Red Shoe Diary

It is absolutely amazing what you can do as a volunteer; or maybe not in the current political climate! My local authority has a website dedicated to volunteering so I had a scroll through and found a plethora, a magnificence of opportunities: working with people – old or young, disabled or unemployed (irony there? Maybe?!); work with animals, anything from dogs and cats to horses and monkeys, yes, I did not realise they were common in south Wales, but there you go; work in gardens at hospitals, trusts or woodlands; work in an office researching, writing or composing websites. And, for a blind-sider, how about ‘Bodying’? Job description reads: “involves mainly lying in long grass waiting to be found by a dog”. Now before some vivid imaginations start running to a Saturday night in the welsh countryside following some good Brains beer, let me clarify: you are the body and the dog searching for you is being trained by the search and rescue services. Sounds a good job though, in June, July or August, with your sunglasses, good book, sandwiches and lotion, but somehow, I don’t think it would pan out like that!