After the church service, I ditched the robes (well, I removed them and carefully stored them away in a proper carrier), and we headed off to Uplands, where some residents were holding a Big Lunch in St. James' Park, a delightful square of greenery behind St. James' Church.
The Big Lunch is promoted by the Eden Project, with the idea of millions of people getting together to share food, have fun and get to know each other better, after research showed that one in five people have never spoken to their neighbours. It is a simple idea - that for a few glorious hours, cars stop, shyness stops and neighbours come together in the street to meet, greet, share, swap, sing, play and laugh.
Organisers are expecting more than 6 million people to come out of their homes and have lunch with their neighbours this weekend.
Swansea is in fact staging five of these events. There was one yesterday, in the Hub on the Hill, Mount Pleasant, two today, in Uplands and in Rosehill Quarry, also in Mount Pleasant, one in Swansea YMCA tomorrow and one in Swansea Mosque on 23rd June.
We called in at the request of organisers in St James' Park to support the idea and to sample some of the delicious home-prepared food. Luckily there was a tent to protect us from the rain, but everybody had a really good time.
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