It’s finally here! I’ve spent the whole day packing, sorting things out and generally rushing around in a last minute frenzy! But I’m pretty sure everything’s packed and everything that needed done today has been done (apart from this but I’m actually going to try for a quick blog post today – I know, unheard of!).
It’s been a weird few weeks, coming to terms with the fact that I’m actually leaving now. Slowly but surely the goodbyes have been building up, a few here and a few there until my goodbye party on Thursday night and then my best friend tonight and the family tomorrow morning at the airport. Most of the tears so far have actually come after saying goodbye, when my mum asks me if I’m ok!
I’m not sure it’s properly sunk in yet that I’m actually going to be away for a year. Most of you probably know that I spent a month in Costa Rica last summer and it almost feels like I’m just going off to do the same thing (though my rucksack is a bit heavier this time!) It might only be when I get past the month mark that I realise that I’m there for the long run.
Anway, having just said some goodbyes and still feeling a little bit emotional (though it’s not like I can leave tear stains on a blog post is it?) I’m going to move on to the practical things. I leave tomorrow bright and early at 5.15 to catch a 7am plane before arriving in Honduras three flights later at 7pm local time (or 2am our time).
While I’m away you can keep up to date with this blog, my Facebook page – Sara’s Year in Honduras – and if anybody wants to write to me (or send me chocolate, that would be much appreciated) you can address them to:
Sara Morrison c/o Victor Cruz Candelaria Lempira Honduras
If this changes or updates I will let you know as soon as possible.
Before I go as well I just want to say a final, massive thank you to every single person who has made this possible, either by donating or helping me out in any way. THANK YOU!!!
I’m not sure what the wifi will be like for the first couple of days or whether I’ll be updating for the first few weeks I’m there so this may be it for a few weeks. See you in Honduras!
It’s official! In less than one month I will be winging my way to Honduras! I got back from a week of training on Coll on Friday and am now sorting through a massive pile of things that need to be done before I fly.
Training was even better than I was expecting! I got the bus up from Glasgow and met Siobhan, one of the other volunteers going to Honduras. When we arrived in Oban we headed to the hostel and met a whole bunch of other volunteers going to Honduras, Ghana and Zambia, the three country groups on training that week. Any conversation with someone started with ‘Where are you going?’, so much so that you could have been talking to someone for ages without actually knowing their name!
About halfway through the evening, I finally met my partner, the moment I’d been waiting for! And you’ll never guess her name… AMY! What are the chances?! Anyway, we hit it off straight away and I have a feeling we’re going to get along just fine while we’re in Honduras.
Me and my partner Amy on our way to Coll
After an early ferry on Monday morning, it was straight into an intense training schedule. Over the week we covered some general areas to do with our year overseas, like insurance and health, bereavement, culture shock, travel and safety and security as well as having country specific sessions.
Pretty much all of the projects in each of the countries are teaching or at least involve some teaching so we were taught how to plan lessons as well as the very important skill of behavior management. Within the projects, some are in primary schools, some in secondary schools and then a few are TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). I’m going to be teaching mostly in a primary school but specifically doing TESOL. During the week we split into the different teaching types to get some specific training which was really useful. I actually feel slightly qualified to do this now rather than like I’m heading into it with my eyes closed!
During the week we also had to plan and present a ten and a twenty minute lesson encompassing what we’d learnt over the week. I did my ten minute lesson on first aid and my twenty minute lesson on French, to try and best imitate what it would be like when I’m teaching overseas. Obviously it’s a bit different teaching to five well-behaved 18 year-olds instead of thirty mischievous 8 year-olds!
While it was a very busy week we had the evenings off (when we weren’t planning lessons!) and so I finally made it down to one of Coll’s gorgeous beaches! We spent an evening playing rounders and another just walking along and then almost getting lost on the way back!
On the last night, as is PT tradition, we had a ceilidh – cue all the English volunteers flailing about in their best attempt at the Gay Gordons (no offense guys!). It was a brilliant night and a great way to end our time on Coll and start the countdown to our departure, which is… drum roll please…
Team Honduras!
2nd August!!! I know, so soon!!! Up until now, all I’ve been is excited but now it’s starting to feel a little scary because it seems real. Now that I’ve met my partner and all the amazing people that are going to be in the same country as me it’s so much easier to imagine what next year is going to be like. In the meantime there are lots of last minute things to be done like getting all my vaccinations and booking a flight down to London but I think the next month is really going to fly by!
It’s finally here! Tomorrow is the day I head off to the magical isle of Coll where I will spend an intense week learning how to handle Honduras, how to tackle teaching, and everything else that next year will throw at me. But before that there’s a few things I want to wrap up.
First of all, something I meant to include in my last blog but completely forgot to is the link to the version of my Global Citizenship blog that has been featured on the Project Trust website! This was the post that I wrote about the workshops and non-uniform day I ran in Newton Primary and it can be found here on PT’s website.
As you might remember, in my last blog post, I said that I had hit £5,000 and was waiting on the Realising Dreams Foundation to step in with the final £1,200 that I needed. Not only have they helped me realise my dreams of going to Honduras but also my dream of receiving a massive cheque! All I can say to RDF and to Sam Hunter, who has helped me throughout this process, is THANK YOU! There really aren’t the words to express my gratitude.
WOOHOO!!!
After 12 months and £6,200 I am now officially done with fundraising!!! It’s been a hell of a journey with some times more of a rollercoaster than others (I’m looking at you October). The process was incredibly challenging but I wouldn’t change it for the world. The fact that I have had to work this hard before I even get to Honduras will make the work I do there next year even more satisfying because I know that I deserve to be there, that I worked hard for it. I’m still glad it’s over though!
The official confirmation from PT!
Something I’ve forgotten to mention so far but is actually very exciting is the opportunity I’ve been offered to take part in a programme while in Honduras called Language Linking, Global Thinking. LLGT creates a link between a student abroad and a classroom in Scotland, encouraging young people to understand the relevance of languages and raising awareness of and exploring other cultures. I feel very lucky to be able to take part in this, especially because when Project Trust first approached me I wasn’t able to make the training day and therefore couldn’t take part. However, as there are several schools who also couldn’t make the training day so I have been paired with one of them.
On Thursday I travelled up to Grantown-on-Spey, north of Aviemore, to visit my link school, Grantown Grammar. I spent a couple of hours getting to know Ann Mackintosh, the teacher I will be liaising with while away, getting a feel for the school and meeting some of the pupils and talking to them about Honduras and Project Trust. As there is only a beginner Spanish class for fifth and sixth year pupils at Grantown and the fact that I will mainly be based in the primary school in Candelaria, we have decided that our link will primarily be a cultural one between my older primary school pupils and Ann’s S1 classes.
And that’s pretty much it! Tomorrow I head up to Oban before getting the ferry to Coll (very early!) on Monday morning. I’ll meet my partner and the rest of my country group as well as learning how to survive my year abroad. I can’t wait to get back on Coll and be surrounded by all things Project Trust again. Wish me luck and I’ll tell you all about it when I get back!
We are down to 11 weeks and counting before I leave for Honduras and it’s all starting to feel very real! It’s becoming all I can think about while I’m pretty sure my mum is trying to avoid thinking about it too much!
One very important thing to report is that I have now reached the magic number, which for me is £5,000, and I am now in a position for the Realising Dreams Foundation to step in for the last £1,200. I have been sitting on about £4,600 ever since the Global Citizenship non-uniform day, just biding my time until my last scheduled bake sale. No sooner had I had my last official day at school than I was back, selling lots of delicious cakes, cookies and tray bakes at the S2 parent’s evening. After selling leftovers at break the next day (honestly, that place can’t get rid of me!) we made £301.05, taking me to the total of around £4,960. This took me by surprise a bit as I wasn’t expecting to be so close to the end!
Celebrating after finishing my last bake sale of the year!
Some of you may remember that back towards the start of my fundraising, my Uncle Paul generously, selflessly and at great personal cost offered to give up one beer a week and put the money saved towards my year. As soon as I realised how close I was to my total, all it took was a quick phone call to cash in the last remaining bit that I needed from my uncle and there I was, all the way up at £5,000!
More exciting news to make next year real was getting my placement email. I was expecting it the last week of April. And then the first week in May. And then came the second week of May, still without an email though Project Trust promised it was coming! But they still made us wait until the end of the week!
It was absolutely worth the wait though! I have been placed in Candelaria, a remote town close to the Honduran border with El Salvador. Although a relatively poor town, there has been investment and the local council (municipal) has been active in improving infrastructure and providing opportunities. Candelaria is a new project that has only had volunteers since January this year and is a partnership scheme that involves the municipal, the local school and the parent’s committee. They are very keen to have an English programme after seeing the benefits of Project Trust volunteers in the nearby town of Tomalá.
Candelaria
The volunteers this year have been teaching in the Kindergarten and primary school as well taking an adult evening class. There is scope to develop the timetable to include the secondary school, as demand for English lessons is high. The primary school has about 180 pupils and limited facilities. It caters for the town and children from the local aldeas. I will be able to set my own curriculum so will need to use my imagination and initiative to teach.
There are lots of practical things to be taken care of like vaccinations and disclosures now that I definitely know where I’m going and I’m now on the countdown to training back up on Coll and then to my departure! Not long now…!
This is the story of how two Project Trust volunteers, one return and one future, and one powerpoint presentation brought Global Citizenship to the world (or at least one primary school in Scotland) and raised some funds in the process.
One of the fundamental values at Project Trust is Global Citizenship. It is imbued in every part of your experience with them, from a workshop during the selection week, to the qualification you work on throughout your year abroad and even to what you teach your classes during your year away. Then, once you have finally come home, one way you can continue to be involved with Project Trust is by becoming a Global Citizenship ambassador and going out to talk to schools.
Back in October, I decided that I wanted to try something like this with my old primary school but as a future PT volunteer rather than a returned one. I thought I could combine some workshops on Global Citizenship with a non-uniform day to raise some funds. The head teacher, Mrs McManus, was very open to and excited by the whole idea.
However, Global Citizenship is one of those terms that most people have a vague idea of what it means but find it really difficult to put into words and all I really knew was what I had learnt in the hour-long workshop when I was on Coll. It was clear. I needed help. I emailed Heloise Allan, Head of Education at PT, and she put a call out to the Global Ambassadors in my area asking if anyone would be interested in helping me out. Step up Belle Yeung, a returned Honduras volunteer now studying at the University of Edinburgh.
After Christmas, it was suddenly full speed ahead. I wanted the day that we chose to be Global Citizenship themed, so we settled on the 5th of February, linking it to UNICEF’s Day for Change. I liked the idea of a day where I could inspire people to think more globally and ask themselves what they can do to help others.
Via e-mail, Belle and I identified 3 days prior to the non-uniform day that she could come out to Dunblane and help with the workshops. A week before our first one, I went into Edinburgh to finally meet up with her. I was buzzing with anticipation to meet someone who knows exactly what this experience is like and can understand exactly what I’m feeling, especially because we have Honduras in common. We spent about three hours forming a plan and nursing a coffee and then sat for another hour just talking about Project Trust and Honduras. Needless to say I now know all the best tips for Honduras, and all the must see places for during travel time!
Something very special about Project Trust is that, even if you don’t have anything else in common, you are guaranteed to get on with another volunteer. I think it’s to do with the kind of person you have to be to want to go to the other side of the world on your own for a whole year – there is something undeniably unique about that and when you find it in others, you instantly connect with it.
I left Edinburgh ready to take on our first workshop the following Friday with P4s and 5s. My idea for tying in Global Citizenship with the non-uniform day was for the kids to dress up like someone from their favourite country or in the colours of the flag. The P7s who had been helping me had run with this and assigned each year group a country that Project Trust works in and they had to wear the corresponding colours of the flag, which I think was a fantastic idea! They also made posters to promote the day and put them up round school and we wrote and sent an e-mail to all the parents telling them about the non uniform day.
So finally all the planning was done, the prep was finished and all that was left was to actually run the workshops and have the non-uniform day!
Our first day of workshops was with the P4 and P5 classes – they were amazing! We tried to get the kids involved as much as possible by asking them lots of questions about what they saw happening in our photos, answering them as if we were the Honduran school children that Belle had taught. I had been a little concerned that some things might go a bit over their heads but, from the reaction we got, they understood the issues we were talking about and were interested by them.
On our second day, with the P1, P2 and P3 classes, we simplified the concept of Global Citizenship. We wanted to talk about the same ideas but in a way that they would be able to understand and relate to so we used pictures from Belle’s year in Honduras to illustrate the differences and similarities between a school pupil in Scotland and in Honduras. They were all desperate to answer the questions we asked them about their lives here and then listened intently while we compared them with Honduras.
We finished the workshops with P6 and P7 on the morning of the non-uniform day. We used the same presentation as the P4s and 5s had and had very similar answers to our questions. However, the questions they asked at the end were based a lot more about what I would be doing during my year in Honduras. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to give them that much information because I don’t have my project details yet but I told them as much as I could and Belle was able to tell them more of her stories.
It was great to see all the classes thinking about everything they’d learnt and to hear what was most important to them. For some of them they hadn’t even known Honduras was a place, and for me, even just teaching them that fact, having widened their view of the world just a little, was worth all the effort of planning and running the workshops. A lot were surprised by the fact that for some children their only meal of the day was whilst they were at school. As for being a Global Citizens, they realise that it is all about looking after our planet, caring for other people and being aware and respectful of other cultures, religions and beliefs around the world. At the end of the day I feel we accomplished everything that we wanted to. I think everyone (even the teachers!) learnt something new through the workshops and we helped spread Project Trust’s message and ethos.
Being in on the morning of the non-uniform day was great because it meant that we could see the kids in all of the colours of their flags, and they all looked brilliant! I was especially impressed with P1 who had Swaziland (lots of nice bright primary colours for them in that one) and P7 who had Honduras (but then I might be a little biased there!).
The main aims of working with the Newton Primary was to spread awareness of Global Citizenship and raise some money for my year but I also hope that it has planted the seed in the minds of some of the older ones that Project Trust is out there and is an option for their future.
You’ve probably noticed I keep saying ‘we’ and that’s because this really was a team effort. I want to give my biggest thanks to Belle because I honestly couldn’t have done this without her. ¡Gracias! I also want to say a big thank you to Mrs McManus, Mrs Kane and the We Count group at Newton Primary School for helping me organise everything. Thank you to Heloise at PT too for all her help, her emails checking how everything was going and for her enthusiasm. And finally I can’t finish without thanking all the pupils at Newton Primary who listened to us so well, participated brilliantly, brought in their pennies and who hopefully are going to take Global Citizenship with them through the rest of their lives.
This was an amazing experience for me. The funds I raised, an amazing £392.83, were a big incentive for this project but I got so much more out of it than that. It gave me an invaluable opportunity to meet someone who has been to Honduras, who knows how I am feeling about this whole experience and who shared her stories and advice with me. I have been completely caught up by the ethos and message that Project Trust wants to spread so hopefully I have inspired some future volunteers and others to think about the world and their place in it. I also got to talk about Honduras for hours on end, which anyone who knows me will tell you I am happy to do!
So long time no see! (Again.) It has been another month since my last post but I have still been accumulating news for you.
We have had two more bake sales at parent’s evenings, one at S4 and one at S5/6. And I have a picture this time! We went in not hoping for anywhere near what we got at the last one. But each time we have surprised and surpassed ourselves. At the S4 bake sale we raised £320.40 and then our most yet at the S5/6 with £328.40!!!! We still have one more to go but it’s not for a while so I’ll let you know how it goes.
I’ve also received more donations from family and friends and I am so grateful for the continued support. I would like to say a special thank you to my nanny and her friends who have been very generous and supportive. I also found out the other day that one of her friends has a friend whose daughter has been away to Honduras. It’s a small world!
As we all know Christmas is coming up and usually my mum and my nanny donate money to charity instead of sending Christmas cards. However this year ‘charity starts at home’, in the words of nanny and both of them have donated the money they would have given to charity to me instead!
Final update – Emma McRory, my mum’s friend, has knitted ten woolly hats to sell for my cause, raising £110!
So overall this has taken me up to £4,246.73 (ish!)! So less than £800 left to go before the Realising Dreams Foundation steps in to help me with the last bit and with everything I have planned and left to do, I should have it all covered! I have one more bake sale, at the S2 parent’s evening, which is hopefully another £300 (touch wood!) and I have still to include the money from my uncle after giving up one pint of beer a week.
I am also in the process of organising a Global Citizenship themed non-uniform day at my old primary school. Global citizenship is a big part of what Project Trust advocates and is a key part of any volunteer’s year abroad. Being a global citizen is all about having an awareness of the wider world and your place in it and wanting to make the world a more equal and sustainable place.
My plan is to run a series of workshops with P1-3, P4/5 and P6/7 with the help of Belle, a returned PT volunteer who went to Honduras last year. These will be done the week before the non-uniform day which is set for Friday 5th February, chosen not just because it’s the day before the February holidays but also because it is the day before the UNICEF Day for Change – rather fitting, I thought! The idea is that on the day, the kids pay a pound to come dressed like someone from their favourite country – example, a surfer dude in a cork hat from Australia – or in the colours of the flag.
I am very excited to meet Belle and hear all about her time in Honduras. I’m going to apologise to her now for bombarding her with millions of questions but I’m very grateful that she is willing to take the time to come and help me with my fundraising.
On that note, this weekend I went in to Stirling to what PT call coffee catch ups, where you can meet other volunteers in the area and talk to a staff member or a returned volunteer. Unfortunately, because of the weather up on Coll, the ferry hasn’t been able to get in so Laura wasn’t able to come down and meet us. Instead my mum and I met Craig from Linlithgow who volunteered in Ghana and Nuala from Balfron who volunteered in India, both in 2012/13. We got there at the start and stayed for the full two hours. I think Craig was a bit overwhelmed by my constant chatter but I think that when Nuala arrived she understood my excitement a little bit more.
It was great to find out how their experiences were and get some insider tips, even if they weren’t from the same country as me. I even got a very important question answered, one that has been weighing heavily on me since I was selected – how do I take a year’s worth of books to Honduras in a backpack? The simple answer, one that pains me to admit, is that I have to buy… a Kindle. That aside, it was a really helpful meeting and Nuala and Craig were great.
Unfortunately I only got to meet one other local volunteer but she’s not going to be far away. Sacha is from Comrie and will be volunteering in the Dominican Republic for her year out. She was selected a few months after me so I was more than happy to share my successes (and failures) and it was fun to have someone to talk to about selection, ideas and how daunting fundraising is when you start.
So that’s all for now. Expect things to be a bit quiet on the fundraising front for a while, the next event being the non-uniform day in February. In the meantime, I wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Thank you for all of your incredible support this year, I can’t quite believe it, and hopefully it can continue into the new year to help me reach my target.
And just think, this time next year, I’ll be celebrating on a beach on the Caribbean coast. Try not to be too jealous!
WOOHOO!!! Celebrating smashing £4000 on top of 3G hill on Coll
It feels like ages since I’ve updated on here which I’m sorry about but it’s only actually been a month! But it’s been a very busy month!
I’ll start off with my not so good news from October. So as you all know I was planning a Halloween party for the end of the month but due to poor ticket sales we were forced to cancel it, even after several attempts at rescuing it. It was unfortunate and a big disappointment but, hey, it’s not the end of the world.
In the meantime, on to more positive things. Since my last post where I talked about the Realising Dreams Foundation, I have received two more donations from charitable trusts. My local rotary club of Bridge of Allan and Dunblane have given me a grant of £200 and I also received a cheque for £300 from the Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust.
A few other little things to wrap up from this month. Another £22.50 from nanny’s mug mat sales, £120 in donations and the £20 winnings from the Rugby World Cup, won by New Zealand and Ed Payne, which was kindly given back to me.
And now onto the good stuff!! I had my first bake sale, at the S1 parent’s evening, (no picture I’m afraid, which was a bit of an oversight but I’ll get a photo at the next one to show you the spread!). It went spectacularly well and we raised £301.94! It was a great start so now we just need to keep that up for the rest of them!
Finally, my most recent and most successful event so far has been a raffle on the handmade quilt that we tried to sell back in August. That didn’t really work but this time we were selling tickets for £5 each, the money could be donated on my Virgin Money Giving page. It ran for around two and a half weeks and finished on Thursday 5th November. Congratulations to Karen Monaghan – the quilt will be winging it’s way to you in Boston very shortly! And a big thank you to everyone that bought tickets and raised £950!!! This will pay for an amazing two months in Honduras.
So overall, progress-wise, since my last post I have smashed both the target of £2,000 and £3,000 and am sitting at £3,051.22! So have some pictures to celebrate seeing as I don’t have one of the bake sale.
A picture painted by one of the girls from my selection course after getting home from Coll
The girls at the ceilidh on the last night of selection
A few little things have added more money to the pot since my last post but with some big new coming at the end!
First off, a big thank you to my neighbour Irene Bruce who sold some homemade tablet in the staffroom at school and raised £16 for me. Also a big thank you to my nanny and some of her friends for £25 – nanny has been selling mug mats for me at home in Northern Ireland. Finally, I organised a last minute Rugby World Cup sweepstake that pulled in £40 with a £20 cash prize waiting for whoever drew the eventual winners. Every little helps, as they say!
I have also spent the last few weeks creating a fundraising leaflet and writing letters to send out to charitable trusts. The range of trust available to me is fairly limited mostly because most will not give to individual fundraisers and there are not that many that operate inside Scotland but the handful that I have seem to be well suited to what I am doing. I will post my letters once my leaflet is printed and I am incredibly grateful to the Realising Dreams Foundation who have offered to do this for me.
The Realising Dreams Foundation aims to support individual children and young people (aged 5 to 21 years old) with a talent, drive and ambition who haven’t been able to realise their dreams because of a lack of funding or support from other charities.
However, there’s even better news to come from the Realising Dreams Foundation. As well as agreeing to print my leaflet for me and promote my blog on their website, they have promised that if I reach a target of £5,000 they will pay for the remaining £1,200!!! This a massive step towards Honduras and I am so grateful for their support.
Quite a lot of news, but the first bit is that we did it! I have officially hit the £1000 milestone, with a running total of £1055! I have received a steady stream of donations since I got home from Costa Rica as well as having had a couple of fundraising events.
To start with I would like to say thank you to the donors from my Virgin Money Giving page, Randal McDowell and Fiona Steen. Another big thank you to Rich Lambert for the cheque I received in the post, which makes these donations £120 overall!
My first official fundraising event took place on Sunday 30th August and was a Costa Rica coffee morning. I absolutely loved it because I got to talk about my trip for literally hours! There was cake, Tesco’s Finest Costa Rican coffee and many, many photos and everyone from my friends, my parent’s friends, teachers and even some long lost friends came for a chat.
It was great to see everyone who came and to all those who couldn’t make but still donated, a huge thank you! (There’s going to be a lot of that in this post!) Between the cakes, some crafty things we were selling and the absentee donations we raised £385.70! I had a great time and I hope I didn’t bore too many people with my stories!
Next up was a sly game of Guess the Number of Sweets in the Jar in my school library for all the S6’s, sly because I’m not ‘technically’ allowed to do any fundraising in school. I went around at break and lunch selling guesses for 50p or 3 for £1 and raised £60. Congratulations to Eve Colgan, the winner with the closest guess of 272.
I’m now onto creating my leaflet and finishing my trust research in preparation for writing to them, hopefully by the end of September. I’m also gearing up for my Halloween party at the end of October with the most difficult decision being… what should my costume be???
Outside of fundraising, I met up with a group of people from my selection course at the Glasgow uni open day. It was really nice to see them all again and hear about how all their fundraising is going. I have also been talking to Ellie Crozier, a girl from the year above me who is ready and waiting to go to South Africa with Project Trust as soon as her visa comes through. Just talking to her makes me even more excited for when it will be my turn. I wish her all the best for when she finally gets there and can’t wait to see her pictures and hear her stories!
I can’t say it enough so I’ll say it again – thank you to everyone who has donated so far and keep watching here and on my Facebook page for more updates.
This blog post is just to let you all know that I will be going quiet on the Project Trust front for the next month. Tomorrow I head off to Costa Rica on a volunteering expedition with a company called GVI so all thought on Honduras will probably be put on hold!
A couple of things have been going on since the last time I posted. The silent auction of the handmade quilt didn’t work, with no bids, but don’t worry! We are keeping it for later and plan to try it with a raffle instead. I have also booked my local hall for a Halloween party on Friday 30th October, which I’ll be selling tickets in school for. It is booked for the Saturday 6th February as well, to hold a family ceilidh to celebrate my 18th birthday – more news on both of those a little closer to the time!
Once I get back from Costa Rica, I will be working hard to create a leaflet all about my year volunteering and my fundraising plans to be handed out at events and distributed to charitable trusts, who I will also be writing to as soon as possible once I return. I hope to hold a coffee morning at the start of September but that will be planned once I get back. Feel free to come along and hear about my travels – past and future!
This is it from me until the middle of August but I hope everyone has an amazing summer and I’ll see you on the other side!
Sara Somewhere 