Six, because we are so good at it.

When we arrived on Woodthorpe Green the festival was still in full swing.

Victoria, one of the organisers, asked us to start with folding three large tables which were then to be rolled to a nearby address where they will be kept for next year's event.

While this was taking place another volunteer went to his house to bring litter pickers and bags for us to use. The litter picking part of the task involved walking around the field and collecting assortment of plastic drink and food packaging dropped by festival goers.

What followed was folding a gazebo challenge. As can be seen on the attached photos we did not leave anyone behind and the whole team got involved. The second gazebo was expertly folded by three local resident volunteers and Debs. I stood and watched and am certain that my positive presence helped them to achieve the task significantly.

The last job of the day was taking the above mentioned gazebos, some plastic crates and cardboard boxes to another volunteer house. That person went back to the green and trusted us with closing her garage door after depositing all the items inside. By trial and error Leanne mastered the lock/unlock fob operation and achieved full garage door closure in a very good time.

Our work was done after that

We barely scratched the surface - Michael

And we headed back to our homes to enjoy the rest of this glorious afternoon.

Woodthorpe York Community Group are always lucky to have a nice weather for their events and today was no different. We arrived towards the end of the summer fair to help with making the area clean and folding some gazebos. An unusual item found during the litterpick nominated for a special mention in the report was a plastic banana toy. Folding of the gazebos side of task taught us about the various security pins and buttons that one has to press or pull for the gazebo to fold. We did not have time for the hook a duck and the like, but stopped at the local Police stall for a team photo wearing various hats, high vis jackets and shields. Stall holders and event organisers were very grateful for our help and we had nice time chatting, so a successful afternoon overall.