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Hedgehog a poem for #hedgehogawarenessweek
This week my Friday post is dedicated to the hedgehog, a disappearing species. I recently won a lovely bag on Twitter from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society packed full of goodies and it has opened my eyes to the threat … Continue reading
Friends of Codnor Common: History of Codnor Common:
Codnor Common used to be a much larger area, stretching almost up towards Denby. The 1835 map certainly suggests as much. The whole area of Codnor was given to William Peverel, the illegitimate son of William the conqueror, after the … Continue reading
Posted in Codnor Common, Derbyshire Ripley, local history, secret history, trenches
Tagged Henry Grey, Henry Vernon, Scarlet Closes, social history
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About Friends of Codnor Common: The Neighbourhood Plan and Local Green Space
Planning legislation introduced in March 2012 enables communities to identify areas of open space that are particularly important to them for special protection, called Local Green Space. To this end, Friends of Codnor Common launched a petition to bring pressure … Continue reading
About Friends of Codnor Common: our struggle
For more than thirty years local people have demonstrated time and again that Codnor Common is special to them – for a number of important reasons – and should remain undisturbed as a valuable open break between Codnor, Waingroves and … Continue reading
About Friends of Codnor Common: Wildlife
More than half of this rich habitat has already been built on or spoilt, with stiles taken out and Heras fencing protecting most of the site. Two trees with Tree Preservation Orders, an ash and an oak, were cut down … Continue reading
Posted in Derbyshire Ripley, Uncategorized, wildlife
Tagged badgers, bats, birds foot trefoil, fieldfares, foxes, goldcrests, great spotted woodpeckers, grey heron, hedgehogs, house martins, jays, kestrels, little owls, mistle thrushes, red fescue, silverweed, siskins, sparrowhawks, squirrels, swallows, swifts, tufted vetch, yorkshire fog
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About Friends of Codnor Common
We set up our group to protect the land and stop the developer, who now has planning permission for 98 homes in Phase 1 and has started building. Residents have been fighting for over 30 years to protect this ancient … Continue reading
Posted in Derbyshire Ripley, local history, Uncategorized, WeWillRememberThem
Tagged brush, DH Lawrence, Eastwood, heritage, Literary Significance, local history, new homes history, Revolution Country, ridge and furrow, Ripley Neighbourhood Plan, Ripley Parish, social history, wetland, wildlife
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Legal deposit is forever
I have the phrase ‘legal deposit is for ever’ on my mind, but then wonder who on earth I think I am for even hoping that my writing will last. As Lorde says, ‘only bad people like to see their … Continue reading
Posted in Derbyshire Ripley, Musings, prose, Uncategorized
Tagged Andrew Motion, copywriter, Creative writing, Lorde, poetry, UEA
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Fable: One from the archive… Can’t remember if this ever saw the light of day… #amwriting
Fable They’re dancing in Chaplain’s She’s only fifteen She’s naive and gorgeous He’s fit and he’s keen It’s clear she’s a virgin He just doesn’t care He gropes at her bottom She fondles his hair They’re dancing so … Continue reading
Posted in Derbyshire Ripley, poetry
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Looking around for something to perform at a performance poetry workshop… ‘Not Waving but Driving’ after Stevie Smith
Not Waving but Driving Everyone saw boyracer’s car But his stereo still pounded ‘There’s nothing like the open road I’m not showing off, just driving’ ‘What a tosser, he was always around the market And now he’s dead His … Continue reading
Posted in Derbyshire Ripley, juvenilia, Musings, poetry
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A little event to commemorate a huge undertaking: marking the @Pentrichrevolt
For immediate release 29 April 2015 A little event to commemorate a huge undertaking: 13 June at Pentrich Village Hall from 1pm to 6pm. After considerable organisation and the influence of a government agent provocateur on 9 June 1817 around … Continue reading
Posted in Derbyshire Ripley, local history, secret history, Uncategorized
Tagged Pentrich Revolt
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