Hospice.

I had a busy week last week! Monday I helped with the annual Stock take at the Hospice shop. We counted everything that we possibly could. We counted and recorded the totals of books,belts, shoes, clothes (mens, womens and children), ornaments, bedding, kitchenware, sportsware, you name it and we counted it! All the shelving and fittings were recorded too, and our plastic 'models' were not forgotten. In between we had coffee and tried to keep the rain out of the container that houses our overflow of goods to sell. The trouble was with the door closed against the rain, we couldn't see to record the contents of the boxes!

On Wednesday Gail, my fellow-Thursday-volunteer came over with packets of Marie Biscuits, marshmallows, icing sugar, decorations, sticks, little plastic bags and coloured string. We then got stuck in and made 63 'suckers'!

Before the icing went on. We didn't use this one, it broke!

Gail had worked out that three-quarters of a marshmallow placed on a biscuit and microwaved for 20 seconds was perfect timing and we then stuck a stick on the marshmallow and gently pressed another biscuit on top! Once they had set, we had great fun icing and decorating them. Rob was our 'guinea pig' and pronounced them delicious!

Art in icing sugar!

Thursday was my usual Hospice shop morning which I thoroughly enjoy and then on Friday, Gail and I 'manned' the Hospice table at the Mall. We were there for Charity Week, to promote Hospice and to show people just how important their donations to the shop are, everything that is given to us is sold and the proceeds are used for medication and salaries for the carers. That's where our 'suckers' now come in!
All the volunteers manning the table took something along to sell, cup cakes are very popular! Gail and I decided that as we were not very good bakers (well, I'm not!), we would do something different! (For 'different' read 'easier'!) We had a super day, chatted to lots of people, sold our suckers, had coffee and lunch, a real day out!

Ready for a day of chatting!

This morning I heard that over the four days of Charity 'Week', we made over one thousand rand!

And all the suckers were sold!!