A Great Day at Work!

Today was the most pleasant day I've had in my job... or any job I've had for a while come to think of it!

 A dozen workers from the EE phone company came to the community centre where I work to volunteer in the gardens and grounds surrounding the building. They worked with some of the learning-disabled people we serve who also provided them with their buffet lunch. We cleared a whole load of stuff into a mound that we'll burn soon and the bee hives have been freed from their jungle (the bees were trapped in their hives for the day and weren't too pleased by the time they were released!) and it was just a lot of fun.

 Straight after the gardening volunteers left, we opened the doors to an event organised
by the council's housing 'ALMO'. I had been worried that nobody would come, but it was
the usual fayre of face-painting, balloon-modelling, children's crafts and free nosh so over 100 people turned up. An added activity was finally being able to organise bread-making workshops with the Artistan Baking Community. I've been trying to get something sorted with them since about May and it was great to see how many people really got into it. They have organised their workshops so that participants are able to take home a baked loaf in 2 hours. The event was originally to have coincided with the final of The Great British Bake off, which was to have been projected onto a screen for them, but they got the dates wrong!

 After that event, some women came in to play bingo and my lodger led a group in the 'Data Day Computing Club'. It was a long day, but it felt great.

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