December Activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WENVOE COMMUNITY LIBRARY

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Johnny Tudor, Wenvoe entertainer, actor and author, drew the Library Raffle on 15th December. We raised the grand total of £307, which will go towards the running costs of the library. Well done everyone and special thanks to Clare Ellis for donating the two M&S Hampers.

The lucky winners were Bert and Gwyn Bates, of Vennwood Close, and Jenny Scott of Burdons Close.

Bath Bus trip

We had a full bus for our day trip to Bath last month. Our passengers took full advantage of the Christmas Market and had a great time.

Future trips

Look out for future trips. As well as a summer trip to London, we intend to organise a variety of shorter day trips. We have received a range of suggestions to include: the Hay Festival, the Cotswolds, The Botanical Gardens, Llandeilo and so on. Please contact us with your preferences.

 

Clwb Clonc

Our weekly meetings on Monday mornings at 11 in the café at Pugh’s Garden Centre continue to be popular with more Welsh learners and speakers attending each week. We have received requests from other learners who would like a similar opportunity to practise their Welsh in the evenings. As such we’re suggesting that we also meet on the second Thursday of each month in the bar of the Wenvoe Arms at 7 pm. So join us on Thursday 10th January for a clonc.

New books for January

We have received a range of great new books this month. As well as a number of new crime novels, you’ll find new titles on history, language, travel and general fiction.

Off the Shelf

This month’s book was The Invention of Wings by the American author Sue Monk Kidd probably best know for The Secret Lives of Bees. The Invention of Wings was set before the American Civil War and is based on the fictional life of the Grimké sisters, the well-known 19th-century abolitionist and women’s rights pioneers. Sarah Grimké is acutely intelligent and her father’s favourite. On her eleventh birthday Sarah is given the gift of Hetty -a slave girl. Sarah strongly objects to ‘owning’ another human being and draws up a legal document rejecting her gift. Sarah’s childhood plans to follow her father and her brothers into a legal profession are then crushed when she is banned from the library and her access to her father’s law books. Hetty, known as Handful was born into slavery, as was her mother Charlotte who also works for the Grimké family. Mrs Grimké habitually beats her nine slaves and horribly punishes Charlotte who refuses to be enslaved in her mind. The novel follows the lives of Sarah and Handful and demonstrates the oppression that both slaves and women of that time faced and endured. The original idea of the “wings” came from black folklore where Charlotte explains to Handful that her African ancestors were once thought to fly but then lost their wings when captured as slaves. The Invention of Wings reveals how these characters came to find their personal freedom through abolition and women’s rights. We all found the book to be an excellent read and gave the book a score of 9/10.