Here’s wishing all our customers a very Happy Easter for 2018

Have a Happy Hot Cross Bun Day.

So how do you like your bun done? 

We had a vote in the office and the most popular way was ‘toasted with lots of real butter’

However, there was one person, they know who they are, he likes his buttered, not toasted, with slices of cheese on it. 

Well, it would be a boring old world if we were all the same, wouldn’t it? 

Many congratulations to another 3rd Prize biscuit winner,  just in time for Easter, well done and enjoy,

Horden Childrens Centre SR8 4EG

 

They’ll be rabbits running all over the place this Sunday coming.

‘Headway’ Birmingham & Solihull (B&S) is a local charity that was set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury.

Their annual Easter Fun Run is taking place this Sunday coming from 11am at Cofton Park in Longbridge Birmingham B3 2BQ

Get your bunny ears at the ready as everyone is being encouraged to participate in fancy dress and the best dress gets a prize too!

You can run, jog or walk the 5K route, easy, piece of cake!

Get this, you also get a chocolate egg at the end of the race and a medal! come on what are you waiting for? Get up, Get some fresh air and Get moving!

Check out for further details and contacts on http://www.headway-bs.co.uk/2018-fun-run-link

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Well Done and Congratulations to more of our biscuit winners, starting from left to right we have …

D & J Projects – Nottingham  ◊  Avid Technology – Northumberland   ◊  Country Haven Hairdressers – Norwich

Thank you for supporting our charities over the last 12 months

 

Mothers have got together recently to put a united video showing the love they have for their children and sharing their support ahead of

Worlds Down’s Syndrome Day.

The video has had a tremendous response and watched by thousands of people worldwide including celebrities.

This can be viewed via this link  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-43443510

https://www.mencap.org.uk/learning-disability-explained/conditions/downs-syndrome

 

 

 

Here’s a real jolly tongue twister that puts a smile on your face, for those of you who enjoy a pint of Guinness and a sing-song!

It was sung by the great Val Doonican many years ago, check him out on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpqLgfc8n8Q

‘Paddy McGinty’s Goat’ 

Now Patrick McGinty, an Irishman of note,
Fell in for a fortune, and he bought himself a goat.
Said he, “Sure, of goat’s milk I going to have my fill!”
But when he brought the Nanny home, he found it was a Bill.

All the young ladies who live in Killaloo
They’re all wearing bustles like their mothers used to do.
They each wear a bolster beneath the petticoat,
And leave the rest to Providence and Paddy McGinty’s goat!

Mrs Burke to her daughter said, “Listen, Mary Jane,
Who was the lad you were cuddling in the lane?
He’d long wiry whiskers a hanging from his chin.”
“Twas only Pat McGinty’s goat, ” she answer’d with a grin.

Then she went away from the village in disgrace,
She came back with powder and paint upon her face.
She’d rings on her fingers, and she wore a sable coat,

And I bet your life she didn’t get those from Paddy McGinty’s goat.

Now Norah McCarthy the knot was going to tie,
She washed out her trousseau when she hung it out to dry.
Along came the goat and he saw the bits of white:
and chewed up all her falderals, and on her wedding night:

“Oh turn out the light quick!” she shouted out to Pat,
For though l’m your bride, sure l’m not worth looking at.
I’d had two of ev’rything, I told you when I wrote,
But now I’ve one of nothing, all thro’ Paddy McGinty’s goat.’

Mickey Riley he went to the races t’other day.
He won twenty dollars and he shouted, “Hip Hooray!!”
He held up the note, shouting “Look what I’ve got!”
The goat came up and grabbed at it and swallowed up the lot.

“He’s eaten me banknote,” said Mickey, with the hump.
They went for the doctor, and they got a stomach pump.
They pumped and they pumped for the twenty dollar note,
But all they got was ninepence out of Paddy McGinty’s goat.

Now old Paddy’s goat had a wondrous appetite
and one day for breakfast he had some dynamite
A big box of matches he swallowed all serene
Then out he went and swallowed up a quart of paraffin

He sat by the fireside, didn’t give a hang
He swallowed a spark and exploded with a BANG!
So if you go to heaven you can bet a dollar note
That the angel with the whiskers on is Paddy McGinty’s goat.

Written in 1917 by two songwriters Bert Lee and R P Weston

Congratulations to those of you winning 3rd prizes of these beautiful boxes of biscuits and well done to holding onto those raffle tickets until the New Year.

                                    

The Upton Arms Hotel Prontefract    ♦     Lynne and Tahran – Nationwide Building Society  Cleethorpes     ♦   Alex in Argos Grimsby

 

We don’t make up those pretending winners here you know …

Lloyds Bank in Christchurch were very pleased to accept 1st prize for 2017/2018 Free Christmas Raffle a Full HD Television

also proudly displaying one of our Teenage Cancer Trust boxes on their counter.

The 2nd prize winner went to Patricia Warren, Patient Co-ordinator, Danescourt Surgery, Danescourt, who gladly received a brand new iPad.

Very well done to you all and thank you for supporting our charities.