December 2005 December 2005 PARISH MAGAZINE EDITOR TTTHTHHHEEEE PPPAPAAARRRRIIIISSSSHHHHEEEESSSS ooofofff BBBEBEEERRRREEEE Alison Debenham RRREREEEGGGGIIIISSSS aaanannndddd AAAFAFFFFFPPPPUUUUDDDDDDLLLLEEEE ‘’Culver Dell“, Shitterton, Bere Regis, with TURNERSPUDDLE Wareham, Dorset. BH20 7HU Telephone: 01929 471780 Fax: 01929 472580 The Reverend Ian Woodward E-mail: [email protected] The Vicarage, Bere Regis, BH20 7HQ Producing this magazine each month is a voluntary activity. As I work full time, Tel: (01929) 471262 please do not expect an immediate response to phone messages or e-mails. I usually work on the magazine at weekends, so will try to acknowledge e-mails by the Sunday after they have been sent. DECEMBER 2005 Please submit all announcements, copy or advertisements to Alison, no later than the 15th of each month. ************************************************* THOUGHTS FROM THE V ICARAGEICARAGE Contributors from Affpuddle and Briantspuddle may submit copy, no later than the 13th of each month, to: Una Russell I hope that you have been able to watch the BBC‘s screening of Charles Dicken’s ‘Bleak House’. It’s a dark story made even bleaker by its name, but enlivened and 1 Dairy Cottages, Briantspuddle, Dorchester, DT2 7HT absorbing by memorable performances from notable actors and great film sets. It 01929 471814. Please note – no advertisements to Una. is also presented in a soap opera style that makes us want to watch it in its half hourly episodes, not unlike the way Dicken’s novels were published in his own day. ************************************************ And as a child I can remember seeing Bleak House on my father’s bookshelves along with John Buchan’s novels and Rudyard Kipling’s poems. I tried to read it We regret that late submissions will not be included. several times, but it was long and seemingly gloomy. But a little further along was a much brighter Dickens novel that starts in the dark and London gloom of ************************************************ Dicken’s day but ends with the light and warmth of the Christmas story. It is of course ‘ A Christmas Carol’ and it tells the story of the old miser Ebeneezer Scrooge Copy can be accepted handwritten, but preferably via e-mail as a Microsoft who is changed from hating his fellow man through the visits of the ghosts of Word attachment. Alternatively, a MS Word file on floppy disk is acceptable. Christmas Past, Present and Future on Christmas Eve and he gives his employee Please ensure your virus software is fully up to date before e-mailing or Bob Cratchet and his disabled son Tiny Tim a very happy Christmas with the supplying on disk. Please do not use underlining , UPPER CASE formatting, or memorable words ‘ God bless us everyone!’ It is a story of the spirit of Christmas, indeed a holy spirit at work, melting and warming hearts. include any tables or graphics. For more advice on computer based copy, please ring Alison. Dickens is still very much part of Christmas; look at the many Christmas cards featuring a stage coach at an inn with roaring fires and merry faces. Dickens had ********************************************** a great attachment to Christmas in his family life as well as his writings. He was working on an idea that saw the spirit of Christmas being shared throughout the Distribution enquiries contact: Sally and Gordon Cheeseman, 4 Elder Road, year but alas it never came to fruition as a piece of writing. When Dickens died in Bere Regis, BH20 7LY. Telephone 01929 471022 88 Church website: www.bereregiswith1 affpuddle.org.uk December 2005 December 2005 1870, it was reported that a London costermonger’s girl said ‘ Then will Father Christmas die too?’ It was a tribute to Charles Dickens, to both his association with Christmas and to his almost mythological status as well as his work. DATES FOR Some may say that Christmas is too sentimental; I don’t believe that. For if we can recapture the simple joy of sharing and caring and indeed loving at Christmas, YOUR DIARY and take it on through the whole of the year, then we will be living out why ‘God came down at Christmas’ as the baby Jesus, becoming human and changing the world by changing our lives, for good and for God so that we may love one another as he loves us. A very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year to you all December With love and prayers 3rd Mr Magis - Drax Hall. Children £1.50, Adults £2 10.30 a.m. 6th RBL Gardening Club - Christmas Party 8.00 p.m. 10th-13th Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Charles Tibbey PS As you may know, Brian Hedges our faithful and very cheery postman in Bere Cyril Wood Court Regis is retiring on Christmas Eve after 29 years with the Royal Mail. We shall miss 14th Autumn Leaves - Christmas with Woodbury Hill Singers 2.30 p.m. you Brian and your wonderful helpfulness and never failing smile, and with grateful thanks we wish you a very happy retirement. 17th Pop in Place Christmas Event 3.00 p.m. January 2006 11th Autumn Leaves New year party, Drax Hall 2.30 p.m. 18th Coffee morning at the Vicarage 10.30 a.m. 100 WATT CLUB February 2006 1st prize - £25 8th Autumn Leaves - The magic of nature 2.30 p.m. Mr D Herring - no 254 4th prize - £5 Mr E Rickets - no 57 March 2nd prize - £10 8th Autumn Leaves - Budgies 2.30 p.m. Mr G Phillips - no 196 5th prize - £5 Mrs Kircher-Smith - no April 2006 3rd prize - £10 11 29th Bere Regis Church outing to Isle of Wight and Osborne House Mr D Herring - no 259 New members are always welcome. July 2006 Subscriptions for shares are due for renewal. Reminders will be sent out as soon as possible 9th Pop in Place Open Gardens event Please contact Gordon Phillips for details – 471525 October 2006 7th Auction of Promises in aid of Church funds, Drax Hall 7.30 p.m. 2 87 December 2005 December 2005 Associati Contact Tel Address E-mail Meetings/Info THE PARISHES OF BERE REGIS AND AFFPUDDLE on Coffee Stop Jean Thorn 471646 20 Cyril Wood Monthly Cyril Wood Court Court, BH20 7HH 1st Saturday 10am - 12 noon Drax Hall Sally 471022 4 Elder Road Cheeseman BH20 7LY Bookings Secretary Kingsbere Miss G Miller 471745 3 Boswell’s Close Monthly Drax Hall Quilters BH20 7JE 1st Wednesday @ 9.45 am Kingsbere Music Tim Colquhoun 471360 Heatherdown, kmt@tacmusi Charitable trust supporting Trust Brock Hill c.com devotees of real music Lenny’s - Bere Terry Vine 471693 The Bungalow, terry.vine@tis Weekly. RBL Club Regis Youth club Lane End, Bere cali.co.uk 1st Wednesday and Heath, BH20 7NP following Tuesday evenings Juniors (8-11) 7.15-9.00 Seniors (12-17) 7.15-10.00 ([email protected]) Mothers’ Union Hazel Green 471571 3 Southbrook Monthly. Turberville Court 1st Wednesday. 7.30 p.m. Mobile Library Dorset County 01305 dorchestermo Alternate fortnights Car Council 224440 bilelibrary@d park orsetcc.gov.uk Mondays 9.20- 9.50 Fridays 10.50 - 12.15 Pop in Place Angela Jones 472261 7 Boswells Close Weekly. Drax Hall BH20 7JE Monday and Friday mornings 10.00 - 12.00 Purbeck District Peter Wharf 472246 The Old Vicarage peterwharf@h Monthly surgery. Turberville Councillor West Street otmail.com Court, Communal Lounge 471751 1st Saturday @ 9.30—10.00 Royal British Mrs Glo Curtis 472620 32 Old Barn Road Glo.curtis@do Monthly at the club Legion Club rset.probation 3rd Monday @ 7.30 p.m. .gsx.gov.uk (work) RBL Gardening Mrs Megan 471627 2 Manor House Monthly. RBL Club Stone 1st Tuesday. 8.00 p.m. RBL Women's Mrs Eileen 471616 9 Elder Road Monthly. RBL Section Maidment 3rd Wednesday. 2.00 p.m. St John’s Choral Tim Colquhoun 471360 Heatherdown, tac@tacmusic Set rehearsal dates for each singers Brock Hill .com performance Twinning Mrs Ann 472424 3 Southbarn, southbarn@ti Meetings and events 86 3 Association Robinson Sitterton, BH20 scali.co.uk arranged as and when. 7HU December 2005 BEREBERE REGISREGIS CHURCHCHURCH ROTASROTAS December 2005 Bere Regis Sidesmen CHURCH AND VILLAGE 4th 9.15am Mr Bates/Mr House ACTIVITIES, SOCIETIES, CLUBS, Chalice Mr House/Mr Smith Bere Regis 6.00pm Mrs Jutting ASSOCIATIONS and CONTACTS Evensong Readers 11th 11.00am Mrs England with children and other useful information 18th 9.15am Mr Wharf/Mr Smith 4th Mrs Jutting Chalice Mr Croom/Mr Wharf Associati Contact Tel Address E-mail Meetings/Info 18th Carol Service 6.00pm Mr Wharf/Mr Croom on 25th 9.15am Mr House/Mr Croom Ancient Order of Phyl Harris 472445 Monthly RBL Club Chalice Mr House/Mr Croom Foresters Court 1st Monday - 7.30 pm Prospect 6575 1st 10.00am Mr House/Mr Bates Autumn Leaves Margaret Dann 472734 4 Bitchams Mead Monthly Drax Hall Kath Jeeves 471175 “Larkspur” Snow 2nd Wednesday @ 2.30 Hill pm Bere Regis Tim Colquhoun 471360 Heatherdown, choir@tacmus Rehearsals weekly. 7.00 Cleaning and Dusting Church Choir Brock Hill ic.com p.m. every Friday in BR church Cleaning Dusting Bere Regis Bob Holman 01305 Camelot, bob.holman@ 5.30 p.m.—7.00 p.m. at the Swimming club 848262 Affpuddle affpuddle.fsne Blandford Leisure Centre DT2 7HH t.co.uk 3rd and 10th December Mr R Robinson, Mrs A Mr G Phillips, Mrs R Phillips Robinson Bere Regis Lynda Crisford 471180 11 Bitchams Mead Michael.CRISF Every Tuesday 10.30 a.m. Health Walks BH20 7ND ORD@ukgate Bere Regis Car Park 17th and 24th December Mrs C Clarke, Mrs M Mr G Phillips, Mrs R Phillips way.net Comben Bere Regis Bell Tower Captain - 471469 10, South Mead Normal practice night - Mrs J Woodward, Mrs C Mr G Phillips, Mrs R Phillips Ringers John England Wednesdays 6.30 p.m.