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A Wenvoe Forum

A WENVOE FORUM – CONSIDERING TODAY AND TOMORROW

We had a very interesting and encouraging meeting with Vale of Glamorgan attended by our Senedd Member, Jane Hutt, Councillor Jonathan Bird, Tom Bowring, VoG Head of Policy and Business Transformation and Nicola Sumner Smith from the Creative Rural Communities Team.

Tom gave an overview of the Vale Council’s approach to reducing the carbon emissions they generate as part of their commitment to combat the climate crisis. For those of you who missed the meeting here are links to very short videos that were issued as part of VoG’s consultation on their plan Project Zero.

These along with other links will be on our Facebook group. To join it please ‘friend up’ with Gwen Fo on Facebook:@

https://www.facebook.com/gwen.fo.1/

You’ll then be invited by ‘Gwen’ to join the Forum group directly:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/6353692678644 02

Look forward to welcoming you there.

You will see that there is a lot of emphasis on working together and we certainly got the impression that Vale of Glamorgan and Welsh Government acknowledge that communities must be involved if we are to succeed in addressing climate change. We seem to be ahead of the game in involving them so let’s capitalise on that, get our ideas together promptly and ask for their help. Send any ideas to gwenfo.forum@gmail.com or share them via the Facebook page.

Currently we are quite a small group and will need help from all of you if we are to really make a difference. We will be deciding on the next priority at the next forum meeting. Look out for details in the September What’s On.

Ideas on climate change that were discussed on 1st July and under consideration are:

 

Whilst climate change is high on everyone’s agenda you may have ideas for strengthening the Wenvoe community and economy or just making it a nicer place to live. We are keen to hear them and will work with you to make things happen.

Keep a look out for activity, join us and send messages on:

Facebook: Gwen Fo @ https://www.facebook.com/gwen.fo.1/ and Wenvoe Forum @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/635369267864402

twitter @ForumGwenfo

e-mail – gwenfo.forum@gmail.com

 

 

 

Barbecue Season Is In Full Swing!

HERE COMES THE SUN

AND THE BARBECUE SEASON IS IN FULL SWING!

Unless you’re one of those die-hards who grill all year ‘round the chances are you’ve been firing up the barbecue and looking forward to a whole summer of savoury burgers, succulent steaks, and perfectly grilled veggies. About 273 million are expected to be fired up in the UK this summer. Grilling has brought families and communities together since the first humans cooked food over a fire about 1.8 million years ago. In 2009, researchers even found mammoth ribs in a 4-ft. cooking pit that appeared to date back to 29,000 B.C. The area was also covered with conch shells, which made archaeologists wonder whether the barbecue had been a “surf-and-turf” meal.

The word “barbecue” came into English via 16th century Spanish explorers, who adopted the term from the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean, to whom the barbacoa was a grating of green wood upon which strips of meat were placed to cook or to dry over a slow fire.

USEFUL TIPS

Lighting your grill: a great little trick is to simply scrunch up a piece of paper towel, cover in vegetable oil and then light in the middle of your coals. It burns hotter and longer this way and will kick start your coals.

Cooking meats: remember each cut needs to be cooked differently. Generally, the higher the fat content the higher the initial heat to cook it.

Cleaning the grill: Spray with vinegar, leave for about five minutes and then scrub clean with some scrunched-up foil. Easiest of all, soak a grill in a basin for around an hour. Rinse off and it will be good as new.

BBQ BLUNDERS

A study of more than 2,000 adults by Aldi discovered the country’s three most common BBQ blunders.

  • Although we haven’t heard them arrive in Wenvoe…yet, being forced to call the fire brigade
  • Serving burned or undercooked food
  • Dishing up meat products to vegetarians

 

BARBEQUES AND THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS.

Barbecues also feature in the Guinness Book of Records.

The largest attendance at a barbecue is 45,252 people at an event organised by Estado de Nuevo Leon (Mexico) on 18 August 2013.

The longest barbecue measured 8,000 metres, created by the people of Bayambang (Philippines), on 4 April 2014. The barbecue was made up of 8,000 grills connected to each other, each measuring 1 m in length, 58 cm in height and 21 cm in width.

 

 

 

20mph Speed Limit

The Welsh Government has announced that 20mph legislation will figure in this year’s legislative programme.

The public consultation on changing the default speed limit on residential streets from 30mph to 20mph is now open until 1st October 2021.

You can find the public consultation here: https://gov.wales/proposal-reduce-speed-limit-20mph-residential-streets

You can find some more information here: https://gov.wales/20mph and here: https://gov.wales/safer-streets-save-lives

 

 

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