Burns night is celebrated in Puddletown (From Dorset Echo)

Burns night is celebrated in Puddletown

10:14am Thursday 27th January 2011 in Community

Puddletown

• BURNS night was splendidly celebrated in the village hall with a delicious meal of haggis and vegetables, followed by a typical Puddletown pride of puddings.

The haggis was piped in by Bob Rowley and addressed by Richard Gracie.

Rainbarrow provided lovely music throughout the evening.

A big thank you to Lorraine Tillbrook with Rainbarrow, piper Bob Rowley, Chris Rampton on the bar, Kathy and Betty for the raffle, Bill for shifting tables, and of course Jim and the catering department: Glad, Mary, Christine, Jo and Mike, Jean, Rita, Lizzie, June and Diana.

The evening made close on £1,000 towards the repairs to St Mary’s church

Last but not least, the hall is already booked for next year’s Burns night supper!

• LENT lunches in the village hall will begin on Monday, March 14, noon until 1.30pm, and will continue on each Monday through until Monday, April 18.

Lent lunches will consist of homemade soup, bread, cheese, fruit and a cup of tea or coffee.

• A HOST of golden daffodils will no doubt be at Furzehill, Blandford Road to delight visitors to Jim and Diana Wilson's home on Saturday, March 26 at the annual daffodil coffee morning be held in aid of church funds.

• OPEN gardens organised by Puddletown and District Horticultural Association will be held on Sunday, June 19.

• A CLASSICAL guitar concert by Stephen Kenyon will be held in St Mary’s church Saturday 25th June.

• IF YOU would like to be involved with The Piddle Fair in the Square to be held from 11am until 4pm on Saturday, October 1, please contact Mary Miles on 01305 849220.

Ideas and help will be much appreciated.

• FILMS are to be shown in the cinema at Athelhampton House.

There will be a wide variety shown, many of which will have local connections

They will include Is Anybody There, and Sleuth, both starring Michael Caine, and the latter filmed on location at Athelhampton.

Modigliani and Frida are films giving insight into the world of early twentieth-century painters known to Marevna whose work is displayed at Athelhampton.

For more information visit www.athelhampton.co.uk

• HIGH Street Fashions will stage a fashion show at St Mary’s Middle School on Friday, March 25.

Ladies’ and children’s clothes will be available to buy, and your ticket will include a glass of wine or soft drink.

For more information, telephone Sue Chamberlain on 01305 261984.

• COUNTRYWOMEN’S club has a talk on Dorset Search and Rescue by Trevor Antell on Wednesday, March 9 at 2pm in the village hall.

The competition is for Something New from Something Old.

Bere Regis

• ALADDIN and His Magical Mystery Teapot is presented by the Pop in Performers on Friday, February 25 at 7pm and on Saturday, February 26 at 7pm at the Drax Hall.

This will be a show full of Eastern promise, performed by an all-age cast drawn from our local village community.

Tickets cost £5 from Alison Bennett on 01929 472023.

All proceeds go to MacMillan Cancercare.