Fundraising Collection

We held a fundraising collection on Thursday 22nd September at the Asda supermarket in Astley Bridge. Evidence of the economic downturn was shown by the numbers passing through the doors.
One of the features of the day was the late appearance of John Poulsom which meant that Tony Foster had to go into extra time. Tony managed to contact John just as he was about to mow the lawn. On his arrival it was pointed out to John that this action, preferable though it may be to standing like a muppet outside a supermarket, would result only in collecting grass, not money, which was the aim of the exercise. His excuse was that he'd got his diary mixed up, but popular opinion has it that he just couldn't stand the thought of spending two hours in my company. There a lot of people who belong in that category, so we'll go with that as the likely explanation.

The amount raised was £216.89 which under the circumstances was a reasonable total. The circumstances  being, not the recession, but the prolonged bout of banter which took place when Babu Roye and Ron Eadie came to take over from John and I, which rather distracted us from the task in hand. Otherwise I'm sure we'd have passed £300.

Ray Stafford