LALESTON & BROADLANDS
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01656 657846 Little Pickles Market:
Don’t miss a great opportunity to pick up a bargain at Bridgend Life Centre (HALO) this coming Sunday, February 11 – from 2pm-3pm and visit the nearly new sale of good quality garments including toys, books, shoes, games and baby equipment, etc.
Entrance fee for adults is just £1.50 (cash would be appreciated, and for purchases).
Cost for sellers who bring their own table is £12.50; cost for sellers who need a table is £13.50.
Visit littlepicklesmarkets.co.uk for more information.
After School activities: At the Rhiw Arcade in Bridgend as follows:
Tuesdays, from 4pm-5pm: Colouring Club for ages four and up
Fridays, from 4pm-6pm: Art
Club for ages six to 14. Book via megartclub@gmail.com
Saturdays, from 9.30am-10.30am: Colouring Club for ages four and over
Also, all youngsters are invited to enter our poster competition. Group 1 ages four to 10 and Group 2 ages 11 to 18. It needs to be a colourful, Welsh-themed poster to be submitted to the Craft Cwtch Artisan Shop and Studios, by Thursday, February 29.
The posters will be judged by the Mayoress of Bridgend and the winners will receive premium brush/ fine liner colouring pens. The size of the poster should be A4 and the lucky winners will be presented with their prize on March 2 at 10am in the shop.
Name and age and child and parent/carer contact details must be written on the back of the poster when submitted.
‘Walkies’ in Newbridge Fields: Last week when there was no one around, a smartly-dressed gentleman let his dog off the lead in a corner of Newbridge Fields. ‘Rover’ excitedly dived into the bushes wearing a very nice new dog jacket.
Lo and behold when ‘Rover’ reappeared his new jacket was nowhere to be seen!
Not wishing to take the dog home without his jacket and upsetting his wife who had made it, the owner scrambled into the bushes and fortunately recovered the dog’s missing garment which was covered in mud.
Sadly,after the search, his own smart coat was in a worse state covered in green muck and it was a fearful man who returned home to his wife! A man’s best friend is his dog?!
Laleston Gardening Club: Members of Laleston Gardening Club will be pleased to learn that the project to replace all the sash windows at Cliff Cottage has now been completed. It has been a time consuming effort, but the result is there for all to see.
For a number of years club members had been fighting a losing battle to keep the original soft wood windows in good repair by painting and patching. These original which were mock sash windows could not be opened with the result there was no ventilation in the main hall.
The Club itself provided funding for the first three windows in the main hall to allow the main hall to be ventilated following the pandemic. The windows are manufactured in hard wood with double glazed units and due to our Grade II listing needed to be bespoke and an exact match for what they replaced.
Each window was of slightly different dimensions leading to increased cost. Fortunately a local joinery firm undertook to manufacture them for us. In April 2022 chairman Sue submitted an application to the National Lottery Community Fund and in May of that year the committee were thrilled to learn we had been awarded £10,000.
We were amazed at the speed of the award and it this enabled us to order and have fitted another six windows in March 2023. In early
2023 we learned through BAVO that further grants were being made available by the Suncredit Solar Farm organisation.
Sue took the initiative and put together an application for £3,000 which would part finance the four remaining windows. The grant application was successful and we were able to order the four remaining windows.
There has been quite a delay due to recruitment problems at the joinery company, but we are pleased that now in January 2024 the last four have been fitted. It only remains for Sue to submit a completion report and advise the Conservation Officer at BCBC, the conclusion of a job well done.
The Committee meeting on
January 11 reflected on the festivities leading up to Christmas and then concentrated on what lies ahead in 2024. The first lecture took place on January 8 and the first Ladies Section meeting on the following evening which was well attended.
The Chinese New Year celebration meal due to take place on February 10 is fully booked and there will be a St David’s day supper on Friday March 1 – bookings for that will be taken shortly.
Margaret continues to take deposits and money for the Tatton Park trip in July – there are a few places still available if anyone would like to take advantage of them. The trip involves travel up on Thursday July 18, a stay of one night in a hotel, then the show and return travel on Friday.
The Club shop has now reopened. Gerwyn and his team (Ron, Malcolm and Rob), have plans for further improvements to Cliff Cottage, details will have to wait until another day.