2nd Volunteer shift MFSR Bush Festival

Get here in plenty of time for our 9am 'start'. Join other vollies at the Volunteer Hub and sit around waiting to be given instructions on what jobs we can be doing. While waiting Lisa and Tony arrive - they're meant to be on a 8am to 10am shift doing something down the main street - but apparently not required to do this, so they've come here to see what else they can do. Wait with us! Peter (one of our Logistics co-ordinators) arrives looking for the couple who did the fairy lights around the trees last year....David and Val respond. They are quickly nominated to lead a team of 6 vollies to get this task done. Lisa, Tony, Rog and I happily get into this crew. This task involves putting up fairy lights in every 2nd tree around the oval. Roger and I work together, and Tony, Lisa and Vlado form a team as well. Roger and I have David join and work with us. This task probably takes around 1 and a half hours then we have morning smoko break. After this, I take Lisa for a drive in our ute to get down the street to the Volunteer office to collect hers and Tony's Volunteer kits. We return back to Roger and Tony to find they are waiting around still for our next job to be organised. By the time Tony and Lisa have their new Volunteer shirts on - there is a job we can help with - putting up eucalypt branches around the oval. This involves a trailer with fresh eucalypt branches being driven around the oval, stopping around every third post to have 2 vollies drop off branches to be cable tied to these posts. Roger and I worked together to get these branches secured to the posts - Lisa and Tony did the same, we alternated around the oval until completed. Now lunch time - nice young fella is serving food at the Volunteer Hub today - he informs us that as long as we are rostered on today (doesn't matter how long) we are welcome to have lunch provided. So we enjoy a nice meat and salad roll with 3 small Easter eggs and cuppas before finishing for the day. Now around 1pm.
Roger and I drive down the street to do some grocery shopping - and for Roger to go to the Post Office to see if his BankVic replacement card has arrived - it had.
Lisa and Tony walk back to their caravan - we all intend to catch up this evening at our camp for tea.Read more