Dyserth Tuesday Morning Group

A Very Happy New Year

As I write this contribution to ‘The Dyserth Times’ everyone’s hopes and aspirations for better times ahead, are very much in our hearts. So it is our sincere wish that each and every reader has a very happy year ahead.

I started Christmas 2023 with one of my daft actions: My wife fills a tazzar each Christmas with Quality Street or Celebrations but this year she happened to alter this routine. I fished in for a handful of sweets and found my mouth filled with Christmassy pine cones. Some were quite sparkly but it simply was not the sweet treat I expected! Just sticking with Christmas for a moment: I must say, when we first got married sixty years ago, I was always determined that our Christmas should always be ‘at home’. Of course, as our children grow to adulthood and have their own marriages and children, I had to change. My determination gave way to reflection, adjustment and change. Is that what each new year should be about?

Our Dyserth Community Group is constantly changing and I feel, for the better. Our speakers each Tuesday usually give us most interesting talks and when it comes to questions, we find wonderful thoughts and suggestions are often offered – (back to reflections?).

Our Christmas meal was well attended when we enjoyed the superb hospitality of the Crown Inn at Trelawnydd. Our hosts were generous to a fault and it was a festive meal to remember. We also enjoyed an end-of-year gathering for snacks and ‘conversazzioni’. As the saying goes – a good time was had by all.

We were to commence on the 9th January with Mr Howard Green telling us about man’s development of hand tools but “best laid plans o mice n’ men” all had to change. Mr Green was unexpectedly in Seattle USA so our chairman Jennifer stepped into the breech with a series of short films and the morning was complemented by tea, cakes and prosecco. For a very varied January we also had “Life and Times at Bodelwyddan Castle”, “Lightning Strikes”, “My Work on Denbigh County Council” illustrating the wide variety of speakers and subjects to stimulate the mind. We commence February with “Keep the home fires burning”.

See you 10.15am next Tuesday at Dyserth Community Centre Cwm Road Dyserth.LL18 8BD Michael Corfe, Secretary DTMCG 01745 585110