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BRIANTSPUDDLE AND AFFPUDDLE Psalm 121 in the
Bible starts with the
NEWS words, “I will lift up
my eyes to the hills,
f r o m w h e n c e
VILLAGE HALL NEWS comes my help?”
I remember as a
Sunny days and balmy nights are here as I write this child I attended a
months article. Mays rain is long gone and it looks CofE junior church
like maybe summer has arrived at last. school, so I became
Unfortunately we can’t say the same about the familiar with these
further lifting of the remaining lockdown words. I could
regulations. We have another month added on never understand
and so life continues as is for a little longer. how help could
come from the hills!
We have seen somethings return lately and it’s great once again to see the hall I didn’t realise that
being used. The one to one singer classes have been able to resume to complete the punctuation in the sentence makes all the difference. It is a question. The
their original sessions and Pilates has been able to restart again. Along with this answer is given in the next verse, “My help comes from the Lord, who made
Frances has been able to resume her yoga classes and has some spaces still heaven and earth.” Then verse 3 reminds us that God, the Creator of all things,
available for anyone wanting to join them. We also welcome Helen as she starts never slumbers or sleeps, and that He watches over us. God is not an aloof being,
one or two new yoga classes hopefully enabling others to benefit from the extra but a companion who is always with us, awake to our circumstances, “from this
times that yoga can know be offered. time forth and even for evermore.”
I’d like to wish them all well as they seek to re establish their businesses after all this During these many difficult months as we have coped with restrictions that have
time and if you’ve been thinking about joining any of these groups I know they’d kept us separated from friends and family, we may have felt alone, yet God has
all be only to pleased to hear from you. always been there. Our part is to ‘lift up our eyes to Him’. He is the source of our
help. If we ignore Him then we also miss out on His help. As you go along life’s
As things stay the way they are with lockdown easing for now the hall continues
to be open every day to allow access to the village shop with the passageway path, with its ups and downs, it’s alright to say to yourself ‘look up!’
between the hall and the shop continuing to be the means of exiting.
The village hall café continues to operate on Tuesday and Saturday mornings and Just a smile
it has been great to see so many of you making use of these times to safely meet
up with friends and neighbours over a roll or piece of cake and a coffee at the One frosty morning a lady coming out of the Crematorium slipped on the ice. An
same time as putting onlooker remarked: “You’d think they would sprinkle a few ashes around here,
some money into the wouldn’t you?”
hall funds. Thank you to
all of you who have A choir used to visit hospitals etc. To give concerts. At one in an old People’s
donated cakes and Home the organist announced that she would play ‘Handel’s Largo’. An old lady
helped out with serving. sitting close by in a wheel chair said in a loud voice, “Oh, I love a drop of lager.”
It’s also been really
good to see Angie back
with book let and thanks
to the Jennies who have

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