• THE VILLAGE Club AGM business was dealt with quickly, as the committee was re-elected en bloc, there was no increase in subscription, which at £5.00 for 10 meetings each with a speaker must be the bargain of the year!

Forward notice of our annual coffee morning being held on Saturday, April 16th was announced, this is very important as it helps pay for our speakers & if we raise enough we will give some funds to a charity.

We then had a break for refreshments, Fay donated some wine left from her party & we enjoyed that with a slice of cake to celebrate our chairman’s 65th birthday, then swiftly on to the main event which was: “It’s a Grave Business – Dead interesting Dorset” – Rob Curtis gave us a quick resume of burial habits from pre-Roman to the present day, I hadn’t realised that memorial stones for the common people were a ‘relatively’ modern thing.

We then enjoyed a canter through the graveyards of Dorset, seeing interesting, funny, macabre, moving, beautiful memorials and hearing some of the stories behind them. Rob is an excellent speaker and showed some good slides.

  • THE BENEFICE Candlemas service was a joyful occasion, with nearly 50 people filling our little Church – it is all about the Light of the World and not only were there lots of candles, but the sun was streaming in , filling the building with light.

We then moved over to the hall where we enjoyed coffee and caught up with our friends from Portesham and Abbotsbury.

  • THE FLOWER and Brass Rotas are on the board in the church tower waiting for you lovely folk to put your names down! If lots of you volunteer it spreads the load - if you are not sure what is involved get in touch with Mandy or myself – many thanks in advance.

Looking at the notices will also give you the chance to inspect the tower refurbishment & redecoration – we think it is looking good.

  • Early notification of the Summer Fete (just to warm you up!) - put it in your diaries now, Saturday July 30th at 12.30 pm – all the usual fun things plus some new ones – for more details consult the leaflet coming through your door this week.