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Salt and Pepper Lunch Club man’s dream just see it, buy it, plant it hope for the best and when it dies buy
another one. According to Roger, it’s all about happy plants. Some don’t like to
The Lunch Club meets on the third Thursday of the month and is open to all be planted next to each other. Some don’t like it too cold. You should find the
parishioners. A three-course meal will cost £6 and vegetarian, and gluten free cold spots in your garden by putting buckets of water out to see where the ice
options are available if ordered in advance. In order to book a meal and find out forms thickest. Think about what you do in your garden? What kind of gardener
menu information, please contact Brenda House on 01929 471255. are you? Where do you look out of your house? Where do you sit? What colours
should you have? What colour berries in succession to feed the birds? The

permutations are endless.
Wild Woodbury Drop In
If you can get out in your garden next weekend have a walk round and think very
Dorset Wildlife Trust will be holding a drop in open morning at Wild Woodbury carefully about new plants. To be honest I haven’t the time it’s as much as I can
between 10-12 on Sunday 3 December where they hope to show off their do to cut the grass. If I see a shrub I like and have the energy to plant it and it will
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revamped barn and display plans for their further improvements in the area. grow on chalk that is good enough. I strimmed one shrub, by accident, this year
There will be an opportunity to meet some of the team and ask any questions. and it’s looking pretty poorly. It’s been strimmed twice now but it keeps going so
must like the position.

New SID Location Next month we have a picture garden quiz on 5 December in the Drax hall. I
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hope this will be fun and we will learn as we go and well as some fun with
We have recently received permission from Dorset Highways that we can add a seasonal refreshments
further SID location at the bottom of Rye Hill, and we will include this in our
rotation of locations.
THE BERE RECIPE BOOK

Budget

Every year, the Parish Council must set a budget for submission to Dorset Council. I enjoy browsing through a
The budget, like any business budget, consists of projected income and recipe book. I pick them
projected expenditure. The difference between the income and expenditure is up cheap in charity shops
and my shelves are full of
them. Why you may ask?
You Google what you
want to cook, and sure
enough there it is which a
choice of variations. There
a r e c o o k e r y T V
programmes, chef’s
programmes, international
programmes and just
mouthwatering recipes
pop up on YouTube.
Google and Facebook
know what I look at. There is only me. Why do I want to cook? Apart from
preserves I only cook for Salt and Pepper once a month. (This month Mary Berry’s
Classic English Trifle with pears and strawberry jam.)
The modern recipe boundaries are limitless. Why was I so excited to be given an
old recipe book, found in the church by Gloria Curtis? I think it’s because this

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