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Village Meeting OVER THE HILL

Our village meeting will be held
on Saturday 20 July in the Scout What a year we are
th
Hut. At this event we hope to having weather wise?
discuss more about our plans for Weather forecasting
progressing the Community Hall must be a huge
development, we will hear from problem for today’s
DWT about their exciting plans at meteorologists. The
Wild Woodbury, we will show the c o n d i t i o n s w e
proposed updates to the experience now are
Neighbourhood Plan Review, unbelievable, when we
plus we will have more detailed consider what we have
analysis of the traffic survey
responses and what next steps in our memories of our
life of our past. That is of
we can take.
course if you are
already in your sixties, seventies, eighties or nineties. Presumably those of younger

Defibrillators age groups will not remember times when “climate change” was not considered
to be an issue. Recently I have read several articles written back in the first half of
As a village, we are well covered when it comes to defibrillators. However, the the nineteenth century, which have mentioned climate change and with
three public ones are all operated by different groups and so the Parish Council suggestions that it could have serious consequences for our planet in the years to
offered to take over the management of them all in order to ensure they are come.
always up to date and in working order should they ever be needed. All are
checked regularly but if you do happen to notice anything when you pass one of I can’t believe that my grandparents would have believed that mankind could
them, please contact the Clerk. possibly have such a worldwide effect on such a natural phenomenon as our
weather pattern. When I think back some seventy odd years with me as a child
with grandparents, who had very strong beliefs in the natural world, I can’t

Conservation and the Environment imagine what they would be thinking today. Yes, back then we had very hot dry
spells occasionally in summer and very cold spells in winter but these conditions
Dorset Council has recently launched a climate and ecological emergency were never considered to be man made but acts of God. How things have
strategy to help protect our natural environment and combat climate change. changed!

Nationally, the government has asked each Today the weather forecaster is suggesting that our future is almost completely
county in England to create a Local Nature predictable and we are to experience much higher temperatures and heavier
Recovery Strategy, which is being co-ordinated rainfall, resulting from the thawing of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic If you turn to
in Dorset by Dorset Council, working with BCP your bible, Zechariah 13, verse 3, you will find the following words. “Then if anyone
Council, Natural England and a wide range of still insists on prophesying, his own father and mother will tell him that he must be
local people and organisations. put to death, because he claimed to speak the Lord’s word.” So you see, you
should not be forecasting the future, even if it is only the weather.
Part of this work is joining people together on a
journey to make space for nature across As a young lad, I spent many hours out in the countryside picking the first
Dorset. Dorset Wildlife Trust is, therefore, bluebells, primroses, cowslips, violets, columbines, orchids (particularly the bee
developing some online mapping and case orchid, which was every ones wish to find) and other wild flowers to take home
studies to showcase the great things to my mother and grandmother. In those days, these practises were not illegal
communities and people are already doing for and were considered to be the rites of all to practice. We loved the countryside,
nature’s recovery, share experience and its plants and animals and in no way would we have attempted to damage or
destroy any part of it.

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