Category: Event Notices
Notices of upcoming events
Walston Castle – Real Ale Festival
WALSTON CASTLE
2nd and 3rd of September
We will be hosting a Real Ale festival. This is the 2nd one that we've hosted. Last year's proved to be a wonderful success, where the site raised over £700 for Great Ormond Street children's hospital.
The festival this year will be held over two days this time and it is a pleasure to see the high level of community spirit the event ignites in the staff, the regulars and our Wenvoe neighbours. There will be a bouncy castle and face painting for the kids, and traditional pub games, pub skittles, live music and a great selection of local and established Real Ales.
The event has encouraged other Beefeaters to try similar events throughout the South West and Wales as they attempt to mirror our success and word has spread. CAMRA has now recognised our festival and it will appear in their magazine as an event of importance.
On the same date, we are hosting a car boot sale between 10am and 5pm on the 2nd and 3rd of September (the same day as the festival) and the car space is £5 per car per day and the proceeds will also go to Great Ormond Street.
New Welsh Course
LEARNING WELSH IN WENVOE
Do you speak a little Welsh? Perhaps you did Welsh at school or started to learn as an adult? If so……
Good News – a Foundation course will be starting in Wenvoe in September! This course is suitable for adults with a basic understanding of Welsh or those who have completed the WJEC Mynediad/ Beginners course.
We will start with some revision: Talking about yourself – giving personal details such as name, home, phone number, age, family, interests, holidays, work and possessions. We will go on to cover: the past, time, people & places, problems, and complaining (!). You will learn how to express opinions + preferences, discuss the news, and ask a favour.
The classes focus on vocabulary which is useful in everyday life, and there is usually a lot of laughter!
We will follow the WJEC course book: Cwrs Sylfaen, Fersiwn y De (South Wales version) by Mark Stonelake and Emyr Davies, ISBN 978-1- 86085-518-4.
Classes are held on Tuesdays, 1-3pm at the Wenvoe Community Centre. The course runs for 30 weeks and starts on 19th September. Please contact Learn Welsh for further details, including term dates, prices -including concessions, how to enrol, or if you are unsure if this is the correct level for you:
Tel: 01446 730402 Email: learnwelsh@valeofglam-organ.gov.uk Web: www.learnwelsh.cymru
Barbara Harris
Welsh Tutor & ex Wenvoe resident
Dog Show
Community Litter Pick
WENVOE VILLAGE SHOW SATURDAY 9th SEPTEMBER
WENVOE VILLAGE SHOW SATURDAY 9th SEPTEMBER
There are categories to suit suit everyone, young and old. Why not take part. Don’t hide your talents, have a go. Remember this is our own local competition – compete with your neighbour.
Entries are limited to residents of the Wenvoe Community (Wenvoe, Parc y Gwenfo, Twyn-y-Odyn, St Lythans, Dyffryn) and children who attend the village school. Anyone who has regular connections with a village organisation but resides outside the community boundary and would like to submit an entry should contact the organisers. Contact via wenvoescoutgroup @googlemail.com or any of the section leaders.
The maximum number of entries per person in any one category are two. Previously entered items are acceptable if they failed to win a prize previously.
Full details will be published in the September ‘What’s On’
Fruit & Vegetable – best examples of,
1. Apples – 3 cookers
2. Apples – 3 eaters,
3. Tomatoes (standard size)- 3 same type
4. Tomatoes (cherry) – 3 same type
5. Other fruit – minimum of 5
6. Beetroot – three
7. Carrots – three
8. Onions – three
9. Potatoes – three
10. Runner bean – three
11. Shallots – three
12. Chillies – three
13. Any other vegetable – One (unless smaller than a medium sized onion then 3 items should be submitted for judging)
Vegetables – whoppers
14. Runner bean – longest
15. Cucumber – longest
16. Marrow – biggest
17. Onion – largest
18 Potato – largest
19. Misshapen vegetable .
Culinary
20. 6 cheese scones
21. 6 welsh cakes
22. 6 short bread fingers
23. Victoria jam sponge
24. 6 butterfly cakes
25. Lemon drizzle cake slices
26. Small fruit cake slices
27. Quiche Loraine
27. Bread (Handmade)
28. Bread (Machine made)
29. Men Only – 6 savoury curry biscuits
30. Fruit Jam – sweet
31. Fruit jam – bitter
32. Jelly Preserve
33. Marmalade
34. Chutney (any type)
35. Eggs (home produced) – 3 matched
36. Homemade drink. Soft or alcoholic
Craft
37. Tied bunch of flowers from your garden
38. Best house plant
39. Handwriting (adult) – 40. Needlepoint/cross-stitch etc
41. Knitted or cross stitch item
42. Painting/Drawing
43. A wooden craft item.
44 Any other craft item.
Photography – unmounted 7” x 5” or less
45. Small creature
46. Reflection
47. National Park landscape
48. Single person
49. Cardiff
50. Red
Children’s Section – all items MUST be produced by the child
51. Home baked – 4 chocolate chip cookies.
52. Home baked – 4 mini rock cakes.
53. Drawing or painting of a family member.
54. Handwriting – junior – ‘The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’ and seniors the same as juniors plus ‘Six javelins thrown by the quick savages whizzed forty paces beyond the mark.’
55. Craft – junk model.
56. Photograph – "My best picture taken in the last year".
57. Pre-school child – Piece of art or craft.
Limerick
58. The limerick – first line must be:- ‘In Wenvoe ……..
