Events and Activities

Regular Meetings

Every Wednesday at the Penparcau Memorial Hall, from 10:00am until 12:00pm - unless a trip has been arranged.

Days Out

I thought I would put this article under our days out heading as this is what it could be.

This Lady is responsible for the lovely mosaic Sites we have around the sea front, also at the Day Centre and the Hospital and now she needs your help.

My name is Pod Clare, I am a community artist, and also Chairperson of
the Haul Arts in Health group, based in Bronglais. I have been asked by
the hospital to paint a mural on the hoarding that surrounds the new A&E
department they are biulding, they held an art competition for children
called What I Love About Ceredigion, and the design for the mural is
based on these drawings. The actual painting on the wall will be done by
adults, and the hospital would like to treat this as an arts in health
project, and invite people with various health conditions to come along
to help paint it. I will be there to support anyone who comes, and all
materials are provided. Do you know anyone who would like to get
involved? I will be starting on the painting from 10th Nov., whenever
the weather is nice enough, so we would need to communicate closely
and probably only finalise very close to the actual day. Also I can
only have 5 people with me at any one time, so if there are more than
that wanting to come on any one morning or afternoon, we would have to
arrange for them to come in shifts. Obviously the work is outdoors and
involves standing and painting, so I guess it is only suitable for
people who can cope with that, but they could come for as long or short
as they wanted, with carers or family members if they want, and the
hosp. restaurant is just round the corner if people get tired. The mural
will be in place for at least a year and be seen by a great many people,
and Im sure we will have great fun painting it. If its easier, give my
details to people so they can contact me direct, my phone number is
01545 570005, e mail pod.clare@freeuk.com, and if you would like to see
the kind of work I do, visit my website www.pod.clare.com, best wishes Pod.

We regularly organise trips to various locations, for more information I suggest that you

get in touch with us to find out where we are off to next!

Meeting Dates for 2012....................... Check your Diary

Club commences in 2012 on

January 11 2012. see you then.

January 18..................................Club morning

January 25..................................Bingo

February 1................................Club morning

February 8................................Discussing Arts Centre Project

Outing May 28

On Wednesday May 28th 2008 our group went for a tour of the National Library in Aberystwyth, we were greeted by Mr Glyn Evans and after tea and coffee we started the tour. This time we went into the Summers Room and then through to the latest extension, alot of interesting questions where put to Mr Evans who gave us some wonderful details. After the tour it was down to the Pendinas Restaurant for dinner. We would like to thank Mr Evans and also the Porter who came round looking after some of our more disabled members for thier kindness. We would also like to point out that there are good accesses for the disabled and wonderful staff to help, below are a few of our members, sorry if you are not on there, but it was raining and my shinny head was getting very wet,

August 2 2008 Club Barbeque

The weather was good, the food was good and the company was good, what more could I say or ask for! The club would like to thank Bet and Glyn who staged this event and to Wyn who did most of the cooking. The smiles on peoples faces said it all, well done everyone.

Group Activities

The Making of our Banner

Last week 23 April 2008 we decided it would be nice to have our own Banner, made by our members, How should we go about this? Well why not get every member to come up with some sought of design, pick the best pieces, throw them into a pot and see what comes out. So over the next few weeks we will see if our democracy has worked.

Week 1

There we are, that's the end of week 1 and it looks as if someone prefers drinking tea rather than painting| Our thanks to the volunteers from University of Wales, Aberystwyth who come and help us, Sharron, Naomi and Anne thank you very much.

Here we are again, June 4th and it's our second go at making our Banner.

from top left we have the layout, then Martine is putting the

paint on the screen,next pressing the paint through the screen, then our first look, Barry

thinks it's ok so that's good enough for us. Fred has the important job of drying the paint,

after he did his hair! There we are the last picture with Fred and Martine holding up the partially completed Banner. All that remains now is to add some Fish a Dolphin and our Web Address.

June 11th 2008

There we are, that's our Banner.There's the Welsh Dragon rushing up Pen Dinas with the Monument on top, the blue of Cardigan Bay below with the Dolphins swimming about. This gives a pretty good picture of where we are, and then of course our Barry with his Bugle advertising our News letter, " the Pendinas Bugle", we hope you all like it.

June 18th 2008

On the left we are making use of our Banner for the first time, this was for the presentation of a cheque for £1600 from

'Awards for All Wales' this will go towards buying equipment for the group. On the right can be seen our Patron, Sister Jackie Quinn from the rehabilitation ward in Bronglais Hospital, also in the photo are Nancy and Dai.

Coffee Morning September 2008

Our recent Coffee Morning which was held in St. Pauls Church, Bath St, Aberystwyth

turned out to be a huge success, we would like to thank all of you who attended and to all of the people who donated. To the church Authorities for allowing us the use of the premises, Thank you very much.

Lunch at the Wildfowler October 2008

Wednesday 3rd December 2008

Today we were treated to a demonstration of Floral Table Displays, and latter we all had a go at making one. Our Tutor was Mr Donald Morgan of Blodaurbedol, Llanrhystud, 01974202233 His shop is open for all your floral requirements and is well worth a visit, we had a great time expressing our Floral skills, thank you very much Donald.

First Activity of 2009

Ceramic Glazing, we were each given a piece of ceramic which we had to paint in our own style. Helen Rees of Blue Island Ceramics was our tutor and from the photos you can see everyone enjoyed themselves.

Following on from this on11th and 18th March we paid a visit to

Blue Island ceramics, and what a wonderful time we had. One of our members (John) had

a birthday and Helen who runs Blue Island Ceramics put on a spread to be proud of,

thank you very much Helen for everything.

I told you it was good, note the display unit, this being a small section of what can be done here.

MOSIAC work May 13 2009

This is the start of our mosiac work, which we are told will last for 5 weeks. Our instructor is Pod Clare and when it is finished we hope to present it to the Hall Committee, to be hung in the hall.

Mosaic July 29 2009 At last our mosiac is finished and the next few pictures where taken at the presentation.

The first picture is the finished product and we're all pretty pleased with it.

The second shows members looking at our web site and the third shows our treasurer with Pod Clare our teacher and Mark Williams our local MP.

Here's Barry and Dai.The presentation to Enid Welsh the Secretary of the Hall committee.

and the last one also includes the local Police Force.

Some of our group who did all the work making the Mosiac, to all who worked on it, thank you from PAG. To all those people who came, Mark WilliamsMP, Gronwy Edwards Local Councillor, Enid Welsh Secretary of Hall Committee, Brian Griffiths the caretaker, a more helpful man I have yet to meet and Gladys and Marie the Tea Ladies who did us proud, a big thanks to everyone for a wonderful morning.

Wednesday 19 August 2009 Screen printing with Martine

Wednesday 9 September 2009 Since our tea maker left the group we have been getting in a mess with the cups, so we came up with the solution, let's go to Blue Island Ceramics and make our own, and here's the result.

Thanks to Helen for the cups of coffee and the two lovely cakes she made, a wonderful day was had by all

Our Skittles competion started on 7th october and will continue

for 3 sessions, the photo shows the skittles with members names on, they were made by one of our group. So far Naughty Norma has a slight lead but poor Nancy is way behind.

Lunch at the Wildfowler 2009

This was held on Wednesday 2nd December 2009 and judging by the following photo's, a good time was had by all who went. Many thanks and a happy Christmas to all the staff at the Wild Fowler

Open Morning 9 December 2009

This was our last date of 2009, an open coffee morning to try and raise funds for the club, well I'm pleased to say we had a very well attended morning and we managed to raise the grand total of £105.05 with £174 being donated from Aimée,s funeral, thank you very much Tregay. We would also like to thank Helen Rees of Blue Island Ceramics for her donation of things to sell and of course to the "Madrigal Singers" from Aberystwyth University a young student society well worth listening to. Thanks to Cathy from Dim Prob for her commitment during the year.

Thanks to everyone who has helped over the past year and thanks to you our readers.

Skittle Competition 2010

On Wednesday the26th of January we held the final of our competition, here are the photo's of the organisors and the eventual winner. (naughty norma)

Theres the skittles made by one of our members and then Dave and Chris and the Champion Norma

Blue Island ceramics 17 March 2010

A sad day really as this is the last time we shall see Helen, she's leaving for pastures new. The Club wish her and her Family well in thier new venture.

The top story was not quite true, as today 7th April 2010, we held a fare well party for Helen. A few photo's to remind us how good she was at helping us all. you will be surely missed

Wednesday 10 June 2010

What can you do with match sticks flowers and a computor(WOW)

we had a small farewell party for Paul, he's now leaving Penparcau to go to Carmarthen, Good Luck Paul.

Flower Arranging 30 June 2010

On Wednesday we where pleased to welcome back,Donald Morgan of Blodaurbedol, Llanrhystud for another lesson in Flower Arranging. It was a delightful morning as our pictures show, Thank you very much Donald.

Zana Mathews the new owner of Blue Island Ceramics, she makes pretty good cakes as well.

Christmas Dinner 2010

The annual Christmas Dinner was once again held at the "WildFowler" but before we went there,we met at St. Annes Church, Penparcau. Here we attended Communion with the rest of the Congregation, afterwards we had coffee and biscuits in the Church Hall, then thanking the vicar off we all went. The meal and the arrangements were again a credit to the "Wildfowler" staff and we would like to thank them and wish them all a Merry Christmas

The funny hat competition was won by SIMON and the runners up where DAVE and BARBARA

All of us at PAG would like to thank every one who has supported us through the year, the people who have visited our web site and we hope you have liked what you have seen, from us all.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR

First Visit of 2011

Our first visitor of 2011 was Nikki Durrant of "Nik's Nails and Beauty Therapy" As you might gather she gave us a talk about Beauty Therapy and the benefits of a good Massage. After the talk she gave quite a few of the Group either Hand or Arm Massages, all who had them said how much better they felt

This lady is certainly one to have at your club or meetings and although she has not got a Web Site she can be reached by E-Mail at Nikksterkid@hotmail.co.uk She does home visits or appointments at her own home.

March 1st 2011 St Davids Day

We had our Cawl meal on the 2nd of March at Plas Antaron, Penparcau. A very nice

meal in delightful settings our thanks to all the Staff.

just one or two of the people that where there.

July 20 2011

Another great day out at Ynslas, thanks to Zana's Son for the wonderful chocolate cake..

August 2011 last club meeting brfore Holidays

At the last meeting we had Dave once more entertaining us,

This time he thought he would teach us how to blow and make things with Balloons. Sad to say he was wrong, the morning turned out to be hilairious, with most of us crying with laughter, here are 2 photos to show you the results.