Monday 2nd December
This evening we had our Christmas party.
We brought some food to share. We had a fantastic amount of delicious food.
We were entertained by some of our members playing ‘Would I lie to you ?’. It’s amazing what good liars W.I. ladies are ! 
We had a cryptic Christmas Carol quiz arranged by Margaret.
We had a competition for the best Christmas outfit, won by Santa and The Grinch – Jenny and Mandi.
We collected tins of biscuits, selection boxes and boxes of chocolates for the Torfaen Christmas appeal for disadvantaged families. 
Didn’t we do well?
Monday 4th November
Our speaker was Rufus Noye from the Seafarers Mission. He told us about the difficulties seafarers face, often spending long weeks at sea in poor conditions. He explained about ways we can help.
Monday 7th October
Today we celebrated our Harvest Festival with a Ploughman’s Supper, and wine of course! We also played a word game – who could find the most words from ‘Harvest Supper’. The winning team, amazingly found 147 words, with the runners up a close second with 144 words.
Our first meeting after the Summer break. As usual we had a social evening , we played a few games such as heads and tails. We then moved around to chat to people we wouldn’t normally talk to.
Monday 1st July
Our speaker for July was unfortunately unavailable at the last minute, so we were entertained by Ponthir Recorder Harmonies who entertained us at short notice with a variety of songs, including The Sailors Hornpipe, I do like to be beside the seaside, Daisy Daisy, a medley of Abba songs, and Tom Jones.
Monday 3rd June
Our speaker was Sonia Foley who works in Gwent for Dementia Sufferers and their carers. Her talk was about Dementia and the benefit of Memory Boxes. It was a very interesting talk with much discussion.
Sue presented Alison Buffery with flowers to thank her for her work on the Committee.
Monday 6th May
Tonight we held our AGM at the Village Hall.
We made various presentations – to Carol Jones to thank her for her work representing Ponthir W.I. on the Ponthir Village Hall Committee.
Denise presented Viv with the Edith Evans cup for her work with Gift Aid.
Gill presented Moira and Sue with the Rose Bowl to share as the best attenders.
Monday 1st April
Beetle Drive
Monday 4th March
This evening we had Emma Davis- McIntosh speak to us about NHS services we may not be aware of, and how to access them, such as audiology, physiotherapy, podiatry, mental health. She also told us about the 111 service and the changing role of pharmacists. She gave us useful phone numbers and web sites.
Monday 5th February
Our speaker today was Natalie Evans a Cyber Community Support Officer who spoke to us about how to become cyber aware.
She made us aware of telephone, text message and e mail scams. We were advised to use Password Manager or similar to store our passwords and to use three random words to create our passwords. It was suggested we use two step factor authorisation. We learnt where to report scams. It was scary to realise how easy we make things for potential scammers, but we will certainly improve our internet security as a result of Natalie’s talk.