Nearly Done and Packing Up

Well, it has really been a fantastic three weeks. Everyone has worked really hard but has also enjoyed every moment of it. We have seen old friends and made new ones along the way.

Marianne popped in too, at a very useful time!










When at the start we thought shoebox numbers would be well down we find we are not far off  last year's total. However, although we are tired we feel extremely proud of our worthwhile achievement and it is sad too to be packing up and saying those goodbyes.




Sad to see the tables once buzzing with people chatting and full of boxes are now empty and bare.

Happy to see all those cartons ready packed up full to bursting with shoeboxes waiting for the lorry to arrive on Monday, when it will be packed to the brim and start the long journey to Bosnia.

Sad to see the pile of shoeboxes that did not get covered and filled with goodies, they look like that discarded Christmas tree you see in late January where a month before was loved and decorated now abandoned and totally redundant.








The lorry arrives on Monday and that will be the end of this years blog, thank you for taking the time to log in and read about Operation Christmas Child in the GU area. Thank you for all of you who helped make it happen by coming along to work and making up shoeboxes.