Peebles

Heya!

So we've been busy with the fundraising the past few weeks and i thought i'd tell you a little of what we'd been up to in Peebles...

On Saturday 18th February myself, Shona and Russell headed down to Peebles to take part in the Tesco bag-pack. We met Cousin Donna there along with Nancy and Caitlin. We donned the MND t-shirts, got our collection buckets out and off we went! Russell had also made up 100 info sheets to hand out - they were gone within the hour!

The bag packing was fun - i started off small, at the 10 items or less aisle and therefore packed almost nothing for the first hour. Meanwhile everyone else was slogging away on the big aisles.... Cousin Lisa and Lynn joined us and Donna, Russell, Shona and I escaped off to the chippy for a tasty lunch! :)

Full of food (almost in a food coma) we returned to Tesco. It turns out some people are funny about getting their bags packed. Russell got a row at one point and more than once as i was packing bags the owner of said bags was unpacking them and re-packing them as i was going! (this may be more to do with my bag-packing skills than anything else though).

All in all we had a brilliant day - lots of support and lots of fun! :D We left Peebles at the back of 4 with heavy buckets and two massive bags of change donated by Auntie Moira and Granny Peebles! Shona and I took a couple buckets each and we spent the evening counting the pennies! A massive £435.99 was raised for our efforts! :D :D

Here are a few pics of our day...

So, after our bag packing success Shona and I returned to Peebles the following Saturday morning to attend our charity coffee morning at the Peebles Rugby Club organised by Cousin Lisa. We had a lovely day - there was a HUGE bake sale, a raffle, a tombola and plenty of coffee, tea and biscuits provided by our lovely servers. The coffee morning was a massive success - it opened at 10am and by around 10.20am we were totally full! Shona and I luckily didnt have much of a role to play during the coffee morning - we were allowed to just mingle and buy cake! However, the raffle was so busy that we got roped into writing, tearing and folding raffle tickets - turns out this is not a fun job!! The support we received was amazing - at 12pm when the coffee morning was finished we counted the cash and Lisa was able to announce to everyone that we'd raised a massive £1233.61!!! Several tears were shed.... We were also given some fantastic news that Peebles Rugby Club are going to make MND Scotland their charity of the year!! Fun and games over, we packed up, had a celebratory drink and went off for a lovely lunch!!

Here are some pics from our day...

Finally, we'd just like to say a massive thanks to Peebles Tesco, Peebles rugby club, everyone who volunteered their time to help us at both events and everyone who came along/donated! Muchos love to you all!!!

The McAdam Clan
xxx