9.40am Arrive in church No I to set out forty chairs and six tables for the community singing group. Commence nine commutes down the aisle with the water jug to fill up the tea urn.
11.00am Serve tea to 107 singers.
11.20am Wash up 107 tea cups in the last three inches of hot water dispensed by the tea urn.
Noon Clear away forty chairs and six tables.
1.30pm Chaperone the Vicar's cassock on an emergency dash to the dry cleaner.
2.40pm Repeat the muddy mile to church No II by the school to fill the tea urn.
3.15pm Serve tea and squash to 13 parents and children.
4.15pm Clear away 13 tea and squash cups and mop juvenile footprints off the new laminate in the church hall.
5.00pm Start writing a press release on the Heritage Lottery grant towards the church organ appeal .
5.30pm Return to church No I to make up 12 mattresses for the winter night shelter. Set out three tables and 14 chairs for the guests. Commence nine commutes down the aisle with the water jug to fill up the tea urn.
In the midst of the mass irrigation of singers, an elderly lady pauses to receive a cup of tea from me: 'So,' she says conversationally, 'you're not working, today then?'
Do you work?!
