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Date: 05 December 2005 13:24:12
Yesterday was a very weird day. It started well. We woke up in plenty of time, without the aid of an alarm clock. We organised ourselves and dropped the washing off and proceeded with ease. Then things started to go pear shaped...
We stopped off at a newsagents near the chapel, 4 miles from home, to get a paper and some bad breakfast substitute. Then the car wouldn't unlock as the battery decided to die in the key fob. Not too much of an immediate problem as we were just up the road from Chapel. So we walked down and got mum to run us home afterwards.
Collected the washing and then headed off to Halfords to get new batteries for the fob. Of course, Halfords can't help you fit them as there maybe a problem with setting the fob and immobiliser afterwards. So we headed back to to the car. Then we couldn't find the handbook. I usually leave it in the car but, as I spend so much of my life either in it or using it as a storage area duing the week I couldn't find it.
Back home again. Decided to look on the internet but you never find what you want when you want it. So, being slightly practical person, I decided to hell with it and proceeded to dismantle the fob and install new batteries. Then we had lunch and decided to head back to the car.
Thankfully yesterday was the church meeting for the election of officers. Therefore I had to head back that way anyway. First Wife was only to helpful in taking me over, checking to insure that the fob worked, which it did. We went our separate ways, her home and me to the meeting.
These have been known to drag on endlessly in the past with some arguments but much talking about everything but what is required. However this one lasted just under 2 hours and had no major disagreements, fisticuffs, knife fights or slanging matches.
We have decided that, as next year is the Chapel's 50th birthday, we'll have a fund to assist in raising money to carry out work on the building to help equip it for the next 50 years. We have a list of things that need doing, supplied by the Clerk of Works - my dad. I now find myself nominated to assist in the organising of said work. That's the thing with small congregations, there are too many jobs and too few people to do them.
I was also reelected and am now in position for the next 3 years. Do they still not realise what I'm like after 30 years of attendance?
The biggest shock came when it was announced that the organist, pew supply and BMS Birthday Scheme organiser was leaving. No one realised how much Mum did at the Chapel. We managed to fill the 2 minor positions but find ourselves short of an organist/pianist.
Any volunteers would be accepted. Please apply to the normal address.