The sunglasses are on and hoping for a nice sunny day !
My other half ready to do his bit !!
Turning out to be a nice and hot T shirt/Shorts day after all A marvellous day, beautiful sunshine, plenty of smiley faces and we managed to raise the grand total of £68 to boot !
This Saturday it was Charlesworth & Chisworth's turn to hold their annual carnival. We arrived at 8 am to allow plenty of time to get set up, although we're a dab hand now at putting up the gazebo - it was up in about 5 minutes flat! Ken Dee the organiser kept calling me 'Zebra' and my dad was subsequently christened 'Mr Zebra' when his help was enlisted along with that of my OH to set up other first timer's gazebos.
As usual the sky was not looking too promising, after being glorious all week it certainly was due for another downpour. And pour down it did - fortunately it was fairly early on in the morning and the carnival wasn't due to start until lunchtime. So there we sat cocooned in our little green shell, draped in plastic sheeting and waited it out. By lunchtime it was as if it had never happened, the sun came out and it went on to be such a gorgeous day. Ken Dee and the other organisers worked tirelessly throughout the day which certainly paid off as there was a great atmosphere and everyone had a marvellous time.
When is it my turn ?
This little 'bee' has flown back
for just one more go
And a few moments later ....
one happy customer with her prize !!!
We did extremely well with the Tombola stall having had lots of lovely prizes donated from colleagues and neighbours. Costco kindly donated a superb Phillips Kettle and Toaster set as a raffle prize which I thought would be put to best use at the Carnival, particularly as it was a 2 day event. Without these lovely prizes I don't think I would have collected anywhere near the amount we raised over the weekend. Although I couldn't believe the first four people to draw tickets on Sunday morning all won prizes one straight after another (and good ones at that !) I thought I wouldn't last half an hour at that rate. Fortunately the wins slowed down to much more respectable intervals and it was only in the last hour that I had a pretty empty looking table with only about 6 items left.
Of all the Tombola prizes it was this little chappie
that all the ladies wanted to win
It's a serious business choosing a ticket
Much later in the afternoon when I'd not got a trace of make up on, my hair had not seen a comb since 7 am and I had goodness knows what spilt down the front of my Appeal T shirt, this was the time the reporter from the Glossop Advertiser turned up to take my photograph (thanks a bunch). So this is one article that definitely won't be flashed around the office!!
At the end of the day I think we managed to pack up in record time and were thoroughly exhausted by the time we got home. We'd had a super weekend and managed to raise 253 pounds for the Appeal.
