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I
want to action the auction of promises. Will you help, please? - by making
promises on the enclosed flyer. In this, there is no need to be there on the
night– though of course we hope you will be. The purpose of it all: the
support of good causes beyond the parish boundaries.
Most
of the sales will be of promises of services; with just a few paintings and
similar effects sold. It happens that some paintings have come my way – of
old
Merton Park, before the Great War; handed to me for just such an occasion as
our auction sale. So we have a beginning. If you have effects for selling,
please contact Alan Morris (020 8540 9443 or e-mail
alanmorris.training@tiscali.co.uk.
Now
what of the promises? These, I trust, will be forthcoming in great numbers.
I look to all parishioners. Please dive in: offer a service; make new
friends; fill a need; impart pleasure; use your skills. We have done this
thing before. It worked last time; it will work again.
Please complete and return the flyer enclosed, to one of the Church Wardens,
Joy Mills or Alan Morris. We shall all be very grateful and highly
delighted.
To
help with ideas, here are examples of promises sold, under the hammer, on
that earlier occasion. Do any of these add up to you? Or are there others
that only you know? Computers?; e-mails?; videos?; internet?; general
maintenance?; unblocking drains? (one of my specialities); cleaning
windows?; putting up pictures?; taking down curtains?; painting front doors?
Here are ideas from last time:
Lot:
1) I
will make an 8 inch rich Christmas cake (with home made almond paste only)
2) I
will tidy up a garden for the winter
(3)
I will do a shopping trip to
Kingston or Croydon
(4)
I will hold a Chinese evening for six people (slides and some food)
(5)
I will do dress making alterations
(6)
I will polish silver or brass for two hours
(7)
I will provide a main course for a dinner party for four
(8)
I will make a dessert for four people
(9)
I will clean a car
(10)
I will take a car load of rubbish to the dump (all rubbish to be dry and in
plastic sacks)
(11)
I will do two hours' ironing
(12)
I will make a chocolate cake
(13)
I will make a small needlepoint picture complete with frame
(14)
I will provide a Trafalgar Day supper (October 21) for four guests at my
home
(15)
I will make 36 small meat patties
(16)
I will care for an elderly person for one day
(17)
I will take two guests to the Royal Institution for a Friday evening
discourse
(18)
I will make 4 x 1lb jars of apple chutney
(19)
I will frame a picture, providing the materials
(20)
I will baby-sit on three separate occasions
(21)
I will make a
Dundee cake
(22)
I will provide afternoon tea at my home for up to eight people in November
(23)
I will drive someone to and from an evening function (not between 7th
and 21st of October)
(24)
I will make a Christmas pudding
(25)
I will make a rabbit hutch, tree house or other simple construction
(26)
I will do 3 hours’ ironing/mending
(27)
I will do one afternoon's cooking
(28)
I will read to someone for half an hour for six weeks
(29)
I will provide two chiropody sessions
(30)
I will supply three 2lb jars of new season's Merton honey
(31)
I will make four rounds of shortbread during October
(33)
I will knit a jumper (buyer to provide pattern and yarn)
(34)
I will clip a hedge (max 5’ high, 15’ long)
(35)
I will make 6 x 1lb jars of apple chutney
(36)
I will repair an antique clock
(37)
I will take a dog for a walk each day for a week
(38)
I will take three people to Kingston/Croydon
(39)
I will make 3 x 9 inch plate fruit pies suitable for freezer
(40)
I will do two or three sketch portraits in watercolour
(41)
I will do rough gardening, clearing etc. for half a day
(42)
I will make an 8 inch Christmas cake, marzipanned and rough iced
(43)
I will spring clean a room
(44)
I will wash a car
(45)
I will care for an elderly person for four hours
(46)
I will make 2 Yule logs (chocolate Swiss roll & chocolate butter-cream with
decorations) for delivery Saturday, December 23, or earlier for freezing
(47)
I will make a child's party dress up to age 10 providing suitable material
(48)
I will provide a pen and ink sketch of your house
(49)
I will give cookery instruction for two traditional Austrian dishes (four
people on two occasions on a Tuesday or Friday during the day)
(50)
I will do shopping for an elderly or sick person
(51)
I will make 6 x 4 oz jars of lemon curd
(52)
I will give embroidery lessons (6 x 1 hour or 12 x half-hour)
(53)
I will do 2 hours’ brass/silver cleaning
(54)
I will make the dessert for a dinner party
(55)
I will take two people for a drive in the Surrey countryside with lunch at
the "Volunteer Inn"
(56)
I will make two fruit cakes or "Bara Brith"
(57)
I will alter a skirt and/or dress
(58)
I will make five 1lb jars of lemon marmalade
(59)
I will give one person two hours of dinghy sailing at the coast including
transport there - a total of six hours
(60)
I will spend an hour cutting a hedge or lawn or doing another job in the
garden
(61)
I will look after a child for the day on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday
Alan Morris
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