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February 2024 February 2024
Communibus Trips OVER THE HILL
Following the ongoing success of the Communibus, we have now announced
trips for the first half of 2024. Time seems to fly by. I just typed in the year in the above date as February 2023
Feb 21st. Haskins & Castlepoint - £10 Depart 9.30am and I suddenly realised we are in fact in the year 2024. I am fairly sure it is the first
time I have had to date anything this year yet. However as the old saying goes,
Mar 5th. Purbeck Mystery Tour & Lunch - £10 Depart 9.30am “You can’t turn the clocks back”. So “A Happy New Year” to all who read this and
Mar 20th. Wells - £15 Depart 9.00am a big thank to you for doing so. Readers you must become aware of the fact that
Mar 27th. Afternoon Tea* - £8 Depart 1pm I am going to update you of what I think is going on here, Over the Hill, in
April 9th. The Range & Poole Quay - £10 Depart 9.30am Turnerspuddle and how we, from our experiences of our past lives can predict the
future. My particular future is particularly important because I have just finished my
April 24th. Bridport & Weymouth - £10 Depart 9.30am piece of cake.
May 7th. Church Visits & Lunch - £10 Depart 10am Just before starting this article, I was listening to a weather forecast, which predicts
May 22nd. Romsey & New Forest - £12 Depart 9.30am snow for all of the UK in the coming, week and I have just been looking at my first
June 4th Seaton & Donkey Sanctuary - £12 Depart 9.30am primrose in flower and I know that the snowdrops are blooming in the churchyard,
June 26th Sidmouth - £12 Depart 9.30am here, over the hill here in Turnerspuddle. We also have hydrangeas coming into
July 9th Mystery Tour & Lunch* - £10 Depart 9.30am leaf and one rose with a bud that looks as if is going to spring into blossom. Grass
on the lawns looks ready to be cut for hay and we are threatened with snow
July 24th Street & Palmer’s Nursery - £12 Depart 9am storms, how stupid can the forecast be the summer ended only a few weeks ago,
Aug 6th Sturminster Mill & Gillingham - £12 Depart TBC Lunch at additional cost we mustn’t grumble, although what else can we do about our climate?
To book please contact Kim Benjafield on 01929 471170 Some years ago now after retiring, I did my degree with the Open University in
Environmental Studies and my interests in worldly happenings increased
Any queries relating to the Communibus can be directed to the clerk or a Parish considerably. This gave me some “new
Councillor. programme” to follow, this time on a worldly
mission rather than simply agriculture in the UK.
Next Meeting One of my first interests was to read books by a
Dorset author, who at that time lived about four
The next meeting will be held on Thursday 8 February 2024 commencing 7pm at miles from where I did just outside Sixpenny
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the Village Hall. If you wish to have an item added to the agenda for discussion, Handley. He later moved to a new home on the
please contact the Clerk or a member of the Parish Council before the 1 coast near Weymouth. This author was James
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February. Lovelock, who has now passed away but not
without leaving a legacy for all of us. The book I
have in front of me at present is a copy of his
work entitled, A FINAL WARNING, The Vanishing
Face Of Gaia. This book was first published in
2009, when the author was 89 years old. He
lived to the ripe old age of 103 and will never be
forgotten in the scientific world. His book that I
have in front of me, is his way of warning us of
When you respond to advertisers, do please tell them you saw their our future prospects, climate wise and the
advert in this magazine - it helps them monitor the effectiveness of probable events occurring on our planet due to
climate change.
their advert and helps us generate more advertising revenue!!
Climate change resulting in Global Warming has only just become to many of us a
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