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OBITUARIES BRIANTSPUDDLE AND AFFPUDDLE
NEWS
Cantata Club, carols at Bloxworth and, of course, was a member of
Bere Regis Church choir for over 40 years. Choir members chose the
music for his funeral, especially for him.
I have been overwhelmed by the love and concern VILLAGE HALL NEWS
from friends and family since Roy’s death. Thank you,
everyone. I should give him one of his cheeky smirks As I’m writing this we are just putting the finishing
and a wink – ‘there you are Bozo, everyone loves ya’!
touches to our Burns night celebrations on the 25
th
Mona Comben of January and as predicted tickets are all but
gone. I’m sure the evening will be an enjoyable
memory by the time you get to read this for all of you who managed to secure
tickets and apologies to all those who missed out but we had to limit numbers to
80 purely due to space.
As we leap headlong into 2020 I must and indeed would like to express my thanks
and appreciation again to everyone of you who got involved and helped make
December such a busy and enjoyable time. It doesn’t seem possible that such a
small community as ours could have organised and attended so many things in
such a short space of time. From the Christmas fayre to the New Year’s Eve party
with everything that happened in between it has been without exception a
roaring success. Grateful thanks for the seemingly tireless willingness and energy
to get involved in putting these events on and also a huge thank you to everyone
who got involved and supported us by coming along and joining in, thank you in
advance for all you’ll do again this year.

For me personally the activities over Christmas were about opportunities to come
together and enjoy each other’s company first and foremost after a year of
energetic fund raising events ,equally well supported throughout the year, but I’m
pleased to say that everyone turned out in such good numbers that December
was also an excellent time of fundraising for the hall ensuring its ongoing security
and ability to continue being a hub of village and parish activity.
We have lots of exciting ideas for events in the coming year but are also very
keen to hear from groups and individuals with new ideas of other things that can
be held at the hall so please talk to any of our trustees if you have ideas you’d
like to see tried out. The trustees cannot do everything but we can and will be as
helpful and supportive of any initiatives you may want to try out, and we’d love
to talk through your ideas with you, after all we are only trustees, we look after the
village hall but the hall belongs to you as members of this parish.
Watch this space for more information on upcoming events, there will be further
Artsreach evenings taking place, the Purbeck film festival, Mike Menzies’ talks,
plus VE Day celebrations and many more opportunities to come together as
friends and neighbours.

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