Friday was spent collecting tables on loan and rearranging the hall to accommodate 90 seated for tea, as well as having 3 sale tables set up. Then there was the pricing and displaying of the sale items. This all finished around 8 pm. With aching feet, I hobbled home, and still had to tidy the kitchen and bake my donation towards the following morning’s eats. I settled on chocolate squares – the no bake kind that just set in the fridge.
Saturday morning, bright and early (around 7.30 am) the food started trickling in,
and the ladies started arriving to help with the day’s activities. The ladies (and the odd man or two) just mugged in, and filled the gap wherever there was a job to be done.
The community was also very generous with contributions towards the sale items, and some sent donations where they were unable to attend. There was a lovely spirit.
Most of the pot plants were donated by a non-baptist lady that attends lace classes with me – Sylvia Legg. Prudy brought the veggies from somebody's private garden.
An example of lace work by Beatie Peters (a Baptist) from Sandy Bay. To give you an idea of their size, I fitted them onto the top of my lap top computer. 
After the tea drinking and snack eating was almost over, we announced that the last items on the tables were now half price. The ladies descended on the tables like locusts. One table had magazines and 2nd hand books for sale at 20p each (now 10p each). There was a pile of ‘You’ magazines, and one lonely ‘Huisgenoot’ (very familiar S African magazines). Michelle Yon – an ex S African – bought them all.
Then they wanted some entertainment... (I never knew that this was part of a traditional coffee morning. Apparently, they usually play bingo or something). Well, the Saints love to sing, so we twisted Graeme’s arm to get his cornet out, and with Vincent as the leader, and me rattling out the rythmn on my yellow tambourine,
we had a sing-along out of our hymn books. Even professing non-Christians sang along.
and the ladies started arriving to help with the day’s activities. The ladies (and the odd man or two) just mugged in, and filled the gap wherever there was a job to be done. The community was also very generous with contributions towards the sale items, and some sent donations where they were unable to attend. There was a lovely spirit.Most of the pot plants were donated by a non-baptist lady that attends lace classes with me – Sylvia Legg. Prudy brought the veggies from somebody's private garden.
An example of lace work by Beatie Peters (a Baptist) from Sandy Bay. To give you an idea of their size, I fitted them onto the top of my lap top computer. After the tea drinking and snack eating was almost over, we announced that the last items on the tables were now half price. The ladies descended on the tables like locusts. One table had magazines and 2nd hand books for sale at 20p each (now 10p each). There was a pile of ‘You’ magazines, and one lonely ‘Huisgenoot’ (very familiar S African magazines). Michelle Yon – an ex S African – bought them all.Then they wanted some entertainment... (I never knew that this was part of a traditional coffee morning. Apparently, they usually play bingo or something). Well, the Saints love to sing, so we twisted Graeme’s arm to get his cornet out, and with Vincent as the leader, and me rattling out the rythmn on my yellow tambourine,
we had a sing-along out of our hymn books. Even professing non-Christians sang along.Then came the clearing up, and rearranging of the hall back to a church-like look, with rows of chairs and a pulpit in the front etc. Some of us that arrived all spritely in the morning, limped out of the hall at about 1 pm that afternoon. But although our feet were aching, we all had smiles on our faces.
The final takings towards the rockfall relief fund was 600 pounds!
Praise the Lord for a wonderful morning and the funds raised!! God is so good. Congrats Hazel on the success of your dream - so much accomplished in such a short time. You are a remarkable lady!!
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