I used to volunteer for a local Animal rescue centre that my late step mother and my Dad help set up many years ago. Along with my Daughters who were teenagers at the time, we became their ‘Catering team’ holding themed events and offering hot food at their open days. We raised a fair amount of money for them doing this, with an average gate of around 70 people at a time. Eventually l was asked to become a Fund raising Team member, which took me into some interesting places and events, and along with some of the Animals, we visited Schools, Fetes, and even some places where it normally would have been ‘No Dogs Allowed’ and at times appeared in local newspapers and Magazines, mostly with my own adopted Dog, Zoe a Labrador cross, but also with various other animals who were looking for their forever home at the time. I finally retired on health grounds after several years service, plus the fact that it was costing me a fair amount of money in both fuel, travel, and the cost of equipment, to keep the Catering side of things going, as the place got more established, the numbers to cater for became much greater, and l soon found myself looking at buying commercial catering ranges, which came with its own problems regarding safety testing and insurance, as well as being far above my price range. The place still exists today, my teenagers are now adults with families of their own, and Zoe lived to be 14, along with her friend she brought home from the centre one day, Sasha, they became the best of friends.