Preparation Days

The past weekend saw most of the team arriving at St Paul's, Upton Cross for our latest preparation session. The church had recently extended its hall to include a new kitchen and toilet. We would pay for our stay by helping with some of the decorating and clearing some of the graveyard.

The Friday night went quite quickly as we set up and then walked a prayer Labyrinth and then played a card game where we competed over presents. And then it was time to go to bed, so as airbeds were blown up and sleeping bags unrolled we took turns to use the toilet and washbasin. It took nearly an hour. But then again we were mainly girls!

The next morning we showed our true colours as some took a long time to wake up and others were alarmingly bouncy!

David arrived and then, starting as he meant to go on, began talking. Soon after a couple of the church members arrived to show us what to do and we began to work.

There was a car boot sale across the way that meant that lots of people were asking us about what we were doing and in many ways we wished we'd known about this as we'd have organised a stall to help with our promotion and fundraising.

After lunch we then went on a walk to the Cheesewring, it was rather windy but we had a good time and saw lots of wildlife.

Once we returned to Upton Cross there was time for a cup of tea and an update, before we all went our separate ways. Our next, and final, preparation session will be on October 10th, two weeks before we leave.