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Sunflower Competition

Sunflower Competition

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This year the club held a Sunflower competition to raise funds for the Meru Project. Throughout the year the club has a produce table  selling  plants, jams pickles etc. with the monies raised going to this excellent project in  Kenya. The competition  had 3 classes, tallest plant, largest flower head and photo of wildlife enjoying the seed head.

Plant monitoring

Plant monitoring

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This year the club started a 5 year project  studying the plant life in  5 different locations within an area designated by the group “Plantlife”. Over the years we have to assess each area for the plants growing within it  in Spring and late summer , noting any changes that may have occurred such as  intensity of grazing. Unfortunately the owner of one of our chosen sites has not been co-operative and we may need to find another site. This is proving to be  a very interesting survey and has brought out our inner botanists.

New Year Afternoon Tea party

New Year Afternoon Tea party

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As we have had no President this year  we held an afternoon tea party in January where everyone was asked to bring a cup and saucer which held particular  significance to them. It gave the club an opportunity to  chat  with former members who are still in the area  and enjoy keeping in touch even though they are unable to attend  the normal meetings

SIGBI Conference in Cardiff

SIGBI Conference in Cardiff

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This year 10 members attended the  Conference and helped with the Stewarding. We decided on  a Door to Door train ride from Pwllheli to  Cardiff, not the quickest method of  travel as there is a detour into Shrewsbury, but a very scenic and enjoyable journey so we arrived in Cardiff  having avoided the stress of  driving. As can be seen from the photo there were 3 Conference “Virgins”!

Cadnant Gardens and Penmon Point

Cadnant Gardens and Penmon Point

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Members of the club enjoyed a brief history of the House and  Garden and current plans for its development from the owner before spending  some 2-3 hrs wandering around this garden in its early spring colours.The Visitor centre showing pictures of the  destruction caused by the Christmas flood  in 2014 were remarkable as was the amount of work that has been done to restore the garden -again! After an excellent lunch at the gardens restaurant  some members  went on to visit Penmon Point

Carol Singing for the Elderly

Carol Singing for the Elderly

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This year the S I South Caernarfonshire  choir again sang in 2 of the local Residential Homes. There was a Spring “Concert”  of songs from the Wartime period and the inter war years together with Traditional Welsh Songs and Carol singing in the week before Christmas. The Residents enjoy these  afternoons and many of them  join in with the singing.

Hellen

Hellen

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  Hellen , the nursing student we have been sponsoring  through her higher school education and into her nursing training in Zambia finished her first year this summer and did well in her exams. She has now started on her clinical  rotations and is working in various centres doing practical subjects such as midwifery. She is still enjoying the  course and hopefully will qualify in 2019. We are still holding some events to pay for her tuition fees and board and lodging. It is amazing how far money will go in rural Zambia

Alzheimer’s Blankets

Alzheimer’s Blankets

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We held an afternoon  sewing  meeting  making  Alzheimer’s blankets to donate to local care homes.  These blankets  and muffs serve a dual purpose. They provide some warmth  for the elderly as they sit  in their day rooms and the  bits and pieces  attached give them  a distraction for their  hands and fingers which might otherwise be  causing damage to their skins through repetitive  rubbing and scratching. Made of washable  fleece blankets with  buttons, bells zippers etc. securely  attached   they can be readily washed and dried  for  reuse by the residents.

Clwb Ni

Clwb Ni

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Clwb Ni is a small local group that meets weekly to give a social life to  Adults with Learning Difficulties. This group run on a shoe string budget  and monies that we raise for them is usually spent on hiring  a coach in order to take them to the Christmas Pantomime in Llandudno and give them a “Fish and Chip ” supper. We held a bric-a-brac stall in the local market which was  generously provided with stock by members who  took the opportunity to “declutter”! There was enough stock left over to warrant  a trip to a Sunday Car boot sale.