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the hobby stoops on sickle wing
Studland Street lighting
to snatch the darting dragonfly.
Amongst the strand line’s scattered Brown bracken hides the basking snake The link below allows you to report a fault with a street light and It also shows if a
weed, particular light is DC’s responsibility.
discarded by the retreating sea, and timorous lizard from prying eyes Dorset Street Lighting Services | Report a fault with an item
small, nervous waders probe to feed, while just above the limpid lake (lightsonindorset.co.uk)
and exposed sand hoppers flee. sleek swallows sweep the azure skies.

Around dark pools, midst the mossy carr
Across that shimmering, rippled sand,
revealed now by the ebbing tide, green ferns unfurl and lichens show The articles below are available on request – Please contact
the gulls and oyster catchers stand and where bog cotton grasses are Peter
above where buried bivalves hide. the asphodels and sundews show.  Holiday Activity Fund (HAF)

And in damp hollows where sallows
And where the wind blown sands amass, stand  Council’s Community Recovery Grants
bleached by the rays of summer sun, with peeling birch and stunted pines,  Improving Energy efficiency
creeps the blue grey sea lyme grass jewelled damselflies dance then land
to hold the infant dunes begun. where dappled sunlight shines.  Platinum Jubilee celebrations
 Boosting mobile digital coverage.
Beyond every fledgling, sandy mound, The pungent myrtle’s cast bronze hues
extended by each settling grain, edge the bogs this heathland holds  Lyme and Charmouth by-election
the spikes of marram blades abound and autumn bracken paints the views  Organisational Support Revenue Fund (OSRF) round 2
in an undulating dune terrain. with russet harmonies and golds.
 Social Work Degree Apprenticeship
Inland, away from the shifting beach, Between sheltered harbour and open Swanage Ambulance Car
protected by each ridge of sand, sea, 
the slacks are safe from tidal reach the heath, its bogs and hills of sand  Transformation project savings report
and heathers gird the land. create the subtle fragility  Purbeck Gateway

Within this haunt of furze and ling, that marks this precious land.
where warblers hide and curlews cry, Chris Nother
Surgery
We are not (yet) holding face to face meetings for the moment. However, we
Cruising on the Volga would be more than delighted to talk to you on the telephone or via Zoom.
Please ring or email us with some details so that we can prepare ourselves. Peter’s
Cruising on the Volga on a bright and sunny day; email address is peterwharf@hotmail.com telephone 07986 600799 and Laura’s is
Everyone is happy as the balalaikas play. cllrlaura.miller@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk telephone 07814 569563
Winter days are over and hearts begin to sing; Peter Wharf & Laura Miller, Dorset Councillors for West Purbeck
Stormy days are over, let’s welcome in the Spring.

Come and join us on the river as the water travels fast;
Now the ice has melted, better days are here at last.
Everyone’s light-hearted, they’re joining in the dance;
Everyone is happy as the melody enchants.

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