A huge success!

The Open Morning on Saturday 3rd May went far far better than we expected. We reckon about 200 people came through the door at various times during the morning (and for a period of about two hours we could hardly move!). The takings were £700 and on top of that we sold another £250 worth of shares. So that is a staggering total of £950 in three and a half hours!!!
Many thanks to all those who contributed - either by your generous gifts of cakes, plants, garden produce, books, magazines, sweets - or by joining us to sit in the sun and have a cup of coffee and a croissant.
Our bake-off oven worked perfectly and we were pretty impressed with our first effort to bake croissants (even if we say so ourselves!). Slight panic when Alan Wyle turned up with loads of stuff straight from a Sussex farmers market, as we didn't have a fridge, but Amy (upstairs) rushed off and found us one!
we sold a lot of freshly made Sussex butter and cheese, and the local ice-cream went very well too. We were very lucky with the weather, and people's enthusiasm for the project has left the committee very buoyant and ready to crack on.