Category: Miscellaneous
Various items that do not fit any particular category
‘Swap-Shop’ @ Tucker’s Spring Plant Sale
‘SWAP-SHOP’ @ TUCKER’S SPRING PLANT SALE
If you were at Tucker’s VE80 Spring plant sale on Saturday 10th May, you’ll have seen that Wenvoe Forum members hosted their 2nd annual ‘donations / fund-raising’ table in support of the Wenvoe Wildlife Group (WWG). The generous people of Wenvoe donated surplus gardening equipment, flowerpots and sporting paraphernalia (including a golf bag, golf clubs, 300 golf balls, tennis, badminton & squash racquets) amongst other useful items.
All the ‘unwanted’ items were recycled / reused and went to new homes, extending their useful lives – and raising over £260 in support of the impressive overall total of over £2,000 for the WWG. Well done and thank you to everyone concerned – donors, customers, volunteers, helpers and of course, Mike & Glen Tucker, without whom none of this would happen
Wenvoe Village Hall Raffle 2024
WENVOE VILLAGE HALL RAFFLE 2024
The Village Hall Management Committee would like to thank everyone who kindly donated prizes to this raffle and to the people who support us by buying and selling tickets. All money raised through the raffle contributes to the ongoing insurance, maintenance and daily running costs of the Hall which is primarily for the use of the villagers. We thank you all and wish you good health and a Happy and Prosperous New Year
Seniors Banking
SENIORS BANKING
Shown below, is apparently an actual letter that was sent to a bank by an 86 year old woman.
The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in The Times.
Dear Sir:
I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month.
By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it..
I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my entire pension, an arrangement which, I admit, has been in place for only eight years.
You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.
My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally answer your telephone calls and letters, — when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, pre-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become.
From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person.
My mortgage and loan repayments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank, by cheque, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate.
Be aware that it is an OFFENSE under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope.
Please find attached an Application Contact which I require your chosen employee to complete.
I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative.
Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Notary Public figure, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof.
In due course, at MY convenience, I will issue your employee with a PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me.
I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modelled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service.
As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Let me level the playing field even further.
When you call me, press buttons as follows:
IMMEDIATELY AFTER DIALLING, PRESS THE STAR (*) BUTTON FOR ENGLISH
#1. To make an appointment to see me
#2.. To query a missing payment.
#3. To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
#4 To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
#5. To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
#6. To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.
#7. To leave a message on my computer, a password to access my computer is required.
Password will be communicated to you at a later date to that Authorized Contact mentioned earlier.
#8. To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 to 9
#9. To make a general complaint or inquiry.
The contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service.
While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.
Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.
May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous New Year?
Your Humble Client
And remember:- Don’t make old people mad. We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off.
Geoff Nicholls
Wenvoe Village Show
WENVOE VILLAGE SHOW SATURDAY 7th SEPTEMBER
WENVOE CHURCH HALL
This is Wenvoe’s own local show and offers an excellent opportunity for some friendly, fun competition. Will your fruit and veg be the talk of the village? Is your baking a triumph? You don’t have to be an expert; you just need to enter. (See category list opposite)
The show is limited to entries from people who live in the Wenvoe community (Wenvoe, Twyn-yr-Odyn, St Lythans and Dyffryn) and children who attend the village school.
Entries to be registered at St Mary’s Church Hall between 8.30am and 11.00am on Saturday (for those who have other commitments on Saturday morning there will be a limited time slot to register entries between 6.00pm and 7.30pm on Friday evening 6th September. However, this will not include culinary entries). The hall will then be closed between 11.00am and 1.00pm for the judging to take place. The public will be welcome to come and view the exhibits between 1.00pm and 4.00pm. From 3.00pm – 4.00pm there will be a chance to sample the culinary entries for yourself. There will be a good quality raffle, and this will be drawn at 3.30pm. If you have a prize that you could donate, we should be very grateful.
If you wish to reclaim your entries, they should be collected between 4.00pm and 4.30pm but please note that items entered in the culinary categories will be offered for public tasting and will not be eligible for collection unless there is any left at 4.00pm.
Entry fee – £1 for the first entry and 50p for all subsequent entries per person. You may enter as many sections as you wish but the maximum number of entries per person in any one section of a category is two. Items entered in previous Wenvoe Village Shows are acceptable but only if they have previously failed to win a prize. If you would like to help on the day (we would love volunteers) or have any queries, please speak to Mike or Glenys Tucker.
Weather permitting there will be refreshments available outside all day. All funds raised from this event will be donated to the Wenvoe Wildlife Group.
Christian Aid Week
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK
12th-18th May, 2024
Pushing Back Against Poverty
This year we heard about Aline from Berundi. Aline told her story of becoming homeless and losing the care of her children through no fault of her own. Following a course funded by Christian Aid she gained confidence and the knowledge and skills to slowly build up a wholesale food business and gradually increasing her income. She has now built her own home, has had her children returned to her, started a saving scheme with others, and has shared the knowledge and skills she has learnt with others in her village.
Aline’s example gave us the impetus for this year’s campaign, and as a result we are really pleased with the total for the week of £3,118.12. This includes a collection from St John’s Church in Sully, and gift aid on some of the donations. We had a very enthusiastic group of volunteers and I would like to thank all who counted envelopes, made and stuck up posters, hung bunting and flags, delivered envelopes throughout the village, decorated the church hall, made cakes, ate cakes, served coffee and tea and sold cakes, kept quiet for a day’s sponsored silence, took part in a non-uniform day at Gwenfo school, emptied the post boxes for donations, took part in the counting team emptying all the envelopes and counting each donation, to those who banked the donations, and those who validated the work of the counting team.
We are very grateful to all of you who donated throughout the week. We couldn’t have reached our grand total without you.
Mr Greedy’s Goodbye
Mr Greedy’s Goodbye
After 10 years of producing his recipe column for What’s On Mr Greedy has decided to hang up his ladle and hand the chef’s hat over to somebody new.
Is there a volunteer who would love to produce some of their favourite recipes for others to try. Maybe a small group of you would like to take on the challenge.
Please contact one of the What’s On team ( Information Here) if interested.
Thank you Mr Greedy for the pleasure you have given us over many years.
Bring Your Own Picnic
Bring Your Own Picnic
St Lythans Church,
Sunday 9th June 2pm till 4 pm
come to meet some of your neighbours.
- We cannot guarantee sunshine, (if only
we could) so we may need to picnic in the
church, but that won’t spoil the fun.
- There will also be the chance to find
out a little about the history of this
beautiful building which has been here
for over 800 years, and has been a Holy
site for more than 5000 years.
- This is part of building OUR community,
aking new friends and meeting old ones
too. It’s also a chance to raise money so
we can keep this Church open and alive
so any donations will be gratefully
received.
- Additional car parking at St Lythans
Court— look for the signs
AGM – Tuesday 11 June At 7.00pm
Wenvoe Village Hall
AGM – Tuesday 11 June At 7.00pm
ALL ARE WELCOME
Wenvoe Village Hall was given to the villagers of Wenvoe over 100 years ago and has always been managed by groups of volunteers who form a committee and meet on a monthly basis to ensure the hall and grounds are kept in good condition and any health and safety issues are addressed so the hall can continue to thrive and be an asset to our village.
We currently have a play group who meet daily during each school term, we have groups including dance for all ages, keep fit, pilates and badminton groups.
All these groups meet during afternoons, evenings and weekends. We also hire the hall out for children’s parties, wedding parties and similar events which all help with fund raising for the upkeep of the hall.
If you would like to keep this excellent provision in the centre of our village, please consider joining us as without a committee, the land will be given back to the landowner to build who knows what?
If you are interested in offering your support please let us know by emailing: wenvoevillagehall@yahoo.co.uk or just come along to our AGM on 11 June 2024.
Annual Oxfam Music Appeal
ANNUAL OXFAM MUSIC APPEAL
As regular readers of What’s On you may remember (you may not!) that I am a volunteer in the Oxfam shop in Penarth. My role is to price up everything music related. Last year was very busy with some great donations. Vinyl records made up 75/80% of the total music sales followed by CDs as the next best sellers. Thank you to everyone in the village who contacted me with donations. It is very much appreciated.
We are always looking for donations of all music related items – that includes vinyl records (singles, and LPs), CDs, sheet music, pre-recorded cassettes/ tapes, non-electrical musical instruments (in working order or broken) and music books. We are interested in music from any genre – rock, pop, classical, folk, jazz etc. We aim to obtain the best possible prices on donations. We also stock DVDs.
If you do not have anything to donate you could consider supporting Oxfam by popping in the shop if you are in Penarth – we stock a range of second hand goods as well as new fairtrade tea, coffee and crafts. You could even consider volunteering. There is presently a good team of volunteers but a number of volunteers retired during covid and we are still not up to full strength. Volunteers price up books, bric a brac and clothing, as well as serving in the shop. Sometimes a volunteer ‘specialist’ is required and I am aware for instance a philatelist willing to price up stamps is sorely needed.
If you have anything you would like to donate feel free to contact me nigelrbillingham@yahoo.co.uk or alternatively if you would like to arrange a pick up or speak to someone about volunteering please contact Caroline/Joe at the shop. Tel 02920706358.
Thank you.
Nigel Billingham (Oxfam Music Volunteer)