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your bit by topping up your bird bath or if you haven’t got one put out a saucer
of water for birds and hedgehogs. Honey bees will also appreciate available POETRY
drinking water. As well as drinking water, honey bees use water for cooling the CORNER
hive in warm weather. They also use it to control the humidity in the hive, as well
as the temperature. And, nursing bees need water to produce the jelly with
which they feed the larvae. So, put some water out and you will know you are Empty Chair
helping wildlife and have the joy of seeing more wildlife in your garden. The best
way to provide water for bees is to fill a saucer or something similar with pebbles Your candle burns. My thoughts go with you.
and then fill with water. The bees can then sip water whilst standing on the dry I think of the chair, where you used to sit:
part of a pebble. The windows you opened; the books that
you read;
Contact Us The pictures you painted with words that you
said.
If you would like to know more about the work of the Wildlife and Environment
Group or to be included on our e-mailing list, please contact: Your candle burns. Life seems so empty.

Tony Bates at tonybates19@gmail.com / 01929 471563 or To think it is finished, when I dreamed, I could
find,
Mike Gee at mike.n.g@outlook./com / 0775 988 4942
In this house, which we lived, the friends,
which I sought,
But I could not follow the roads of your
GARDENING CLUB thought.

Your candle burns. I stand so uncertain
It doesn’t seem right, to pull down our
July has bought us Gardeners much needed
rain. This did not help our July Meeting to the curtain.
Lytchett Matravers vineyard. The heavens I see my reflection and yearn to be free,
opened and it was decided to cancel at the last moment. I know we are From the hole in my heart, where you used to
gardeners and cope with some rain but…… We hope to re-arrange this trip next be.
summer.
Your candle burns. My thoughts go with you. Birthday Presence
Looking ahead. Unusually I
have decided to go for an I think of the chair, where you used to sit:
August meeting and on 1 Smoke fills my mind, as I try to think clear, When it is my birthday,
st
August we are heading out Of the times in my life, when you gave me Please don’t give me stuff.
to Down Farm on Cranborne your ear. With regard to all of that,
Chase. Hopefully we will be I have more than enough.
joined by some members of Paul J Openshaw (1975)
the history society. Martin It’s a different matter,
Green is the Farmer there If a moment you will share.
and a few years ago he Give me a time and place,
decided to give up farming And I will meet you there.
and become an archeologist. He has created wildlife ponds and areas on the
farm and has dug up burial mounds and the Dorset Cursus. This evening
Paul J Openshaw (May 2023)

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