Blogs, Biscuits and Bobby

The ARC is where the action was this morning, with two people booked in our first pop in session (is that a contradiction in terms?). They are still celebrating their Two Lord Mayor's Regeneration Awards that they scooped recently, which as well as being a fantastic achievement and recognition of the hard work that goes on there, also means that the students get free tea, coffee, juice AND biscuits in the classes, which more importantly means that WE get free food and tea! Its like Easter has been extended for the whole of April. I will be visiting Marjorie and trying the 'half the calories' diet at this rate. Bobby is the self appointed sampler of the celebration snacks (try saying that 3 times quickly) and has been working non-stop ensuring that the biscuits are in an optimum state for our participants...

The pop in session went really well, with one lady calling in with her brand new swanky digital camera, and Claire translated 3 years of a photography degree into 15mins! Deb had been working hard recruiting clients in need of our help all week, and then she took to the streets with our posters and came back with another client for us! Top job Deb! We spent some time working on Claire's blog, taking apart the html codes and rejiggling them into a spectacularly girly look. Then we roped in our technicians to start their own blogs - stay tuned for the links to Nicky and Michaels daily deeds. And while we thought that we were busy, Paddy, one of our PC Surgery Volunteers managed to take apart two computers, strip a power supply down to its bare bones AND swap a DVD drive between two machines...