Upcoming Events
Meet the Author: Ian Pate talks about ‘Motorway Madness’. See page 12 for details.
National Limerick Day: May 12th.
Win a bottle of Prosecco and help celebrate Edward Lear’s birthday by writing a short, humorous, nonsense poem. Within a Limerick, there are five lines; the first two lines rhyme with the fifth line, and the third and fourth lines rhyme together. Please drop your entries into the library. The winning entry will be decided in the library on Saturday 11 May.
Advance Notice
We have three trips planned so book your seats early to avoid disappointment. Hay tickets are on sale now at the Library.
Sat 1 June – Hay Festival £15: Take time to explore the Festival site and the town of Hay. The full Festival programme will be released online in April.
Sat 13 July Cheddar Gorge £15: Leaving 11.30am – arriving 2pm then on to Clark’s Village (outlet shopping centre) in Street, Somerset 2.45 – departing 5.30pm
Sat 30 November: London Trip £22.
Further details on other trips to follow.
Easter Raffle
Tickets are £1 and are on sale at the library. The 3 prizes are: 2 hampers filled with M&S goodies and a Basket of Easter Flowers which are kindly donated by Alison Bentley, The draw is at midday on Easter Saturday 20 April in the Library.
Home Service: If you have mobility problems and finding it difficult to visit the library, we offer a home service where we can deliver, return and even help you choose your books. Please contact us for further details.
Volunteers: As our range of services are expanding, we need more volunteers. If you have a few spare hours a month to help us in any way, please email us or call into the library for an informal chat and a warm welcome.
Clwb Clonc: Join the growing number of learners and first language Welsh speakers who want to practise their conversational skills. Weekly meetings on Mondays in the café at Pugh’s Garden Centre at 11 am, and at 7pm on the second Thursday of the month in the bar of the Wenvoe Arms. Croeso i bawb.
Book reviews: We would love to hear your reviews on any library books you have read. We have postcards on the desk for you to provide a brief recap of the title in question to future readers All
that’s required is a paragraph covering the major plot points without giving things away, summarising some of your thoughts on the book and suggesting the type of reader to whom you would recommend the book.
Book Bags: We have some lovely grey canvas book/ shopping bags for sale in the library at £5.00 each.
Off the Shelf: This month we read Jan Morris’s classic Venice, which we found to be a brilliantly written book with amazing historical insights and detailed description of a grand city. Making full use of her senses, she wrote about the expected and unexpected and gave us an intuitive analysis of Venetian temperament and its characters at work and at play. A book to tempt a first-time or a return visit.