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OBITUARIES BRIANTSPUDDLE AND AFFPUDDLE
NEWS
Scout Hut.
 Played violin with Bere Regis Players – Elizabeth Booth, Trudi
Comben, Carolyn England? Played violin in an amateur orchestra in VILLAGE HALL NEWS
Poole for the Arts Center
 Allotment holder until recently. Grew all the family vegetables. Village Hall AGM, Notice of Meeting
 Keen Gardener and was a member of Bere Regis Gardening Club
The Annual General Meeting of the Hall
Committee will be held in the Hall on Wednesday
Following Retirement 16 May at 7.30 pm. An agenda will be posted in
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 Worked at the Post Office t h e n o t i c e b o a r d b e f o r e h a n d .
Coffee, tea and biscuits will be served from 7.00
 Attended Salt and Pepper lunches, Autumn leaves, Helped out at pm.
Golden Circle.

 Well, Well, Well author
Hall ‘Activity’ Sessions
 Bere Regis historian
 Gave Brownsea tours, expert in bird watching there On a Monday morning, we already host 2 sessions of Pilates with Claire, an
extremely good and experienced instructor. On a Thursday morning there is a
 Gave talks on Holton Heath History
Keep Fit class which caters for any specialist needs you may have, this is run by
 Gave talks on his fathers’ experiences in the first world war – “In the Elaine, again a very experienced and competent instructor. (See the Notice
footsteps of George” Board in Briantspuddle for details). Both instructors are always pleased to welcome
 Gave talks about Guernsey to various groups. We had visited Guernsey any new students to their
on holiday every summer from 1977 onwards so had acquired a lot of classes. However as mentioned
previously we are hoping to add
photographs and knowledge about the island.
Tai Chi to the list of ‘life
enhancing’ classes offered in
Stories the Hall. We now have a list of
I will mention a few notable stories of John. First, how he got his name ‘Pappy’ interested people but would
from his Grandchildren. dearly like to see some new
faces attending these types of
When Erin, his first grandchild was born, Carolyn and Mike asked him what he sessions. If you are out at work
wanted to be called by his Grandchildren. “Grandpa’, he replied and so it was during the day but would like to
until he first arrived in San Diego and met Erin. Erin’s favorite tv show was ‘Roly try a class please let us know
poly olie’ and the maternal grandfather in that show and we’ll see what we can do.
was called ‘Pappy’. We explained to Erin that when Ring Jenny on 01929471498.
Dad visited that he was like Pappy. Erin called him
Pappy from then on and he stayed Pappy up to the
end! In the TV Show he was described as ‘Happy Village Hall Lunch
Pappy, warm and wise’ which is very apt.
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The lunch on May 10 will be ham and lentil soup followed by bakewell tart and
He experienced WW2 and had to go to a Morrison custard. As usual, see the list in the (by then newly refurbished) shop to register
steel shelter in the front room during air raids. A bomb your name, or phone Jenny on 01929 471498.
fell at the bottom of the family garden sucking out the

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