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March 2022 March 2022

Hot cross Buns and a performance from the Pop In Performers. BERE REGIS WILDLIFE AND
Jubilee Bonnet Parade this year we ask that you make your Easter Bonnet with a ENVIRONMENT GROUP
Jubilee theme, so get out the red white and blue and start being creative.
There will be an Adults and a Children class.
Spring is Springing

Pop In Place Performers Group Present ….. “Happy and With March the days are noticeably lengthening and
there are real signs of Spring around us – birds are
Glorious” in May becoming more active in preparation for the nesting
and breeding season and we will soon be able to
The rehearsals for the Summer Show are underway and it promises to be the most
wonderful event, and certainly one not to be missed. We will be looking back enjoy their wonderful dawn chorus. The first green leaves are appearing on
over the 70 years of the Queen’s Reign and comparing events of a royal nature hawthrorn and elder trees; the blackthorn is coming in to blossom and many early
with the happenings back here in the village. We will be looking at the musicals Spring flowers are emerging such as lesser celandine and primrose, providing
over the decades and visiting such iconic scores as “Oliver” “Sound of Music much needed early nectar for bees, butterflies and other insects. On warmer
“Oklahoma” “Greatest Showman” “High School Musical” “ Frozen” to name just a sunny days we should see the first butterflies of the season – look out for Orange
few, the show culminates in the 1953 Street Party to celebrate the Coronation Tip and Brimstone butterflies in particular.
with mention of the food of the day the music and the ambience. Book now to
avoid disappointment Mad March
“Happy and Glorious” Hares
Thursday 19 May December 6pm
th
Friday 20 May December 7pm We all remember
th
March
mad
the
Saturday 21 May December 2pm hare in Alice in
st
Wonderland who
attends the mad
Pop In Place Community Art Project hatter’s tea party.
The idea of the
We need your help to make a unique natural picture to celebrate the Queens 70 ‘Mad March Hare’
years.. comes from the
hare behaviour
Calling anyone that has ever been to the Pop In Cafe, Performers Group; taken you’re most likely to
part in the Memory Walks made up the audience of a show, or attended any witness in the month
event. of March. This behaviour includes madcap chases and furious boxing matches.
To donate a small item of nature a pebble a small piece of driftwood, a stone any This is not ‘mad’ behaviour but instead the courting behaviour of mating hares.
small natural item we can make a final community piece of art. The boxing was commonly thought to be between two males battling over the
favour of a female however they are more likely to be an unresponsive female
Please bring your item into the cafe on Friday Mornings or drop it off at 3 Rye Hill fighting off a male’s advances.
Close in box provided with you name.

We will make a list of all the names of the people that have been involved in the Birds at Bere Stream
Jubilee Community Picture.
Our Conservation Working Parties carefully carry out scrub management to
We will make the picture on Friday 6th May at the Cafe all donations must be in maintain a balance, between scrubby areas amongst the low growing willows,
by end of April. guelder rose and other shrubs, and open areas in the wet ground between the
newly surface streamside pathway and the stream. This area is an excellent

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