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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
 th
 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
 st
 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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