YOUR PEAKDISTRICT LETTERS:

Good Luck

Dear Sir,

It is nice to see a website devoted to the Peak District.

Good luck with this venture.

Yours sincerely,

Anon
16th December 2009

Pleasently surprised

Dear Sir,

There appears to be a plethora of entertaining stories, information and news. It's local and it's fresh so I'm a happy convert.

I would however like to see more incisive political debate and pictures of topless twentysomething bimbettes. but apart from that - great!

I will follow with interest

Cheers

Flettie

Yours sincerely,

Mark Flett
22nd December 2009

Congratulations!

Dear Sir,

Via your website, the Peak District can now show that, as well as superb scenery and tourism facilities, it has a sense of humour.

We at www.peakdistrictview.com would like to wish you well in your endeavour.

On a personal note, I look forward to news items covering the lesser known activities pursued exclusively in the Peak District National Park i.e. white-water stamp collecting and upside-down rock climbing.

Kind regards,

Pip Price 

Yours sincerely,

Anon Anon
27th December 2009

Bulls and colour

Dear Sir,

I just had to write and let you know that my dear old Grandmother used to think that all bulls were black - silly old trout! god rest her!

Yours sincerely,

Mark Flett
29th December 2009

Treemendous Idea

Dear Sir,

Good luck to Julian Collyer-Fforbes. 

What a great boost to tourism in the peak district. perhaps he can take the eco theme further by making furniture out of pallets and offering a catering service from local produce, like yak cheese and beetroot sarnies.

Yours sincerely,

Anon Anon
15th January 2010

Midsommer Gardens

Dear Sir,

I highly recommend this gardening service -for reasons- I cannot say!!Just that I hear they do a good job-=especially the assistant!!

Yours sincerely,

Razina Ashraf
21st February 2010

Mark Flett and bimbettes

Dear Sir,

I do not agree with his request for such things- However you need a recipe of the week corner and Dawn flett should share her pie recipe first!!!

Ginn

Yours sincerely,

Razina Ashraf
21st February 2010

Outdoor pursuits

Dear Sir,

Can you tell me if there is any truth in the rumour that outdoor pursuits are to be limited due to the almost unsupportable amount of people using the Peak District as their own play ground? I have heard from a reliable source that there is to be a rota...

Hang gliding/Paragliding, Caving, Cycling Mon, Wed, Fridays

Walking and orienteering, rock-climbing Tuesdays, Thursdays

with all farming, commercial and industrial activities relegated to the weekends.

This cannot be right Shirley?

Yours sincerely,

Mark Flett
21st February 2010

Pokoras for the Peak!!

Dear Sir,

Good Evening,

Ever since I was knee high to a whipper snapper the natives seem to think I am the gate of all knowledge pertaining to recipes for 'foreign' food.Today I stand tall on my 36inch legs.

So today I share one such recipe!!

Pokoras

Cut and dice 4 onions and potatoes,wash,place in large bowl,add 1/2 teaspoon of crushed chillies, same amount of chilli powder,salt and coriander powder.Cut half a bunch of coriander and spinach-wash and add to bowl..Add an egg.Add two cups of of gram flour. Mix all ingredients,add water gradually until mixture is of a thickish consistency-think chav.(some odf these ingredients will not be available in 'white only'areas of UK -like Dovedale- in that case- tuff- or wait til you drive through one of the ghettos.

Place deep fat fryer on full heat.If you dont have one -you a health freak and shouldn't really be reading this?!Get a life!!

Scoop  tablespoons of mixture  into oil.Fry til golden brown.

Serve with chilli sauce ,yogurt dip or if you are like my kids with tomato ketchup.

Best enjoyed with a cup of chai(tea).

Share with friends and neighbours.Especially the natives if you are a foreign type like me-the plan being they will help when the BNP come knocking!

Bye

Yours lovingly,

Ginn

Yours sincerely,

Anon Anon
25th February 2010

Tideswell Male Voice Choir

Dear Sir,

As a recent convert to early choral music one can often find me list­en­ing to the 'Tallis Scholars' or 'Kings College Choir', so the thought of being drag­ged out by Mrs Flett to lis­ten to a dusty old bunch of duff­ers sing­ing songs from the shows filled me with dread. In fact I had planned on feign­ing some dread­ful acute ill­ness which ren­dered me couch bound for the evening.

Notwithstanding any of this kind of tom­foolery, I often find that these things are not half as bad as you think they are going to be once you have torn your­self from the womb-like com­fort of the arm­chair and put your shoes on, besides which, Mrs Flett reminded me of our old insur­ance sales­man Nigel Willis who sings with the TMVC. Well that was it then – 'he's almost family' I muttered under my breath pull­ing on my trainers.

On our arrival the boys had just laun­ched into their first num­ber. I remem­ber think­ing "well this could have been worse" and the rest of the pro­gramme just got bet­ter and bet­ter as I became less and less cyn­ical. The Musical Direc­tor the jovial Den­nis Kay was into audi­ence part­icipa­tion in a big way and he soon had the audi­ence join­ing in and aug­ment­ing the glor­ious sound that was the TMVC. (shhh don't tell every­one but, what was worst of all the bug­gers almost made me shed a tear or two...Almost I said!

So as well as enjoying an excellent musical even­ing with a genu­inely nice bunch of blokes I learned a val­uable les­son in my ignor­ance and arro­gance, that any song how­ever modest, sung with enthus­iasm, passion and sheer joy will sound any bit as good as any Agnus dei or a Spem in Alium.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Flett
8th March 2010

Something Missing

Dear Sir,

 Whilst I do appreciate this website and it is certainly a great pleasure to see some educative and informative articles it does seem to me that the editor has rather neglected the noble Derbyshire pursuit of Naturism.

I do hope we will see the balance redressed as all right thinking minds realise that Wednesday is Nude Day in The Peaks, it will therefore only be fair to see an appropriate percentage of your fine articles make reference to this fine tradition.

Yours sincerely etc.etc.

Yours sincerely,

Anon Anon
19th April 2010

Peak Chips

Dear Sir,

After returning home from my monthly cleaning job up in High Peak, I am compelled to write about the size of your fries. 

I cannot remember the name of the pub where we ate, mainly because that platter of  fries (or chips as you might say) has left me no room to think of anything else. They were bigger than anything I have seen before, crispy and golden with a fluffy middle. I think it is quite shocking that the High Peak is keeping such delectable taters to itself, and shall be starting a petition in parliament to get a law passed that all fries/chips should be of the same quality throughout the UK.

Now I shall return to my slobbering thoughts...

Yours greedily,

Ms Munch.

Yours sincerely,

Anon Anon
9th August 2010

Classifieds - Previous advertiser contact

Dear Sir,

 I write to you hoping that you will be able to pass my plea onto one of your past advertisers. I should like to contact, through your august organ, the owners of Messers 'Bogs r Us' and I don't seem to have an old copy of "Your Peakdistrict" as I have taken the advice of our friends in the recycling lobby and shredded them for use as gerbil bedding.

On Michaelmass last, I purchased a 'Wicksteed and Marchant patent long drop kharzi' from them, in puce to match the colour scheme in my midden. I neglected to indicate the full implications of my clinical treatment for a digestive problem prior to purchase. This has lead to a build up of corrupt material on what the instructions call the 'crap trap flap' which has now stuck in the open position offering egress of a diabolical faecal miasma into the parlour. The result of this is that the lady of the house is now having difficulty with her cross-stitch due to the eye-watering effects of the resulting olfactory assault. Other effects of this problem has been to render the water in the fishtank opaque and the dogs have frequent nose-bleeds.

We live in constant dread of some kind of cataclysmic conflagration occasioned by a stray spark igniting the gases lingering within our dwelling, and to preclude using the cooker, have taken to a vegetarian diet which seems to play havoc with my already problematic digestive processes. I do hope you can help. The smell can be only described as that effect when someone leaves the door to HELL ajar!

Flettie

Yours sincerely,

Anon Anon
18th September 2010

In Praise of Asian Babes

Dear Sir,

 With response to Ms Ashrafs missive I think we see far too much attention given over to cookery and gardening in the media. I would like to see something along the lines of Asian Babes, something just to spice up this must English of media offerings.

Mark Flett

PS Your Peak District is an anagram of

A Dickeys Rip Trout

A Diuretic Pork Sty

Yours sincerely,

Mark Flett
19th September 2010