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February 2021 February 2021
host would be gladly received and we can see if there is anyone out there who
could bring them into being. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PARISH
A big thank you to everyone who has donated to the food bank box which has MAG PRODUCTION!
been in the hall since the first lockdown. You’ve have been able to give support to
some 14 families consisting of approximately 40 people half of whom are children
through the Bere Regis food bank and also many others supported through the Well, that was nice! Some very kind and lovely comments
Wareham food bank which we have also been able to support occasionally. on last month’s article. However, I do have to come clean
- the photo is from around 2015, so a little out of date!
Just a thought, but as Lent starts in February and traditionally it is a time when
many of us give something up until Easter maybe this year we might like to As I mentioned last month, it has been fascinating to go
consider giving what we’ve saved through our abstinence to the food bank to back through some of the archived magazines on the
help others further. Goods can either be brought to the hall or bought from the village website - and I’m really glad that I saw Rod Osmond’s post on Facebook
shop and put in the food bank box or you can give money and we can then about the updating he is doing to the site, just in case I had problems accessing it
either spend it through the shop or ask the food banks if there is anything specific this month. As it happened, everything worked fine, despite the domain transfer,
they would like. or whatever it was that he was doing!!
Take care and please continue to remember hands, face, space while we wait for I’ve taken the liberty of including two of Graham Roblin’s articles from February
the vaccination programme to take effect. and March 1996. These both stuck so firmly in my mind from the time. I remember
my own Dad saying to me, “I do hope that you won’t put me in a corner with a
Stuart Chorley chairman Briantspuddle Village Hall
trough when I’m old” - given he was only 70 at the time he need have had no
Mobile 07818078191 email schorley30@gmail.com fear. Now he’s 94, and still as sprightly and as sharp as that 70 year old, so he
doesn’t need to have any worries.

BRIANTSPUDDLE VILLAGE SHOP – NOT The second piece - Fingerprints - made such an impression on me that I have
always had it posted up above my desk, and I look at it frequently. It’s timing
JUST FOR COVID 19 could not have been more appropriate for me personally and I shall remain ever

grateful to Graham for helping me to deal with some difficult times.
One thing that writing a monthly article for the parish However, back to the magazine production. In those days, of course, people
magazine does, is bring home how quickly time flies – wrote their articles on bits of paper and put them through my letterbox. No
even during theses days when we once again find internet, no email, and not much word processing either. Occasionally I did get
ourselves locked down It feels like only 5 minutes since things that were typed out, and with the magic of the OCR (Optical Character
it was mid-December and I was writing for the January Recognition) software at the time, I was, at least, able to scan them and convert
issue. them to editable text - with some tribulations as the software wasn’t always 100%
accurate. Of course, the other method was saving electronic files to disk - I think
Now as I write ready for the February issue, a few in the we were just past the ‘floppy’ stage of the 5¼, and on to the solid 3½ ones. And
village have started to receive the vaccine – I wonder we may even have had the early memory sticks/flash drives!
by the time you read this how many more will have
been vaccinated and how far off being able to see the rules relaxed once again Anyway, this all did mean a lot more typing for me as well as interpreting
we might be. handwriting, tracking down the source of some articles (sometimes contributors
forgot to put who had sent things) and dealing with computer viruses! It was
This weekend we’ve seen other challenges – Raspberries stuck in Spain due to fortunate that we did only have around the thirty pages in those days and I’m so
snow, Romanesque Cauliflowers stuck in port with the wrong paperwork! glad that I did learn to touch type when I did my business course at college.

We did however have an amazing selection of fresh vegetables from the market. As you will notice, all the advertisements in the magazine at that time, were
It always looks so good on a Saturday morning to see all the fresh produce in. A printed for the full year ahead, so were kept on the outside pages. This did mean
complete array of cabbages, every type of root vegetable and purple sprouting that we were not able to take adverts mid-year and also it wasn’t possible to
broccoli. It is also possible to get fresh ginger, horse radish and herbs.

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