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It's the big food drive we do through Tesco - http://fareshare.org.uk/get-involved/food-collection/
Raises tons of money and ambient food for us - last year, enough to make nearly 4m meals
. We help to feed over 484,000 people a week, and could be doing loads more if we could get more food..
. Let me know if you want me to sound the regional centre out for employment.
We'll happily take volunteers
Well what a good and yet frustrating day. I got home from work about 6, ripped off my bra, put slippers on, poured a glass of Abruzzo red, then realised the work phone for the big Christmas Food Collection hadn't been transferred to a colleague's mobile, went ripping back to work (minus bra and still in my slippers), spent 10 mins in the freezing cold persuading Maria the cleaner to let me in (the building gets locked at 6pm), got upstairs to fix the phone, only to find out that it's not working at all - don't know why, I tried everything. Has a dial tone but won't answer when I ring it. Oh well, as Scarlett says, tomorrow is another day. Working 8am to 9pm tomorrow, which will be fun, although the last three hours will be from home.
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@Stackhead we've got 21 regional centres. We're big, dude
@Charleybarley it's tough schlepping across London, don't worry hun. You can search by postcode on our website here http://fareshare.org.uk/fareshare-centres/ to find the closest one to you.
Well I have good news and better news. Forgot to say i did my WI this morning and I am officially down by 4lbs. No idea how, I scoffed an entire packet of chocolate doughnuts the other night. So Friday is my WI from now on. the other good news is that someone else is doing the late shift tonight so i get to finish at 6pm (apart from a bit of social media from home). Woohoo!
And I'm done, signed off on social media for work now - don't want to look at Tweetbank again for a bit lol.
The Food Collection is going brilliantly though, so many generous people - an old guy walked into a store, bought about £20 worth of food and said if it wasn't for FareShare giving food to the charity he was going to for a hot meal, then he thinks he would have just died. Now he's back on his feet and has a job and a home. That's called making a difference. Fabulous
Thank goodness for everyone involved in things like Fareshare, I so agree with you Buffy on it being a national disgrace..i'd better go before I high jack your diary Suzie as I'm in danger of going on a rant again X
.. I do like Christmas gift buying though, as it's done on the basis of "One for them, one for me" .
Your tree will look nice with it's twinkly lights and at least the cats won't end up with curly hair if it's battery X
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