Things from the past

 

We've two sheds here, one more a functional storage area, the other more a place where things seem to go into to never return so I can anticipate just what thoughts are going through that ladies mind when two scouts turn up on Bob-A-Job week asking if there's anything they can do.

She's chosen doing the gardening for which her shed is used a the place to store neatly the tools including a manual lawn mower, something incidientally I haven't seen for years as most here are electric.

Those not around in its heyday might wonder how this was managed and a part of it lives in my visual memory and that part is the Bob-a-job week labels scheme

Put simply a few million yellow labels printed  help to prevent a person who has been visited by Scouts being bothered by further calls once they has helped the cause by giving a job.

Every Scout and Cub in the country was issued with a supply of these labels of which I saw a load of at the time and you were instructed to give one of them to the householder when the job has been done and their  green job card signed.

A note on the label asks that if no further calls are required the label be displayed in a prominent position such as in a window so as a Scout you'd see if someone else had beaten you too it and move on.