Dawnsio Morris – cyfarfod Gorffennaf 2024

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Siaradwraig – Lynda Edwards

Eglurodd Lynda ei bod wedi bod yn ddawnswraig ers dros 50 mlynedd. Disgrifiodd hi fel ‘ymuno â theulu’. Dywedodd wrthym fod yna wahanol draddodiadau dawnsio Morris sy'n dyddio'n ôl i'r bedwaredd ganrif ar ddeg a'r bymthegfed ganrif.

Y cerddorion oedd Ian a Phil yn chwarae acordion piano a melodian botwm Saesneg.

Yna disgrifiodd Lynda wisgoedd y gwahanol draddodiadau fel y gwelir yn y grŵp yn dawnsio heddiw. Mae traddodiadau Cotswold yn defnyddio hances a ffyn, gwisgo clychau ar eu coesau, a hefyd baldric tapestri croes. Mae traddodiadau gogledd-orllewinol yn dawnsio mewn clocsiau ac yn gwisgo garlantau. Mae traddodiadau o ffiniau Cymru a Lloegr yn gwisgo ‘siacedi tatty’. Roeddent yn arfer duo eu hwynebau, ond daeth y traddodiad hwn i ben yn 2020. Y rheswm dros dduo oedd cuddio'r dawnsiwr. Y dyddiau hyn gellir paentio wynebau mewn unrhyw liw neu gellir gwisgo mwgwd.

Cymerodd merched Morris Caerdydd eu harddull o wisgoedd o'r wisg draddodiadol Gymreig (fel y dangosir ar y model). Soniodd Lynda hefyd am wisg ddawns Morris arddull UDA a oedd yn cynnwys het fowliwr a baldrics.

Roedd Cecil Sharp yn ffigwr allweddol yn y diwygiad canu gwerin yn Lloegr yn ystod y cyfnod Edwardaidd. Teithiodd o gwmpas y wlad gan gasglu ac annog y traddodiadau dawns, gan eu galluogi i oroesi a ffynnu.

Yna bu'r dawnswyr yn ein diddanu gyda dawns Lichfield.

Ar ôl hyn, cafodd yr aelodau gyfle i ddysgu'r ddawns hon.

Daeth y sesiwn fywiog a phleserus hon i ben gyda pherfformiad jig.

Newsletter 184 – July 2024

July 8th is our last meeting before the summer break. Today, we have a talk by Lynda Edwards entitled “Morris Dancing Traditions’ – and a small demo/display of this traditional form of folk dance.

TRIPS: KELMSCOTT MANOR    Date: Wednesday 2nd October.    Cost: £43.   Coach: leaves Ararat at 9.15am

The cost includes the coach and the afternoon guided tour of Kelmscott Manor.  There will be visit to a local Garden Centre first, where you will be able to buy your own lunch.

At the last meeting, 30 people indicated their interest in this trip. You can make a deposit of £20 now if you wish to go on the trip; the full £43 cost will need to be paid at our September meeting.

The banking details for online payments are:- 
Sort code:  30-98-90  /  Account number: 17814568
Account: Whitchurch Women’s Institute  /  Reference: Kelmscott Manor Trip

TRIPS: ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA

This trip will now be after the summer break.  Not surprisingly, the college have been busy this term with graduation ceremonies!  So we expect to give you a date for this visit at the September meeting.

WHITCHURCH FETE

We are delighted to report that we raised £351.10 for Wales Air Ambulance, our charity this year. A big thank-you to all who were able to help and all who contributed the toys, jigsaws and craft items. Arrangements will be made to sell/dispose of unsold items.

Today’s funds bring the charity account balance up to £704.74.

SMARTIES and WALES AIR AMBULANCE?

We will all be given a tube of Smarties. We did this last year and it was very successful in raising money for our charities. The idea is to use the empty tube and fill it with 20p and £1 coins over the summer, bringing it back to the September meeting. Wouldn’t it be great if we could boost the amount raised for Wales Air Ambulance to £1,000?

GROUPS: Dates for your diaries.
Please note, the only ‘group’ meeting in August is St Mary’s Gardens.  The rest resume in September.

Book Group:  Wednesday 10th July 11.00 am at La Cucina da Mara
Craft Group: Monday 15th July 10.30 am 24 Lakelands Court, Rhydypenau Road
Poetry and Prose Group: Monday 15th July at 11.00am. The theme is “Food and Drink”
St. Mary’s Gardens: Tuesday 16th July and Tuesday 6th August 10.00-12.00. All welcome.       
Tangling: Wednesday 17th July 2.00pm at 5 Court Close  
Sunday Lunch Group: Sunday 21st July 1.00pm at The Pendragon
Family History: Monday 2nd September 2.00pm. 113 Pantbach Rd. Note change of day and time.
            
NEXT MEETING: Monday, 9th September 2024 at 2pm.                           
Speaker: Sue Trussler   Subject: Becoming an Artist in Retirement.

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

Glamorgan Federation Newsletter – diary dates

Volume 15, issue 6
June/July 2024

Diary dates—2024

Table top games and Afternoon Tea—£12—All Hallows Church Hall, Miskin—Saturday 13 July 2024—Closing date: 14 June 2024

Court & Castle Holiday—£199—Windsor & Hampton Court Palace—Friday 19-20 July 2024—Closing date: 23 February 2024

An evening with an Author—£21—Hi Tide Inn, Porthcawl—Wednesday 11 September 2024—Closing date: 26 July 2024

Malvern Flower Show—£35—Malvern—Sunday 29 September 2024—Closing date: 13 July 2024

Federation Quiz—£10—Hi Tide Inn, Porthcawl—Tuesday 22 October 2024—Closing date: 27 September 2024

Craft Fayre—£20—The Orangery, Margam Park—Saturday 16 November 2024—Closing date: 9 October 2024

Lasting Power of Attorney

Michael Kuipers of 'LPA Made Simple' came to talk to Whitchurch WI as an additional speaker at the June 2024 meeting. This company are specialists in creating and registering Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) documents.

Michael explained that creating an LPA had two principles:

• preparing for the worst
• avoiding having to cope with difficult decisions at a time of distress

There are two types of LPA:

• property and affairs
• health and welfare 

Michael suggested that it was important to create both types of LPA to be safe and secure. Once created, they must be stored somewhere secure, such as in a safe deposit, in a fire-proof safe, or lodged with a solicitor. Don't keep your LPAs in your bread bin!

He conveyed a personal story of his mother dying during a cruise off the coast of Australia, and all the paperwork and difficulties that involved. The insurance company did pay out, but this was months later and immediate expenses had to be paid up front. 

An LPA has to be set up while the person to whom it applies has the mental capacity to understand what they are doing and is able to make the necessary decisions. An LPA cannot be created if a person is deemed incapable of making the decisions which are part of the process. If there is no LPA, the interests of a person no longer able to make their own decisions and manage their own affairs come under the Court of Protection. Michael explained that working with the Court of Protection could be expensive and difficult.

He gave as an example of one of the difficulties that could occur without an LPA in place. If one half of a couple with a joint bank account was declared mentally incapable, the bank could freeze the account or restrict access to it to the other half of the couple. If no other access to funds were in place this could make the situation very difficult.

An LPA can be set up by oneself, with only the cost of registration – currently £82 per LPA per person.* A solicitor can create an LPA. Michael stated that the cost of creating an LPA with a solicitor would be higher than using LPA Made Simple, because they are not specialists in the same way.

 

*(Personal note: there may also be additional charges when setting up an LPA oneself, such as the doctor made a charge for statements with regard to mental and physical capacity when I created an LPA for my mother – Editor.)

 

Wye Valley trip – 2024-06-11 – Taith Dyffryn Gwy

report by / adroddiad gan Nor'dzin Pamo 

 

Forty-eight stalwart members of Whitchurch WI set off at 9:30 from Ararat Church. 

 

First we travelled to Chepstow to pick up our local guide, Pam. She fed us interesting snippets of information about the area through which were driving, including a slight detour to see Tintern Abbey, and then arriving outside Shire Hall, Monmouth. A coffee break was the first order of the day on arriving in Monmouth and then the group had a relaxed look around the Shire Hall. After this, different groups of people explored Monmouth following their own interests and having lunch.

 

 Cychwynnodd pedwar deg wyth o aelodau selog SyM yr Eglwys Newydd am 9:30 o Eglwys Ararat. Yn gyntaf fe deithion ni i Gas-gwent i nôl ein tywysydd lleol, Pam. Fe wnaeth hi fwydo pytiau diddorol o wybodaeth i ni am yr ardal yr oedd yn gyrru drwyddi, gan gynnwys dargyfeiriad bach i weld Abaty Tyndyrn, ac yna cyrraedd y tu allan i Neuadd y Sir, Trefynwy. Seibiant coffi oedd trefn gyntaf y dydd ar ôl cyrraedd Trefynwy ac yna cafodd y grŵp olwg hamddenol o gwmpas Neuadd y Sir. Ar ôl hyn, bu grwpiau gwahanol o bobl yn crwydro Trefynwy gan ddilyn eu diddordebau eu hunain a chael cinio.

 

I was interested to see the castle and wandered off on my own in that direction. I had been warned by Pam that there was not much left of the castle, and this was indeed the case. 

 

Next to it is the regimental museum on one side and a memorial garden on the other.
The memorial garden is a peaceful spot and I sat on a bench there for a little while enjoying the sunshine and birdsong. Looking at the map I had picked up in Shire Hall, I noticed a footpath from the lane I was in that crossed over the river, across open land, and back round to Minnow Bridge, so I decided to give this a try. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a lovely walk. At the end of the fields was an area with benches and a pond with ducks, and I sat there to eat my packed lunch. There was then a short walk by a busy road, and a left turn brought me to Minnow Bridge. The walk had not taken as long as anticipated (no distance scale on the map) so I was able to sit by the river next to car park meeting point for half an hour and commune with pigeons and ducks.

 

Roedd gen i ddiddordeb mewn gweld y castell a chrwydrais i ffwrdd ar fy mhen fy hun i'r cyfeiriad hwnnw. Roeddwn wedi cael fy rhybuddio gan Pam nad oedd llawer ar ôl o’r castell, ac roedd hyn yn wir. Wrth ei ymyl mae amgueddfa gatrodol ar un ochr a gardd goffa ar yr ochr arall. Mae’r ardd goffa yn llecyn heddychlon ac eisteddais ar fainc yno am ychydig yn mwynhau’r heulwen a chân yr adar. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wrth edrych ar y map roeddwn i wedi ei godi yn Neuadd y Sir, dwi’n sylwi ar lwybr troed o’r lôn roeddwn i ynddi oedd yn croesi dros yr afon, ar draws tir agored, ac yn ôl rownd at Minnow Bridge, felly penderfynais roi cynnig arni. Roedd yn daith gerdded hyfryd. Ar ddiwedd y caeau roedd ardal gyda meinciau a phwll gyda hwyaid, ac eisteddais yno i fwyta fy mhecyn cinio. Roedd yna daith fer wedyn ar hyd ffordd brysur, a daeth troad i'r chwith â mi i Bont Minnow. Nid oedd y daith gerdded wedi cymryd cymaint o amser ag a ragwelwyd (dim graddfa pellter ar y map) felly roeddwn yn gallu eistedd wrth yr afon wrth ymyl man cyfarfod y maes parcio am hanner awr a commune gyda cholomennod a hwyaid.

 

 

 

It was then time for us all to be back on the coach for a short drive to Symonds Yat West for a boat trip followed by refreshments in the Old Court Hotel. The walk to the boat passed a delightful 13th century church in the parish of St Dubricius. Interestingly—being Whitchurch Cardiff WI—this village is also called Whitchurch.

The steps down to and into the boat were a little tricky, but everyone safely boarded. We were told about how extraordinary flooding in recent years had affected the locality, and of some huge salmon caught in the river by famous fisherwomen. We were accompanied on the boat by a duck who seemed perfectly at home. 

 

 

 

 

Roedd hi’n amser wedyn i ni gyd fod yn ôl ar y bws am daith fer i Symonds Yat West ar gyfer taith cwch gyda lluniaeth i ddilyn yng Ngwesty’r Old Court. Aeth y daith gerdded i’r cwch heibio i eglwys hyfryd o’r 13eg ganrif ym mhlwyf Sant Dubricius. Yn ddiddorol—sef SyM Caerdydd yr Eglwys Newydd—gelwir y pentref hwn hefyd yn Eglwys Newydd. 

 

 

 

 

Roedd y grisiau i lawr ac i mewn i'r cwch ychydig yn anodd, ond roedd pawb yn byrddio'n ddiogel. Dywedwyd wrthym sut yr oedd llifogydd rhyfeddol yn ystod y blynyddoedd diwethaf wedi effeithio ar yr ardal, ac am rai eogiaid enfawr a ddaliwyd yn yr afon gan bysgotwr benywaidd enwog. Daeth hwyaden gyda ni ar y cwch a oedd yn ymddangos yn berffaith gartrefol.

 

The Wye Valley trip was a delightful day – relaxing, informative, and interesting. Everyone seemed to have a lovely time. I, for one, am hoping to get over to Symonds Yat West again to explore the Butterfly Zoo and Hedge Maze that are also on the same site. Thank you to Glenys who organised the trip.

Roedd taith Dyffryn Gwy yn ddiwrnod hyfryd – hamddenol, addysgiadol, a diddorol. Roedd pawb i weld yn cael amser hyfryd. Rwyf, am un, yn gobeithio mynd draw i Symonds Yat West eto i archwilio'r Sw Glöynnod Byw a'r Ddrysfa Hedge sydd hefyd ar yr un safle. Diolch i Glenys a drefnodd y daith.