Sue and Paul were a very welcome sight when they turned up at just before 4pm. I'm not sure the sight of the queue going into Carlisle Road was such a welcome sight for them. A busy clinic is a fast clinic though so hopefully the hours passed by quickly for them!

Louisa, Susan, Harry and Jo took over the late afternoon shift at the clinic. Louisa had the shortest time in a role when she was given the hand sanitiser role and was promptly withdrawn when the role was already filled. She soon took a role in the waiting room with clipboard and felt under pressure when patients needed to wait and she had to keep a check of who was next. Harry was in the waiting room assisting and wiping down the chairs after the patients had left and then assisted with guiding them back through the waiting room towards the end of the clinic. Susan took up the temperature role and checked all patients as they entered the clinic. Jo was assigned a new 'buddy' role where this was to go around all the volunteers and check that they were okay, needed a break, wanted a cuppa or anything else. The role also involved getting anything out of store if we had run out of paper, hand sanitiser etc.

Sue, Mel and I took the baton on from the afternoon slot GoodGymers and quickly got situated. Mel was inside the 29 degree waiting room, Sue manned the check-in desk and I was outside sanitizing and directing people to them.

There were a few lulls, which made any new person arriving very exciting! Otherwise cat stories, holiday dreaming and scenarios such as a patient refusing to pay their taxi fare, kept us entertained!

So great to see so many kind and lovely faces, and we wrapped up our shift with an early Easter gift - giant Cadburys cream eggs!