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DATES FOR THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and AFFPUDDLE

YOUR DIARY with TURNERSPUDDLE

2023 Our Our Mission:
Vision: To encourage awareness of the
Floral Group 1st Thursday Club Communibus Women’s Institute To make presence of God through worship

Salt and Pepper Club Pop in Place Twinning Gardening Club Christ’s music and the arts;
love To encourage everyone in the
known in Christian faith through example,
the world learning and spiritual growth;
today and
To make our churches open and
November to live out welcoming to all, and supportive
his of those in need;
14th Margaret Heal 'Christmas' Demonstration teaching
To challenge injustice at home and
abroad and to balance our care
for the environment.

SP 16th Salt and Pepper Club
LETTER FROM OUR ASSOCIATE PRIEST

28th Folk Night, Skittle Alley, Drax Arms Hickory Moon 7.30pm
I feel very privileged to have spent most of my life in rural parts of the country. We
did live in Basingstoke for a few years when we were first married, but even then
December we were never far from a park or a footpath that led to the countryside. Even
when we lived in Hong Kong, we managed to rent a bungalow out in the New
Territories, after a month spent on the 13 floor of a high rise hotel in the middle of
th
5th Christmas lunch busy Kowloon, this was very welcome. It’s something that our children appreciate
too, I remember in 2000 we took Adam and Lucy to London for a few days, it was
August and we camped at Leighton. We would catch a bus to the train station
and then travel into the centre by train/tube each day, on the third day Lucy
(age 9) said ‘Do we have to go on a bus and train again?’ She didn’t enjoy the
19th Folk Night, Skittle Alley, Drax Arms Stompin’ Dave 7.30pm hustle and bustle of the crowds and was happy once that was over and we
could get back to North Dorset!

22nd Carols and Mince Pies Of course you can’t always escape the crowds in the countryside particularly if
it’s a popular place, but off the beaten track you can usually find the quieter
places. This doesn’t mean they’re any less busy, just in a different way – filled with
wildlife, farm animals, crops, farmers and other stewards of the land all
contributing in different ways to our rural economy.

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