An early start and down to Royal Mail's sorting office in Weymouth to meet and thank all our posties. And what a charming team they are. Due to the fact the mail and parcels were late from Poole, I arrived to find it all coming in through the swing doors - tons of it! But no one even blinked. Before you could say 'Christmas post' it was gone, hauled off into various corners of the sorting office by the industrious team on duty. I had a good chat to the bosses, Steve Riggs and David Andrews, before walking around the booths where teams of two were sorting their individual mail. The number of parcels was the most eye-opening part of the operation. Apparently, they were up on last year by some 70 per cent. Amazon appeared to be the main culprit, although of course it's all welcome business for Royal Mail. After a couple of hours, I left, grabbed a much needed coffee and drove to police divisional HQs to meet Sergeant Steve Yeoman. He has about 25 officers under his command and he briefed me on the situation on Littlemoor, which has had a number of incidents recently. I was impressed by what I heard and clearly the police are doing all they can to help the good people of Littlemoor by targeting one or two unpleasant families, who ruin it for everyone else. Then, it was on to the Baptish Church to meet Bob and Lily Mockett, a remarkable couple who started a food bank about a year ago and now find themselves inundated with families desperate for food. The couple work with nine other churches in Dorset and together they have delivered more than 700 food parcels to those in need. Quite astonishing. I was inspired by my visit and decided to write about Bob and Lily in my newspaper column. Next stop was the remarkable volunteers at Coastwatch on Portland Bill. On duty today was a former RN officer who recalled serving with my father. A small world indeed. On the way back to my office, I popped into the Association office to thank you to our secretary and my new caseworker. Then it was home to welcome my wife's Norwegian family who had come to stay for Christmas.