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Just a Smile write to MP Richard Drax concerning the matter and requesting his support for the
proposal. Councillors feel that the benefits of the protection and funding that
A national newspaper initiated correspondence on the single-sock puzzle! They come with National Park status outweigh the negative impacts which could all be
received the following poem on the subject from a lady in Poole. mitigated to an extent. The Parish Council will however state that it welcomes the
suggestion that the National Park contains all rural Dorset and would suggest that
Somewhere there’s a happy land where all the odd socks go.
any parish to be included is included in its entirety. In particular, the Council is
You never see it happen – but they vanish, that I know. keen to ensure that Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle Parish is not divided by the
boundary of the National Park.
I put in two, I take out one, the other’s never seen.

Perhaps my automatic is a kind of time machine
Next Meeting
That whisks them off (but singly) to a place that knows no holes,
As things stand from 7 May, Parish Council’s will no longer be permitted to hold
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Where they don’t get worn or smelly, but have happy little soles. remote meetings. Whilst these rules may change the Parish Council believes that
May is too soon to return to face to face Council meetings in the Village Hall. As
a result the Parish Council has decided to bring forward the May meeting to 5
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Notice outside a cemetery: “Due to industrial action, this cemetery will be May (a week earlier than usual) so that it can be virtual. There will be an Annual
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maintained by a skeleton staff.” Parish Meeting on the 5 May at 6:30pm which is an opportunity for members of
the public to ask questions, raise issues or discuss any parish matters. The Annual
Council Meeting will follow and a Parish Council Meeting will be held as usual
afterwards.
Sue Jones, Chairman

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