Just did.
We had the magnificent Devil's Violin Company at the chapel tonight. As usual, Daniel, Oli, Luke and Sarah did a fabulous job, weaving together stories and tunes. There were loads of children there but they didn't lose them for an instant. What a great advert for the power of story-telling even in a video age.
So, I sang outside with my busking sign and then processed in singing Blowin in the Wind. I improvised a little blues:
"Woke up this morning, found I had a disabled toilet to pay
Woke up this morning, found I had a disabled toilet to pay for
So all you praying people - that'll give you something to pray for.
Woke up this morning, found I had seven and a half thousand pounds missin
Woke up this morning, found I had seven and a half thousand pounds missin
But let me tell you people, at least we've got something to . . . show for it."
Result? Forty-two pounds!
I was able to give a hundred pounds to the treasurer and the grand total is up to about £160.
Showing posts with label disabled toilet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disabled toilet. Show all posts
Friday, 11 June 2010
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Why don't you start?
I have now.
I was so motivated by seeing the new disabled toilet that I made a start this morning.
Everybody was thrilled with the new facilities and I made sure everybody at our coffee morning went in to have a look, although I didn't stand over them to make sure they had a go. The actual WC part is very spacious and has baby changing facilities as well as the usual handles and so on. Also, we've somehow managed to enlarge the lobby betwwen the toilets and the kitchen. The whole lot is sky blue and so light . . .
Anyway, just as I was about to go out singing, a lady gave me £20. Great start.
I stood by the post office next to Steph and Shirley who were selling tickets for the Festival next weekend.
"Blowin' in the Wind." What else can you sing to inaugurate a tour raising funds for a toilet?
"Streets of Raglan"
I was fortunate enough to be singing in French when Megan, a former French teacher at the girls' school went by, so we did an impromptu rendition of "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" - the Habanera from "Carmen"
I told everybody about our fundraising activities - sometimes in song and people were generous beyondd what I thought.
A couple of hightlights - the two people who came up and spoke about disabled relatives and a career working with disabled people respectively.
About £45 on the street and £20 before setting out.
This disabled toilet has been a long time coming. This busking trip, too.
My running total is about £120 now - can't be bad.
I was so motivated by seeing the new disabled toilet that I made a start this morning.
Everybody was thrilled with the new facilities and I made sure everybody at our coffee morning went in to have a look, although I didn't stand over them to make sure they had a go. The actual WC part is very spacious and has baby changing facilities as well as the usual handles and so on. Also, we've somehow managed to enlarge the lobby betwwen the toilets and the kitchen. The whole lot is sky blue and so light . . .
Anyway, just as I was about to go out singing, a lady gave me £20. Great start.
I stood by the post office next to Steph and Shirley who were selling tickets for the Festival next weekend.
"Blowin' in the Wind." What else can you sing to inaugurate a tour raising funds for a toilet?
"Streets of Raglan"
I was fortunate enough to be singing in French when Megan, a former French teacher at the girls' school went by, so we did an impromptu rendition of "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" - the Habanera from "Carmen"
I told everybody about our fundraising activities - sometimes in song and people were generous beyondd what I thought.
A couple of hightlights - the two people who came up and spoke about disabled relatives and a career working with disabled people respectively.
About £45 on the street and £20 before setting out.
This disabled toilet has been a long time coming. This busking trip, too.
My running total is about £120 now - can't be bad.
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Wait! What is the money for, exactly?
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I'm glad you asked about the money because the work begins today.
Here at Raglan Baptist we have two buildings - a chapel from the 1860s and a converted house from who knows when. We call this the Fellowship Centre.
Both buildings are at full stretch now.
As well as Sunday services, we have keep fit and dance classes in the chapel.
In the Fellowship Centre, the list is long and constantly changing.
Raglan Rhythm and Rhyme caters for babies and toddlers
Delight is for Infants - games and Bible stories and singing
Fortified is for Juniors - ditto
Friday youth club for Secondary school students
Women's Institute
Ladies' Fellowship
Bible study and prayer group
Seniors' luncheon club
Welsh playgroup
Welsh Conversation
Music Appreciation
Fat Fighters
Coffee pot
Friends of Chernobyl Children
Raglan Saturday Singers
Holiday Club
We have a versatile and hard-wearing set of premises but, boy, do they need refreshing!
We also need a disabled toilet and baby-changing facilities.
So, today, the workmen are going to be knocking the gents and ladies into one and ripping out the plumbing and putting in new fittings and redoing the walls. Well, today and the next three weeks.
When all of that is done, we are going to redecorate and the Fellowship Centre will be ready for the long haul.
Hence the Parable of the Talents. And hence the busking round Wales project.
Donations gratefully received at
Raglan Baptist Church
Usk Road
Raglan
Monmouthshire
NP15 2EB
UK
Welsh songs tomorrow
I'm glad you asked about the money because the work begins today.
Here at Raglan Baptist we have two buildings - a chapel from the 1860s and a converted house from who knows when. We call this the Fellowship Centre.
Both buildings are at full stretch now.
As well as Sunday services, we have keep fit and dance classes in the chapel.
In the Fellowship Centre, the list is long and constantly changing.
Raglan Rhythm and Rhyme caters for babies and toddlers
Delight is for Infants - games and Bible stories and singing
Fortified is for Juniors - ditto
Friday youth club for Secondary school students
Women's Institute
Ladies' Fellowship
Bible study and prayer group
Seniors' luncheon club
Welsh playgroup
Welsh Conversation
Music Appreciation
Fat Fighters
Coffee pot
Friends of Chernobyl Children
Raglan Saturday Singers
Holiday Club
We have a versatile and hard-wearing set of premises but, boy, do they need refreshing!
We also need a disabled toilet and baby-changing facilities.
So, today, the workmen are going to be knocking the gents and ladies into one and ripping out the plumbing and putting in new fittings and redoing the walls. Well, today and the next three weeks.
When all of that is done, we are going to redecorate and the Fellowship Centre will be ready for the long haul.
Hence the Parable of the Talents. And hence the busking round Wales project.
Donations gratefully received at
Raglan Baptist Church
Usk Road
Raglan
Monmouthshire
NP15 2EB
UK
Welsh songs tomorrow
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