Charity

Slept quite well last night - I’d read somewhere that pistachios are full of melatonin and thought I’d try eating a handful before bed - maybe it worked! May have to try some more tonight.

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon with the team from Mission Christmas - a charity we were involved with last year for 6 weeks - ad are joining them again on Monday for this years campaign. They collect gifts for local children which are supplied unwrapped to the applicants (usually social workers or children’s organisations such as Gingerbread) to distribute to children who would otherwise get nothing at Christmas.
We both spent 6 weeks Monday - Friday last year helping with the volunteers who come in to sort the gifts and make up the applications.

Monday is the start of this years campaign- 5 weeks this time and today we went into the unit donated by the shopping centre to work out the logistics of how we can organise things to fulfill the requests. So far they have had applications on behalf of 16000 children and last year we provided gifts for more than 25000 children so it gets pretty busy!

Home for a quick tea of pizza and baked potato before I had a bath to warm up as it’s bitterly cold here tonight.

Quick EB of one of my coasters - makes me chuckle!!