Sunday 11 January 2009

Nn such thing as a free breakfast

The Indulgent Breakfast was a success. About a hundred people came and we raised £1100. Two residents dressed up, J in a cap and frilly apron, G in a morning suit which looked splendid with his recently grown and newly waxed moustache. We had six tables going full pelt but there were lots of punters eating off their laps in the sitting room. We did the Full Monty:eggs, bacon, mushroom sausage etc and every sort of egg, also kippers and kedgeree. D sat at the kitchen table and made toast for two hours, C and G fried steadily, it was a real team effort. We all decided that we would not give up the day job and do it full time as it is a bit of a worry, always the odd person waiting disconsolately for a bowl of porridge for over an hour, or anxiety over runny boiled eggs, but we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and will proudly hand over the big pile of cash tomorrow to the Emmaus project.
Very coooold still and frost on the trees looks pretty, but I have stayed mainly indoors this weekend, reading the newspapers, playing Scrabble and planning holidays. Rather going off the idea of cycling in the Outer Hebrides as I have been told that it is extremely windy.

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