Addie, Sharon, Eddie and Linda arrived early and started the set up. Sharon was on admin testing out instructions Linda had written to make sure they made sense and made it through identifying some minor hiccups.

Eddie and Addie got out the cages and set the bag table up. Natalie and Peter arrived and got stuck straight in with picking and packing. We also had two friends of Frenford helping out. With so many experienced willing hands we were done and sitting down to tea within the hour. We had a nice chatty catch up afterwards, we must enjoy each others company as "teabreak" took almost as long as the session 😊

Its been a while since we had a social at our local parkrun and with this weekend being Ed's 250th volunteer session it seemed a good enough excuse.

What we didn't realise was how many people would be away this week. As it turned out this was fine by Ed as our unsung hero of Valentines PR car park wasn't keen on having a big fuss.

Our little group of four went ahead anyway, Ed volunteered on his usual spot. Peter scanned in the finishers, Julia tail walked some of the slowest parkwalkers ever and Linda jeffed her way round the course. We were met by Sharon at the end who had popped over for a quick cuppa.

By the time we were all together the cafe had cleared comforably so we switched venues from the "Spoons" for refreshments and a companionable chat.

Luckily Peter had time to photograph the local wildlife as we had all forgotten to photograph each other 🤦‍♀️🙈