Fundraising tomorrow

It's a big day tomorrow as we have fifteen tills to cover at IKEA.

Unlike bag packing at a supermarket the work is harder (due to the weight of the items) and less profitable (transactions take longer and as it is mainly credit card there is less change to drop in a bucket). However, beggars can't be choosers and it does have a couple of advantages.

One is that they let us eat in the staff canteen and two is that they go out of their way to make us welcome. Not all supermarkets do that. Tomorrow we will be the sole collectors, meaning we won't have to compete with the cute Brownies who creamed off all the cash at the entrance last time and we won't have to send Captain Hook to hassle Santa, as we had to do at a supermarket last Christmas.

It would take too long to explain all this, but I promise you that raising funds is not for the faint hearted. I am particularly pleased at the lack of cute Brownies as is one of our players, who was stitched up something rotten by them last year.

(Note to American readers - in the UK a Brownie is a small female paramilitary, not a chocolate confection.)