This morning Neil and I hosted a Macmillan Coffee morning in Buckland St Mary Church. It was like a military operation getting everything ready, making lists of things to take and baking like mad yesterday afternoon, to make cakes and biscuits for sharing and to sell. We got everything ready last night, even blew up the balloons so we would make a quick start this morning.
- Balloons and bags at the ready
We’ve hosted Macmillan Coffee mornings before, when we lived in Langley, but doing it from home is quite different from doing it in the church, because we had to take literally everything with us.
The church brimming with people
Neil and I made tea and coffee all morning and there was cake to eat too. We asked for donations rather than selling it and people were very generous. Overall with the cake stall, the raffle and the donations we took £370.00, which we think is excellent.
Chris selling the last few cakes to Bernard
I must admit it felt like hard work, especially as there are no facilities for washing up there , so we had to bring home all the cups, saucers and plates and wash them up at home, to take back this evening. What fun!!
Anyway in 19 months I think you can say we have well and truly integrated into our local community to hold a coffee morning, get that many people turn up and make so much money.
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