Halloween half term has been & gone can you believe it, this time last week we were still putting the finishing touches to our biggest event of the year. We have been busy working night & day! I have just finished a 7 day & 3 night week!
During the day we had family fun activities and for the big kids that don't mind being scared we had our night time terror which wasn't for the faint hearted! Emma and I worked together during the night time event, our job was to lie low in the woods and jump out and scare poor inocent members of the public completing the woodland walk!
I would also like to thank all those kind members of the public who donated to our charity in conjuction with our chinatrek, Emma and I hoped you had a great day out at the Rare Breeds Centre.
James also took part in the night time terror events. If any of you did come along James was one of the tractor drivers on the terror tractor trailer rides! Do any of you reconise him?
Found this on You Tube it is our resident Pygmy goat Valentino!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B7sVqDXcw0
Halloween half term is here and we were really busy on the farm today, the sun must have brought the people out! We are still putting the finishing touches to our Halloween Event which all kicks off on Wednesday. Today I did pig racing my 1st since the summer, for those who don't know not only is our pig racing fun and famous it is also a great opportunity to introduce Emma and myself and our massive challenge ahead. Whilst I'm on the microphone I inform all our visitors of who and what our charity is all about, believe it or not many people that come and visit us don't know that we are a charity! Today with our collection buckets at the race track we manged to raise £46.13, this is amazing and Emma and I would like to thank all those that gave very generously today. All money raised from our collection buckets at pig racing this week will go straight to the charity we both work for The Rare Breeds Centre and The Canterbury Oast Trust in conjunction with out China Trek.
Many thanks for all your support x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmC9ieCWSLs
Half term is approaching fast which means busy busy for all of us working at The Rarebreeds Centre. Halloween is our biggest Event that we put on at the centre with family fun during the day and night time terror for the evening you can see why we have so much to prepare and organise. So must come and visit us to see what its all about, Emma and I will be out and about hoping to raise some money for the Trust in conjunction with our China Trek. Who would have thought this time last year Emma and I was just starting our mammoth task of trying to raise £5000 and nearly 1 year on we have both managed to raise £4413. So we have nearly reached our target but we will keep going to raise as much needed money as we can.
Please follow this link to see whats on offer during half term and don't forget to come ad find us we would love to see you.
http://www.rarebreeds.org.uk/ev11-halloween.htm
Yesterday saw me take part in the Ashford 10k race, which started at the Julie Rose Stadium and did a circuit around Ashford then finished at the stadium as well. When I woke up in the morning it was raining so I was praying it would stop as I'm not an all weather runner! I had paid to enter so I felt I should participate regardless but seriously do you know anyone that would really go out running in the rain for pleasure! Anyway the race started at 10am and by the time I picked my sis up and got to the stadium it had left off raining. I was really pleased I took part in the race because they shut the roads on which the route took and best of all as we ran pass the fire station where all the fire crew were out lined up cheering us on!!! Got to love that! When I told my sis she had a laugh! I completed the race in 59mins so well pleased with that.
I probably won't do any more races until next year now as winter is approaching I can't get outside to train :(
Roll on next year when the weather is better and its light in the mornings and at night time!
Thank you to Anna and her friend Rose that came along to support me.
I'm off to hibernate now as its only 6.30pm and its already dark :(
Last Thursday night saw Emma and I host our big quiz evening, this took quite a bit of organizing but it was defiantly well worth it. It took Emma and I from 2pm Thursday afternoon until 6.30pm to get the hall ready, with 16 teams booked we had to get it right. With a maximum of 8 per team we estimated that we had about 128 people take part which is is amazing. Many of our residents took part as well and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves and its nice to see them involved. It also shows what raising this money for our charity is all about. The night kicked off at 7.30pm, with me reading out the questions whilst Emma was chief marker! We had 6 different rounds which inclued Music, TV & Film, Sport, Geography, Food & Drink and General Knowledge, we also had a picture round which was flags from around the world. After a couple of rounds we had a break to sell raffle tickets for our grand raffle and after a couple of more rounds we drew the raffle. All prizes were kindly donated by local companies, which we thank very much. Our 1st prize was £50 pounds worth of John Lewis vouchers and congratulations to Hazel Payne, a volunteer in our gift shop who won these. 2nd prize was won by Steve & Angela Ransley, they won £25 in cash, Steve and Angela kindly donated there winnings to our cause so we would like to thank them very much, and appreciate their donation. Emma and I feel the night went really well, we wanted it to be enjoyable, fun and have a relaxed atmosphere so I hope this came across to all those that took part. As well as the quiz, raffle, prize for the best team name we had James selling homemade cakes off his hostess trolley! James had been busy the day before making chocolate shortcake which is yummy but deadly! Emma's mum June made cheese scones and we also had my friends mum - Lynn donate some cupcakes. These went onto Jame's trolley and once he got his pinny on James got busy going round all the tables selling the homemade goodies with all profits going towards our charity.
So it leaves me to announce the winners which was Jerry Kenwards team, Jerry is our operations manager at The Canterbury Oast Trust so well done to all on Jerry's team. The best team name went to The Quizzie Rascals.
Such a fantastic night and we managed to raise a whopping £485 this is just brilliant and Emma and I really didn't expect to raise this much. We would like to thank you all for coming along and showing your support we really would not be able to have reached this amazing total without you.
I would like to say a special thank you to:
John Lewis/Waitrose
Premier foods
Rimmel - Coty
Leeds Castle
Dickens World
Fitness First
Minners Farm Liveries
Tesco
Steve & Angela for donating back there raffle prize of £25
June for baking cheese scones
Lynn Hine for baking cupcakes
James for baking millionaires shortbread
and to all our helpers on the night.......
June and Phil
Heather
Adam
James and
Pete & Carl who ran the bar for the evening.
Thank you so much to everybody for making this event a success
Emma and Sarah
