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no. 230 March 2018 ISSN 1466-8211www.undertheedge.net

It’s 100 years this year since the Spanish Flu Pandemic raged throughout the world, claiming 100 million lives. 200,000 people died in the UK in what remains the worst medical catastrophe in history. It killed many more people than the number that died in combat during the First World War.

My grandfather, Harry Cox, is pictured here with his sons, William and (my father) Herbert. A few years after this picture was taken, he contracted flu and died in 1918. I can remember Harry’s daughter, Edith, telling me that when she was a little girl, her mother asked her to go next door to ask Mr Johnson if he could milk the cows as her father was very ill.

When she got there Mr Johnson was lying in front of the fire, being tended by his wife as he was also very ill with flu. She also said that the village hall was used as a temporary morgue. It

was a dreadful strain of flu with awful symptoms – the victims collapsing, turning grey and haemorrhaging from their lungs and nose.

A cruel twist was that it was the young and healthy who suffered most. With this strain, the harder the body fought against the flu, the worse the symptoms.

The death of grandfather Cox put the family business under tremendous strain with my father just 16 and Bill 14. With the help of kindly neighbours, they managed to keep the farm going – the first of three generations of Cox Brothers.

Thank goodness in this age we are better equipped with vaccination programmes and modern medicines to fight the secondary conditions that flu can create.

Roger Cox

Farming notes

Harry Cox with sons, William and Herbert, around the time of the First World War.

Just to let everyone know this year's Open Gardens will be held

on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th June.

More information to follow later on.

Jennifer and Peter Rowson

Open Gardens

Chatsworth Crown Green Bowls Club

Welcomes new membersWe play socially on Saturday nights. We also play friendly

matches throughout the summer, as well as playing in the local league matches on

Tuesday evenings and Thursday afternoons.

Come and have a go. Bowls is a sport suitable for all ages. All you need is a pair of flat shoes, we have bowls you can borrow to try the game.If you are interested call me Margaret Shepherd on

01629735313or email me at:

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Dear EditorI am writing to inform you about the

Eroica Britannia cycling event coming to Derbyshire this year. The three day festival will take place at Friden Grange (next to Newhaven) from 15th – 17th June, it’s a celebration of vintage cycling, local food and drink.

The culmination of the festival is a bike ride on 17th June which starts from Friden Grange. The first riders will leave in waves from 6.00am with the last expected start being set for 10.30am.

All of the riders will be on pre-1987 ‘heroic’ bikes wearing vintage clothing. The event, first held in Italy, has been described as the ‘most handsome bike ride in the World’ and is sure to be a fantastic spectacle.

The route on 17th June will have cyclists heading from Millers Dale to Thornbridge Station, exiting from the platform onto Station Road and then entering Thornbridge Hall for a refreshment stop. After the refreshment break riders will exit Thornbridge Hall via the service exit onto station road and head towards Great Longstone and through Main Street and rejoin the Monsal Trail at the bottom of Main Street.

We expect approximately 2,000 riders to cycle on this section, arriving at Thornbridge between 10.00 – 14.00. The event is not a race so the riders will not be racing but will be leisurely taking their time to enjoy the refreshments offered and no doubt the cafés/pubs along the route.

In order to ensure both the safety of our riders and members of the public, we have requested a road closure from 10.00 – 14.00 from the junction of Glebe Avenue and Station Road in Great Longstone, and the junction of Longstone Lane and Ashford Lane B6465. Please note this decision has

been taken with safety as its main concern.

We will have marshals at each junction and will give access to local residents living on the sections of the closed road.

We are absolutely committed to ensuring that any disruption for local households and businesses is kept to a minimum and would like to apologies in advance for any inconvenience.

Full details of the ride and the programme of the 3-day festival can be found on website: www.eroicabritannia.co.uk/.

If you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate me.

On behalf of the organisers,Yours FaithfullyMarco Mori

Message from the organisers of Erioca 2018

An open meeting will be held at The Crispin Inn on Tuesday, 27th February at 7:30pm.

The guest speaker is Professor David Beeling FRS. His talk is entitled ‘The Emerald Planet: how plants changed with history’. Please do come and support our guest speaker and the Society.

All welcome.

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This picture is idedntical to a lamp in my possession. My lamp is old, seriously old, in fact 4000 years ago it must have illuminated the interior of a tent used by nomads; a man like Abraham making his epic journey from his pagan city of Ur to a “land flowing with milk and honey” in the Holy Land.

The lamp came into our hands when we were in Raqqa on one of our many visits to the then, little town (population 10,000) where Roy’s engineering colleagues were working. Why were we there? Well, from 1965-1967 we lived in Syria. We were based in Damascus, some 800 km to the south and west of Raqqa. Roy was tasked with being the liaison between his firm and the Syrian government’s Euphrates Project Authority. The plan was to irrigate an area the size of Wales which lay on land called the Fertile Crescent. It was centuries ago known as “The Bread Basket” of the Roman Empire growing wheat for its people. The object now was to grow more cotton, a major crop, producing all manner of goods for the Syrians.

Roy had spent much of his working life designing major hydro-eloectric schemes around the world for his firm of consulting engineers. This job was a departure, but a challenging one. We worked with a team of Dutch geologists and also a group of Dutch experts in tropical agriculture. Their task was to evaluate how little water would be needed to grow good quality cotton. Water is a precious resource in the Middle East. They grew numerous strips of cotton with varying amounts of water to ascertain the optimum amount required. Raqqa in the sixties was a small town close to the river Euphrates. The Russians (already a presence in the country) had built a dam on the river which would be the source of water needed for the project.

Raqqa was also a very ancient town, first settled briefly by Alexander the Great. Centuries later it was chosen by Harun al Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad, as a location for a summer palace. He did this to escape the intolerable heat of his Iraqi capital. Raqqa has hot days but deliciously cool nights. There is little of that grandeur left, just a gateway, the Baghdad gate standing in isolation in the Syrian desert.

Raqqa was also famous for its pottery and the Dutch geologists unearthed a large quantity of simple domestic

items whilst doing soil tests. We were all given one piece to take home to remind us of our time in Raqqa. None of it was of the fine quality produced for the rich residents of the past. It was just the simple everyday potery used by tent dwellers.

Looking at my lamp brings back memories of our Dutch colleagues and the Syrian staff who worked with us. Selim, our office manager arranged for us all to have a meal with the local Bedouin families. We ate beneath the stars and were entertained with singing and dancing. It was an unforgettable experience.

So, we came back to ‘civilisation’ and how easily we can touch a switch and get light! How we panic when we are plunged into darkness during power cuts. But how many families have been plunged into darkness and fear when their homes have been bombarded leaving them to crouch in the ruins and then being forced to leave their

homes taking only what they could carry with them.

We spent two wonderful years in Syria welcomed by generous and warm-hearted people who love their children and shared their homes and their tables with us. Our time there prompted me to write my novel ‘The Turkoman Rug’ which I self-published. All the proceeds from the sales go to charity. I know it is only a drop in the great ocean of need, but I felt I had to try and do something for the country and people we loved.

An abiding memory is of summer evenings spent eating in leafy outdoor restaurants which all had playgrounds where childen could laugh and play, watched by their parents at nearby tables relaxing after a meal eaten together. I just pray that one day the sound of children’s laughter may be heard again in that land.

Pat Westwell

Let there be light

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I decided to buy a new all-cotton duvet cover. John Lewis or Dunelms? Nothing really grabbed me, then I remembered Traidcraft. My bed is now decked out in a red, gold, blue and green, lovely hand block printed pattern, good quality duvet that washes beautifully. Traidcraft Exchange has been working with the textile artisans in northern India, helping them to run profitable businesses using Eco-friendly techniques.

Many of the dyes used in Indian textiles are harmful to the environment and the textile workers. Traidcraft exchange has helped to develop 'green' standards for textile producers through the improvement of the production process. The use of natural dyes, and recycled materials along with good health and safety standards, is directly benefiting over 12,000 artisan households.

In 2015, the Going Green initiative started canvassing for interested women to join their project. Determined to break the cycle of poverty, women joined together to pool their skills and to learn more. With the aid of sewing machines and a decision to make bags and accessories from textile waste, they have gained confidence in their own ability and are now doing something positive to support their families. They have become small entrepreneurs in their own right backed by the support and collective strength of the self help group.

Have a look at Tradecraft’s website to see some of the handcrafted and fair traded goods from around the world.

Su Woollen

The Peak District boasts many fine walks, and the gritstone escarpments which run roughly from the north to the south of the area, collectively known as ‘The Eastern Edges’, provide the potential for many an exciting day out with no shortage of spectacular views.

This is one of the Peak’s classic long-distance walks, covering some 25 miles and with 4000 feet of ascent, starting at Langsett in the north and finishing at the Robin Hood near Baslow.

However, a snowy day in January was not the time to be considering this excursion, and I was therefore content to walk along White Edge and Froggatt Edge, which if linked together form a justifiably popular local walk.

I chose to start from The Grouse Inn at Froggatt, although if the car park at Curbar Gap is your starting point then ‘The Grouse’ makes a convenient refreshment stop at the half-way stage in the walk. A short climb onto the northern end of White Edge brought me into the teeth of a strong wind, with occasional heavy showers of driving snow to contend with. On a better day, the views eastward over Big Moor and beyond to the outskirts of Sheffield are extensive, and occasionally one is able to glimpse the small herd of Red Deer which roams in this area.

On reaching the White Edge trig. point (365m) the weather began to improve and ahead in the distance Chatsworth House was visible. A glance at the map at this point also illustrates the historic significance of Big Moor to the east, with the remains of numerous cairns, field systems and stone circles providing evidence of the occupation of these moors by previous civilisations.

After descending to Curbar Gap (ice cream in summer!) the path

along Curbar Edge is joined. A weak sun was appearing from behind the clouds on my walk and this afforded views across the valley to Calver and Stoney Middleton, whilst further north Hathersage and the hills surrounding the Hope Valley were visible. Next followed Froggatt Edge and a short detour to yet another stone circle near to the path. After crossing the main road there only remained a tricky negotiation of a swollen stream and a walk through snow covered fields, which in summer are rich with wild flowers, to my starting point.

Not the entire Eastern Edges walk, but a good substitute for a short winter’s day.

Sean Jennings

Traidcraft along three edges

On White Edge

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Mother’s Day, Sunday 11th MarchTwo Courses £19, Three Courses £22.50

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Charity Quiz & Curry NightMonday 2nd April, in aid of Longstone Pre School

Curry from 6pm, quiz from 8pm

Can you help to improve the lives of local people? We need more volunteer car and minibus drivers!

Car Scheme - our volunteers use their own cars to provide tailor-made journeys for vital medical appointments for people who struggle to use conventional transport. All you need to help us is a little spare time, access to a car and to have held a full driving licence for at least three years. All mileage is reimbursed.

Bus Services - Minibus drivers are needed to help provide the Easy Shopping Service and our series of Trips and Tours. All you need to help is to have held a full driving licence for at least three years, hold a D1 classification on your driving licence and hold the certificated MiDAS qualification. Free training to gain this qualification will be provided.

Bakewell Bookend Bookshop – Can you join our team of volunteers to help run the shop – to sort, value, organise and sell the books. Do you have any unwanted books you can donate please?

As one of our volunteers there is no need to make a commitment, the choice is yours and is totally flexible. If you can help to give something back to your community and help people lead more independent lives, please contact:

Sandra NaylorBakewell and Eyam Community Transport01629 641920email info@bect.org.uk

Bakewell and Eyam Community Transport recruiting volunteers

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The Longstone Stragglers are a road-cycling group based in the village. Up to 15 keen cyclists meet every other Saturday for a ride out to a cafe for the obligatory coffee and cake. In need of a challenge, eight female members of the group are entering the ‘Women v cancer - Ride the Night’ charity bike ride; a 100 km ride starting in Windsor and cycling into central London and back. The riders don't start until 10:30 pm, returning hopefully some time before dawn!

The ride on 5th May is in aid of Women’s cancer charities including Breast Cancer Care, Ovarian Cancer Action and Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust. Between us we hope to raise several thousand pounds.

If you would like to support us, we are holding a Charity Quiz Night on 24th March, 7:30 pm at the village hall. Tickets are £12.50 and include two drinks, although more will be available!

Similar to the recent wine tasting night, we are asking people to bring along a dish for a shared supper.

Why not make up a team and support us. It should be a great night.

Contact Jane@janelittlefieldglass.co.uk for tickets (01629 640943)

Jane Littlefield

Longstone Stragglers ride London by night

225g/8oz self raising flour225g/8oz medium oatmeal125g/4oz soft brown sugar1/2 tsp of ginger300g/10oz of butter or lard150ml of milk1tsp of bicarbonate of soda

Preheat the oven 190C/180C Fan/350F.

Mix together the flour, oatmeal and ginger. In a pan melt the butter/lard, sugar and treacle together and add a little of the milk. Add the wet mix to the flour etc and mix to a stiff batter. Dissolve the bicarbonate to the remainder of the milk, add to the batter and mix quickly. Pour into a shallow tin (about 11”x9”x2”) and bake for an hour or until firm.

Kate McGoverne

Recipe corner‘Derbyshire Parkin’

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14TH MARCH 2018

9TH MAY 2018 (ALSO ANNUAL PARISH MEETING)

11TH JULY 2018

12TH SEPTEMBER 2018

14TH NOVEMBER 2018

great Longstone parish Council meeting dates

2018

One sunny day in Asia, I was lying down outside my damp cave, the sun was blazing above me, the bushes around my cave were wobbling in the breeze. The birds, with their bright colours were flying from tree to tree. A group of monkeys were swinging from branch to branch. I was drinking from the stream when I heard the rustle of the bushes. I thought it was the wind but the wind died down ages ago. I got closer and closer as I could muster, I hopped over the stream. I could just see. A leg...

I got ready to pounce, my ears were pricking up. As I got closer I thought that it could be a deer or a buffalo. Every second I got closer until I could see his whole body. As I jumped through the air I realised it was a...

Buffalo, his feet bucked out at me, and then he start to run. He flew off at speed, he thought he’d lost me but he hadn’t.

He was getting slower every minute, but he didn’t know that I was getting closer. Suddenly he stopped, I used the long grass to hide me and make me camouflaged. As I got closer his feet were trembling, his head was slightly trembling as well, then the creature fell after a loud bang.Then there was another one, then there was black...

Ben Darlow

poems from Longstone primary SchoolThe following poems were sent to us by Sue Woollen. They are poems and stories written by the pupils of Longstone Primary School, related to their current topic of ‘India’.

The hunted tiger

Tyger Tyger

Tyger tiger flaming in flightReady to pounce with a big bite,Tyger Tyger ready to end a life,His teeth are razor sharp knives.

Tyger tiger ready to fight,All who thinks it’s wise and right,But all who come out the battle,May come out extremely brittle.

All who can safely float,Could catch a glimpse of the majestic coat,Black stripes on the orange strong back,But nothing compared to the teeth pulled back.

Tyger tiger flaming in flight,Ready to pounce with a big bite,Tyger Tyger ready to end a life,His teeth are razor sharp knifes

Unknown

The hunted tiger

Softly I crept through the undergrowth stalking my prey, with every silent step my eyes carefully scanned around the area. Finally, a herd of deer, they were grazing on the grassy plains, just by sniffing I could tell that there were two young sambar deer, that would be enough to calm my hunger for a few days. For a couple of days my stomach had been having a tantrum, roaring and growling at me because I hadn’t been able to find any food, (since I was still too young to hunt properly) this was my chance to prove myself to my brothers and sisters, they were out hunting as well. All my senses were on high alert.

Suddenly I heard a sound like no other ‘BANG!!!!!’ It was so loud that it shook the ground sending tremours under my paws, all my carefully tracked sambar deer leaped away. Ignoring the fact that I had almost been knocked off my feet, I bolted after one of the young, clipping its right back with my teeth I brought the young deer down single-handed. Since this was my first time tasting meat in weeks, I did not notice the silver barrel of the gun pointing towards me.

Zaida Speight Fernandez

Tyger Tyger

Tiger tiger in the light,In the forests of the night,Searching prowling for its prey,Sleeping peacefully in the day.

In what distant of the skies,Killing prey with its deathly eyes,Getting ready to kill, he pounced,He got the deer and danced and bounced.

He ripped it to shreds with his paws,Like he was in the dreadful wars,Scanning the forests with satellite ears,Making animals think he’s fierce.

Tiger tiger in the lights,In the forests of the night,Searching prowling for its prey,Sleeping peacefully in the day.

Hayley Fairfax

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Little Longstone Congregational Chapel Easter in Bloom

Thursday 29th March – Monday 8th April

Join Heather Thomas our worship leader and us for our Easter Service at 3.00pm on Sunday 1st April

Do you shop online? If so, you could raise money for charity every time you shop, at no cost to you. Easyfundraising is a scheme whereby retailers donate a small percentage of your spend, or give a small fixed donation, to your chosen charity every time you spend money with them. Loads of big names have signed up – John Lewis, Amazon, Next, Boots, eBay, Marks & Spencer, Thomas Cook etc…

S i m p ly s i g n u p fo r f re e a t easyfundraising.org.uk and select the cause you’d like to support. Great Longstone Pre-School is a registered charity and always needs funds to help towards its costs. Even though the committee who runs the preschool is voluntary, the pre-school needs money to pay the staff, pay for the rent and upkeep of its building, for all the utilities and for books, toys

and equipment for the children. We’d love it if you chose to support Great Longstone Pre-School but equally you can choose any worthy cause.

Once you’ve signed up, there are several ways to shop:

1. Visit the easyfundraising site to choose which retailer’s site to visit.

2. Download the free toolbar. A small ‘e’ will flash in the corner of your screen whenever you visit a retailer who has signed up and then you simply click it to activate donations.

3. On your phone. Download the free easyfundraising app to your phone and then visit retailers from the app in order to activate the donation.

Please sign up now and help to raise money for Great Longstone Pre-School as you shop. Thank you!

Jo Elliott

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We are a small, friendly and independent pre-school. Our focus is on learning through play

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ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING

Parish of Longstone In the Deanery of Bakewell and Eyam,

in the Diocese of Derby

Notice is hereby given that the Meeting for the Election of

Churchwardens and the

Annual Parochial Church Meeting will be held at

St Giles Church, Great Longstone on Sunday, the 18th March, 2018

at 12noon

MESSY CHURCHST. GILES IS GETTING MESSY!!

THURSDAY 15TH MARCHIN ST. GILES CHURCH GREAT LONGSTONE

3:45PM - 5:15PM

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A few things to catch up with first of all. We began the year with our New Year Lunch at the Ashford Arms. A lovely meal and good company. At our February meeting one of our members, Gill Dengel, gave us an entertaining talk about her time touring with teenagers, the story of a band. What excellent musicians they were judging by the cd we heard.

We're again having a Spring Lunch at Bakewell Golf Club, provisional date is Wednesday 21st March. The date for the group meeting has had to be changed as the County Quiz is on the 26th April. The new date is Thursday 10th May. Our speaker is local children's author Susan Wilkins who has written several books including one about Arkwright the Duck who lives at Cromford Mill.

We have got another wide and varied programme this year, details of which are below. Come along and join us, you'd be very welcome.

March 7th - Treasures from a suitcase - Jeanette Jackson.April 5th - Learn how to sleep well - Adriana Galimberti-Rennie.May 2nd - AGM and discussion of resolutions followed by a quiz/game.June 6th - Hartington Cheese - Claire Milner.July 4th - Applique work from Peru - Chris and Nick Roberts.August Outing - Afternoon Tea at the Cavendish.September 5th - "Oh Mum, what have I done?"- Barbara Daykin.October 3rd - Medical Detection Dogs - David Brocklehurst.November 2nd - Rags to Riches - theatrical costumes - Julie Colby.December 5th - Christmas Party.

We meet in the Village Hall at 7:30. Hope you can join us.

Davia Broome

WI report

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It’s a funny thing but this year Lent, Holy Week and Easter have been kind of ‘framed’ by two other significant dates more often taken note of in the secular world rather than in the religious. Let me explain…..

The season of Lent, which began on Ash Wednesday, fell on February 14th, also St. Valentine’s Day. I find the story of Saint Valentine both amusing and also rather fascinating because as a soldier he wanted other soldiers to get married and be happy rather than becoming hardened fighters in the Roman army. It’s a day when we celebrate love!

Easter Day this year, of course, falls on another well-known named day, April 1st, otherwise known as April fool’s Day, when we are given a kind of permission to play practical jokes on other people. Yes, I am aware that this means that what I am saying strictly falls in the next month’s edition of UTE; but perhaps I can be granted a bit of editorial licence!

Given the above fact I ’m just wondering how many Vicars are going to play practical jokes on their congregations on Easter Day morning. I have a few ideas up my sleeve but then the thought has just crossed my mind that I could possibly be at the receiving end myself. Help! It could be me being made to feel rather foolish.

Joking aside we might say that both these two days, when taken together, echo the Christian message of salvation that culminates in God saving action on the cross of Good Friday and in the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Day. Here on these two most holy days the Christian church across the world celebrates the foolish love of God.

St. Paul writing to the church in Corinth puts the Christian proclamation of the cross and the resurrection in this way.

“God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength” I Corinthians 1.v.29

I wish everybody a very happy and joyful Easter.

Yours with every blessing,James

Dear friends

• On the first Wednesday of each month the children and their teachers from Longstone School usually make their way to St. Giles’ for an assembly.

Snippets from St Giles’

Our theme was wisdom and together we acted out the parable Jesus told of the wise man who built his house on rock and the foolish man who built his house on sand. The children were super good at imitating a howling wind, pouring rain and surging waves!! Thank you Longstone School!

• On Thursday 17th February the funeral took place of Gwen Thaw who lived in Great Longstone. At the service we gave thanks for Gwen’s long and fruitful life. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her two sons Chris and Tim at this time.

• A Red Admiral butterfly found its way into the kitchen of the Vicarage! I didn’t think they came out at this time of the year but this one has really made a home for itself and seems quite at home. What a beautiful creature it is! I wonder if anybody else has had a similar experience of seeing a butterfly at home in February!

• St. Giles’ is always open in daylight hours for people to come, visit and enjoy. Maybe also at the same time for a bit of solitude, stillness and quiet prayer. You are always welcome.

James

This month we shall be continuing with the Pilgrim Course focussing on the Creeds, specifically the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds.

“The Pilgrim course is a journey to the heart of God and to a living personal relationship with Jesus Christ within the household of his church” - the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

Two courses are being held, one in the afternoon and one in the evening.

Wednesday afternoons: 2:00pm – 3:15pm – led by James Croft

• Curbar church - Wednesday March 7th

• Longstone Vicarage - Wednesday March 14th

• Curbar church - Wednesday March 21st

• Longstone Vicarage - Wednesday March 28th

Monday evenings in Longstone choir vestry - 7:00pm - 8:15pm – led by

Lent groups 2018 - the creeds

June Fawcett• Monday March 5th• Monday March 12th• Monday March 19th• Monday March 26th For further details please do contact:James Croft 01629 640257June Fawcett 01629 64042

For all enquiries in connection with baptisms, confirmations and weddings, please contact the Vicar on either 01629 640257 or jamescroft80@gmail.com

James Croft (Vicar)

Church enquiries

Monday 26th MarchMonday in Holy Week7:00pm Said Eucharist

Thursday 29th MarchMaundy Thursday

Benefice Service -7:30pm Eucharist of the Last Supper at

Curbar church

Friday 30th MarchGood Friday

10:00am Children’s ‘Good Friday’ Service

2:00pm Good Friday Service

Saturday 31st MarchEaster Eve

Benefice Service – 8:00pm Easter Eve Vigil service at

Curbar Church

Sunday 1st AprilEaster Day

8:00am Holy Communion9:00am Eucharist at Wardlow

11:00am Eucharist6:30pm Evensong

Holy Week and Easter services

If you would like your name included in the Electoral Roll of St Giles’, would you please contact Frank Hammond, 1 Croft Road, Gt Longstone, who will be able to give you an application form for enrolment.

Church electoral roll

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The Packhorse InnLittle Longstone

David and Lorraine welcome you to The Packhorse.

Small parties catered for! Excellent hand-pulled ales and quality home cooked food are

available from 12 – 3.00pm and 6-9.00pm daily. Quiz night on

Thursday with ‘A Bingo Twist’ at 9.00pm with proceeds going to

Air Ambulance.Children, dogs and walkers are all welcome in the pub and beer

garden.Telephone 01629 640471

March in the gardenSt. Giles’ Great Longstone& Church of the GoodShepherd, Wardlow

Services in March

4th MarchLent 3

8:00am Holy Communion9:00am Eucharist at Wardlow

11:00am Morning Service 6:30pm Evensong

11th MarchLent 4 - Mothering Sunday

11:00am Parish Eucharist6:30pm Evensong

18th March Lent 5 – Passiontide

8:00am Holy Communion (BCP)9:00am Morning service at

Wardlow11:00am Parish Eucharist

6:30pm Evensong

25th March Palm Sunday

11:00am Parish Eucharist6:30pm Evensong

Roses - Prune Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Miniatures, repeat-flowering Cucumbers and Shrub Roses, complete any delayed planting.

Lawns - Re-seed any worn areas and repair lawn edges that have crumbled, aerate lawn with a wire rake. Apply Spring fertiliser. Control worms. Apply select weed killers when grass is growing strongly. Control moss using moss killer. Cut grass when it is 2.5 to 3 inches high.

Herbaceous - If weather is fine spread fertiliser on Winter dug ground and rake in. Plant newly purchased plants. Check labels before they are hidden by new growth.

Sweet Peas - Plant out Autumn-sown seedlings in double rows where grown on the cordon system.

Dahlias - Prepare ground by digging and dressing with Bone meal. Select an aspect in full sun. Under glass remove old tubers from storage and spray with tepid water to encourage new shoots for cuttings. Sow Dahlia seed.

Gladioli- Plant Corms in rows for exhibition, in colonies for mixed borders. Succession planting for continuous supply of blooms.

Fruit - Complete planting new trees or bushes. Complete pruning new trees and bushes. Train new shoots of Blackberries and Loganberries on to wires. Train in Peaches and Nectarines and pollinate artificially if Insects are scarce.

Vegetables - Sow seed for main crop of Brussels Sprouts late in the month. Sow salad onions, Lettuce and radish, Late Summer Cabbage and round seeded Peas. complete Shallot planting and plant Asparagus and Jerusalem Artichokes.

General tasks - Complete all digging. Kill weeds on paths and drives. Use total weed killer. Check all ties securing plants to stakes.

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disease, please book in for your Flu Vac Normal Surgery Opening Times Monday(07:30until19:00)

TuesdaytoFriday08:00to18:30(ClosedBankHolidays)

Surgery ClosureAfternoonofWednesday14thMarch2018

Appointment timesClinicianswillendeavourtokeeptotime;however,theyalsoneedtoaffordthe

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What’s On

DefibrillatorsLocation of defibrillators:

M a i n S t r e e t , G r e a t Longstone: In telephone box near bus shelter, opposite Longstone CE School.

Recreation ground, Great Longstone: On Cricket Club tea hut.

There is also one in Little Longstone, on Main Street, opposite The Packhorse Inn, in the telephone box.

Great Longstone Parish Council

27th Feb - Longstone and District Horticultural and Garden Society meeting (page 2)

14th Mar - meeting of Great Longstone Parish Council, 7pm, GL Village Hall

15th Mar - ‘Messy Church’ (page 9)

17th Mar - BECT ‘Tunes for Transport’ (page 5)

18th Mar - Annual Pariochial Church Meeting (page 9)

20th Mar - Longstone Local History Group meeting (page 2)

24th Mar - Longstone Stragglers Quiz Night (page 6)

29 Mar - 8 Apr - Little Longstone chapel ‘Easter in Bloom’ (page 8)

5th May - Tideswell Food Festival (page 2)

15-17 Jun - Eroica coming through Great Longstone (see page 2 for more information)

23-24 Jun - Open Gardens (more information to follow)