Branches Has Its 25th Birthday Party
We had an interesting day. It was up early to collect the marque to be erected outside the Branches Shop in Bo'ness. Today we were celebrating 25 years of trading as a 'not for profit company'. I always think that description isn't quite right. We want to make profit, in fact we need to make profit if we are to do what we wee set up to do. It was great to have Alastair McDonald visit with us again and do some singing as our volunteers gave the Bo'ness public some...
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Today I spent some time with the staff of Sanctus Media thinking about how it feels to be "Cheesed Off" I think some of us were cheesed off before we started. You see we were preparing for the January theme of Sanctuary First. The good thing was when we wee finished we were all a lot happier. the mood in the office had changed.
We started to think about the things that "cheese us off" for the most part we could see that too often it is usually one of the following...
I'm sure some of the phone calls we made to people today from the church office were answers to their prayers. We were continuing our service in the community by offering to clear snow and run errands for many of our elderly members. t was great to see the satisfaction on the young people's faces as they retuned from clearing snow away or doing some shopping.
At one point today I'm told there wasn't a loaf of bread to be found in the town supermarkets. I believe...
Nothing quite like a snow fall to turn our lives upside down. Perhaps even for the better. We're sitting here in Bo'ness with about 10 inches of snow on the path. The poor weather looks like continuing and I guess for the next few days we'll all be out with our snow shovels moving snow. Its meant that a lot of people can't get to work and of course all our schools have been closed for the past two days. I've had to leave the car in the driveway and do a bit of walking....