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numbers of tourists to the area, which are her friends at the ice cream van. It’s what passes for human entertainment these
of course vital to our local economy. I am days. I don’t mind I get a walk and ice cream.
pleased that despite the very high number
of visits, that the number of infections of The Now TV sky subscription has not been cancelled and she is now watching
Covid-19 in Dorset have stayed very low. another three test matches against Pakistan. FIFTEEN DAYS but thankfully it has
Sadly a number have left a mess after they rained. Good it means we don’t have to watch cricket all the time. There are
have visited, and I shall certainly be taking One Day Internationals next month but they only last one day. Horror of horrors
part in the Great British September Clean the Tour de France starts soon and that goes on for three weeks. Even she cannot
taking part from 11 -27 September. This watch that all the time and records it so she can miss commercial breaks and skip
th
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national campaign has been postponed the boring bits. The daily highlights are the best way to watch it.
from March, and aims to get as many My owner does not cope with the heat either and at night has been in the habit of
people involved as possible. See my taking chilled bottled water up to bed. She bought one batch from a discount
websites for updates closer to the time.
supermarket (Lidl in Price I think) She thought she was losing her grip when she
If you have an issue that you need help could not remove the tops from the bottles. I had to laugh at the sight of her
with, please do get in touch; you can email standing barefoot in her bedroom wearing a flimsy pale blue frilly nightdress using
me on michael.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk or contact my office on 01202 a yellow rusty wrench to remove the tops from a bottle.
624216.
Last month I was enthusing about butterflies but its all change this month.
You can also follow what I’ve been doing on my website Cabbage white butterflies have visited the vegetable patch. Monty Don on
www.michaeltomlinson.org.uk Twitter @Michael4mdnp or Facebook Gardener’s World said you should use nets. We went to the garden centre and
www.facebook.com/michael4MDNP bought canes and pulled the net over flower pots on canes. The butterflies still got
in. My owner did not like picking the caterpillars off the plants. That was Monty’s
other suggestion. The Kale was decimated. Mary Chamberlain suggested an
organic spray which did work so she knows better than Monty Don. We are just

hoping that they will recover.
I was very sad to hear that my very first owner
Elaine Standfield had died. I will never forget
Elaine. Even now after over eleven years I
would always give her and Adrian a big dog
waggy welcome if I see them. Elaine and my
owner’s mum discussed my conception at a
Gardening club Committee meeting and

Elaine was there when I was born in the back
LOCAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT of the van.
My owner was invited to arrange flowers for
Michael Tomlinson MP  the funeral and there were so many floral
holds regular surgeries Michael.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk tributes the basket coffin looked like a flower
in the constituency. For  01202 624216 bed. Elaine loved her garden flowers and all
the flowers used were from local gardens and
details of forthcoming www.michaeltomlinson.org.uk picked from some of the wild flower
surgeries or to make an  meadows and arranged by her friends in the
appointment, please @Michael4MDNP Flower Sanctuary Guild and the Women’s
Institute
contact his office.
The funeral cortege went from Elaine’s house

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