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Thanks for Making My Travels Easy As someone who has spent many happy hours walking the footpaths around Wenvoe during lockdown I would like to thank the people who make my travels easy: The walk leaders of Wenvoe Walkers who have shown so many of us the local routes around the village and made it possible for us to […]
» Read moreVirtual Bingo Thank You Thank you to Lucy Motton for organising virtual bingo , it was great fun! An amazing amount raised for Anwar’s charity. Also thank you to the admins on the Facebook group for continuing to update the page. Thanks Claire Harlow
» Read moreRecycling Bag Suggestions After a recent very windy rubbish/recycling collection day, I have been reflecting on the small changes we could all make to help improve our great village. I am lucky that a kind neighbour will bring my recycling bins and bags to my front door, and tuck them safely away, if I am not at home. I appreciate […]
» Read moreThank You Wenvoe I would like to say ‘Thank You’ to the residents of Wenvoe for all your donations for Llandough Hospital following my GoFundMe request. Thanks to your financial contributions we were able to source a specialist Visor, masks, cases of coke, cereal bars and biscuits for the staff on the wards. I would also like to thank the […]
» Read moreThanks For Everything Thank you to the What’s On team for continuing to produce editions of your excellent magazine during these strange times we are in. It is great to have something normal to remind us of more pleasant happenings. We would also like to thank Mike and Glenys Tucker for their help during this lockdown and for cheering us […]
» Read moreThis last month an event occurred which many would have attended in order to pay their respects, but in the present lockdown circumstances, it was denied to them I refer to the laying to rest of the ashes of Phil Morant. I have known Phil and his family since 1969 when we all came to live in Wenvoe. I […]
» Read moreDog Mess In Wenvoe A few months ago we bought a puppy so that we would have to get out and walk more regularly in the village. We bought disposable small bags, so as not to leave our new pets’ mess for other people to have to pick up, step in or look at. They are very cheap and readily […]
» Read moreIt is with great sadness I witness The Ongoing Felling Of Trees in and around our lovely village. When nature itself wields the axe there is little to do but acknowledge the circle of life and the safe removal of the fallen tree that inevitably follows is also a necessity. However there does seem to be a big appetite […]
» Read morePERSONAL REFLECTIONS In the March edition of the ‘Wenvoe What’s On’, the leading article talked about the crippling explosion at Marine Colliery in Ebbw Vale on 1 March 1927, killing 51 miners. This led one of our readers to reflect on her childhood growing up in the mining community of Cwm, some 3 miles from Ebbw Vale in the […]
» Read moreSince I was little, I imagined what my future wedding would be like. The dress, the layout, the partner; all children daydream about the day they will marry their soulmate. I always wondered what they would look like, their personality, how we would meet, how old I would be and how long it would take for us to get […]
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