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July 2022                                                                           July 2022

       DATES FOR                                                                              THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE

               YOUR DIARY                                                                                      with TURNERSPUDDLE

                                                                                                                                                     Our Mission:
       2022                                                                                                        Our              To encourage awareness of the
                                                                                                                   Vision:

            Floral Group    Autumn Leaves      Communibus       Women’s Institute                                  To make        presence of God through worship
                                                                                                                   Christ’s                     music and the arts;
           Salt and Pepper Club   Pop in Place     Twinning      Gardening Club                                    love              To encourage everyone in the
                                                                                                                   known in         Christian faith through example,
              20th  Salt and Pepper Club                                                                           the world           learning and spiritual growth;
                                                                                                                   today and       To make our churches open and
              21st   Purbeck Film Festival evening in Briantspuddle Village                                        to live out     welcoming to all, and supportive
                   Hall.  “Operation Mincemeat” (rating 12A)                                                       his                            of those in need;
                                                                                                                   teaching
              26th  Bridport                                                                                                     To challenge injustice at home and
                                                                                                                                   abroad and to balance our care
                                                                                                                                               for the environment.
                    November

              3rd   Party to Celebrate 50 years                                            LETTER FROM OUR ASSOCIATE PRIEST

              9th   Haskins and HobbyCraft                                                 Well, I did say the Jubilee celebrations might not be a rest!  What a fabulous, but
                                                                                           exhausting, few days, there was so much going on in the village, I had to catch
              15th  Coral Gardener  -  Christmas Open Demonstration at   2.00pm            up on the things going on in London on iPlayer later.  Even the weather behaved
                    Tarrant Keynston Village Hall                                          – well mostly, it was a shame that the sports afternoon had to be postponed and I
                                                                                           spent a damp time in Affpuddle churchyard under the marquee for their Jubilee
        SP
              17th  Salt and Pepper Club                                                   Service and picnic – no spirits dampened though.
                                                                                           We  had  our  two  older  grandchildren  staying  with  us  for  half  term  and  so  they
              23rd   Winchester                                                            were able to join in and experience all that was going on.  We had a great week,
                                                                                           from  a  damp  evening  at  the  T20  cricket  at  Southampton  on  Monday  (Ruby
                                                                                           looked as if she’d been swimming after going on one of the inflatables!), being
                    December                                                               rained  on  at  the  Tank  Museum  outdoor  display  Tuesday  lunchtime,  to  Thursday
                                                                                           beacon lighting and ice cream, Friday duck races, BBQ’s, and more ice cream,
             14th   Salisbury Christmas Shopping                                           playing  in  the  park,  topped  off  with  the  street  party  on  Saturday  and  Zach
                                                                                           spinning Granny around as if they were on the tea cups at Paulton Park!
         SP  15th   Salt and Pepper Club                                                   But  what  about  Wednesday  I  hear  you  say.    Wednesday  was  a  great  and
                                                                                           momentous day for our family – let me take you back, back in time to 1st June
                                                                                           1957,  when  my  parents  married  in  Send  Church  in  Surrey.    Sixty-five  years  later
             21st   Christmas Lights with Fish and Chip supper  -  leave at                they celebrated in a smaller way – they too like the Queen have mobility issues –
                    5.30pm
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