MARCH TRIP UPDATE

The 12th March was our group's first trip out of Llanarth and we had already arranged in January with the National Coracle Centre in Cenarth for an out of season guided tour of the centre and flour mill. Sadly our evening at the National Coracle Centre did not turn out as expected, as there was nobody there to greet us. There was a message on the Centre's door advising visitors to knock at the house, which we did, only to be told that there was nobody there to take us on the tour as Mr Fowler had gone away due to a family illness. Unfortunately Mr Fowler had not had the decency to telephone our events secretary, whose number he had, in order to cancel the visit. Also, as is customary, the events secretary had been attempting to contact the Centre to confirm the booking for a week, by telephone and by email - these contact details being from the Centre's website - the telephone was never answered and did not have an answering service and all emails were returned 'undelivered' for both email addresses.
Whilst we all feel very sorry about the family illness, we should have been contacted about the cancellation and feel that this is no way to conduct a business for what was once a popular attraction. We will be writing to the Centre to express our disappointment with the situation.
 
Thankfully after that disappointment, the second half of our trip was far more enjoyable as we had booked a 'Cawl' supper at the Ffrostrasol Arms. Before we had our meal we held our meeting and discussed various matters in a lively happy atmosphere. The Ffrostraol Arms did us proud with our supper - a big bowl of 'Cawl' with  crusty bread, butter and loads of cheese. We were then offered a choice of deserts with lashings of cream and the evening ended on a good note with tea and coffee.
 



What could have been a disastrous evening thankfully turned out to be a harmonious get together.
The raffle was won by Audrey - given by Linda. The competition, which was to make a sentence using the letters in the Welsh word CORACL, was won by Betty for a Welsh sentence and by Linda for an English sentence.