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then Purbeck District Council in December 2018. We resolved to write to our MP
with a view to facilitating a change in the law, and to engage with Natural POEMS TO KEEP YOU SMILING
England and Dorset Council, to voice our concerns.

Because we are missing some of our regular articles, I felt it might be nice to have
The Annual Meeting some additional material to keep the magazine ‘buoyant’ during these difficult
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The next meeting on Thursday 14 May, should be our Annual Meeting, which times. Ed.
would normally include the election of officers. Central Government has decided
that Town and Parish Councils can choose to delay the meeting until May 2021 or
until later in 2020 when councillors are able to meet. We have chosen to delay Mongrel
the meeting until the Autumn of 2020.
In days gone by, we had a mutt, of indeterminate source.
In addition, all current office holders, i.e. Chairs and Vice Chairs and Committee He was built like an ox, with the appetite of a horse.
members, should remain in post if possible, until that time. Our next meeting will, His mother was a poodle. The father, one of a few.
therefore, take the shape of a normal monthly meeting, which will be held by Back then, he was a mongrel, now he'd be a cockerpoo.
video conferencing. Residents are invited to submit questions to the Clerk or a

Councillor by email by the 10th May. The question will then be read out at the
meeting and a response given. The meeting will then be streamed via the Parish Our neighbour's dog was special. They used to call him Ben.
Council website in order for residents to hear the response to their He was a Heinz 57, and one of a litter of ten.
questions. Councillors contact details can be found at https:// Every inch was muscle. He was the whole kit and caboodle.
www.bereregisparishcouncil.co.uk/about-us/councillors/ Back then, he was a mongrel, now he'd be a jackadoodle.

This is all still very new and strange to everyone, so we would ask your indulgence
and forgive us if it takes a meeting or two to get things right. Down our street, lived a woman of somewhat dubious means.
Her little dog was dubious too, and always full of beans.
Ian Ventham If she had paid much for him, she would have been a mug.
Back then, he was a mongrel, but now he'd be a frug.

If a mother is a shih tzu, and you’re caught up in this fad,
A puppy will be bullshit, if a bulldog is the dad.
Everything hangs together with concoction, cross and cobble,
But, what back then was a mongrel, would make my collie wobble.
Paul J Openshaw 2019

Our Village Songwriter

Dear Alison,
I'm writing on behalf of my Mum, Eileen Richardson. She is 92 and lives in
Stanbarrow Close, Bere Regis. She has written over 300 songs, a few of which
have been recorded. Five have even been put on YouTube by several different
friends.
At this challenging time Mum has been thinking again about the lyrics of her

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