On and Off the Christmas Bus - Part 1

Myself and Michal joined Jenny the chief officer at Age UK York along with some Age UK volunteers this afternoon in the winter sunshine. We hopped on board the specially decorated First York bus at Grimston Bar with our face masks on and spaced out across the bus. Us two GoodGymers took up the back seat and discovered that this is probably the coldest part of the bus to sit in as we got the full effect of all the open windows as we went along. Our mission was to deliver Christmas packages consisting of a card and some edible goodies from Age UK and we were to deliver to the ones furthest away from wherever the bus stopped, whereas the other volunteers walked to the addresses closer by.

Our first stop was to a lady in Tang Hall then we got back on the bus over to Heworth where we made our second delivery. Our next stop was Huntington where the bus dropped me and Michal off to deliver to two addresses and then we were to run back to the bus which would be parked quite a bit further down the Huntington Road. Our first delivery was not at home but we successfully delivered the second package and navigated our way back to the main road and trundled along until we saw the bus waiting for us. Due to a lot of traffic and a fair bit of distance covered (the bus made a stop in Strensall as well) we didn't cover as much ground as we would have liked and as it was getting dark this was to be our last stop.

In all our group had delivered 20 presents and myself and Michal had run just over 6km. We got back to Grimston Bar just after 4pm to go our separate ways home. We've left tomorrow's group plenty to do!