Stable Shop - Easter Opening USEFUL INFORMATION The new weekly routine will be Lloyds Mobile Bank interrupted this weekend due to Memorial Hall holiday closures at Maycocks, Tuesday 1.15 pm to 3.00 pm Jacksons and Palins. Hopefully Wednesday 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm

you’ve all placed your Easter meat Thursday 10.00 am to 11.30 am WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY and veg orders; lamb seems to be NatWest Mobile Bank popular. Wirksworth Memorial Hall Leek and Potato Soup Tuesday 1.15 pm to 3.00 pm There will be no meat, veg or served with a home-made Grocery Shopping bread deliveries on Easter Monday. Cheese Scone £5 Call the Stable Shop Hotline There will be newspapers each 07443 957699 or Apple and Calvados day. Shop opening hours will be: email [email protected] Crumble £5  Good Friday 8:30 - 11.30 and Medical Questions Easter Brownie 16:00 - 17:00 (fruit & veg Contact your GP or NHS 111 £2 per slice collections) Takeaway Food  Easter Saturday 8:30 - 11-30 Barley Mow Inn Kirk Ireton FRIDAY-SUNDAY only 01135 370306 & Facebook  Easter Sunday 8:30 - 11:30 only Black Swan at Idridgehay Cauliflower, Mustard and On Facebook  Easter Monday 8:30 - 11-30 only Gorgonzola Soup served Kirk Ireton Defibrillator with a home-made Cheese We have quite a lot of veg boxes to The Code is C159X spare if you need some for storing Scone £5 Dales Bin Collections your “extra” recycling. Plum Crumble Cake For more information go to: Phone the order line on 0744 395 £2.50 per slice https://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/ 7699 or [email protected] coronavirus-bin-updates Hot Cross Bun Bread and Happy Easter Butter Pudding £5 from the Shop Committee Anything to add? Email [email protected] Baileys Tiramisu £5 Village Shop Orders Call or text 07596 511615 Maycock’s the butcher will be or Facebook message delivering this Thursday but will THE STABLE SHOP Rhubarb Sweet & not be delivering on Easter OPEN DAILY 8.00 AM TO 11.30 AM Monday. So please order your & ALSO MONDAY TO FRIDAY Savouries 4.00 PM TO 5.00 PM meat with this in mind! About Rhubarb Sweet & Savouries Palins will deliver fruit and veg this ORDER HOTLINE Thursday and next Tuesday. Lisa Bridge lives in Main Street Kirk 07443 957699 Thanks to all for using both the Ireton and is a trained chef. In the or email phone and email for ordering. last few months she has gone back [email protected] to her main passion which is Oder Hotline 07443 957699 or email [email protected] cooking and baking offering soups, FRiends And Neighbours in Kirk cakes, puddings and desserts Cynthia Ireton mostly. Refills On The Road We are available to step up if others Lisa can also provide catering for Refills On The Road will be at can’t help or you don't know who to private parties and events and will ask. Call FRANKI on 0744 3957658 Kniveton outside the Red Lion this also make lasagnes and pies if If you are prepared to be a volunteer Thursday from 10 am to 2.00 pm. customers provide their own dishes. and support this initiative please call Find out more on Facebook if us on: 0744 3957658 needed. I may ask if she can pop to This is a neighbourhood initiative KI for an hour. Only had one supported by KICA, Holy Trinity Kirk person interested so far though. Ireton, The Stable Shop, The Barley Mow Gillian 07921 378664 1

Bonfires With the current restrictions on outdoor exercise, we are very lucky APRIL 2020 where we live and most of us are It may at present seem that our whole World has been turned upside able to enjoy fresh air in our down. This may be so for mankind but Nature continues much as it has gardens (when we can prise our always done Reading the article for April 2014, resurrected in a recent children away from the XBox!). diary, I realised that it could have been written yesterday. Consequently, it would be much All the flowers mentioned have been seen again within a few days of the appreciated if villagers could display dates on which they are recorded in my diaries. None of the other events some thoughtfulness towards their such as the appearance of butterflies and the sighting of migrant birds neighbours when lighting bonfires. appears significantly changed. It would be more appropriate at the On my hours release from ‘Self Isolation’ for exercise end of the day please when people yesterday I noted White Violets, the white flowers of have returned inside. Greater Stitchwort and Bluebells for the first time this Thank You Jane Smith year. Most of the flowers I associate with spring have Blue Bins now been recorded. Just had an email from Derbyshire I also saw some butterflies, two Tortoiseshells and a Dales re the Blue Bins: Peacock and look forward to seeing Orange Tips soon. Please put your recycling bin out on The Redwing have left us, except perhaps for a few stragglers, but Swallows your next scheduled recycling and House martins have yet to arrive. Their appearance can only be a collection day. You can check our matter of a few days according to records. Most interesting of yesterdays website on the morning of your bird sightings was a Kestrel battling against the wind. collection date to see if your area is My daughter in Bromley, a London suburb, has reported seeing five foxes going to be collected or not. walking on the streets during her walk over the weekend and badgers have Liz Evans also been seen there in full daylight on recent occasions. Some wildlife is Garden Cottage, Rectory Lane taking advantage of our changed conditions. Earlier I said that ‘nature continues much as it has always done’ this Quiz depends on time scale as changes may be very small and go un-noticed. A great and amusing evening was Some fifty years ago, I plotted sites around Kirk Ireton where I had seen had by the 15 teams who joined Yellow Hammers; there were about twenty of these. Today I know of none. Jane and I for the quiz last week! It The last time I saw a Yellow Hammer at one of these sites was three years worked well including a caption ago near Bull Hill Farm, since then nothing. round that proved very The effects of changing farming practices and global warming tend to go un entertaining...some great senses of -noticed until something results in an alert. humour out there...The winners Dave Williams Lula and Jem, won a fabulous pudding donated by Lisa Bridge's Thank You Free Seeds Rhubarb pudding company (menu After a number of weeks of I have the following leftover seeds, on her kitchen window for all to struggling along trying to get free to collect: see) Second was Carl Bridge who medication we rung Franki to see if Lettuce- Lolla-Rosa won a toilet roll...and the main they could help. John Sinclair Radish - French Breakfast prize, unwanted strangely, was a could not of been more kind and Spinach - Perpetual weekend for 2 in Rome to be taken helpful and after two journeys to Rocket - Wild in the next 2 weeks… Ashbourne to find the computers Sweet Pea - Royal Mix Any way look out for the next down at Lloyds chemist, then back Sugar Pea - Mangetout quiz...it's not hard, good fun and the to Paynes in Wirksworth, he finally Martin Tomlinson prizes are debatable! arrived with a big smiley face at 07788720176 Look out for the next event which our door with the much needed we will be having in our usual medication, what a star. Information is also available on the weekly slot of Sunday evenings We are humbled by the generosity shop notice board. 7.30ish. Links to each event will be and kindness and thank John for If you have any information to share sent out when we've invented it. helping out and for everyone who please email the Dairy at Thanks to John Sinclair for hosting has volunteered. [email protected] Copies of all the Information sheets these events on Zoom. Nicki & Adrian McNaney are available on the Kirk Ireton Emma website: kirkireton.com 2

Neighbourhood Plan The Local Government and Police Coronavirus fraudsters offering A look back at previous articles in the Diary and Crime Commissioner support to elderly for cash KIRK IRETON COUNTRYSIDE (Coronavirus) (Postponement of upfront APRIL 2015 Elections and Referendums) ( and Wales) Elderly and vulnerable residents self- Global warming is said to have isolating are at risk of being exploited Regulations 2020 comes into force advanced the signs of spring by a by strangers and cold callers posing as fortnight in the last fifty years. from the 7th April. helpful neighbours in order to scam These have the effect of postponing them. According to the Met. Office Spring all Neighbourhood Plan Do not accept services from strangers starts on the 1st of March. I heard or cold callers – whether in person, on Referendums until 6th May 2021. on the television the NHS takes the phone or online – who offer to run Winter to finish on the 13th of Although the Government has errands, collect prescriptions and do March which presumably makes indicated it will keep the situation shopping and ask for cash upfront, or a credit card and its PIN. 14th March the 1st day of Spring. under review and may amend the The intention of these fraudsters is to When I was younger the Spring legislation as is considered manipulate and gain the trust of the solstice was taken to be Spring’s appropriate for the time being the elderly and vulnerable in self-isolation first day. Certainly there is a huge Kirk Ireton NP Referendum has simply to execute more elaborate been postponed until next May. scams, gain access to their property or change in the countryside in the access their savings. month of March, far more obvious Mike Hase Not only are those self-isolating at risk than the changes that occur during DDDC Policy Manager of falling victim to fraudsters who the first few weeks of Autumn. could simply take their cash and not COVID-19 App return, but by letting people into their The first of March seems early for I’ve downloaded an app launched homes unsuspecting victims are also the start of this period although by Kings College in London which is at greater risk of catching the Snowdrops were in bloom by mid coronavirus. Other scams have January. Some Herb Robert flowers gathering data on symptomatic included: COVID-19 (as in, you have were showing their small pink  Phishing e-mails offering quack flowers before the end of that symptoms but haven’t been tested) remedies, vaccination kits or bogus - every day you take a few seconds medical advice. month but these might be a carry over from the winter months. to tell it whether you are well or  ‘Price gougers’ selling in-demand not. At the moment just over 2,000 items such as facemasks and hand By the end of February Coltsfoot, people are on the app in Derbyshire sanitiser at inflated prices both on Dandelion and Lesser Celandine Dales, and 4% have or have had fake websites and legitimate online were showing their yellow faces. marketplaces, with victims often Less conspicuous were the yellow COVID-19. The more people paying upfront and never receiving download the app, the more the kit. green flowers of the ground hugging accurate the data becomes.  Criminals exploiting pandemic panic Saxifrages. “Help slow the spread of #COVID19 to assist in burglary or fraud by Even less obvious in the first week and identify at risk cases sooner by impersonating government, council of March were the tiny green or medical officers. self-reporting your symptoms daily, flowers of Dogs Mercury, a flower  Scam e-mails pretending to be even if you feel well. Download the whose name always puzzles me, charities encouraging residents to what on earth is the connection app” donate or travel companies asking https://covid.joinzoe.com/ for information about cancelled between this flower and dogs and even more puzzling between the Ann-Marie holidays, often to secure unsuspecting victims’ payment flower and Mercury the planet or details or steal their identity. the metal? Barley Mow Inn  Advertisements for “money mules” Spring activities that you may see in playing on the fears of the The Barley Mow is open between financially insecure, which are often animal life if you are extremely 6.00 pm and 8.00 pm part of more serious organised lucky include Hares 'boxing' and OFF SALES & TAKE AWAY ONLY criminal networks including fraud squirrels transferring their young Take-away beer and cider is now and drug gangs. from one place to another carrying only £2.00 a pint ! Anyone who is stuck without food or them, one by one held by the scruff medical supplies, or is lonely as a of their necks, in their mouths. please bring your own containers. result of their self-isolation and does Food only available on not have any friends and family or Certainly the nests of Blackbird, Wednesdays and weekends neighbours that they know in the area, Robin and Wren may be seen and For doorstep delivery call should in the first instance contact most bird boxes will be occupied. their council. 01335 370306 Dave Williams Latest information on Facebook 3

East Midlands Ambulance CANCELLED & POSTPONED I am planning to start teaching one hour Service introduce classes in yoga and meditation online All until further notice from w/c April 20th onwards. I'm offering What3Words Luncheon Club a range of options depending on what The What3Words system is now Yoga the demand is. This includes: up and running at EMAS, with just Yoga Explorers for those completely 2002 Sound & Light new to yoga who want to give it a try to three words being used to find a Open Gardens find out how yoga can benefit your person’s location in an emergency. Church Services physical and mental health at this challenging time. Class will include: What3Words have divided the Chapel Services  easy fun movements to energise the world into 3m x 3m squares each Friendship Group body having its own unique 3-word Book Club  gentle yet powerful poses adapted to identifier, such as ivory.elastic.plot Kirk Ireton Singers suit your limitations (we all have 'em!) for Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire or School Easter Fair  introductory breath tools to get the full popped.faced.lied for Lincoln Shop 10th Anniversary Party value from each breath Castle. Women’s Institute  deep relaxation to slow the body and mind down. Time is critical in an emergency, Under 5s Yoga Confident for those who have and identifying the correct location Patchwork Sewing Group done some type of yoga before - we will is vitally important. When calling focus on building vitality and immunity. Class will include: 999, if a member of the public is  activations get the body ready for yoga unsure of their location, our call  asana sequences to strengthen, handlers will advise the use of stretch and stimulate body and mind What3Words so they can pinpoint Henry’s Plumbing Services  breath techniques to activate the the exact location. Professional, Friendly & Reliable respiratory system 07932 962070 This means whether you are in the  relaxation tools to calm body & mind. [email protected] most remote locations such as the Meditation for Uncertain Times for Carolyne’s Cakes anyone who wants to harness our Peak District, on the beach at Cakes for all occasions, also Cake pops mental ability to cope with fear and Skegness or in your local high & Cupcakes. anxiety and to stay strong and centred. Tel. 01335 372826 or 07912 8963 Class will include: street, we will be able to find you.  movements to get the body ready to You can use the app offline which Copestone Dry Stone Walling meditate means even without internet Emma Yates  sequences to clear blocks from body connectivity, we will still be able to Qualified Dry Stone Waller and mind find you. 01335 372056 or 07966 666463  simple concentration tools to calm our [email protected] Neil Spencer, EOC Service thoughts Dressmaking  meditation techniques to build focus Improvement Manager at East Gill Lockett and equanimity amidst challenging Midlands Ambulance Service said: 01335 370183 07787 141797 times. “The introduction of What3Words Guy Chambers Plastering Yoga Young for all ages from 5 will help us immensely when trying upwards - for children and teens or the Plastering ­ Rendering whole family to have fun doing yoga to reach patients quickly and Traditional Lime Plastering together. Class will include: effectively who are unsure of 07980 851133  fun ways to stretch and move to where they are. Finding the correct Painting & Decorating activate the body location of patients when time is Karen Middleton  simple breath work to create calm and critical can sometimes be a 01629 258537 or 07539 841261 focus challenge, but this service will  yoga sequences to create a dynamic Curtain & Blind Making flow in body and mind make such a difference when we Bev Rowland 01629 822688 or 07849502200  gentle relaxation to become peaceful receive calls to parts of the East and restful. Midlands which are very remote. Stokes Digger Hire & Ground Works Classes will be held on Zoom at a Thanks to What3Words, we will Matthew Stokes variety of times and paid by donation now be able to pinpoint exactly Range of diggers & dumpers (free is fine and especially if you are a 07515525014 keyworker or in financial difficulties). I where the patient is and get them [email protected] can also do some one to one's if you the help that they need.” prefer that. If you are interested in joining me What3Words is free to use and you email [email protected] and I will can access w3w either via a mobile send further details. Call 07950 000380 app or through the w3w website. if you wish to speak with me. Take care with love from Lula Garner

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