber Valley’s offices and car park are. At one time there was a tunnel underneath the road, so that the malt could be carried from the malthouse on one side to the brewery on the other without getting wet.The Fletchers sold the business in 1823 to their partner, William Kirkland, John Fletcher having moved to a new brewery at Cavendish Bridge and William Fletcher to buildings behind the newly built Greenwich House (now Zycomm). Kirkland went bankrupt in 1828 and the old brewery was hardly used until 1877 when it was rebuilt by John Woolley but closed in 1888. In 1897 the Smedley family bought the Greenwich brewery to produce mineral waters.Itwould be nearly another hundred years before brewing was restarted locally, with the growth of microbreweries, at least two of which are currently in operation. OVER TO OUR WEBSITE TO SEE MORE ABOUT THE & DISTRICT TRUST ON WWW.RDHT.ORG.UK/ & TRUST

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As I get older I’m starting to meet my first 50 year old Jasons. Is it just me or does that sound strange to other oldies too?

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So for the foreseeable future I look forward to sharing the planet with Elijah, Isaac, Ethan and Luca. I wonder if I’ll live long enough to welcome a baby Alan or Brian?

I’ve written about the follies of fashion in a previous edition but it strikes me that nothing exemplifies the subject more than when it comes to naming babies. When I was young it seemed that all old men were called Herbert or Albert, middle aged men were called Keith and youngsters were called Terry. I defy you to find anyone aged 30 to 70 named Herbert today and good luck finding a baby named Keith. Baby boys used to be named after their grandfather’s.... not today. Show me a 60 year old called Zane, Mateo or Levi and I’ll buy you a pint next time I’m in The Dog at Pentrich. I find it interesting that biblical names seem to be making a huge comeback while at the same time the number of churchgoers is dwindling. I’m looking forward to meeting my first little Methuselah or Goliath. Where are the baby Clives and Garys? Where are the Colins and Grahams? It would seem that their time in the spotlight is over.

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