Fundraising, cakes and ales..

Hello and welcome to my first post!!

  Most of you probably realise I’m not in Rwanda yet, but yesterday was such a little EWB (Engineers Without Borders) adventure, that I just had to do some blogging.

I currently trying to raise £900 for EWB, but lately fundraising was going slow ... people were between jobs, saving their monies for summer holidays and just generally being tight arses. On top of all this my gorgeous housemates decided they were all going for a ten day jolly in a France villa and leave me on my tod.   Moral was at an all time low.  

But I decided it was time to pull my socks up and hit Newcastle’s delightful family festival.  I cleaned the kitchen (take note housemates), hit Morrison’s, donned a pinnie and got baking myself some tasty treats.

Then I hit up Newcastle’s family friendly Ouseburn Fest, which was absolutely BUZZING with folks. 

Yes Newcastle!!

Now it’s a long time since I’ve been in a position where I’ve needed to sell my goodies on the street, so I was feeling pretty nervous.  But I really shouldn’t have been because the folks of Newcastle were in FINE form.   

I was selling to families, fishermen, rubbish bin collectors... the people were loving it!  One Guy insisted on paying double the price for a bit of lemon drizzle cake. Another guy, who just happened to be smoking a herbal cigarette, approached me and almost cleaned me out of my first batch of cakes.  He then asked me to bring him a bacon sarnie when I was on my way back...or some chips. That didn’t happen.

I had an absolutely wicked day raising money for EWB. Thank you the people of Newcastle for your generosity and pure charm :D

Maz

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