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After 5 years of continued growth Next Generation Home Improvements based on Butterley Hill in Ripley, have now established themselves as the leading installers of resin driveways & patios in The Midlands. They now have over 50 members in their team from the local area, ranging from resin layers, ground workers, surveyors, administrators, customer care staff and sales & marketing operatives, and have just taken on 4 local trainees who are quickly learning their trade.
To ensure their success continues they have invested in an upgraded operations unit in Sutton in Ashfield and as well as a redesigned display unit on the reception of their head office at Butterley Hill, where prospective customers are welcome to go and view different styles of resin driveways & composite fencing available to them. They firmly believe that their success has been due to the quality of their workmanship. Director Lee Goddard points out “We only use our own highly skilled tradesmen to lay each driveway by hand to make sure we get the perfect finish. On top of this, we will only use the highest quality of materials, meaning that our customers will be left
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The Ghost of our Celtic Past
All Hallow’s Eve. All Saint’s Eve. Samhain.
The original Celtic celebration, Samhain (pronounced sow-ain) actually marked the end of one year and the transition to the next. The move from the abundance of summer and the harvest into the scarcity and cold of winter. Celts associated winter with death and believed the shift to the new year caused the veil between this world and the next to thin, allowing the spirits of the ancestors to visit.
As so often happens, a new religion, Christianity, absorbed and subsumed the old celebration.
And yet the old beliefs still linger, only now they are remembered in an orgy of “candy” consumption. Sweet stuff obtained by knocking on stranger’s doors and demanding it on pain of suffering “a trick” if the desired sticky treats are not forthcoming!
The idea that dead ancestors will come a calling, is relegated to dressing up as ghouls and ghosts.
To face painting and costume wearing. Honestly, our Celtic antecedents must be spinning in their graves. Imagine if the most sacred date in the Christian calendar was reduced to straight out consumerism and consumption.
Oh, hang on…
Of course Halloween is not just a British thingall though the way we do it now is definitely more North American than homegrown - the day, and those following are marked around the world. None more so than in Mexico with the famous Día de los Muertos (day of the dead).
Día de los Muertos is actually celebrated on November 2, but begins the day we designate as Halloween. The celebration is designed to honour the dead who, it is believed, return to their earthly homes on October 31. Then on November 2, relatives gather at gravesides to picnic and reminisce. Some gatherings even include tequila and a mariachi band…sounds fun.
We can blame our American cousins for the commercialism of Halloween. As a melting pot of many ethnicities, the traditions of different cultures were assimilated into a wholly unique way to mark the thinning of the veils.
An old English tradition of giving pastries called “soul cakes” to beggars in return for promises to pray for the dead of the donors, probably transmuted to “trick or treat”. Although there could also be links to “Mischief Night” which occurs around the same time as Halloween.
Dressing in outlandish “spooky” costumes may derive from the custom of wearing masks to confuse any visiting dead who decide to pop through from the other side.
Whatever the origins of the “customs” we now see being played out at Halloween, the overriding theme seems to be “spend money”. Buy sweets (I refuse to type candy again!), buy the kids costumes, buy decorations for your house, place of work…buy, buy, buy.
I shall, as usual, turn out the lights and keep the front door shut. Trick or treaters won’t be able to blame dental decay on me!
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As a boy growing up in South Normanton, I remember one evening on the village Common being shown for the first time, a luminous beam gleaming from a lighthouse structure far away, high on the Derbyshire horizon.
This beacon flashed through the faint nightlight every eleven seconds, and I was told then that it was (of course) familiar to us locals, as Crich Stand; more recently known as the Mercian Regimental Memorial Tower up on the summit of Crich Hill.
This year marks the 100th annual pilgrimage to the Memorial Tower which was officially opened at 4pm on Monday 6th August 1923, with the ceremony being carried out by the Colonel of the Regiment General Sir Horace L Smith-Dorrien, His Grace the Duke of Portland, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Admiral Salmon and the Bishop of Southwell.
Originally the Tower was constructed to commemorate the 11,409 men of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment who gave their lives in the First World War 1914-18, then in 1952 it was further dedicated to the memory of the 1,520 men of the Regiment who paid the supreme sacrifice in the Second World War 1939-45.
During 1991 the Memorial was dedicated to Sherwood Foresters killed in service between the years 1945-70. There have been many structures on this vantage point with records showing that a wooden tower was built and erected here to “allegedly” mark King George III’s accession to the throne in 1760; whatever, it was a significant landmark from which some of the best views in the county were to be had. This wooden structure, because of it being sited in such an exposed area, lasted no longer than 25 years.
In 1788 a conical limestone structure with a wooden top was placed on the site, but this was in such a state of ill-repair by1843 a decision was taken to rebuild, and in 1849 some of the masonry and stone from this conical structure were used for the base of a new circular tower built from gritstone.
June of 1882 witnessed a major landslide in the limestone quarry, notwithstanding lightning strikes and
further land movements creating serious subsidence on this latest venture resulting in the closure of the Tower for public safety concerns.
In October 1914, an area of this hilltop was sold to the Clay Cross Company, on condition the Tower was demolished completely, and that a new Crich Stand was built along a similar format.
The Great War was responsible for delaying this new structure and it was not until 1922, four years after the cessation of hostilities when the rebuild began in earnest with completion following the next year.
Right next to the Tower on Crich Hill sits a beacon that may well have been part of a beacon chain used in 1588 to warn people of the approaching Spanish Armada. The beacon was then lit in 1988 on the 400th anniversary of the Armada. On New Years Day 2000 the beacon was lit for the start of the new millennium, and it was also lit to celebrate Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s hundredth birthday.
The Memorial Tower has a height of 19m (63 feet), it’s base is 291m (955 feet) above sea level, and there are 58 steps that take you up to the viewing gallery: well worth the effort.
The dome weighs 40 tons and all of it built at a cost of £1.182.8s. 5d, the lamp is 15,000 candle power and can be seen across several counties including Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire and of course its home county of Derbyshire.
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In the latest in the series - Alchemy - our urbane intellectual investigator Bruno is commissioned to dive beneath the surface of the dangerous political waters of early 1500s Prague. Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf the second is a man of science – not unlike Bruno himself, but unlike Bruno he is in thrall to power – the power of alchemy, turning base metal into gold and the search for the secret of eternal life.
These were dangerous interests to have at that time – the Catholic Church was very jealous of its control over huge swathes of Europe and as was shown by the Spanish Inquisition, willing to go to any lengths to protect that power. Science and alternative ways of thinking were not allowed.
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Of course, some of my earnings were spent, mainly on sweets and sometimes on comics. (Beano, Dandy or Bunty). In those days, penny chews really were a penny. There was a sweet shop opposite my school where we could purchase bags of sherbet, flying saucers, gobstoppers, liquorice, candy cigarettes and coconut mushrooms amongst many other delights.
My brother sometimes spent his on caps for his cap gun or transfers which stuck on your skin like tattoos. What did you do with your pennies as a child?
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Late summer and into autumn are certainly the seasons for mushrooms and other fungi, and especially the case with rain and periods of higher temperatures too. So, imagine my excitement when I came across what seemed to be a wild ‘horse mushroom’ in an area of old, unimproved wet pasture, and it was the size of a small dinner-plate. Of course, the business end of the fungus is its extensive network of hyphae underground and the ‘mushroom’ is merely the fungal equivalent of a flower. I carefully picked my prize and took it home with me. Now generally speaking, the edible , big ‘mushrooms’ look and smell like those bought from a shop, and the fragrance is very distinctively ‘mushroomy’. Indeed, most of the wild mushrooms of fields and other pastures with a whitish or ivory cap and brown gills underneath, are edible and good to eat. However, with fungi the bottom line is caution and unless you really know what it is then avoid. Each autumn a number of (sometimes knowledgeable) foragers manage to poison themselves and sometimes their families and friends too. Some of the poisonous fungi have horribly potent toxins as suggested by their names such as ‘death cap’, ‘destroying angel’, and ‘panther cap’; and so, these should be avoided at all costs. Nevertheless, as a rule of thumb, the ones which look like ordinary mushrooms and particularly with the dark gills underneath the cap, are good.
There was something not quite right about the specimen I had collected, and the first warning sign was the absence of the typical ‘mushroom’ smell. I also noticed that the stem and later the cap appeared to bruise rather yellow when handled. The gills were brownish but in fact a dull grey brown and not the rich, reddish brown of the field mushrooms and horse mushrooms. I was having doubts and my thoughts turned to a close relative of the edible mushrooms, the so-called ‘Yellow
Stainer’, a species that occurs in late summer and autumn in fields, gardens, and hedgerows. Worryingly, this is edible to a few people but poisonous to most, and whilst not actually deadly is one to avoid.
Just to be sure I cooked the specimen up and whilst it didn’t have the tell-tale iodine, inky smell reported for Yellow Stainer, it didn’t smell especially nice either. Moreover, as it cooked the plate of mushrooms turned a rather unpleasant and ominous yellow. It ended up in the bin! There are many edible mushrooms but only a handful which are unmistakable for something nasty and those are the ones I go for. The Yellow Stainer is the species responsible for most cases of moderate poisoning because it is taken as ordinary field mushroom or horse mushroom –avoid!
Another noticeable species if the ‘Fairy Ring Mushroom’ or Marasmius which again occurs in old or even ancient grassland and some rings are centuries old. Again, this is a species which is edible and delicious, but the problem here, is that certain very similar and related mushrooms which are poisonous often grow in amongst them. So once again if you are not sure then leave well alone!
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October is the start of bare root planting. Apples and pears will be far less expensive if planted as roots rather than foliage-bearing trees later in the season.
Currants and gooseberries can also be planted bare root now and bare root roses will be delivered between now and spring. Dig a hole deep and wide enough for each plant or alternatively, if you live in a cold pocket with frequent early frosts, plant into a suitable sized container in good compost and put into a cold frame or greenhouse for the winter then harden off and plant out into the ground in spring.
Wallflowers can go into the ground as bare root plants now to flower in early spring and cowslips can be sown as seeds in trays in a cold frame as they need cold to germinate, while being protected from heavy rain. Ideally, they like to grow in shady wet places.
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Time to think about the outdoor beasties. Hedgehogs are preparing to sleep the winter away so if you think you have them as visitors leave out meat-based cat or dog food and water so they can fatten up. Leave windfalls for the birds. Plant croci and fritillary so there is early nectar for hibernating bumblebees when they emerge in spring.
You’ll be putting your bulbs in now. Daffs and crocuses can still go in, you’re not too late, but leave tulips till October.
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