On Friday we held our first ever coffee morning to raise funds for the charity Macmillan. Its a national event and lots of people invite their friends and neighbours to take part. When Philip went round the area he soon realised that there were at least 3 other venues holding coffee mornings at the same time so we were a little nervous and wondered if anyone would come to ours.

Earlier in the week we were given donations totalling £15 from people who couldn’t attend due to other commitments, so that was a promising start. The we started to hear from people who were intending to come including some who needed gluten free cake. I felt duty bound to have a go at making lemon meringue cake, substituting the flour for ground almonds. This is a cake I’ve never made before and won’t do again in a hurry, such a fiddle but the feedback was positive. I made two other cakes plus cheese scones. We had 3 helpers on the day who also made and contributed cakes. We couldn’t have done it on our own so special thanks to Julie, Joy and Pat.

People started to arrive at 9.30 (an hour too early) and more and more cake eaters kept coming. We think there were at least 25 in total. The grand total of almost £200 was raised before 12.30 when we had finished. An exhilarating but very tiring morning…….we are thinking of doing it next year. It is such a good cause after all.