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Unfortunately, there are occasions when a farmer might let welfare standards SOCIABLE BOOKWORMS
slip. Trading Standards will try to help and support the farmer to turn things around.
Where necessarily they work closely with charities such as the Farm Community
Network, who can provide volunteers to give practical advice to the farmer. Our February Book was The Bullet that Missed, the
On rare occasions if a farmer ignores the advice, and the welfare of their third in the series by Richard Osman; Paula has kindly
livestock is not improved, Trading Standards can take the farmer to court. For very written a review which is below….
serious welfare breaches the farmer can be banned from keeping livestock. We’ve selected our books up to July…they are….

April - The Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell May - Small Island by Andrea Levy
June - A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning July - According to Yes by Dawn French
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WINTERBORNE VALLEY CROQUET CLUB
By choosing our books in advance, we have more opportunities to source copies
through libraries, purchasing from charity shops, etc. To keep the momentum
Open Day going… members have been asked to come along to meetings with details of
books they’d like to champion to be on our reading list.
Down in the depths of the Dorset
countryside you can find a Our name, The Sociable Bookworms, was very deliberately chosen as we not only
wonderful place to while away a want to read and review books, we hold our meetings at The Royal Oak enjoying
day playing croquet. Winterborne refreshments of choice, and organise other sociable events – not necessarily
Valley Croquet Club, based on the connected to books….for members to dip in and out of as they choose.
edge of Winterborne Stickland A couple of events on the horizon include a visit to Dorchester Library to listen to
Village, will be opening their lawns Libby Page, author of The Lido (which we read last year), with possibly some
on the 3 of April for the 2023 members electing to have a meal before or after the event. We are also
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season. Now entering its 4 year the planning a trip to see Calendar Girls-The Musical at The Pavilion, Bournemouth on
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croquet club is keen to attract new Saturday 08/04/2023 for the matinee performance; again, loose plans include….
members from the surrounding (fingers crossed) ‘…letting the train take the strain…’ and having lunch
villages and hamlets.
somewhere beforehand.
In collaboration with Winterborne New members to the Group are warmly welcomed…we don’t expect that
Stickland Social Club they are having everyone will be at every meeting (we all have lives outside of books), sociable
an Open Day on the 15 of April doesn’t have to be face-to-face…we’re open to members contributing by email
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where you can come and see what is on offer. Try a taster session with croquet or, possibly, joining us on Zoom…with a bit of notice, if possible. If anyone wants
coaches on hand to teach you the basics of the game and full information on to come along and see what we’re about, please pop along to one of our
how the club operates. meetings – which are held on the 4 Wednesday of the month, 7:15pm at The
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For further information check out the website - wvcroquet.co.uk or email us at Royal Oak.
WVcroquet@gmail.com. The Bullet That Missed by RIchard Osman.
The next in the series of books by RIchard Osman that involves the same four
elderly characters solving crime.
At The Sociable Bookworms, everyone found they enjoyed the humour and the
style of the writing. Osman’s usual twists and turns in the plot kept us reading.

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