A load of Waffle! 20/5/26

Well the last few days have just whizzed past!  And yes I know that Wednesday is Hodgepodge day but hopefully I'll get to that later.  First there's some catching up to do as I haven't posted since Friday!

Saturday started off busy as I was at the Foodbank all morning, taking in a delivery, unpacking it, dating it and trying to put it away.  That's tricky on Saturdays as the stock room also houses the mobile shelving units we use on Foodbank days.  I was on my own for most of the morning too. 

I was glad of a restful afternoon because on Sunday it was the Highams Park Spring Festival. (There are some great photos from the day here: (4) Highams Parklife | Facebook) 

Thankfully the rain held off and it was a lovely day.  I was there at 8 am to help the management group get things set up for all the various entertainment and stall holders but from about 10.00 am until the event finished at 4.30pm I was helping in the Foodbank stall.  I did get a break at lunchtime and joined Hubby to watch friends of his performing on the music stage.

Lots of people attended.  In addition to the various stalls either selling food or promoting local businesses/charities etc there was a display of classic cars, a shire horse display and also a small funfair.

But, by the time I'd helped pack down the Foodbank stall and brought a carload of stuff home to take back to the Foodbank on Monday I was exhausted!

Needless to say Monday was a quiet day although we did take the things back to the Foodbank and I did do my usual Monday evening shift there.

As usual my photo taking was sketchy.

This was the scoreboard from one of the games we had going on the Foodbank stall.  I think the adult winner probably spent as much on having lots of turns as the value of the prize!  He was determined to get the highest score.

Laura and Richard who Hubby knows through his open mics and band events.

Shire horses

Lots of cereal donated to the Foodbank.

I didn't get around to doing a News post yesterday - I was at keep fit in the morning, we did the school pick up of grandchildren Nathan and Ella in the afternoon and then there was a Knit and Natter session last night.  We're aiming to make that a weekly thing now rather than fortnightly and although we couldn't use the pub last night we will be able to in future - apart from when the World Cup is taking place!  We met in the local Costa which is inside our big Tesco store and it worked fine.  It was very quiet in there and will probably be a suitable alternative when we can't use the pub although it closes at 9 pm so we won't get as much time.

And the only news worth reporting yesterday was that the BBC has finally announced who the new presenters of Strictly Come Dancing will be.

You can click on the link there if you're interested.  I am slightly underwhelmed.  The two presenters who left (Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman) have been replaced by 3 (yes 3!) new presenters:  Emma Willis who is a well known presenter, Johannes Radebe a former strictly professional dancer and Josh Widdecombe a comedian who also took part in one of the Christmas specials - dressed as a penguin!  It will be interesting though to see how their roles will be defined and how the dynamics work.  I do love watching Strictly.

Phew that's me caught up.  Off to check out the Hodgepodge now.