EWSNEWS  February 2025

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Friday 7 February 2025. Chinese Banquet. Priestfield Church hall at 7.30pm.

Our Chinese evening was everything we hoped for and more. The banquet as organised by Lilian was generous and varied, and there were boxes of goodies to take away too. Following the meal our guests Han Yilin and Yao Siqi demonstrated their traditional tea ceremony and calligraphy. It is the year of the snake and our inky attempts reflected that, with varying degrees of accuracy. We rounded off the evening with community singing.

Forthcoming events:

Friday 7 March 2025. Cinio Gwyl Dewi. Mortonhall Golf Club at 7.00 for 7.30pm.

We meet again at Mortonhall Golf Club, 231 Braid Road, EH10 6PB. I am delighted that our guest speakers will be Idwal and Bethan Williams. Idwal and Bethan, from near Caernarfon, are brother- and sister-in-law of Hywel, and have entertained our Society in the past. It will be lovely to see them again.

The cost per person will be £35 and the menu choices are:

Starters:

  • Cock-a-leekie soup
  • Crispy wild mushrooms on toast, fresh herb butter, and rocket salad

Mains:

  • Beef medallion with potato terrine, buttered asparagus, peas, and creamed savoy cabbage with a marsala wine sauce
  • Deep-fried lemon sole fillet with chorizo, parmentier potatoes, lime mayonnaise and cucumber
  • Butternut squash, sage ravioli with fried sage and sundried tomatoes, green leaf salad
  • Lobster scampi
  • Slow cooked roast leg of lamb, chargrilled roast vegetables, chorizo roast potatoes and lamb jus

Desserts:

  • Selection of cheese and biscuits
  • Fresh fruit crumble with custard and ice cream
  • Rum baba cake with ice cream

Please let me have your choices by Thursday 27 February at the very latest. You can email me at secretary@edinburghwelshsociety.org. Payment please either by cheque made payable to the Edinburgh Welsh Society and posted to me, or, if you prefer, by bank transfer. The bank details are: Account name: Edinburgh Welsh Society. Account # 00299707, Sort code 80-02-77.

Sunday 9 March. Gymanfa ganu. Reid Memorial large hall at 3.00pm.

We round off our St David’s celebration with an afternoon of hymn singing led by Huw and Janet Thomas, followed by chat around the tea trolley.

In other news:

The Journey of Songjiang’s Cotton Textiles. This exhibition is at The Great Tapestry of Scotland in Galashiels and can be viewed Wednesday–Saturday until 22 March. Full details can be found at this link, with photographs including some of our new member Llinos Jones.

I look forward to seeing you very soon.

Jennifer

Jennifer Welsher – Ysgrifenyddes CCD / Secretary EWS

 
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