Dronfield Eye Issue 175 May 2020
AS Spring turns to Summer, Dronfield Eye is usually overflowing with suggestions of things to see, places to go, shows to enjoy and community events to support. We list dates of galas, fetes, garden parties and more - but not this year. Instead, we’re suggesting you should all stay home. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary action. The coronavirus pandemic has changed all of our lives, threatened the health and welfare of everyone, battered businesses and charities both large and small and taken our children out of organised education for the forseeable future. Needless to say, the Dronfield Eye community has rallied to help the needy and the vulnerable. From people running errands and checking on the welfare of neighbours, through to stirring doorstep rounds of applause for our health and welfare workers and children posting support through amazing rainbow displays. We’ve published your community magazine every month for the past 15 years and feel we should continue to serve you throughout these dark days. We can’t send our distributors to your letter-box right now, but we’ve made this edition available through the help of local supermarkets, post offices and petrol stations and also published a ‘virtual’ copy for people to read online. Businesses have happily teamed up with Dronfield Eye down the years and this is an opportunity for us to support them in their hour of need. That’s one of the reasons why we have been so keen to continue publishing our title. In addition to heaping praise on our health and care professionals and volunteers, we also salute other local workers whose jobs have suddenly become ‘essential’ - supermarket staff, postal workers, delivery drivers and others. We are looking forward to launching an ‘Eye on Local Business’ campaign once we beat this virus. For now, it is vital that we take on board all the instructions and advice being given to us. Stay at home and stay safe. Mike Firth, Editor
AS Spring turns to Summer, Dronfield Eye is usually overflowing with suggestions of things to see, places to go, shows to enjoy and community events to support. We list dates of galas, fetes, garden parties and more - but not this year.
Instead, we’re suggesting you should all stay home. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary action. The coronavirus pandemic has changed all of our lives, threatened the health and welfare of everyone, battered businesses and charities both large and small and taken our children out of organised education for the forseeable future.
Needless to say, the Dronfield Eye community has rallied to help the needy and the vulnerable. From people running errands and checking on the welfare of neighbours, through to stirring doorstep rounds of applause for our health and welfare workers and children posting support through amazing rainbow displays.
We’ve published your community magazine every month for the past 15 years and feel we should continue to serve you throughout these dark days. We can’t send our distributors to your letter-box right now, but we’ve made this edition available through the help of local supermarkets, post offices and petrol stations and also published a ‘virtual’ copy for people to read online.
Businesses have happily teamed up with Dronfield Eye down the years and this is an opportunity for us to support them in their hour of need. That’s one of the reasons why we have been so keen to
continue publishing our title.
In addition to heaping praise on our health and care professionals and volunteers, we also salute other local workers whose jobs have suddenly become ‘essential’ - supermarket staff, postal workers,
delivery drivers and others.
We are looking forward to launching an ‘Eye on Local Business’ campaign once we beat this virus.
For now, it is vital that we take on board all the instructions and advice being given to us. Stay at home and stay safe.
Mike Firth, Editor
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Tips on marriage survival<br />
Kelly Parks<br />
(pictured), head of<br />
Family Law with<br />
solicitors Banner<br />
Jones, offers a<br />
few suggestions of<br />
how to relieve<br />
pressures at home<br />
H<br />
OME working, selfisolation,<br />
home<br />
schooling, money worries<br />
and health problems will<br />
all put pressure on<br />
relationships, but put them<br />
together and it’s a toxic<br />
mix. If you are already<br />
having relationship problems, it could be the final straw.<br />
As a family solicitor, wife and mother of two children (also going<br />
through this crazy situation we find ourselves in) here are my top<br />
tips to help get you through this with your marriage intact:<br />
• Communicate with each other. Lack of communication is usually<br />
the main complaint my clients have. Let your partner know how<br />
you are feeling. Snapping when angry will inevitably result in a row.<br />
• Try to make time for each other. Set aside time to have a ‘date<br />
night’ at home (of course). Clients often say to me, we never do<br />
anything together anymore, we have just grown apart.<br />
• Exercise. The endorphins should make you feel better and if you<br />
feel better, you are less likely to argue.<br />
• Spend some time apart. It is unusual for couples to spend all day<br />
together so make sure you still do your own thing at certain times<br />
during the day.<br />
• If you have children, and are both working from home, have a<br />
clear defined timetable of when each of you will be working and<br />
when you will be doing childcare. It also means the kids get the<br />
one to one attention they need. Do not forget their world has been<br />
turned upside down too.<br />
• If you are a key worker, try to talk about your day when you get<br />
home. Those on the front line may just need to off-load. “They do<br />
not understand what I have to deal with,” is another common<br />
complaint I hear.<br />
• Try to enjoy the weekends or your days off work together. If you<br />
have, kids have a family fun day, a family bake-off; a dance-off, or a<br />
treasure hunt around the garden. Try to inject some fun back<br />
during this difficult time.<br />
• Financial pressures can add further strain, so prepare a budget<br />
and evaluate your finances, especially if you have had a reduction<br />
in income. If you need to curb spending, agree it together.<br />
• There a lots of ways to keep in touch with friends and family.<br />
Book in slots both individually and as a couple to speak to your<br />
friends and family. Keeping up the socialisation aspect is important<br />
to alleviate the pressure of it just being the two of you.<br />
• Divide the household chores fairly so that additional pressure is<br />
not placed on one person. ‘Not helping around the house’ is another<br />
common complaint I hear from clients.<br />
If these tips have come a little too late for your relationship and<br />
you feel you need to seek advice on what your options are, then my<br />
Family Law team members are only a phone call away.<br />
We know there’s a lot of<br />
uncertainty right now...<br />
And although our offices may not<br />
be open, we’re still here for you<br />
and are only a phone call away.<br />
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Call our professional and friendly team today on 01246 511 298.<br />
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