Sara and Mary spent the morning clearing out Mary's bedroom of all her old school things and preparing her for the new school. This afternoon I went into Andover to take some rubbish to the tip and also deliver some of Mary's old soft toys to the Andover Mind Shop. she has collected quite a number over the years and is now wanting to get rid of them to make more room for her next stage in life. After having delivered these I drove on to Ludgershall for the Installation Meeting of Wiltshire Masters' Lodge where I was installed as the Senior Warden. Next year I shall be installed as the Worshipful Master. I donated quite a number of raffle prizes for the event with about 30-odd in total. With the raffle and donations we raised £948 on the evening giving £500 to the Royal College of Surgeons, £200 to the hearing dogs for the deaf and £200 to another charity which i can't now recall. what a wonderful achievement from one meeting of 90 people! Freemasons are often maligned yet these are the sorts of donation which are raised and given away to charitable causes. I arrived back home at around 10.30 p.m.(in the rain again!), stayed up for a further hour before going to bed at 11.30 a.m. remembering that we need to be up tomorrow at 3.30 am!
No comments:
Post a Comment