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COMMUNITY NEWS
Thrapston Community Rotary Shoebox Appeal
Thank you for your continued support of shoeboxes. Any donations can be dropped off at 10 Heron Ave. We are happy for people to fill their own boxes and drop back to us.
Inbox us on our Facebook page and collect from 10 Heron Ave, Thrapston NN14 4JF. The boxes are £2 each (children/adults/
households). We also have some plain boxes to fill. Any donations of small toys, tennis balls or money donations towards the cost of boxes, would be much appreciated.
Please check out our Facebook page.
We are holding a Shoebox Packing Day on August 28th from 10-1pm at St James Church Hall. Refreshments will be available in Church.
Come along, there will be items there to pop into your Shoebox, but feel free to add any items you want to bring, a much loved toy or small teddy for instance. You can pop in a photo or card, the choice is yours.
Also household items, and bits for teenagers, as we do boxes for them too. Cost per box is £2 (includes items you put in from our stock).
We shall adhere to any guidances in place
by the Government. We have leaflets available. Covid has, and remains, a challenge to the World. Let us help those children and adults in need.
Garage Sale
We have been asked to do another Garage Sale this year. This will be September 25th from 9am–2pm.
Email for a form or register at August/ September Farmers Market. £5 to register. List of map locations will be available nearer the time in Jigsaw. The last one was very successful, the weather was perfect. Cindy and Lindsey
Garage sale glitch – have you got Lesley’s mop?
It seemed like a good idea at the time. We had a nearly new electric mower no longer needed so we booked a stall.
Turning out a garage is always therapeutic, and we had a good time finding our no longer needed stuff. Trying to leave aside the thoughts that ‘no-one will want that’, we turfed out an
old rake, a spade and a potato fork (?), and we became even more enthusiastic. Manic might have been a better word. A red plastic bucket, that had lost not only its mop but the bit that goes across the bucket and dries out the mop, joined the pile with plant pots, and baskets that had sat on top of a wardrobe for some years and a vegetable steamer, hardly ever used. It was all selling nicely on the day, so encouraged, I went back into the garage, while Peter was engaged looking at a book stall nearby, to see what else might sell. I found a red mop lying around that would go very nicely with the old red bucket.
So far so good, and we were very happy with what we made.
It was not until the next morning when I went to clean the kitchen floor that I discovered the mop from our nearly new, and expensive, mop and bucket set, was missing. (It was specially shaped to go in the bucket and spin round so it dried and left very little water on the floor.) You have guessed it. I had happily sold it to a lady, who really wanted only the bucket, but as the mop was going with it for £1 she decided to take it too! We had even had a bit of a discussion about the strangeness of the shape of the mop head!
Now we would have to go and buy another mop... but, as we found out later they don’t make that design of mop and bucket any more. I was well and truly snookered!
So, if there is anyone out there who remembers buying this mop from us at the Garage Sale in July (at the bottom Springfield Avenue), I will happily give you £5 for it!
And the mower never even sold.
Lesley Baden
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