{"id":7829,"date":"2022-07-11T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T09:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/?p=7829"},"modified":"2023-07-04T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T10:42:16","slug":"a-day-at-the-eisteddfod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/2022\/07\/11\/a-day-at-the-eisteddfod\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day at the Eisteddfod"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Day at the Soroptimist Tent<\/h2>\n<div><strong><em>Written by Janet Murfin<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220707_1125520982-300x300-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8102\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220707_1125520982-300x300-1-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On arrival in the morning, the weather was misty and chilly.\u00a0 Myself (Janet Murfin) and Eirwen Kenrick were the first to arrive and we began to set up (and get the kettle on)!\u00a0 Reinforcements soon arrived and we were all busy making sure everything was ready for the day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first day\u00a0was children`s day and they soon began arriving and were drawn immediately to our activity table. Here they could colour wooden spoons like the Welsh love spoons or colour the paper template love spoons which had the Soroptimist logo on them.\u00a0This activity was very popular and they took their spoons home to give to their families. The teachers liked this activity as they had a cup of coffee while the children were busy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We had many visitors to the tent for tea, coffee and a chat and some even came twice!\u00a0 The Blood Bikes tent was opposite and they came over regularly for tea supplies.\u00a0 We went over to visit them and some of us even sat on the motor bikes.\u00a0 They do excellent work and some clubs have had them as speakers.<\/div>\n<div>The fire service were going round the tents with one of their members in a dragon costume.\u00a0 We had photographs taken with them and they wanted to know what our organization\u00a0did too.\u00a0 All part of networking and information sharing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2022\/07\/Picture-2.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2022\/07\/Picture-1-300x169-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8103\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2022\/07\/Picture-1-300x169-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>There were a lot of enquiries as to &#8220;what is a Soroptimist&#8221;?\u00a0 A good opportunity to give out a leaflet and have a conversation.<\/div>\n<div>There was a lot of interest in the handbags and jewellery as well and we seemed to sell a good number of bags.<\/div>\n<div>The weather improved during the day and it became very hot which was lovely.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There was a very festive atmosphere even though the event was not as big as usual and the air was filled with the sound of the children laughing and singing.\u00a0 Everyone on the field seemed happy and were smiling and just glad to be back again.\u00a0 And it was lovely meeting and working with members from other clubs as well as my own club.<\/div>\n<div>A really enjoyable day.<\/div>\n<div><strong>For more information and photos please click here<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Day at the Soroptimist Tent Written by Janet Murfin On arrival in the morning,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-region-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Day at the Eisteddfod | News | Blog | Events | SI Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral : Blog &amp; News : A Day at the Eisteddfod : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral . 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