Friday 11th July: A community service BBQ tonight at the Parks School on behalf of the Rotaract Parent Carers group. Paul Mills has offered to lead this event, and after a coaching session a couple of weeks back all is fine until he talks to Mike Owers who changes the plan a bit.

Instead of one of our own units, we use Mike's gas BBQ and a charcoal one of Paul's, too small collectively to cook the volume needed, so Margaret Owers and I spend time in the school kitchen pre-cooking burgers and sausages and transporting them to the BBQs for completion. It all works out right in the end but I'm not sure we were anywhere near the food hygiene standards we should have been.

It's a beautiful evening and the event goes well, we are thanked by Pippa Owen and her team, and we grab a PR photo by way of remuneration.