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March 2024                                                                          March 2024

                                                                                           Attitude and Idea


                                                                                           Somehow it seems, the hopes and the    Nothing is certain in this wicked world.
                                                                                           dreams,                                Some lessons seem so hard to learn,
                                                                                           Simply, fold and fade away.            As I sit by the window, strike up a
                                                                                           There is no gold at the end of a rainbow,    match,
                                                                                           When the sky is downcast and grey.     To watch a cigarette, burn.
                                                                                           Ah but isn’t it strange, the way people
                                                                                           change,                                There’s nothing more I can say.
                                                                                           In attitude and idea.                  There’s nothing I can do.
                                                                                           Who could believe we’d be where we     How precious, the moments of fond
                                                                                           are now,                               remembrance.
                                                                                           Or where we will be next year?         The taste is tender and true.
                                                                                                                                                    Paul J Openshaw
                                                                                           Your loveliness lingers to fill my heart,
                                                                                           With warm gentle fire.
                                                                                           From deep within, the notions surpass,
                                                                                           Any feelings of basic desire.


                                                                                           MILBORNE MOVIES

                                                                                            The Miracle Club
                                                                                            Friday 15th March 2024 at 7.30pm

                                                                                            Village Hall, The Causeway, Milborne St  Andrew DT11
                                                                                            0JX
                                                                                            Doors and bar open 7.00pm
                                                                                            Tickets cost £6, which includes a drink or an ice-cream

                                                                                            Set  in  1967,  THE  MIRACLE  CLUB  is  a  heartwarming  film  that  follows  the  story  of
                                                                                            three generations of close friends, Lily (Maggie Smith), Eileen (Kathy Bates), and
                                                                                            Dolly (Agnes O'Casey) of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, who have
                                                                                            one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes,
                                                                                            that place of miracles that draws millions of visitors each year. When the chance
                                                                                            to win presents itself, the women seize it. However, just before their trip, their old
                                                                                            friend  Chrissie  (Laura  Linney)  arrives  in  Ballygar  for  her  mother's  funeral,
                                                                                            dampening their good mood and well-laid plans.

                                                                                            It is a lovely story about a friendship, past mistakes, love and forgiveness, with a
                                                                                            brilliant cast.

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