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experience years’ experience offering:- Join us at St Peter’s Church, Dorchester on Sunday 5 November for our monthly
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 DBS Checked  Landlords’ Electrical On Saturday 25 November our service of cathedral-style Choral Evensong will
Safety Certificate take place at 4.30pm. The choice of music marks the 400 anniversary of the
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 Certified in Pet First Aid  Additions and death of Thomas Weelkes and includes his ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’ and
To Book your Free Consultation Alterations to Existing Sixth Service’ alongside William Byrd’s ‘Preces & Responses’ and ‘O Jesu Christ,
Installations meins Lebens Licht BWV 118’ by J.S. Bach. Do join us for a glass of wine after the
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01258 880230 Testing Looking ahead to December, we are thrilled that University Music Chamber Choir
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Free Estimates 2 December at 4.30pm. The service will include hymns and choral music by
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these fantastic young musicians if you can.
OVER THE HILL Finally, pencil Saturday 23 December in your diaries and join us for our annual
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Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at 4.30pm. You can expect all the traditional
congregational carols alongside contemporary and favourite choral settings.
Aren’t the evenings dark now for summer time and I write this in the first week of
October. Wouldn’t our grandparents have been surprised that we have You can keep up with events via our website: www.dorchesteranglican.org.uk/
summertime up until the middle of October? As I look at the woodland and trees musicatstpeters or by following us on social media: Facebook: https://
generally, I see masses of green foliage everywhere. It may be fairly isolated here www.facebook.com/musicatstpetersdorch - Twitter: @musicatstpeter - Instagram
in Turnerspuddle, so far distant from the civilization of the urban area of Bere Regis @musicatstpetersdorch
but we do have the beauty of the countryside all around us and our escape route
has recently been wonderfully modernised and made easier by the resurfacing of
our causeway from the main access to Affpuddle and beyond. Dorset Chamber Choir Concert
‘At Remembrance Time’
The council have made a wonderful job of it but everyone visiting us, in our
remote hideaway want to know how such a wonderful and expensive job can be Monday 13th November, 7:30 pm
justified for a small community, such as ours. Obviously we are very lucky and are
however seriously thinking of making it a toll road and charging all other users, Broadstone United Reformed Church BH18 9AB;
who have the audacity to use it. There aren’t any white lines or yellow ones either Featuring Victoria Officium Defunctorum and Brahms, Byrd, Faure and Poulenc
but I expect the council have all these planned for the future and in the
meanwhile all our visitors, who aren’t known to us will have to drive and park at £12 (under 16s free)
their own risk.

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