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Black Hill For cluster, vacuum pipe and churn,
OTHER CHURCHES NEWS
Each Jersey cow would take her turn.
I stand and watch life backward fly,
For the dairyman, it was a chore.
Beneath a swiftly moving sky, BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
It paid a wage and little more.
To where a pulsating dairy stood,
At a time when Dark Lane still,
In this parish and neighbourhood,
Meandered up and over Black Hill. Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting
At a time when Dark Lane still,
preachers.
Meandered up and over Black Hill. When something doesn’t stack, it’s sold.
Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting
If there is no crock of gold,
I listen hard for every word,
Life can be unforgiving, Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer
As a man mustered his milking herd.
With other ways to make a living,
It wasn’t often that he was late, Chapel Toddler Group. Sadly this group is closed for the foreseeable future.
At a time when Dark Lane still,
For ladies in waiting beside a gate, Currently we are able to meet again for our Sunday morning services, although
Meandered up and over Black Hill.
At a time when Dark Lane still, they are also shown live on you tube. Our Youth meeting and Bible study are held

Meandered up and over Black Hill. Paul J Openshaw (January 2021) via zoom, with others joining us, a number of whom live too far away to ever be
able to join us in person. God has brought good out of the current situation, via
modern technology.

Morning Brew Crocuses

Each and every morning, he’s awake at half past five. I have been really cheered
up, as I look out of my
An early start has always been his way.
window, to see crocuses
Some things never alter much, and some things rarely change. blooming in my garden.
He likes an early rise to face the day. From just one window I can
see over a hundred of
He wipes the sleep out of his eyes, then trundles down the stairs,
these little marvels, and I
Then from the tap, he fills the kettle up. guess there are two or
He makes a pot of tea and lets it brew upon the side. three times that number all
That’s before he takes his wife a cup. together. They are the blue
ones, which cluster in the

He tiptoes up the stairs, so he can leave it by the bed, borders and come up all
over the grass. My first
Where he rests it on a paper or a book.
thought, when I saw the
She never really stirs, but once or twice, he’s seen her eyelids buds, was that Spring is coming. Hooray! And then we had that really cold spell of
Flicker open, as she tries to take a look. weather, which was quite extreme in Scotland, with temperatures of -23 degrees. I
expect the children were sad that we didn’t get the promised snow! Each
It’s surprising how it is that you can read a situation,
morning when I looked out, the flowers were lying flat, frozen by the icy conditions,
By some simple intuition or a tone.
but then, as the day went on and temperatures started to rise, they stood up,
He whispers have a nice day, as he bids a fond farewell, determined not to be flattened for long. They have also had to contend with
And then he grabs his car keys and his mobile phone. heavy rain, which has battered them and left them bedraggled. They must think
(if crocuses think!) when are things going to improve and we get some sunshine?

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