January 2008 January 2008 TTTHTHHHEEEE PPPAPAAARRRRIIIISSSSHHHHEEEESSSS ooofofff BBBEBEEERRRREEEE PARISH MAGAZINE EDITOR RRREREEEGGGGIIIISSSS aaanannndddd AAAFAFFFFFPPPPUUUUDDDDDDLLLLEEEE Alison Debenham with TURNERSPUDDLE ‘’Culver Dell“, Shitterton, Bere Regis, Wareham, Dorset. BH20 7HU The Rev’d Canon Ian Woodward Telephone: 01929 471780 Fax: 01929 472580 The Vicarage, Bere Regis, E-mail: [email protected] BH20 7HQ Tel: (01929) 471262 Producing this magazine each month is a voluntary activity. As I work full time, please do not expect an immediate response to phone messages or e-mails. I Our Vision: usually work on the magazine at weekends, so will try to acknowledge e-mails by the Sunday after they have been sent. 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THOUGHTS FROM THE V ICARAGEICARAGE Please ensure your virus software is fully up to date before e-mailing or So a New Year once again: what does it hold for us – will it be a better year than supplying on disk. Please do not use underlining , UPPER CASE formatting, or ’07 and if so how is one year better than another? A better summer we hope than include any tables or graphics. last year but not a repeat of the floods that devastated Tewkesbury and the For more advice on computer based copy, please ring Alison. surrounding areas. Some of the older folks say we don’t have winters like we used to and we must be in for a more prolonged cold spell soon – if only to kill of the ********************************************** garden bugs and flies and wasps that seem to survive so long into the new year. Few of us can deny the evidence of global warming and I’m sure that 2008 will Distribution enquiries contact: Sally and Gordon see greater awareness and education for each of us to better understand our Cheeseman, 4 Elder Road, Bere Regis, BH20 7LY. own individual carbon footprint. I suppose its natural to compare one year with another, after all we have to do it in all our financial and business dealings and Telephone 01929 471022 even in Church and in our schools. We need a yardstick to measure ourselves. In 76 Church website: www.bereregiswith1 affpuddle.org.uk January 2008 January 2008 our own community 2007 has been a year of joys and sorrows; for some there will be an effort to move on in to a more positive future and for others a reluctance to leave the past behind. We are all different and this difference is what makes family and community and nation and commonwealth. But what is it that we hold in DATES FOR common? Politically both nationally and internationally it will be another year of change? It will certainly be another year of challenge. In the Church of England YOUR DIARY we will have the joy of hosting the 10 yearly Lambeth Conference at Canterbury in July for which we wonder and pray about unity in the Church and how we can demonstrate and share God’s love with our fellow Anglicans – and all mankind - I fervently hope we can. Then there will be the Olympic Games in China in August June and I ponder about political harmony and opportunities that sporting contests Gardening club, Annual outing. Venue and date tbc often bring into sharp focus. I know from my own experience that given China’s 6th, 7th, 8th Flower Festival at Affpuddle church considerable involvement in Sudan, will the Bejing Olympics be used to highlight 23rd PiP Village Quiz 7.30 p.m. China’s fuelling of the neo-genocide in Darfur or will this ongoing tragedy be settled soon with the joint African Union/United Nations Force? It should be one of our prayers for the New Year. No part of life is free from observation or critical July judgement. 1st Gardening club, Lady Brewer, Babs Dodwell 5th Affpuddle Church fete and Dog Show So thinking about comparisons year by year, I’ve been quite busy this past year with the schools in our Benefice. Sandford Middle School had it’s inspection this 13th Pop in Place, Bere Regis Open Gardens 10.00 am - 5.00 pm past year and was officially ‘Good’, with some ‘Outstanding’ features; but we have been further encouraged not only by this Ofstead report but also by our Key August Stage 2 results – the statutory test for our 10 year olds – in this we had exceptional 5th Gardening club, Barbecue at Shitterton Farmhouse results and we are the best Middle school in Dorset for KS2 in 2007. Then we had 15th 22nd 29th PiP Children’s Summer Activities 10.00 am - 11.45 am our statutory Church inspection which found Sandford Middle to be officially ‘outstanding’. All this is hugely gratifying and congratulations and thanks are due to Rob Graham the Head and all the staff and pupils. But it is important to September remember that all inspections are only a snapshot taken at one particular moment 2nd Gardening club, Chrysanthemums, Bob Symes in time. 6th PiP Perfomer of the Year Competition 7.00 p.m. We cannot be certain of how 2008 will go but we will do our best – and that is all that God asks of us – our best for him and October one another. 7th Gardening club, Plum Harvest Supper , slide show by Peter Whittaker 18th PiP Jumble sale and mini auction 2.00 p.m. A very Happy New Year, With love and prayers PS. Some of you may have noticed that Bere Regis Church is now lit throughout November the night. This may seem extravagant but I hope you will understand that we have 4th Gardening club, Winter in the garden, Simon Goldsack had to take emergency measures. Many of you will, I hope be aware that like a 14th PiP Children in Need 10.00 am - 12.00 noon number of Churches and Schools our Church in Bere Regis has had lead stolen from its roof and we have to prevent it happening again. We have installed December cameras and a cctv system and placed prominent signs on the gates. The lead that was stolen was placed there in 1907 – 100 years ago. I find it surprising and 2nd Gardening club, landscape gardening and Christmas plants disappointing that some people are seemingly resigned to the inevitability of such 13th PiP Christmas Show 7.00 p.m. criminal theft. We have had a ‘crime number’ from the Police but no further word from them and the risk of repeat thefts is very high. Lytchett Matravers Church has been raided five times! So could I ask you all to keep a good look out; report any suspicious vehicles or people to the police and let Bob Croom and Peter Wharf the Churchwardens know. This is our Church – yours and mine and we want to keep the Churchyard and the Church open2 to all. 75 January 2008 THE PARISHES OF BEREJanuary REGIS 2008 AND AFFPUDDLE DATES FOR The Vicar The Rev’d Canon Ian Woodward The Vicarage, Bere Regis, BH20 7HQ YOUR DIARY Tel 01929 471262 ([email protected]) 2008 Church Officials – Bere Regis Licensed Lay Brenda Pitfield, Hillbutts, Bere Regis, BH20 7HZ 471391 January Minister 7th Pop in Place re-opens 10.00 a.m Church Wardens Bob Croom, 1, Bitchams Mead, Bere Regis, BH20 7ND 471905 8th Gardening club - New Year Party ([email protected]) 11th Pop in Place Bring and Buy Sale 10.00 a.m Peter Wharf, The Old Vicarage, Bere Regis BH20 7HQ 12th Pop in Place New Year Disco 7.30 p.m. - 11.00 p.m. ([email protected]) 472246 Secretary of PCC Chris Maunder, 15 North Street, Bere Regis BH20 7LA 471342 February ([email protected]) 5th Gardening club - Daffodils, John Blanchard. AGM Treasurer of PCC Gordon Phillips, 102, North Street, Bere Regis BH20 7LD 471525 15th Concert by the Denner Ensemble, Affpuddle church 7.30 p.m. ([email protected]) 21st Puppet Show, Head in the Clouds Organist & Choir Tim Colquhoun, Heatherdown, Brock Hill, BH20 7NH 471360 Master ([email protected]) March Weekly Pew Geoffrey Booth, Tower House, Bere Regis BH20 7JA 471586 4th Organic Vegetables, Sara Cross Sheet &Gift Aid ( [email protected] ) 11th Forest Forge, The Marrow, Drax Hall Flowers Jenny Kinahan, 13,White Lovington, Bere Regis BH20 7NF 472161 21st PiP Easter Egg Raffle & Easter Bonnet Parade 10.00 am - 12.00 noon ([email protected]) PCC Members - Roger Angel, David Gibbs, John House, Paula Kent, Richard Smith April 1st Gardening Club, Romantic Italian Gardens, Rosemary Le Grand. Church Officials – Affpuddle 18th Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan Society at Bere Regis Church Licensed Lay Jonathan Haigh, Hazel Cottage, 25, Briantspuddle, DT2 7HS 471768 25th PiP AGM 10.30 a.m. Minister ([email protected]) 26th Bere Regis Church annual coach outing to Windsor Castle Church Warden Sandy Moriarty, The Hollow, Briantspuddle, DT2 7HX 471747 26th Gardening Club, Coffee morning and plant sale ([email protected]) May Secretary of PCC Elizabeth Whatley, (elizabeth.ew@ talktalk.net) 01305 848959 3rd Church coffee morning at Wareham Town Hall with cakes and plants Treasurer of PCC Mike Menzies, Starmoor, Throop, DT2 7JD 471263 6th Gardening club, European Alps and Flowers, Richard Collier [email protected] 17th PiP Performers Summer Concert 3.00 pm and 7.00 pm Organist Ivor Mullins, Grasmere, 12, Parmiter Road, Colehill, 01202 17th Coffee Morning at Launchfield House Wimborne, BH21 2BN 889227 Sacristan Erica Moriarty, The Hollow, Briantspuddle DT2 7HX 471747 PCC Members - Christine Coates, Janet Cropper, Sue Gibbs, David Griffiths, Audrey Grindrod, Richard Killer, David Nesling, David Payne.