Cakes 'n tings

Some time has elapsed since the first (and only so far) blog entry thing. And my, how things have happened!

As Team SuperBASS, we’ve had a bit of reshuffle. Four have now become three. Unfortunately, Stef had to drop out due to work commitments.   But our spirits have not been dampened by the loss and we have persevered….kind of.

We held our first fundraising event at Whipps Cross selling baked goods. And the people of Whipps do like to eat cake! We raised an amazing £419.31!!!!

 I personally found helping out at this event extremely stressful and by 1pm was threatening to use my next pay packet to buy out the stall (it was a very hot day and I was hungry unfortunately not for cake). So big ups to Sinead and Brid who were relentless and smiley and managed to sell every last crumb.  Not forgetting Karlene, Michelle and Age UK volunteers Helen, Celia and silver surfer John who were really helpful on the day.  

 Thanks so much to all our bakers; Katy S, Barbara, Meryn, Brid, Pete, Me, Maggie H, Tanya, Geraldine, Anita, Ellie N, Lukasz, Prity, Karlene, Jackie, Me, Mandy A, Anna G, Sinead, Dierdre, Una, Caroline, Johnson, Me, Michelle, Leah, Lily, Alison (League of Friends) Deeane, Christine (Age UK) and me!  We were overwhelmed by the amount of cakes we received, we had to sell for an additional hour just to get rid of them all! Apologies to anyone I’ve left off the list.  Special thanks to Anna L who guru’d me through the process and Caroline P whose flapjacks looked good but would’ve incurred dental work costs with the purchase!

We also received a few big donations which we have been so greatful for: James Hyett,  John Coffey, Pilar Lizana and Ollie and Anne! You are all wonderful – thank you so much.

Training is well underway with less than 4 weeks to go…. Our first outing to the Serpentine happened today and lots of lessons were learnt.

1. Open water is murky.  But maybe it’s better that way as we don’t know what exactly the ‘murk’ is. 

2. Expect to be joined by other swimmers in somewhere like a lake. i.e. ducks.  

3. Don’t let Sinead borrow your nose clip. She’ll snot all over it and not apologise.

4. Don’t use lube you’ve bought from Superdrug (Brid) to help you ease in/out of your wetsuit. It doesn’t work.

 5. In fact, don’t buy lube from Superdrug at all (it dries out quickly and it’s harder to get rubber over it. Noted)

As well as the swimming, we’ve been working at the other stuff too.  Sinead helpfully has advised us to wear glasses when cycling.  This is so flies don’t get in your eyes and hurt them. Thanks Sinead. I’ll be mindful of that.  There has been an incident of saddle soreness and I was told that I needed to ‘harden my gooch’.  I replied ‘how does one harden one's gooch?’ I was met by silence.  This person was a man. Obvs.

Ok, enough about lube and gooch.  

Thanks everyone for all your support so far, we love you! x

 

Love,

Alison, Brid and Sinead

Team SuperBASS 

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