Volunteer Day in the Garden

As many staff as possible are going to volunteer to work in the learning garden on Wednesday, it's time it had a Spring clean. When we did it last year, I was attacked by a frog because I had disturbed his/her living space, the nursery children were highly amused by my reaction.

The Complementary Therapy course has begun so the centre smells lovely on a Tuesday, there is still time to join if you are interested, and the Conversational Spanish course, which I have enrolled on, is due to begin soon so future blog entries may include some useful Spanish phrases if I get the hang of it.

We are planning next year's programme of courses and if anyone has an interest in in a subject that we don't offer please tell us and we can see if it is viable to offer it.

New term, new courses

I hope you have all had a good break and for those of you who were lucky enough to have an egg, I hope you enjoyed the treat. A group of mums organised an Easter Egg hunt around the centre for the children, it was well attended and everyone had great fun. The new term begins next week, we are offering a number of new courses and we are in the process of planing some events for the sumer. Keep checking the website to find out what and when. We are being visited by students from Appalachia State University, USA in June, two of the students will be placed in DOVE for the duration of their visit to Wales and their Professor will be delivering two lectures for us, one on Social Policy and other on the culture of storytelling. Everyone is welcome to attend!

The lads from Llangatwg

Two young men from Llangatwg School have been working one day a week in our community garden to gain practical work skills, it's their last day today and I want to wish them well for the future and thank them for their efforts in the garden. They have been a pleasure to work with.