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Baby Hugo
Frankie arrived a
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My wife Marcia and I now have five
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Each time a new baby is born into our
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But I had a good think about my life the
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grandchildren as I still think I am about 20
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Where has time gone? I know it’s an old
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one life to live – this is not a rehearsal as they
say!
I have been so very very lucky to have
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hopefully plenty more wonderful memories
to come.
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35 years, yielding two absolutely fantastic
children and now the five grandkids.
We have had to work for every penny we
have and the friends I have met along my
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My late father Frank was always quick to
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when I was a teenager, trying to lead me in
the right direction and in the process
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me.
I remember as though it was yesterday
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Lank’s Lore
By Steve ‘Lank’Lavin
Golden Memories from one of Uttoxeter’s Favourite Characters
S
ome years ago my company was involved quite
heavily in the printing of stationery items for the
world of pigeon racing.
Uttoxeter in those days boasted of a couple of
pigeon clubs which had a large local membership.
These nowadays appear to have ceased operating,
which is a great shame as they were great times and
to me it is a very intersting hobbie with some
marvellous people involved.
When I first got married I lived in the heart of
Uttoxeter’s Pigeon Racing fraternity which was run
from the Hope & Anchor pub down the Wharf (the
pub now has been changed like so many proper old
pubs into an Indian Restaurant, great shame).
I really enjoyed living in this area and met some
wonderful characters through frequenting both the
Hope & Anchor and Wellington Inn pubs.
The Bloor families were involved with the racing
and allowed the use of some of their buildings and
yard to the pigeon fanciers of the area. On Friday
evenings a large crowd assembled with their pigeons
in baskets to be put onto a huge wagon where they
would be taken quite a few miles away to be
‘liberated’.
The following days the area was awash with
expectant pigeon fanciers sitting at their lofts
awaiting the arrival of their bird. Eyes peeled
skyward, with pigeon clock standing ready, any
mortal thing that was in the sky was scrutinised as to
whether or not it was one of their birds returning in
record time to gain for them a prize trophy and most
important the cash prizes involved, don’t forget big
bucks were also involved.
I used to drive some of the pigeon lads to various
‘clock stations’ in the area where their clocks were all
set in unison, pigeon racing was a very serious
business and the banter and friendly rivalry beteween
the pigeon men to me was unequalled to an outsider
like me.
I remember on one occasion I attended the
Cavendish Arms at Doveridge where on a Friday
evening they all congregated to set their clocks for a
race over the following weekend. A friend of mine
who had accompanied me started to act out of order
and the landlord at the time, who’s name strangely
enough was ‘Reg Bird’ soon ejected him from the
proceedings, as I have said, pigeon racing was a
serious business.
On another particular occasion as a thank you for
the business they had put to me over the years I
purchased a silver trophy for them and I was asked if
I would do the honours and present it to the winner
at their annual presentation evening which was to be
held at the Limes in Uttoxeter. I duly obliged and on
attending the evening they collared me into not only
presenting my trophy but a vast array of others as
well.
This turned out to be a fantastic evening and my
wife and I were wined and dined and virtually treated
like royalty by the members of the club. I remember
one incident during the presentation where prior to
presenting a particular trophy a club member and
acquaintance of mine, Jake Bloor asked me if I would
mention that the recipient of this trophy Jim Ball was
not only a champion pigeon flyer but was also a very
keen road runner and after liberating his winning
bird from Southampton he decided to run back to
Uttoxeter and beat the bird back to its loft!
I never did find out whether or not that was true
or not but it certainly went down well with the
captivated audience!! Great days indeed.
Till next time, LANK
Prize Presentation of Uttoxeter Flying Club c. 1970’s. Mr. George Ince receiving his Trophy for being
the winner of the Prestige 500 Mile Race. Left to Right: Joe Stanway, George Ince, Percy Slater, Mr.
Cornes (Club Sponsor), Sid Harvey, Bill Lewis, Bill Shaw & Unknown (Photo courtesy of George
Ince, Uttoxeter)
Down on the Farm
by Angela Sargent
“Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
gusts and foul flaws to herdsmen and to herds”
Shakespeare
D
eep red sunsets often precede dry, settled
weather; a red sky in the morning is often
associated with stormy weather. And we’re
hoping for warm weather this month.
There is a lot of field work to get on with -
ploughing and sowing ground for the spring sown
crops( after the sheds have been mucked out and
the manure spread over the stubble), fertilising
grass and winter sown crops, lambing and calving
and everything that goes with them. It is so much
easier if it is warm with just light showers.
Hopefully, our later lambing ewes will be
running outside during the day and coming in at
night- this makes less work with the grass growing,
but they’re still handy for me to look round at
night.
There have been several dog attacks this year,
some very serious. Dogs must legally be on a lead
in fields where there are
sheep and farmers are
quite within their rights
to take action if the
flock is in danger.
Even though the
sheep might not be
physically attacked,
they can abort if chased
and frightened.
Lots of grass means
we don’t have to worry
about fodder stocks for
the time being and the livestock soon put on their
summer coats and start to look well rounded (not
a good sign for ponies as this can cause laminitis).
They all enjoy romping around after being
cooped up over the winter.
We might start to see some Butterflies now, as
the migrant ones arrive towards the end of the
month, such as the Painted Lady. They feed on
Thistles and Nettles, which are also beginning to
grow.
Our Bees will be very busy now, looking for
food, as they increase numbers and feeding on tree
pollen, Violets and Ground
Ivy(low growing blue flower,
once used in brewing to clear
and flavour beer, it has
nothing to do with Ivy) and
any other flowering plant they
can find.
I mentioned how we lost
Meg, last month. It seems she
had a massive bleed into and
around her heart, so nothing
she did or we could have
foreseen.
However, as I write this, I can hear a loud
barking coming from the kitchen, where ‘Ted the
shred’ is no doubt causing havoc. He has learnt to
come, sit and be on a lead and has been introduced
to the sheep- he’s quite wary of them at the
moment, but that should change as he grows ( but
he must be kept under control)- what you might
call ‘quite a character’!
Angela Sargent
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Charlie Hancock’s also of St. Mary’s and Third place with £50 worth of
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yanmar certainly lived up to its
reputation. An enigmatic
country of contrasts, isolated
from the rest of the world for many
years and now embracing visitors with
enthusiasm, warmth and gentle
hospitality. We loved it.
The splendid Governor’s Residence
boutique hotel in Yangon was an
extravagant start to the holiday - but
well worth it. The elegant, colonial
mansion built in teak was a perfect
base for two days in Yangon. Our
young guide showed us the sights and
seemed happy to tell us all about the
country’s recent history and the rocky
road to democracy. A local market,
a tea shop and lunch in a fish
restaurant gave us a flavour of life in the city. At
sunset she escorted us around the magnificent
Shwedagon Pagoda with its gigantic golden stupa,
the holiest of holies for Burmese Buddhists.
An internal flight to Bagan reminded us what
airports were like many years ago. Coloured
stickers distinguished passengers for the various
flights and staff walking round the airport with
hand written signs alerted us that our flight was
ready for take off ! Judging by the rattles and
bangs, our turbo prop plane had seen many years
service - but we arrived at the right place safely
much to Sylvia’s relief.
There are over 2,000 temples, pagodas and
other religious structures on the plains surrounding
Bagan dating back to the 11th century. Our guide,
Mr Han was jovial and well informed and really
made the visit (which included a fascinating tour
of a local lacquerware factory).
The next seven nights were spent on
MV Pandaw sailing up the Ayeyarwady
River - the road to Mandalay! The boat
was perfect, just 27 passengers in total so
we got to know all our travelling
companions from seven different nations.
The crew were excellent and the service was
first class, as was the food. Shore visits each
day gave us a real taste of life in the more
rural parts of Myanmar which is still very
primitive. Villages made of mud brick and
bamboo, bullocks ploughing paddy fields,
horse carts more common
than cars and curious people
who stare at you in the
friendliest possible way.
Mandalay was less exotic
than we had anticipated but
still well worth the visit. Visits
to a nunnery, hilltop pagoda, silver
workshop, and a gold leaf factory
were on the agenda but the highlight
was the famous U Bein teak bridge
from where we watched the sunset
from gondolas as we sipped chilled
wine.
Another short, but equally
chaotic internal flight took us to Inle
Lake in Shan State for the final part
of our holiday. A fascinating place
where 70,000 people live in hundreds of
villages surrounding the lake and its
many inlets. All transport is by boat
some motorised and very noisy but many
powered by ‘leg rowers’! People live in
bamboo huts on stilts and earn their
living fishing the lake, growing crops on
floating gardens and from traditional
crafts.
On our last day the two of us went on
a trek with a local guide who surprised
and delighted us by inviting us to lunch
with him and the ten other members of his
family in their two roomed bamboo hut.
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Ginny’s Community Corner
by Ginny Gibson of Uttoxeter
R
ecently I overheard two women chatting
about the lottery and one of them said, “I
don’t do it, because if you have your health
then you have won the lottery.” I thought that was
extremely profound and looked for a health
orientated theme for this month’s column and
found it in Uttoxeter Town Hall on a Tuesday
morning between 9.30 – 10.45am.
I had arranged to meet Pam Dexter the teacher
and she advised I come along to a class and
observe. So when I walked into the Town Hall and
was greeted to a view of about 30 women all
standing and simultaneously moving their arms
and legs to some very up tempo music, it was more
like a trendy nightclub than an exercise class, but
when I sat and watched for a while I realised that
the movements were in fact extremely elegant and
controlled and were clearly designed to strengthen
the key core muscles of the body, but without the
frenzied jumping around that some exercise
promotes. In a funny way it was like a ballet class,
but with trendy music. Although I have no fitness
training, I knew just by watching, that this class
was different to others that I had been to and I was
interested to find out more.
Pam Dexter explained that behind the class was
a whole fitness theory that had been evolved in
1920’s by a lady call Mary Bagot Stack. Mary had
experienced illness as a child and was given
exercises to carry out to overcome her illness. From
this experience she believed that physical fitness
was key for every woman. At the time, the First
World War had just ended, which meant women
had been neglecting themselves and were also
isolated, so she decided to start up a class that
would ensure all women came together for both
fitness and a social outlet. By the 1930’s Mary had
launched a social movement called the Womens
League of Health and Beauty and the classes were
the centre of the League.
The exercise routines she devised were
fundamentally about good posture and good
movement flow (dance) with core strength or as
she calls it ‘central control’ at the heart of the
routine. That is why when I walked into the Town
Hall, I saw the women controlling their movements
from their core muscles and as a result gaining
balance and good posture, while the up tempo
music allowed the class a dance element that was
fun and I must say there was a lot of giggling going
on, which was refreshing for an exercise class!
Mary Bagot Stack had a vision, she wanted to
be able to reach every women regardless of
background or income and to ensure that women
take time to look after themselves, because in the
1930’s, women’s roles were very different to now
and they were required to put their own needs last.
Looking after yourself was not only about the
exercise but also the social side too, isolation both
at that time and today, was felt keenly by women
and the Uttoxeter Class hold with that aspect of
the class and all go for coffee afterwards, which
ensures that they build strong friendships with each
other, again a difference to other classes I have been
to, where you all rush off to your next
appointment and can so easily forget that it’s
people you are sharing the class with that are
important.
I was struck by the non-competitive
atmosphere of the class; it felt like Pam Dexter was
carrying on Mary’s ideal of having a supportive,
healthy environment for women to be in and it was
very attractive to watch.
Clearly because I live with relapsing remitting
multiple sclerosis, I was curious to find out about
any benefits that Pam Dexter could discuss with
me. I am already aware that part of my
maintenance for the MS is to be physically active,
but in a non-impact way, the physical activity helps
to manage the crippling fatigue that is part of every
MS sufferers life and Pam confirmed that MS is
helped by this fitness routine, she has taught a class
in Derby specifically for MS and has been working
on a Pulmonary Heart rehabilitation class for
patients. At this point, Pam Austin from Rocester,
(pictured) who was participating in the class, told
me a wonderful story about after having her Hip
Replacement operation. Her Surgeon was
staggered at her mobility and said that the huge
and quick improvement she was showing must be
attributed to the strength of her muscles from the
class. I must say after speaking to a few of the
women about the benefits that have gained, their
enthusiasm was contagious and I nearly signed up
there and then. At present I go to a Tai Chi class
and that works for me and is based also on core
strength, so clearly, good low impact exercise, has
a theme running through it. Tai Chi however
doesn’t have the up tempo music, so I may have to
rethink!
Researching the Womens Health League
further, I found they are now called Fitness League,
and classes are available worldwide, so Mary
Bagot Stack’s dream in the 1930’s to be able to
offer women an exercise class along with a social
network has been achieved. It also means that if
you are going on holiday and don’t want to miss
your class and mixing with like-minded women,
then the chances are, you will find one at your
holiday destination!
I really like the idea of being linked into a
worldwide network of women who look after
themselves and to cement that link, every 5 years,
the Fitness League, puts on an event at the Royal
Albert Hall, where members of the League all get
a chance to meet up and watch an international
display of their exercise routine. It just so happens
that on 2nd May 2015 is the event at the
Royal Albert Hall, which celebrates the
85th Anniversary of the Fitness League
and members from New Zealand, Ireland
and South Africa will all be performing a
routine, some of the Uttoxeter class will
travel to London to represent their class,
so once again our town is on the map.
I will finish this column with a
poignant quote from Jean Wright from
Denstone who said, “The class stays with
you throughout your day and week, for
instance when I am cooking or at the
kitchen sink, I remember both the music
and to keep my posture, which in turn
makes me feel good about me”.
To contact Pam Dexter about joining a Fitness
League class, call her on 01332 513141 or e-mail
pam@uptherams.co.uk
If you want to talk to Pam about taking the
training to become a teacher of the Mary Bagot
Stack method and become part of the Register of
Exercise Professional then she will be happy to
discuss that too or visit the website
www.thefitnessleague.com
F
ollowing the success of last year’s charity walk,
which raised over £7000 for various charities,
Uttoxeter Rotary Club are organising another
walk, again at Wootton Estate near Alton Towers.
The walk will be held on Sunday 17th May when
over 250 people are expected to walk for their chosen
charity and raise money from sponsorship. There will
be two alternative walks, 2½ miles and 5 miles,
through the beautifully maintained Wootton Estate
with its lakes, pastureland, forests and picturesque
views.
Participating walkers registering in advance can
download a registration form from the Rotary website
at www. uttoxeter-rotary.org.uk/walk.The registration
fee is £5 per person in advance or £10 on the day.
Children under 12 go free.
Last year one local charity raised over £2000 by
getting their supporters to take part. There were many
smaller family groups who had specific personal
reasons to support a particular cause, and who
successfully used the walk to raise much-needed funds.
This year Rotary are hoping to get local youth
groups, church groups and sports clubs to use this
opportunity to raise funds for their organisations or a
particular project. All they need to do is register for
the walk and encourage their members and supporters
to get sponsorship. All the money they raise will go
direct to their organisation.
More information is available on the Uttoxeter
Rotary Walk Website or by telephoning the Enquiry
Line at 07811 366117.Walk Leaflets /Entry Forms are
available from L G Woodward in Balance Street and
from the Leisure Centre.
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Have I got news for you
by Uttoxeter’s Gary Hudson, Former BBC Chief News Reporter
Gary Hudson is a member of Uttoxeter Lions
Club, a former BBC Chief News Reporter and a
senior lecturer in Broadcast Journalism at
Staffordshire University.
Don’t waste your vote
Any working journalist will tell you that it’s
never a great idea to disagree with your editor. But
this column is my chance to tell a few stories and
promote some charitable events along the way. So
it’s not really work at all.
Which means I can invite you to get your tickets
now for the Uttoxeter Beer and Cider Festival in
June, just £7.50 (that’s the first charity promotion),
and I shall now disagree with our editor.
In the last edition of The Voice, the editor,
Nigel, wrote that the downside of the coming of
Spring was the dreaded TV coverage of the General
Election. As someone who has been involved in TV
coverage of numerous general elections, I’m going
to disagree. I’ll defend how TV covers politics, and
along the way - and controversially - I’ll defend
politicians too.
I know what they say about politicians. They’re
all as bad as each other. They’re only in it for
themselves. And you can tell when they’re lying
because their lips are moving.
But that is unfair and untrue.
Some are worse
To start with, they’re not all as bad as each
other. Some are much worse! Sorry - that joke ties
in with the assumption that they’re all only in it for
themselves, and I know why you might think that.
The expenses scandal proved that many MPs
take disgraceful advantage of their position. And
undercover filming exposed the greed of two elder
statesmen who should know better, the former
Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw and Tory
grandee Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
But in my experience many people who go into
politics are not hungering for money or even
power. A lot of them want to fight social injustice
and improve things for the rest of us.
You may think power corrupts them all, but I’m
not that cynical, and I speak with some experience
of dealing with them. I’ve interviewed nine prime
ministers (they weren’t all British, if you’re
wondering).
I have covered party leaders’ election
campaigns, mainly in the Thatcher and Blair years.
And I believe the emphasis TV puts on the
personalities – sometimes at the expense of
policies – is justified.
The personal qualities of our leading politicians
are important. Do you seriously think – whatever
your opinion of the policy - that the Falklands
Conflict would have happened without Thatcher,
or British involvement in the invasion of Iraq
without Blair?
So what of this election? I’ve already been busy,
chairing a live hustings event with the Uttoxeter
candidates, and on election night I’ll be part of the
BBC team covering Stafford and Stone.
The candidates in the Burton and Uttoxeter
constituency are as impressive a group as I’ve seen.
Many will attest to the hard work of Andrew
Griffiths as MP, and will want him to continue for
another five years. Others will think the Labour
party needs more MPs with the real-world
experience of Jon Wheale, who served as an army
officer in Kosovo and Afghanistan and then
retrained as a barrister.
The other parties, while unlikely to win a seat
that has switched between Tory and Labour
throughout the post-war era, have chosen
candidates who are sincere and committed and
deserve to be taken seriously.
On a platform at Oldfields Hall Middle School,
they were probably more impressive than their
leaders were in that dull ITV debate. Despite the
professionalism of my former colleague Julie
Etchingham - who was a BBC trainee with us in
the Midlands - the national leaders were tetchy and
defensive, whereas the locals were gracious and
bold.
Make the most of it – your vote counts
My friend Professor Mick Temple upset a
different set of politicians on a hustings panel in
Stoke-on-Trent recently by telling young people in
the audience they might as well not bother voting,
because the first-past-the-post system means
Labour are certain to win in that city.
But all votes are not equal. Burton and
Uttoxeter is a marginal constituency. Your vote
really counts here. Don’t waste it.
And while you’re at it, you might want to make
your plans for the brave new world, which your
vote will help to create after May 7th. The
Uttoxeter Beer and Cider Festival is at Oldfields
Sports and Social Club on June 5th and 6th. Here
we go – another shameless plug.
Apart from the great selection of beers and
ciders, there’s an open mic night on the Friday
evening and live music on the Saturday too. I’m
confident I’m in agreement with the editor of The
Voice when I say that if you come to the Beer
Festival, you’ll have a good time. Like I said, this
column isn’t work at all.
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ldfields Hall Middle
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February 2015.
The HMI was positive
about the progress the school
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key points for development
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Ofsted report. In particular he
commented that “students
experience better teaching
across all subjects in all year
groups” and that “an
increased number of students
are making the progress
expected of them”. He also
noted that student progress is
monitored frequently and
thoroughly.
Headteacher Carl Gliddon
said: “All staff and governors
have worked extremely hard
to improve the pupil’s
experiences in school. We are
pleased Mr Humphries (HMI)
acknowledged the progress
the school has made. We
remain committed to
improving the school in the
future.”

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How was your pregnancy mum?
Finding out that I was pregnant was very scary after losing two pregnancies previously, every
week for us was a bonus, but seeing that heartbeat on the screen felt like a miracle and we were
truly blessed.
Did you find out the sex of the baby in advance?
Yes we had a private 3D scan in Lichfield when I was 16 weeks but I had a feeling what sex
Jenson was going to be.
If you didn’t, did you guess right?
I was right from the moment my test was positive that I would have a boy.
Did you have a birthing plan, and were you able to stick to it?
I never did a birthing plan as they never go the way you plan it to.
What’s the craziest ‘old wives tale’ you’ve been told during your pregnancy?
If you eat sweet foods you’ll end up with a girl and if you eat savoury foods you’ll have a boy.
Any weird cravings during the pregnancy?
It started at 11 weeks - I fancied onions raw or cooked on everything. Then from 16 weeks I
changed between bubblegum flavoured drinks to sweets to ice-cream.

For the dad: Tell us all about your experience as an expectant
dad?
I was so relieved when Jenson was born after all what we have been through
in the past couple of years. It was a lot of worrying as I wasn’t sure how
Kerry’s hernia was going to affect the birth but thankfully everything went
fine.
Tell us all about your time so far with your baby.
I love to hug him and he melts me when he smiles, glad Kerry didn’t go back
to work when she wanted to as doubt I would have coped. lol
How has having a baby changed your life?
Can’t believe how perfect he is, and it puts things in perspective after a hard
day when I come home and see him and Kerry all snuggled up - thankfully
there weren’t too many sleepless nights, but for the ones there were, he makes
it all worth while.
Would you have another baby?
Definitely not now at 41, and Jenson being the third, it’s time for the dreaded
appointment with the docs…and as for my wife her body would not be able
to cope with another child.
Any advice for expectant parents of couples planning a family?
After Kerry had an ectopic pregnancy we knew the chances of getting pregnant
were slimmer at just 10%, but it happened naturally and we are truly
grateful… I would say go for it. It definitely puts things in order and the things
you would be bothered about normally just seem trivial.
Finding out we were pregnant:
I knew I was not feeling right so I bought a test and left it upstairs. I told
Christian to go and check it as I didn’t want to be too disappointed. He picked
it up and smiled, and from that moment I cried for hours with hope and
happiness.
Tell us about his/her arrival:
My birthing partners were my husband and my mother. I was on Facebook at
9cm dilated - we were laughing and crying in the lasts hours then Jenson
arrived at 9:38am Friday morning, and we all cried.
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Karen’s Cake Corner
by Karen Hill
Blueberry and Almond Cake
T
his is a super easy cake I make all the time,
when I have some spare blueberries and need
a quick dessert. I serve it with a good
spoonful of crème fraiche, whipped cream or
vanilla ice cream. Anything left over is great with
a cup of tea the following day. This rarely seems
to happen in our house!
To make the cake you will need -
175g unsalted butter
175g golden caster sugar
zest of one lemon
3 large free range eggs
100g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
100g ground almonds
2 tbsp soured cream
Pinch of salt
2 good handfuls of blueberries, plus extra to
serve
1-2 tsp flaked almonds
icing sugar for dusting
Firstly, preheat your oven to
180/160˚C fan. Grease and line a 20cm
round cake tin. Next cream together the
butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
Add the vanilla and lemon and then
gradually add the beaten eggs, mixing
well. Sift the flour and baking powder
into the bowl, add the ground almonds,
soured cream and a pinch of salt then
mix until smooth. Pour the mixture into
the prepared cake tin and scatter with the
blueberries and flaked almonds.
Bake the cake for approximately 40-
45 minutes, until golden brown, well
risen and a skewer comes out clean.
Leave the cake to cool in the tin for
about 10 minutes, and then transfer to a
cooling rack. Serve dusted with icing
sugar and extra blueberries.
I like to serve this cake warm for
dessert, but it is equally good served cold.
Enjoy!
Remembering Days gone by...
by Owd Ern
Annual Moan
M
y Mother and Grandma’s shopping trips
back in the day used to be so pleasant
before these modern yankie ideas of an
easier life came about. They would drop their order
books into the Grocery shop of which there were
at least half a dozen in Utch market place. They
would then go off and do their other shopping,
come back to the grocery
shop and their groceries
would be nicely put into a
box. The order book ticked
off with the bill to be paid.
The errand boy would take
it to your vehicle or even
cycle 3 or 4 miles to deliver it
to your home. ‘How tiring!’
where as now, you try to find
a space to park your car on a
vast Super market car park.
You then get a trolley that
insists in going sideways,
you then wrestle it into the
magnificent building, full of
a lot of stuff you don’t really
need (one for the price of
two sort of rubbish) what do
you do then, of course you
wander around for a mile or
two of aisles and fill up your
trolley. When it’s full, please
form an orderly queue. After two or three trolleys
have been pinged through (what a wonderful idea)
you unload your trolley, to be ‘pinged’ through
yourself, and then guess what, you load your
trolley back up again. Then it’s the task of getting
the sideways trolley full of food safely back to the
car. You then unload the groceries into your car
and not forgetting to take your sideways trolley
back to its bay or you will lose your pound you
paid to get it in the first place.
I am sure you will agree that all that makes
more sense than dropping an order book into a
nice cosy grocers with a welcoming owner or
manager, and even a chair to sit on. Oh sorry I
forgot the poor till girls or youths, where would
they be without the
electronic tills? They
mainly don’t know what
change to give you
without the till telling
them. If ever the electric
goes off, you have had it!!
The old time shop
assistant could reckon up!
Possibly in her sleep. What
have you bought when
you get it all home, a lot of
processed food, encased in
plastic. You have to be a
magician or superman to
get into it and when you
manage to get to it what a
lot of wholesome rubbish
you have bought.
Ingredients on the
package, you probably
would not feed to your
dog. Any good old British
food firms taken over by the Yanks seem to have
gone downhill. Smith’s crisps were one of the best
with their little blue bag of salt. More or less gone
out of existence. Cadburys chocolate taken over
crafty Kraft Co. have you tasted any since being
taken over, a sloppy sickly lot, possibly
Philadelphia cheese, chocolate flavoured and
hardened off a bit, who knows.
Bass and Guinness both no longer what they
were since being taken over and Birds custard
never to be the same again.
I remember Wednesday on the farm Ma and Pa
would be gone to market and it would be my job
to concoct a dinner. My elder brother used to say
“Make some custard Youth” I remember I always
made it very, very thick. You had to cut it and eat
it with a fork, that’s the way he liked it.
But coming back to all the processed plastic
coated rubbish we have paid good money for from
the supermarket. Have you tried to read the
ingredients, corn syrup is one of the first on most,
then every other is disguised with a lot of letters
and numbers. Anyway we mainly eat it without
worrying too much how it is made or with what!
Eating all this rubbish is making the nation fat.
I know I am too fat, but what has happened to the
slim girls of my wild and wonderful youth. You
have a job to see a slim lady; all young and old are
overweight. There are of course a few exceptions,
I think things are very slowly changing for the
better and people are studying what they eat. As
long as they do not want any of my blocks of
custard and rabbit broth Ugh!!
Perhaps I should be on T.V with Owd Erns
Owd Time Cookery Programme!! It wunner
appen.
I had better goo now as I’ve got a Sargies Steak
Pie in the oven! Yum yum.
So just Tek Care on thee sens and dunner worry
Owd Ern
Foot Note: I’ve just sane it all… on the reduced
to sell bit, Potatoes reduced, past their sell by date.
The world has gone mad! Where is my little red
order book??

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Let’s Get Cooking
by Simon Smith, top local chef
N
ow that Spring has finally arrived
we have so many wonderful local
ingredients to play with.
Above all is Spring Lamb and
Asparagus but the first shoots of
applemint are showing themselves as are
the smallest of Jersey Royal potatoes.
Altogether a fabulous combination and,
as with any superb ingredient it doesn’t
make sense to play with it too much and
mask the tenderness and flavours.
We also have asparagus from a few
farms in the region and the nearest to me
is New Farm. The most popular way to
cook asparagus is to boil it but this has to
be done carefully. You can either hold the
asparagus at each end and bend it until it
snaps in the middle which will tell you
that the part nearest the spear is all edible
or you can peel the root end to about half
way up the spear and chop them all off
so they are even. To boil you need a good quantity
of salted water so the asparagus can move. When
cooking it don’t put a lid on as the asparagus will
go grey. To test if it’s cooked put a knife in the
thicker end and if it goes in without pushing too
hard it’s ready. I, however, prefer to pan fry with a
little olive oil, a knob of butter and some sea salt.
This brings out a nuttier flavour but not quite so
good for the cholesterol level!
To my mind it’s hard to beat Jersey Royals
cooked with a bit of sea salt and then just melt
butter over the top and sprinkle with fresh
applemint. If you are looking to take it a little
further but still keep it simple try crushing the
potatoes with a fork and then adding the butter
and mint and a little salt, this can then be moulded
in a ring for the artists amongst you.
For my recipe this month I am doing a cushion
of spring lamb with a herb crust, roast vine
tomatoes and white balsamic butter. I have two
cookery shows at The Garrick Theatre in Lichfield
on June 18th when I shall be demonstrating this
recipe amongst many others.
For 4 people
800gms Lamb cushion or rump
For the crust
4x Slices white bread without crusts
3ozs Salted butter
1cup Chopped parsley
10x Mint leaves
1tsp Chopped rosemary
For the sauce
16 Cherry vine tomatoes
1tbsp White balsamic vinegar
4ozs Butter
Method
Whizz the slices of bread and all the herbs in a
food processor until it looks like breadcrumbs.
Melt the 3ozs of butter and add, whizz again until
it comes together as a paste. Put this between two
sheets of cling film and flatten until it’s about as
thick as an After Eight Mint. Pop in the fridge
while you cook the lamb.
Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Brush the lamb with
a little olive oil and season. Cook for 12-15
minutes, 5 minutes before the end add the
tomatoes and cook with the lamb. Take out of the
oven and put the herb crust on the lamb and leave
it to rest for 10 minutes. Meanwhile leave the
tomatoes in the pan with the juices and add the
balsamic vinegar, stir, bring to the boil and add the
butter stirring constantly until it melts. Slice the
lamb, plate up and pour the sauce round
Kate’s Kitchen
By Kate Cornes
Kate once worked as a professional chef for many
years, but following a career change, is now
employed as a Veterinary Nurse. She still,
however, continues to cook home cooked meals
for herself, her husband and two young children.
Kate is always on the lookout for wholesome but
simple recipes that can be prepared in advance
for busy working families.
I
recently had one of my sons friends over for tea
and to say that they were very enthusiastic
about the meal I made for them is an
understatement! Feeding my own children with
their constantly changing fussy palates is always a
challenge and so as I’m sure most parents know
already feeding their friends with no knowledgeof
their likes and dislikes is another challenge
alltogether. Im sure you can imagine my delight
when, not only were they asking for seconds but
thirds also!
This is a simple recipe but when met with such
enthusiasm, how could I not share it! I actually had
to refuse them their third helping otherwise there
would have been none left for my husband!
Chicken and Bacon Pasta Bake
2 chicken breast
4-6 rashers of bacon
1-2 tablespoons olive oil
250 grams Penne pasta or twists
1 tablespoon plain flour
Large Knob of
butter
200 grams graded
chedder cheese
Approx 1/2 pint of
milk (you may need
to add a little more
if the sauce is too
thick)
1 Chicken stock
cube dissolved into
100ml boiling water
Salt and pepper to
taste
Method
1. Heat oil in a
large pan and
add the diced
chicken and
sliced bacon.
Cook for around
5 minutes on a fairly hot heat.
2. Add the knob of butter then stir in flour. Cook
gently for a couple of minutes taking care not to
allow the flour mixture to brown too much.
3. Add the chicken stock and milk and keep
stiring so that it does not stick to the bottom of
the pan. The mixture should begin to thicken.
4. Add half the grated chedder cheese and stir
until melted. Allow the mixture to come up to
boiling then remove from the heat.
5. In a separate pan, cook the pasta, drain and add
to the chicken sauce mixture. Add salt and
pepper to taste.
6. Pour into a shallow dish and sprinkle the
remaining grated cheese on the top.
7. Place in a hot oven until the cheese has become
crispy and golden brown and then serve.
The kids love this dish on its own but I however
like to have a lovely crisp salad on the side with a
nice salad dressing.

Povey’s People
By Radio Stoke’s Owd Grandad Piggott
O
wd Grandad Piggott had always had a
yearning for a motor bike and at the age of
seventy four, it was still there. When he
was younger, in his twenties, he was married and
the kids came along which put the kibosh on his
plans for some years to come,
then his lifestyle which
revolved around the local
alehouses added to the kibosh
and his motorbike dreams
went on the back burner which
wasn’t even lit. Then one day,
he met the Spondon Falcons .
They turned up one Sunday
Lunchtime in Tummy
Dawkins’s pub.
There were eight or ten of
them. They were a motorbike
gang who were fairly well
known for causing trouble and
when they walked into Tummy
Dawkins’s and one of them
ordered four pints of beer in a
bucket and drank it in almost
as many seconds, they earned
Owd Grandad Piggotts
complete admiration and when
Owd Grandad Piggott
performed a similar feat,the
admiration went both ways.
They made Owd Grandad
Piggott an immediate honorary
member and vowed that they
would be back in a weeks time
with a motorbike for him.
Owd Grandad was on cloud
nine and true to their word,
they turned up a week later
with an old but impressive
looking Harley Davidson – a
‘bobber’ as they described it. This was half past
twelve on the Saturday. The whole contingent of
them turned up and announced that they were
doing a round robin to Macclesfield, then to
Buxton via The Cat and Fiddle, down the A6 to
Matlock then on to Derby where they had a fight
booked with a bunch of Derby lads.
Perce Lockett looked on open mouthed in
amazement.
‘He can’t do that... He’ll kill himself’, gasped
Perce. ‘He’s seventy four years old... You can’t go
hairin’ round on a bloody big motorbike at his age
and fighting with a gang of hell’s angels....’
One of the gang produced a set of
leather clothing and a big green crash
helmet and they spent the next half
hour shoehorning Owd Grandad
Piggott into all this gear then with a
defiant two fingered gesture to Perce
Lockett and me, he thundered off into
the distance. Somehow, he managed to
stay on as he roared off up Anchor
Road. We hung around in the pub half
expecting a phone call from the police
but by one oclock,when nothing had
happened we went home. Apparently,
it happened quite soon after. Tummy
Dawkins had a phone call at the pub
from Derbyshire police asking if he
knew of a crazy old bloke who rode a
Harley Davidson motor bike.
‘Where is he? Asked Tummy
Dawkins. Apparently he was on his way
to hospital in Derby. He had made it to
Macclesfield, over the treacherous road
to Buxton via The Cat and Fiddle, and
down the A6 and got as far as a mile or
so on from Bakewell. There, he had
taken a bend, at a place called Haddon
Hall, gone through a fence, hit a tree
and the bike had carried on for some
distance leaving him splattered against
the tree. The leader of the Hells angels
had been really concerned that Owd
Grandad Piggott was seriously injured.
Owd Grandad’s main concern was that
he had missed the fight in Derby. Apart
from appearing as if he had had a face
makeover with a two foot length of scaffold pole
and a chipped bone in his leg, there wasn’t a lot
wrong with him but the future didn’t look bright
for him when the owner of the wrecked Harley
turned up. He was a part time hells angel and built
like a grizzly bear. He caught up with Owd
Grandad Piggott a fortnight later in Tummy
Dawkins’s pub. When he came into the pub, it was
as if the lights had gone out.
‘It wonner mar fowt!’, said Owd Grandad
quickly, not liking the body language of this bear of
a guy. ‘Thee was this oil on th’road an’ th’wheels
went one road un ar went t’other....’
‘Ah need a new bike!’, growled the bear.
‘Eh? - Oh, dunner worry abite that....Ah’ll sort
it ite for thee owd soul... Ah’ve gorrer mate as is a
mechanic... ale purrit rate fer thee...’
‘You’ve got a week!’ growled the bear and,
giving Owd Grandad Piggott a hateful glance, went
into the distance.
‘Bloody ‘ell – Ar dunner lark the cut o’im,
grunted Owd Grandad Piggott.
‘Nor may’, said Perce Lockett, ‘What at goin’
do?’
‘Ar dunner know’,
‘Emigrate?’, suggested Tummy Dawkins, ‘Give
us ow a bit o’ peace!’
The motor bike was declared a write off and
because Owd Grandad Piggott wasn’t insured, the
company wouldn’t pay out – plus, Owd Grandad
Piggott was in for a hefty fine. Although the bike
was an old one, it was still going to cost a few quid
to replace it. Nostrils Moffitt and Daft Gullickson
fetched it back on a borrowed trailer, then Egger
Maudsley was brought in to try and knock it back
into shape. Egger was an expert with a lump
hammer and a screwdriver, was into motor bikes
and had fixed many machines which had thrown
their riders. Five days later, the Harley was looking
something like a motor bike again. Amazingly. On
the Saturday morning we managed to kickstart it.
In true Harley fashion, it started with a snarl and
when the bear turned up, we were all conspicuous
by our absence – apart from Owd Grandad
Piggott. He had been planted in the bar of Tummy
Dawkins’s pub and told not to move until the bear
had been and gone.
‘It’s owrate nar mester’, gabbled Owd Grandad
Piggott when the bear turned up. ‘...s’as good as
new.... well, nearly’,
‘Better ‘ad be else you’ll need a new ‘ead. The
bear went out to his Harley and as Owd Grandad
Piggott quaked in his boots, he kicked up the
machine which exploded violently, then emitted a
loud roar. Wordlessly, the biker jumped astride it
and gunned it up the street, then back. He gave
Owd Grandad Piggott a curt nod, fastened his
crash helmet and rode off into the afternoon. At
the end of the street, he turned around but Owd
Grandad Piggott, like the fabled Macavity the cat
wasn’t there. He was a hundred yards away and
going like the clappers for the safety of Club Paper
Jack’s pigeon cote.
It was a tough old machine was that Harley. It
got the guy back to Spondon and word had it that
it was still on the road four years later.
Each month Radio Stoke’s Owd Grandad Piggott (Alan Povey) will write a unique insight into our
local life and its many characters.
His infectious, humorous slant on people provides a different and unusual mix which hopefully will
bring a warm smile to the faces of our readers.
This month: Motor Bikes
Apart from
appearing as if
he had had a
face makeover
with a two foot
length of
scaffold pole
and a chipped
bone in his leg,
there wasn’t a
lot wrong with
him...
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Pete’s Treats - Old School Favourites
by Pete Rowley of Moddershall
MARS BAR CHEESECAKE
What You Need:
Base:
17 Digestive Biscuits
2oz Caster Sugar
4oz Butter
7in Springform Round Cake Tin
Topping:
300g Full Fat Cream Cheese
2oz Caster Sugar
300ml Double Cream
4 Mars Bars (Chopped)
What To Do:
Whizz biscuits and caster sugar into fine
crumbs in a food processor.
Melt Butter in a large bowl (microwave).
Tip the crumbs into the melted butter.
Mix well until coated.
Line the bottom of the cake tin with
greaseproof paper. Tip the crumbs in and
press down firmly, then place into the fridge.
Put the cream cheese and caster sugar into a
large bowl and cream together with a
wooden spoon. Then add the double cream
and use an electric hand mixer until well
blended.
Melt the chopped up Mars Bars in a bowl
placed on a saucepan of boiling water. Stir
occasionally then out into cream mixture. Use
hand mixer until well blended again. Put the
mixture onto the biscuit base and level of
with a spatula.
Grate chocolate on the top and then
refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours before serving.
Enjoy.......
Let The Voice Be With You
by Les Humphries of Rocester
W
ell Readers, at time of writing Election
apathy has just hit the Country, the big
bosses have already come out in favour
of the Tories (no doubt hoping for another tax
break which we will pay for) but with Putins
planes buzzing around our shores, and us having
our smallest Armed Force for 200 years, the
National Health Service, Police, Local Councils,
and everyone else apart from the afore said
business men (and Footballers) in turmoil for lack
of funds. Zero hours contracts, the Scots going all
Nationalistic, weakening the Labour vote, even
though they voted against going it alone in a
referendum, UKIP gaining ground and frightening
the pants off the big boys, and Cameron preparing
to hand over over the helm next time to possibly
bumbling Boris the mind boggles! Prepare
yourselves for what is akin to moving deck chairs
around on the Titanic big time, but nothing new
there!
Not being a driver myself I am not a Top Gear
fan, so it bothered me little that Clarkson got the
sack. The Director General of the BBC has received
death threats from some misguided lunatic who
obviously thinks that Clarkson is a nice guy!
Having met him a couple of times in the course of
my duties, I found him to be a conceited prig with
a ‘do you know who I am attitude (he probably
speaks very highly of me also!). I felt he chanced
his arm once too often, nobody is bigger than the
system, and punching someone in the gob over a
bacon sarnie was the straw that broke the camels
back after a series of gaffs which had already
brought him previous warnings.
Although Top Gear was originally hosted by
Angela Rippon, it has been a male bastion for
many years, but could well now revert to a female
presenter as the so called gentle sex have gradually
infiltrated all of the previously male dominated
areas. Most recently the Scottish National Parties
top dog became female, Formula one motor racing
now has a female presenter, Golf, Snooker, Rugby
League, Horse Racing, Sporting Chat shows and
quizzes, all have ladies in the chair, ( Gabby Logan
and Claire Balding seem to be on everything these
days). The department of my little part time job is
now run by women, my Choir although being a
male voice outfit, has a lady musical director who
decides what we sing, and how we sing it. Now this
may sound as if I am sexist, far from it I love
women, after all my Mother was one! and I have
a wife, a Daughter, and three Grandaughters, to
keep me in check, but I just feel that the pendulum
is swinging away from male domination in every
walk of life, so subtly done that no one has noticed.
My daughter Helen is very concerned over the
possibility of Condor Construction getting
permission to build 90 dwellings on the site of
Gregories Farm in Rocester, which is adjacent to
her property. It may sound like a case of NIMBY,
but she has a lot of support on Facebook from
other people who feel that they are trying to turn
our Village into a town without the facilities to
support all the extra people, and cars, pouring into
the village. Hopefully the Parish Council will
quickly take a stand against it as we understand
that the man who rents the farm at present has
been given notice to quit. We have already had
buildings put on car parks, garages demolished to
build a block of flats, on top of which we now
have JCB employees taking to abandoning their
vehicles all day in the Village, either taking up
residents car parking spaces, or causing a hazard
by parking close to peoples driveways even though
they have adequate parking facilities provided on
the Factory site. They may not be breaking the law,
but they should read their staff hand books!
Very busy time at present for the Churnet
Valley Male Voice Choir (and our LADY
Conductor Janet Downing!) having just performed
for the Biddulph Moor Evergreens, and Cheadle
Arts Society in Tean our next gig at time of writing
is for the Cheadle Pensioners at the Guildhall on
the 26th of May with Wetley Rocks Church being
the next venue on the 30th of June. Still looking
for new members, particularly tenors. Bishop
Rawle School Cheadle on Tuesday Evenings is
where you’ll find us should you fancy giving it a
shot. My apologies to readers of the last issue of
The Voice for mis-information, as the concert
quoted to be taking place on the 17th of April at
the Cheadle Methodist Church was postponed
until a later date yet to be decided after my article
had been sent to the printers. Sorry for giving the
organisers kittens!
The Denstone Players in the wake of their sell
out Pantomime Sleeping Beauty which was
produced by Gill Browne, ( who due to sickness
also took on the part of the King at the 11th hour
and did a magnificent job), are staging their next
production on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of June in
the Village Hall. The play is a comedy by Derek
Benfield titled ‘Beyond a Joke’ it will be produced
by players stalwart Terry Davies. There will not be
a Matinee, and tickets will be priced at £7 for all
classes, but they are not available yet. Go to
www.facebook.com/denstoneplayers or follow us
on twitter: @denstoneplayers
Our new vicar Stan is now well established in
St. Michaels at Rocester and was extremely
pleased with his first Church Function at the helm
- The ‘Spring Fling’, which took place on Saturday
the 28th of March, and raised well over £1000,
which was the result of a lot of hard work by a
dedicated group of people in the Church Family,
and I take my hat off to them organising and
running stalls and games, making cakes etc. No
doubt they will all be busy again for the Annual
Garden Fete on Saturday the 4th of July. But before
that there is ‘Afternoon Tea on the Orient Express’
leaving the Village Hall at 1500hrs on Friday the
22nd of May.
Winding up the Summer Festivities will be St.
Michaels first Scarecrow Festival in the
Churchyard over the week-end of 18th and 19th
of July. All local individuals, businesses, groups and
Schools will be invited to enter, and prizes will be
awarded. There will also be a BBQ, all rounded off
with Songs of Praise at 4pm on the Sunday. Let us
all pray for lots of sunshine in July and put a little
sunshine into peoples lives with some enjoyable
events.
TTFN..Les.............

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e are always looking to expand the range
of opportunities available to students and
February half term was no exception.
Three overseas trips took place; Business trip to
New York, Skiing in Dachstein West, Austria and
the Australian Exchange to Adelaide. These
additional opportunities add to the overall
experience available to students attending The JCB
Academy.
Ski trip Dachstein West, Austria
Six members of staff took forty three students
for 6 days of skiing in glorious weather. Sixteen
students snow-boarded for the week and the
remainder skied. Students had access to over
140km of prepared piste as well as a snowpark
recently redesigned by free-ride experts. As well as
ski lessons, students were provided with an
extensive après ski programme including a trip to
a local swimming pool and health spa. Students
also participated in a film night, football
tournament, quiz night as well as watching
Champions league football and accessing the
hotel’s fitness suite.
Business trip New York
Twenty sixth form students visited New York
for an educational trip based around business,
culture and history. On their trip they went to the
top attraction sites including the Empire State
Building and Liberty Island, visited Ground Zero
and explored New York’s famous landmarks. A
guided walking tour was one of the excursions on
the trip which helped the students to understand
the history of Wall Street, the finance sector and
how the city came together when disaster struck
the World Trade Centre. The students were given
free time to explore the city which they used to
shop on 5th Avenue, eat at iconic New York
restaurants, skate at Central Park and watch a
basketball game at Madison Square Gardens.
Australia Exchange, Adelaide
The JCB Academy took part in its first full
exchange with their exchange school, St. Patrick’s
Technical College, based in Adelaide, Australia.
Four students were hosted by families in Adelaide.
Last term four students from St. Patrick’s along
with two teachers came to the UK. All students
attended academic sessions to understand the
differences in what is taught, how topics are taught
and the practical elements that are developed
within the curriculum, including differing
engineering styles and different company
structures.
The students also took part in a variety of
social and cultural events ranging from:
In the UK – Visiting JCB and Toyota, visiting
London, attending a premier league football game
and visiting Alton Towers.
In Australia – Visiting the National Motor
Museum and Submarine Build Yard, attending a
top flight soccer game, visiting Clipsal 500 and
wildlife parks.
The exchange is something that we are hoping
to build on every year and we look forward to
hosting four more students this October and
returning the visit next February.
JCB Academy

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