Georgeta and Sarah visited Mr F to help him with his TV and iPad. An absolutely delightful gentleman. He told us that his TV’s were prone to blowing up, we were intrigued. The TV, was balanced precariously on a unit with an extra plank of wood, as the unit was narrower than the new TV’s legs, but that wasn’t obvious at first glance. The TV seemed to be working fine but Mr F reported the signal would frequently drop…never mind the signal, the whole TV nearly fell on the floor when Sarah was checking the arial connection due to the rocky base it was sitting on 😱🤣 Disaster averted! Luckily Georgeta wasn’t quick enough to catch that on camera 🤣 Sarah discovered that the TV arial socket was literally taped to the wall and was very old and wobbly, no amount of retightening the screws would hold it. Mr F was advised to visit the local iron monger for a replacement. On to the iPad, that was also in good working order but someone was sending weekly emails with Microsoft Word attachments to Mr F instead of .pdf’s - we managed to open the document in Google Docs but it took a few clicks - We advised him to email the sender asking them to print to .pdf before attaching as the other recipients had also had issues. After a lovely chat we bid him farewell with a hug. Georgeta & Sarah

There were lots of loose screws actually, more of that later however.

Today was Part 1 of a 3 part mission to support the Cookham Art Club's annual exhibition.

Today was all about furniture removal and setting things up for judging day on Saturday.

Lots of the required furniture is stored away under the stage so Viv crawled down into that small space to help bring out screens, legs, signs, stands and easels.

Tables and chairs were relocated and put into position as directed. Another team were helping attach the screens to legs - unless we found any loose screws...of which there were plenty 😂.

Screws tightened, legs placed and screens attached - it was tough going in the heat.

We finished the task with a more gentle sitting down job of checking in some of the paintings that were going to be judged and/or exhibited. After a quick tutorial from Task Owner Wendy, this job was easel-ly done!

After a much needed ice lolly/ice pop break it was time to finish and part company until our return on Sunday for the big exhibition set up.

Nine keen good gymers arrived at Norden Farm on a mission to create a local beach for the summer holidays. Tonnes of sand were emptied using shovels, spades and hands. Teamwork made light work of the task and bags were emptied in record time! After some efficient raking the beach was covered by large plastic sheets to protect it from a cat's playground. Hopefully the giant sandpit will provide hours of digging fun for the summer play-scheme.