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FLOWER FESTIVAL We look forward to receiving your entries.

On 21 22 and 23 June, 10.30 - 4.30, St Laurence’s, Affpuddle are holding a Saturday opening. Our trial opening on Saturday afternoons has now finished.
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Flower Festival high lighting local ‘flora and fauna’. Not only excellent flower There has been some extra custom which is always welcome but the shop
displays but lots of information and photos. volunteers have had difficulty covering the extra hours. We will consider whether
or not to continue with it but, if you would like to help in the shop but are not
Music will be provided by our organist, Dr Richard Hall and, on Saturday available during the week, could you consider helping on a Saturday afternoon?
afternoon, the small choir, ‘Serenade’ will perform. If so, please let us know. We will definitely be opening for Sunday afternoon for
Open Gardens on 23 June.
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Refreshments will be available in church and, on 23 in the Village Hall as part of
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Briantspuddle Open Gardens. As ever, we can always use any offers of help. There are many ways you can help
by collecting stock, helping with stock deliveries, and various admin tasks. At
If you want to participate in worship, Canon Richard Bartlett will be presiding over present, we particularly need someone to join our newspaper collection team;
a 9am service on 23 followed by coffee. you would have a set day each week and would need to be at Spar in
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Come and join us, see the displays, and have a cup of tea sitting by the River Puddletown by about 8.40am in order to deliver the papers to the shop by
Piddle! 9.00am. We would also like an extra person to join our team which deals with the
Sainsbury’s orders – we usually have a delivery once a week in the afternoon and
receiving the stock and putting it away takes about an hour. If you can spare
some time and/or would like some further information please leave your details in
HELP! Bring a hoe! the shop and someone will get back to you.
Please help us to keep the shop going as a welcome and useful village resource,
not only for buying your essential supplies but as a meeting point to have a chat.
Can St Laurence church ask for one hour of You never know when you might need it!
your time, to help weed the church path in
exchange for a coffee/tea, a glass of beer
plus a piece of cake?

The path up to the church is a long one which
is increasingly covered in weeds. Whilst some
wonderful people have spent long hours
clearing parts of it, we do not seem able to
have the whole path looking tidy.
However, if lots of us just spent an hour
hoeing, we could achieve a great deal.
Please come and join us on 12th June
between 6 and 8pm. Bring your hoe, spend an
hour and have a drink, some cake and a
chat,
and take our gratitude with you.

Elizabeth Whatley, churchwarden

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