Category: Coming Up
Wenvoe Christmas Craft Fair
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26th 2017 10 am – 4 pm
Wenvoe Community Centre
Put the date in your diary! Not long to go now until the second annual Wenvoe Christmas Craft Fair from Wenvoe Craft Workshop. All of the tables are booked and we have a lot of new and exciting crafts. This is the perfect opportunity to pick up unique, hand crafted gifts for those much-loved-but-awkward blighters amongst your family and friends. Why not buy a gift for yourself too? At least you’ll have one Christmas present you like! You can also find a lot of high quality, unusual stocking fillers that won't be stocked on the high street. When you have done your shopping you can relax and have a hot/cold drink and a slice of home made cake (the portion sizes are not for the faint hearted) and a chat. The raffle has some really lovely, good quality prizes so make sure you buy some tickets. Bring your friends, we’ll be really glad to see you.
If you are a Wenvoe Crafter who has not yet thought about having a table at one of our craft fairs why not have a go. You can contact us and we will try our best to accommodate you at the Spring Fair. For more information please contact the organisers, Glenys and Mike Tucker, on 07922109721 or at pukkatucker@gmail.com or take a look at out Facebook event page at Wenvoe Christmas Craft Fair.
Back From Summer Break
After our summer break our president welcomed everyone back with a special welcome to our visitor, Avril who we hope will be joining us again.
Our speaker was Keith Moger OBE who worked for the NHS for over 40 years, with much of that career in senior management in Cardiff. We enjoyed an informative and interesting presentation of the History of Cardiff Hospitals. Keith has been honoured with Rotary’s highest award, the Paul Harris Fellowship for “Service above Self” and is a founder member of Cardiff Bay Rotary.
WI business began with Madeleine thanking members for their contributions towards the success of our charity afternoon tea.Other summer events included 15 members enjoying lunch at the Aubrey Arms, support for Barry Highlight’s coffee morning and some members joined the Glamorgan Federation outing to Hidcote Manor.
Invitations have been received from Sully WI to a Bon Marche Fashion show on 18th Oct. And from Dinas Powys WI to join them on their outing to Aberglasney on 2nd Dec.
Betty Williams is making good progress after her fall and we look forward to seeing her and Eira back with us soon.
On 5th Oct.our speaker Patricia Coulthard who will be giving us an insight into autism and we will be giving her our cheque for the Cardiff and Vale support group of the National Autistic Society. Any visitors will be welcome.
Autumn Programme.
5th Oct Patricia Coulthard.
2nd Nov John Sheen
7th Dec Christmas party.
Christmas Craft Fair
Autumn Craft and Gift Fayre
Wenvoe Village Show
THIS IS OUR OWN LOCAL SHOW. A chance for some friendly local competition. You don’t need to be an expert. This is the last time the show will be organised by the Scout Group, the newly formed Allotment Group will hopefully run it in future. Lets all make an effort to enter at least one item in this year’s show.
The show is limited to entries from people who live in 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.
Entries to be registered at the Community Centre between 9.00 and 11.30am. The hall will then be closed until 2.00pm for the judging to take place and reopened from 2.00 to 4.30pm for the public to view the exhibits. From 4.00pm there will be a chance to sample some of the winning culinary entries yourself. If you wish to reclaim your entries they should be collected between 4.30pm and 5.00pm. Tea, coffee and squash will be available throughout the afternoon. Children’s section entries can be registered on Friday evening between 7.30 and 8.30pm.
Entry Fee. – 50p per section or as many sections as you wish for £3. Children's entrance fee is 20p per category or £1 for as many sections as you wish. The children’s section is limited to persons under the age of 16 years but they can also enter items in any other category in the show as well. The maximum number of entries per person in any one category is two. Previously entered items are acceptable if they have failed to win a prize in the past.
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 .
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 ……..
Christmas Craft Fair
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
