I had the pleasure of spending a short visit with Colin Alford on Wednesday this week as he showed me his huge collection of archival material he has put together over the years. Colin has also designed a powerpoint presentation that he has offered to show the club sometime soon, dating back from about 1962. For those of you who have visited Colin’s lovely home, you will know what I mean when I say, he has an office dedicated to Rotary. I came away from there thinking how important it is going to be to preserve these historic documents, at least for the next few years.
Thank you to all Past Presidents who stayed behind to discuss the ‘passing of the baton’ to succeed Robin Fenwick in his year as our next President. Not an easy decision to make with so many talented and wonderful people in our club. We will keep you all updated.
I have had the opportunity this past week to be visiting lots of our elderly in the community and have become aware of the need to ensure we all know our neighbours. I encourage those of you who have the time, and the energy, to find out the makeup of your neighbourhoods. If the need should ever arise due to climate or other natural disasters affecting those around us, we need to be ready. Not just as rotarians but as good and caring citizens. Maybe this is something our environment or community committees could undertake in the way of a community directory of those living alone. Happy to come and talk to you all about it.
In conclusion, the lesson I learnt this week was it’s best to plan ahead. I left Colin Alfords address, ready to go and visit Paddy for a cuppa and to say hello on a bright and sunny day. Braved the horrendous traffic at 10.30 in the morning, (would you believe), got down to Bob Scott, drove round and around looking for a park, saw one in the distance and had to wait for a truck to move. Parked my car, found reception, headed up in the lift and made my way to his room only to find out he’d gone out. Was told it would be fine if I would like to wait for an hour and a half for him to return but decided I would come see him another day. Bless you Paddy, we will have that cuppa soon I promise you.
Wacky fact: Did you know that this next week in America is Dr Seuss week: Every school needs to read these books or at least be encouraged to.
Monday is: One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish (wear either of those colours)
Tuesday is: Fox in sox (wear silly socks)
Wednesday is: Wacky Wednesday (wear mismatched clothes)
Thursday is: Cat in the Hat (pretty obvious – wear a hat)
Friday is: Hop on Pop (pyjamas please)
The ‘any day’ motivation is to always keep an open mind to new adventures. This amazing author asks us to question ourselves as to ‘why we try to fit in, when we were born to stand out’.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK AHEAD.