GoodGym turned out in dribs and drabs today, but certainly made an impact on the running of the Fratton Family Festival.

Jen and Dave were first on the scene, and helped put up billboards, signage and gazebos. Their final task was to assemble a homemade banner for Fratton Together and get it mounted on their gazebo. Jen's retro knowledge of knots (clove hitch, anyone) helped get the banner hung up beautifully and with an easy mechanism to get it down again at the end of the day.

Next to the relay was Jane who finished the set up with the Fratton Together squad. She reported a good atmosphere, with the tempting smells from the food stalls, the music and everyone was happy. She then set out the volunteers' secret lunch area (behind a screen in the church) and helped mostly at the Food Pantry stall.

The anchor leg of GoodGym support came from Tracey, who helped with getting the area tidy towards the end of the day. Nice work, everyone!

This was a great task helping Macmillan with their Coffee morning, hosted by Southsea Library. It was a slow start, but soon got very busy. Tracy and I were tasked with looking after the teas, coffees and cakes. Tracy had made cheese scones and bramley apple mufins, and there were plenty of other lovely cakes donated. Tracy was given a new name of Urnie after being responsible for filling the hot water urn by booling several kettles of water. We had entertainment from a band singing a mix of Beatles, Oasis and other popular bands. Then a choir who sang songs from the musicals. The event culminated in the Raffle which was a huge success with some great prizes donated. A wonderful total of £1431.77 was donated for the Macmillan charity.

I helped PRAS load some snakes into a car so they could be shown at a charity event. Despite the exhibitors car being parked a bit of a walk from her house we managed to load her car in quicker time than normal. It also helped to keep an eye out that a certain Jack Russel didn't do his great escape act as we were going in and out of the house.