Volunteering - still

Christmas Morning 2005

So, the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre asked me to locate any images I could find on CD's and hard drives and organise them neatly in a file on the server. Who said volunteering wasn't fun?? At the same time, I've dug out a digital camera and its various components which had been carefully hidden in a wide range of cupboards to get it into a workable proposition. Anyway, while going through their photo's, I found one of this rather dashing looking Paddock Worker cooking eggs for the mob on Christmas morning 2005. The MNC started a tradition of providing a free Christmas breakky quite a few years ago. I've missed a couple, but wherever possible, I like to go and cook a couple of hundred eggs before wandering home for a beer in the paddock. Just noticed that: The shirt was a gift from Best Mate, the apron was a gift from Big Sis, the hat was loned to me by one of the mob .... do I ever buy clothing apparel and accessories? Perhaps not. 

Volunteering

Maleny Neighbourhood Centre

Volunteering is something I've been doing for a long time. Not sure why. You get to meet a lot of people, feel like you're helping out.  The main thing I've learned over the years is to avoid committees - so these days I just look to do tasks.

Anyway I come into the Neighbourhood Centre on Mondays and Wednesdays. Started doing some IT work for them about a year ago, but then their cleaner left. It seemed to me that a good way for me to help them save a dollar was to take on the cleaning. So I do that twice a week and still play with a bit of IT. 

I've been hanging round with these guys on and off for about 15 years. Their purpose in life is helping people. Not a bad ambition. Anyway, here's an old pick I found in the office where we got the funding for the lovely building I now get to clean twice a week.

Howard, Carolyn, Anna and Me