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January 2021 January 2021
should be peace on earth and goodwill to all I look forward to us all working ever create space to take time to enjoy God’s creation. It is about deciding how I
closer in the year ahead. The hall will play its part in our community and work with utilise the many benefits of Zoom without spending most of the week in front of a
everyone who wants to work with us in providing whatever we can as we rebuild screen. It is about continuing to bring clergy and County leaders together around
our lives and get to grips with a new normal. common topics whilst paying attention to the needs of the local church.

The trustees of the village hall along with the parish council, the social club and January 2021 will also be like no other January we have ever had. Whilst still taking
the village shop look forward to discussions on how we can all work together even care, with the possibility of being vaccinated by the summer, our resolutions can
more effectively for the good of all of us. Let’s make 2021 a year to remember for be about the life post-Covid we wish to retain and the new possibilities we need
all the right reasons. Regardless of any surveys or awards this is just the best place to grasp. So, what will returning by another road mean for you? The Wise Men
to live. Let’s together look forward to being able to use the village hall this year as knew to avoid returning the way they had come. We need to learn that lesson
somewhere to party, as well as share a coffee and a bacon roll and pass the time too because the year 2020 will have taught us nothing if we go back the same
of day. People make places and you all make running the hall a pleasure. way.
A happy and healthy new year to you all. +Karen

Stuart Chorley, Chairman of Briantspuddle Village Hall
Mobile 07818078191 email schorley30@gmail.com

BRIANTSPUDDLE VILLAGE SHOP – NOT
JUST FOR COVID 19

I start by wishing you a very happy new year!
Welcoming in 2021.
Christmas turned out to be a very successful month
for the shop. We were able to help the village hall
Christmas market by taking all the sales through
our new till system and show stall holders what
they’d made. I was able to get down to the shop
on Saturdays and what a feeling of community.
One of the highlights had to be seeing people
walking away from the shop with their Christmas
tree!
As we move into a new year, I’m sure like me you
will be hoping for Vaccine miracles and life will once again return to some form of
normality. But there are some aspects of 2020 I hope will remain.
Life for many became much simpler again, not so much rush and bustle. For us in
the village shop it gave us the opportunity to provide a much wider selection of
produce. I am each week amazed by the new vegetables Leonora has found at
the market. I hope like me you take the opportunity to try something new!
And whilst life will change again, I hope that some of these simplicities in
community living remain. That we continue to not mind so much if it takes 15

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