{"id":4773,"date":"2018-06-27T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:21:52","slug":"june-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=4773","title":{"rendered":"June Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\">Mr David Harrison gave us an interesting talk on May 23rd about graveyards, mostly in the Monmouth area ,where he lives,and where a lot of history is attached. On the 30th of May, Ann Callen brought her vast collection of patchwork quilts to show us. She told us how she first became interested in this craft and how much of her work focuses around a theme or special occasion.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\">We arranged afternoon tea for June 6th.The table was full with sandwiches, cakes and scones with plenty of cream. Apart from eating we were able to chat to each other .It was quite a change and a pleasant afternoon<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\">Mr Donald Knight, who specialises in Bonzai trees ,brought along some of his collection on June 13th. We heard how this pession of his grown over the years, and how he has turned his own garden and previous ones into Japanese gardens, which have featured on TV and any magazines and are open to the public at certain times<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px\">We are fast coming to the end of our Spring\/Summer session. I hope you have enjoyed it .The Autumn programme will be ready by the end of July<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mr David Harrison gave us an interesting talk on May 23rd about graveyards, mostly in the Monmouth area ,where he lives,and where a lot of history is attached. On the 30th of May, Ann Callen brought her vast collection of patchwork quilts to show us. She told us how she first became interested in this craft and how much [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-1eZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":639,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=639","url_meta":{"origin":4773,"position":0},"title":"The River Severn","author":"Alan Williams","date":"15th August 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"At what point does the River Severn become the Bristol Channel? 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