Despite a lower turnout than we had hoped for, bingo turned out fun again last night and we raised a fabulous £131 for Helen & Douglas House. Huge thanks to Andy and Hilary Dale for allowing us to commandeer Gatehangers, Ashendon and a big up to everyone who came out on a cold night to join in the fun.
Vicky, Alex and Gill mustered up so many raffle prizes that, along with the bingo cash prizes (wooo), virtually everyone in the house was a winner. Only Amber was down on her luck but she gets the special award of a 7am start for training cycle tomorrow to cheer her up!
After his somewhat dodgy bingo calling last time, Andy (landlord) did his background research this time and came up with...hmm...a list of bingo terms from the Internet! They were spurious, but clean! Some tampering of his list during 'half time, drinks time' livened it up - honestly "one fat lady with a fat head" and "fat man snores" were (we thought) truly hilarious compared to "Torquay in Devon" and "saving Grace" (the latter was also tampered with and the strategically placed 'h' almost lost Andy to giggles!).
Our next fundraising event will be the Beautiful Belles Bargain Booth at Ashendon boot sale to be held on the car park at Ashendon Playing Fields 10-2pm, Sunday 12th March - please come and buy - all proceeds will go to Helen & Douglas House.
It has been almost three years since the Belles set a challenge. We haven't stopped, we simply need to re-set and re-focus and find time to get ourselves back in the zone.
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