Monday, 14 September 2009

Busy busy busy


Hi,
A quick update on what's been happening.
Held a doughnut sale on Friday 11th 'Doughnate a £1 to charity', copying an idea from a fellow Enduro rider. My thought was just to visit Ecclesiastical in Gloucester as they have a large office of 600 staff, but unfortunately I think most of them were away that day as I hardly sold any! Despite them very kindly posting intranet message about it, noone seemed to like doughnuts very much, so I began to panick slightly when, at 2 o'clock, I still had about 250 doughnuts to sell!
Warner's Budgens very kindly let me buy the doughnuts at cost price, but my trip to Ecclesiastical didn't even cover that.
So off I went to Cheltenham to try something else. I visited the Echo, Dair and Archant. Thanks to friends who helped me out there, I couldn't have done it without you.
Then, as most offices were closing, I had to pluck up the courage to visit a few pubs. James at The Bath Tavern gave me a bit of Dutch courage with a large glass of wine and after selling a few there I went on to The Jolly Brewmaster and The Beehive. Thanks very much to the landlords who let me in, they must've thought my request was a little random but it worked very well. Some people even asked me to come back every Friday!
So all in all it wasn't a bad day in the end. £200 made after the cost of the doughnuts was accounted for. I could've made more if I'd got cheaper doughnuts somewhere else, but I wanted them to be tasty.
Hard day but good fun I think. May even get in the paper, although I am not sure what the photo will be like!

Anna






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