The day
dawned bright and sunny, we loaded the car with deck chairs and gazebo and
headed for Quarry Bank Mill, the time for meeting was the usual 9.30. Upon
arrival 7 of us went down into the mill meadow to meet our man in charge for
the day Matt, he had arrived earlier to set up the table with photo albums and
our leaflets, also helping was Tim. We put down our rucksacks and deck chairs
and put up the gazebo which we did relatively quickly with so many people, after this was
done, the deckchairs went up and in some cases the coffee came out. Matt decided
the photos on the information stand needed a bit of rejigging so set about
doing that with a bit of help from other members of the group, it was also
decided that it was time we got some new pictures done for these boards but
that's another story! By 10am opening time we were ready for all those
visitors, we had one or two come and see us who had been emailing us about
joining, so they could meet us person and ask any more questions they had.
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| Our stall |
We had a
number of people stop by and ask us about our group. We hope that those who
took leaflets and stopped to chat to us, will email and ask to join us on one of
our workdays - only time will tell. We took it in turns in groups of two or three
to man the stall as others had breaks in the deckchairs or went to visit the
rest of the outoor fair and the craft fair that was up at the mill. The day stayed dry,
sunny and really quite warm and, as the picture below shows, the deck chairs
became very useful.
During the
afternoon some of the group took the advantage of the warm weather and had an
ice cream. Again during the afternoon we took turns to man the stall and when
4pm came we worked as a team to get everything tidied away very quickly.
My thanks
again must go to Sue for her hospitality and to Matt for organising the
day so well and the tasty cookies, let's see if we get any new members from
this day. Here's to next time
Ally :)
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