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cannot be bothered. My owner hasn't been to church much since all this started TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PARISH
in March of last year. We go to arrange flowers. She did go at christmas but that
was only because she was invited to read the lesson in the nine lessons and MAG PRODUCTION!
carols. She likes to show off by over dramatising the bit about evil King Herod
wanting to find the baby. I watched her practising it.
Oh dear, I really must make this the last of my articles. I am
You are right there is not much going on at the moment. All they talk about is
vaccinations. Most of Bere Regis residents are going Wareham hospital. As a spending far too much time looking back over the twenty-
volunteer driver we took the dog walker last week and I know she took someone five years of magazines on the village website.
else yesterday.. The car was cleaned with wipes and all my dog hairs and my It’s been quite fascinating though, and has brought back
dog rugs were removed from the back seat. Clients have to sit in the back on many memories - some good, some not so good and some
the other side from the driver. Everyone wears a mask. The windows are open a very sad as we see all the names of those who are no longer with us. We have a
little bit to ventilate the car. It is very well organised. The volunteers are helpful vast amount of social history contained in these archives and we are very
and it does not take long. fortunate that they are preserved both in this way, on-line, but also with hard
copies held at the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester. Our former churchwarden,
They were discussing this on zoom last John England, made sure that each month’s magazine was passed to them, right
week. One of her friends lives in Poole and he
had had a letter giving him details of the up until his death. More recently, I have been up in my loft going through all my
own historical records so that I could respond to Sarah Welton’s request that we
vaccination procedure. He had to go on line to ‘fill the gap’ since John passed away. Now they have all the back issues and
book an appointment. He was offered
appointments at Taunton Racecourse or each month a copy is posted to them.
Bristol! He wasn't going to drive that far. The The past twelve months have seen such a big change in the content of the mag
others thought he should go as it would a because the impact of the pandemic has resulted in most societies and clubs
chance for a day out. cancelling their meetings and with seasonal events no longer taking place.
However, we have been so fortunate that many members of our local community
There are lots of rumours in our village about have ‘stepped up to the plate’ to give us entertaining articles. Jenny’s Dog Blog
infections and I did hear that your village has
had its first fatality. Somehow watching it on the has been particularly funny and I personally look forward to her contributions
news you think it won't happen here but it does each month - see how she now has fan mail! Many people will have also
and it will do again. Some of my owners friends delighted in the contributions from Tex Cox - our lay pastoral assistant and true
are really cautious and careful and even my man of the soil. We will continue to welcome articles and stories from any
owner has been very careful since the budding journalists and authors as these have kept the magazine vibrant and
beginning of the year. Make sure your owner is interesting during some rather challenging times.
careful and look after her she is a very special I mentioned last month that one of my fondest memories of years gone by was
person. the regular Sports Reports. I think that Steve Cheeseman probably started these
off and when he was succeeded by Darren Spivey we then started to get the
By the way it must have been horrible being shut ’War and Peace’ of football. This did lead to complaints about the length of the
out of the house like that. You could always reports but it also resulted in an increase in readership so we really couldn’t
suggest that she gets a cat flap. You could
come and go as you please. You could even get extra food next door as well. object. I have extracted a section (not the full six pages) of one particularly fun
story from March 2021 which is reproduced overleaf - the annual Boxing Day
Can you send me a picture I might give you a mention in next months magazine. Charity match. Take a look and see if you’ve got a mention!
Lots of love Jenny Finally, I include another of Graham Roblin’s ‘letters’. This is particularly poignant
for current times, when so many people have suffered loss.
Alison

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