Weighing ‘Anchor’…

Since receiving delivery of several issues of the April edition of Anchor (the magazine for all volunteers and parish contacts of the A.O.S.) featuring the walk, they have been distributed in the most unusual places. To use the nautical term, I have been casting the nets in the deep.

Who would have thought one would have ended up in a garage forecourt shop or a large post office. Well they have. The large city post office is not our usual venue when we visit Carlisle, but on a rare trip there the friendly counter assistant enquired if we were walkers seeing my rucksack. Explaining that we had just purchased it for our charity walk, she became interested, (despite the queue) and in 30 seconds listened intently to an account of the need to support seafarers. “Do you have any literature?”, she enquired, and so the Anchor was handed over for her perusal.
Next evening I stopped for petrol at the local garage forecourt when the assistant asked if we were doing anything exciting, “Just wait”, I replied, running out to the car I retrieved a copy of Anchor, “You’re too busy to hear what I’m doing, but can read it at your leisure”, I replied.
Tomorrow I’m going to leave a copy at our Health Centre. Well the publicity may not raise much money, but it sure will put the A.O.S. on the Map.
Mentioning money, guess what, I understand, we already have £800 cash. Who says the people in the North East are not generous?
Veronica

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