Trying to recall - with my failing memory - two days activities, is a bit of a challenge. I called at the hospital Tuesday morning, stopped by the Senior Centre, joined in with the gospel singing for a little while.
I went to Emmanuel yesterday evening, it is hosting Family Promise this week. I used to do an overnight stay, but feel I am getting too old to rough it in a sleeping bag, so volunteered to be an evening host, from 5.30 when the guests arrive from the Day Centre, until 8.30 when the overnight volunteers arrive and take over.
There have been more homeless families than usual on the programme, I think the tornado which swept through a mobile home site here not long ago has something to do with it. There are eight children and five adults this week. Another volunteer brings the evening meal so the evening hosts just serve it up, and clear away afterwards.
I think I've explained that Family Promise helps homeless families get back on their feet. They stay at a Day Centre during the day, and the staff there give them help and advice, and also help them find a job if necessary, so they can move on into a place of their own.
Going back to the subject of my failing memory, there is one advantage of it. I can read a book and then not remember it, so I don't need to get any more. I've discovered some very good American fiction writers - I didn't used to read fiction, I don't think I had time when I was young and busy - but I've got 73 books on my C-Nook (not all fiction, but mostly) A lot of them are in series of three or four, by the time I get to the third or fourth in a series I have to start back at the first to familiarise myself with the characters.
Today I have embarked on a little spring cleaning, and rearranging. And updating all the photos on the walls, of which there are many. Jeremy said I've practically got the inventory of the National Portrait Gallery.
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