Yawn,yawn, wakey, wakey 2017

Aloha everyone,

More meetings today and will also need to get my hair cut. So that's me out of the garden until this afternoon.

@CanadianLori hope the installation goes well.

I may deliver some runner bean orders on the way to my meetings

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning all my friends what with reading all the different party manifestos and the grey sky and persistent rain all in all its still a Bonus of a day anyway I digress enjoy your day and keep smiling

 

Aloha everyone,

It's brightening up now after the rain and the garden is happy

I didn't like either the Labour or Tory manifestos and shall tell that to the local candidates. I think that the Tories have dropped a clanger with a couple of things they have proposed and that Corbin is enough of a clanger just on his own . although I thought his presentation of his manifesto was the first time that he seemed like a real politician.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Aloha everyone,

A lovely sunny morning and a good forecast for next weekend.

And later, here:-


I've bought the bottles of Pimms

@moyra I hope you will feel up to coming. I'm expecting about a dozen GC members to turn up.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Top of the morning everyone have a lovely day

 

Aloha everyone,

It's a beautiful morning and we shall go for a walk along the river before getting stuck in to gardening. Most of the potting up is done, but not all. The difficult thing now is finding homes for all the things that are normally left all over the place.

Then there's all the paperwork and organising in order to make things run smoothly on the day. Just making sure that each money collection point - door, kitchen, raffle, stalls etc. - have a float and that it's all recorded properly, takes time. Plates, serviettes, plastic cutlery, tea, coffee, sugar, butter, jam, cream and all the scones and cakes to be sorted - not to forget washing up liquid and tea-cloths and rubber gloves for the washers up. We've been stocking up on home made cakes and freezing them as we need a lot. Last year we served 273 teas! All the ingredients for the sandwiches for GC and the helpers also need to be organised for five loaves of bread.

Chairs, tables, gazebos, hot water urns, teapots, coffee pots, trays, jugs, cups and loads of other things. Facility for all the different sound systems that will be used. Mustn't forget raffle tickets. Flower arrangements for the tables. Signs to print and hundreds of plant labels to make. Bin available for people to put their used paper plates, serviettes etc. Make sure we have enough toilet paper (Note to self:- get cesspit emptied!)

Notify police (always a must, so that they don't ticket people for obstruction), notify post office to either make sure all mail is delivered, to houses down the road, before 10 a.m. or cancel the deliveries for the day (no room for the post van to park all down the road). Arrange parking for all the helpers in neighbours' driveways. Arrange who is to be the contact for people who come by train so that there is a pickup for them (no taxis at our little station). We even have someone coming from Australia, staying in London, so have sorted out times of trains etc. Make sure there's space in the driveway for the local MP (as he has scope diplegia - cerebral palsy - and osteoarthritis) as he's hoping to turn up despite the upcoming election (bound to do some 'glad handing' if he turns up). Loads of other things to get organise as well. I need a rest after writing this as my brain hurts!

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!