Fairtrade Event on Great Linford

I arrived at Fulwell Court, StLegers Drive, Great Linford on Saturday 20th February 2010 after 11:00am but nearly managing to go in to the St.Andrews Church fund raising event instead.

Luckly Peter Billups managed to stop me, Andrew Pakes and Pete Marland had gone to the Co-op store across the road to use their vouchers to get the Fairtrade coffee chocolate and biscuits, literature was around on the Co-op Party along with various publications and very attractive banners rather like the one that the Stony Stratford and Two Mile Ash Labour Party Branch I saw at an event in the Central Library when the author Tristam Hunt spoke about his book on Engels for the Literary Circle .

I was hanging around for a bit and had a cup of tea and sat at one of the tables with the Bretts a nice elderly couple who are heavily involved with the Church and long came Cllrs Norman Miles and Janet Irons nice to have a catch up with them athough a bit differcult for Janet to hear the conversation (she still has forgotton to give me the letter from Cllr Debbie Brock it gets more interesting it will be mundane when I eventually get it i'm sure).

I was summoned by Pete to help in the kitchen making teas and coffees and the washing up of the cups and saucers in dribs and drabs had a long chat in between with him and Rob Marris on a range of topics such as the unveiled General Election slogan and how he felt it should have an apostrephe in it! it appears he works at the House of Commons for Natasha Engel MP and not the disgraced Kitty Ussher MP any more just as well as she plans to leave at the General Election he was telling me about her child care arrangements and the fact the children and their friends were coming into the office over the school half term.

It started getting more busier only because we sussed that the crafty elderly ladies when discovering that they could get a free tea or coffee as the church event was charging 15p a cup.

I also played waiter and served some cups of tea and coffee and amazingly remembered if they wanted milk or sugar.

I have to say I availed myself of the choclate chip cake as I was getting very hungrey very nice.

Rob Marris took some photographs of the event after getting more confident in using the camera but complained that Norman's head was getting in the way!

A nice lady returned to me Andrew's survey as she could not answer it online which I handed on to him later, we finished at 12:30pm and cleared everything away but we think Pete has broken a part of the Co-op banner when getting it in its case and asked Andrew if he could take him home to get an allen key to repair it before having to return it.

I declined going for lunch with them to the Cafe in Wolverton as I wanted to go home and chill for an hour before the next event.