The before photo!  All set up ready to go, tables arranged cafe style with tablecloths, paper table mats (GCM and Operation harvest resources) grown up colouring and crayons, lots of crayons!  Elsewhere a room was set up for flower arranging and cake decorating as a "hospitality zone" and another area as a "creative zone" where it was possible to have a go at block printing or to make a GCM money box.  Plus of course a creche or 'play zone' as it was termed.

The service flowed on into lunch, with five kinds of tasty home made soup, crusty bread, dips and dunks, Indian snacks, home baking and biscuits.

We have raised some tidy sums for each of the charities and I think most people enjoyed themselves.

A lot of people mucked in to ensure we had a veritable feast, to wash up and to clear up. 

Now it's time for a little rest, then out to gather fallen leaves for this evening's service, a shower and a change of clothes (not least as I have bright yellow printing ink on my brown skirt...)

A good day, and it's not over yet.