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Eve has also sought to participate in the regular Open Gardens fund raising OUR DEAR FRIENDS IN BERE REGIS AND
event held by Briantspuddle Village Hall Committee. This event also plays a
major role in providing the funds necessary to sustain another essential parish AFFPUDDLE
amenity. Cruck Cottage has been judged by visitors as ‘Best Garden’ many
times and this accolade bears testament to the talented gardener Eve is. As I We do want to thank so many of you for sending such loving messages and cards
have a captive audience tonight I thought I would be cheeky and advertise the to Felicity and me for our new home and for my 70 Birthday. We should have
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next Briantspuddle Open Gardens which is taking place on Sunday 2nd liked to written in reply to each but please accept our thanks, they have been
June. For those of you who haven’t seen Eve’s garden, it will be on show, in all its very special to us.
glory again.
We are very well settled in; both our new home and the Village are all we had
On behalf of our entire Parish I congratulate you on receiving this award and I been hoping for! We hope to see some of you sometime.....
would also like to thank you for all you have done ad continue to do for our
community.” With our love and warmest thanks – and our prayers for you all in the future.
Charles and Felicity

Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle Parish Council – Contact Details

Parish Councillor/ Clerk Email Address Telephone number THE PARISH OF ST LAURENCE
Sue Jones - Chairman Sue.jones@silversands.co.uk 01929 471375 AFFPUDDLE With TURNERSPUDDLE
Charles Barter – Vice Charles.barter@thewatercresscompan 01929 463663
Chairman y.com
Lizzie Guinn lizzieguinn@hotmail.com 01305 848916
PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL
Mike Menzies Michael.menzies@talk21.com 01929 471263
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2019
Sarah Lowman – sarah@keepings.plus.com 01929 472702
Acting Clerk

Stuart Chorley Schorley30@gmail.com 01929 472869
Sunday 28 April
Trevor Poole Trevorpoole100@hotmail.com 01929 471496
at 6.45PM
BRIANTSPUDDLE SWIFTS
following

It will not be long now before the swifts will be arriving back in Briantspuddle after
their long journey from Africa, usually arriving around the end of April. They have
spent the winter in southern Africa and recent research shows that they do not Evensong at 6PM
stay in one place but visit several countries. One bird covered 5000 km in only 5
days on its return trip in the spring! The fastest recorded speed for a swift in
horizontal flight is 111.6 km/h.
Please come and join us!
The British swift population has declined by a half in the last 15 to 20 years,
however the reasons for this are unclear but it is possible a lack of suitable nest

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