On Saturday we had a fun working bee at the Donations-in-Kind store in West Footscray, with over twenty volunteers helping out. Fortunately a fair number of them were trained nurses, who kept the rest of us on our toes. I had taken the Hoover over the two medical aisles earlier, so we didn’t have any complaints about the dirty floor. 

 

But confusion? “What do they use this pointy thing for?”  “Where does this go?”  “Are these the same stuff as that?”

 

But fantastic teamwork won out in the end: we had boxes filled and labelled, and about ten pallets of backlog cleared. We can now try to put things in the right place – with some help from the fork-lift drivers, of course. And maybe even start an inventory of goods: David Dippie of Keilor Rotary came up with the idea of photographing the instruments etc, to get over any language problems. 

 

So by the time the next working bee comes along, we hope it will all be easier. When will the bee be? First Saturday in September: that's the 7^th. You can safely pencil it in, in your diaries. 

 

Jenny Foster and Debbie Sloggett join me in thanking all the happy volunteers who turned up, especially the lovely lady who brought the home-made rock cakes!