Sometimes success merely means surviving!

This was certainly the case on Saturday when along with the Tenants & Residents Association we opened our doors for our inaugural Kids Christmas party.

An unknown ‘adventure’ from start to finish 25 kids accompanied by their parents nevertheless turned up for some festive fun. Which was great until we learned that the children’s entertainers who had been hired to ‘entertain’ the assembled youngsters for two of the three hours weren’t coming! Nice!

Thankfully this is where years of kids clubs, youth groups, icebreakers and a shed full of useful ‘junk’ comes in handy! While stopping just short of fire-eating and uni-cycling it would seem that the kids (and their parents) had a great time. Some of them even stuck around to sing some carols on the green.

A tad hoarse and pretty knackered, for me just surviving meant success, but when you throw in the numerous new families that we met, the toys we were able to distribute, the chance that the parents had to relax for a couple of hours and the fact that everyone seemed to have a really good time I reckon it was a decent way to spend a few hours.