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Reconnect through Cookery

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On Friday our cooking group celebrated St David’s Day and enjoyed traditional Welsh faggots, Welsh Pork and Leek sausage, and homemade Welsh cakes.

Lunch was followed by a Welsh-themed quiz hosted by Ffion, bingo hosted by Alex, and a disco. Jamie won the best-dressed award (everyone looked great in their Welsh-themed costumes) and Richard (whose 50th birthday we celebrated) won the award for best dance moves.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered in the kitchen, cooked, dished up lunch, and washed the pots and pans. We’ll see you all next week for cottage pie and fresh vegetables, chosen by our member Nat.

Reconnect through Music

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Yesterday our members celebrated St David’s Day early at Libanus Lifestyle with Dan from RecRock, who joined us for week six of our Reconnect through Music project. Our members performed songs by Tom Jones, Duffy, Will Young and many other artists, and sounded as great as ever.

Thank you to Jeremy James for making us traditional Welsh Cakes, which tasted amazing.

Relationship Course

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On Monday Ffion delivered her Relationship Course to the learners at Oxford House. The topic was ‘Understanding your Body’, and we talked about the difference between Male and Females bodies, and played a game in which we came up with different names for private parts. The group will resume on Monday 8th April and the other dates are:

Monday 15th April
Monday 22nd April
Monday 13th May
Monday 20th May

If anyone would like Ffion to deliver the relationship course, or if you need more information, please contact her on 07488 350518.

Gardening

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This report was written by Head Gardener Morgan Jones:

Yesterday, Christy Taylor, Gethin Chamberlain, Rees Powell, Chris & Anthony Davies, and I worked on our garden plots at TARAGGAN Educational Gardens & Nursery. As always, my job as head gardener was to make sure everyone followed the correct rules and behaved appropriately.

After we were told by Kyle Richards what we were planting, everyone put their gloves on and we planted four different types of seeds (cauliflower, oregano, pepper & tomato). As always, once we’d finished using the tools, our job was to clean the dirt from the equipment.

Winter Warmth Project

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Our Volunteer/member Amy who now lives independently joined us today for the launch of our Winter Warmth project. Ffion and Amy talked about the cost of living crisis and shared tips on how to save money and stay warm in the home.

If you would like to access this project please contact Ffion at Caerphilly People First. Ffion will explain how you can safely fill a hot water bottle, bleed your radiators, and keep warm.

If you live independently you will receive a blanket, a hot water bottle, a set of radiator keys, and easy to understand information to take home.

Reconnect through Cookery

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At Friday’s cookery session – attended by 55 people – the group made pizza using tortilla wraps and sliced thins. Our members chopped mushrooms, peppers, onions and pineapple to add to the pizza, and prepared a healthy salad to serve on the side.

Everyone had a turn at making their own pizza, adding what they liked on top. Some opted for the popular pepperoni with added extras, and some for ham and pineapple.

Thanks to Alex for hosting the quiz and the bingo while lunch was cooking, and well done to all the winners.

Next week we will be celebrating St David’s Day and serving up Welsh dragon sausage or faggots, followed by Welsh Cakes. Traditional Welsh-themed fancy dress is optional.

Gardening at TARAGGAN

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This is a write-up from our Head Gardener, Morgan Jones:

At Caerphilly People First this week, me, Christy, Gethin, Rees, Hannah, and Christopher & Anthony went to TARAGGAN allotments. This was our first visit after the winter break.

Whilst we were there, myself and my colleagues planted carrot seeds and coriander seeds. Before going back to the YMCA, as Head Gardener my job was to clean every tool we’d used and store them back in the shed.