Thursday 12 September 2024

Newsletter 185 – September 2024

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE!

We hope you have enjoyed the ‘summer’ break.

Have you remembered to return your Smarties tubes filled with 20p and £1 coins? (Our charity this year is Wales Air Ambulance.) When you hand them in, collect a raffle ticket: there is a prize far the lucky winner!

Today, we welcome our speaker, Sue Trusler who is going to tell us about ‘Becoming an Artist in Retirement’. 

KELMSCOTT MANOR  

If vou have signed up to go on this trip on Wednesday 2nd October, and haven't yet paid the balance or paid at all yet, you need to pay today please. See Gill Irwin.

Coach departs at 9.15am from outside Ararat. Lunch is NOT included but food is available at a Garden Centre near Kelmscott. The visit to the Manor is in the afternoon and we will not depart from there before 4.30pm. 

ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA (RWCMD)

Apologies, but we cannot give you a date yet for this ‘behind the scenes’ tour. Hopefully details will be available ready for the next meeting. 

‘SWING INTO CHRISTMAS’ with DOWN FOR THE COUNT ORCHESTRA at the RWCMD.

Saturday 23rd November 2024 at 2.30p.m — Tickets £30.40 – 25 places available. Please see Elizabeth Woods today to sign up. Tickets distributed in November. Payment by 14th October – either at the monthly meeting or via Internet Banking, reference RWCMD.  

GLAMORGAN CORRESPONDENCE – please see the notice board especially if you are interested in the Autumn Circular Federation Walk, Rhossili, Singing Yoga or the Craft Spectacular at Margam.

HOTTER shoes.

For the W.I. Hotter offer a 30% reduction on full price, and 10% on sale items for an organised party of 10 PEOPLE MINIMUM and ON A SPECIFIC DATE. It would be at 4.30pm and you would make your own way there.

Dates are now limited, but Sheila is willing to organise this for Tuesday November 12™. There will be a sheet to sign up at the next meeting.

GROUPS: 

Book Group: Wednesday 11th September, 11.00 am at La Cucina da Mara
Choir: Wednesday 11th September, 11.30-12.30 in the Memorial Hall, Rhiwbina
Craft Group: Monday 16th September, 10.30 am at 24 Lakelands Court, Rhydypenau Road
St Mary's Gardens: Tuesday 17th September, 10-12 noon... Working Party – all welcome.
Tangling group: Wednesday 18th September and Tuesday 1st October, 2pm at 5 Court Close
Sunday Lunch: Sunday 21st September, l pm at Llanishen Golf Club
Poetry and Prose Group: Monday 30" September, 11 am at Ararat Centre for the Community

NEXT MEETING

Date: Monday 14” October at 2pm.
The scheduled speaker is unable to attend due to illness. There will be a short presentation before a social (and sociable!) session with a variety of group activities. Also, bring some cash with you because we will have a table sale of craft equipment, jigsaw puzzles, craft and gardening books and good quality second hand toys. PLEASE – DO NOT BRING ANY ITEMS TO SELL

See whitchurch-wi-cardiff.blogspot.com. for our activities, photos and reports from previous meetings.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Becoming and Artist in Retirement - Sue Trusler

(Cymraeg) Sue began by reading from her book Time to Start your Art : 'If I can paint so can you!' After 37 years working in financ...