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REP: John Ferretter john.ferretter@cloud.com 873812
The saddest news in the past month for the WVM has to be the passing of editor, Bella Neate-Clegg. She was a great editor raising the WVM to prize winning status. She will be very much missed and all our best wishes go out to her family. (See also pp 31–37) And of course, we must welcome the new editor, Kathryn Edwards, on board and wish her every success taking up this challenging role. As we are gradually being released from lockdown, how is everybody feeling? In amongst the mass of words I have read in magazines and online I came across a cartoon which seemed brilliantly to sum up the situation. The picture was a room with three people looking towards a window and a garden outside. The speech bubbles went: “What time is it?”, “What day is it?”, “Are we in March still?”. The three-month time warp has passed so quickly. Never has so little been done, by so many, for so long! We also saw the end of the clapping for the NHS and key workers. I was wondering if there is an official list of key workers. We obviously think of nurses, doctors, care workers and then quickly paramedics, police, fire, postmen and women. But do we think of all those delivery drivers, without whom lockdown life would be quite unbearable? 42
And what about all those employees of Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP)? With the closing of the tips there was immediately a spate of fly-tipping and the, albeit brief, cancellation of garden rubbish collection had a similar effect. So if they are not there already I would like to put those two groups, at least, on the thank you list. However, we have been very lucky on two counts: the weather and the environment we live in. (We need that Neighbourhood Plan – also on hold due to lockdown – to make sure our environment is kept safe). For those who have been allowed out to walk, the village and the surrounding countryside, the sights and views seen in the prolonged warm sunshine have been a great morale booster.
