Ice Cream at the Loan's Gala

Today was the annual Loan's Gala day, and in what seems to have become the local tradition the Cubs and Scouts were out raising funds - the Cubs by selling ice cream and the Scouts by breaking plates.

When I say Cubs and Scouts I am being quite loose with the term. Dave and I  only saw 3 cubs the entire day. The Scouts fared a little better with Colin having 3 scouts around.
We have an easy plan - sell ice cream to the punters. We also have cans, but we focus on the ice cream. We used to also do popcorn - that was an earner until the popper broke down a few years back. The scouts offer 10 golfballs for 50p to fling at the crockery pinned to the back wall - a great stress releaser.
Despite being stuck in the tent for the entire day, it seemed a great day. The weather was quite nice, though a little breezy. Just the sort of day that needs an ice cream cone. The event started at 1300 and for the next 2.5 hours straight we sold our entire stock. First to finish were the flakes for the 99s. But we could offer chocolate sauce as an alternative. Then the cones ran out and we had to proceed with disposable cups. But finally the last of the ice cream ran out and we had t let the queue know.
For the next hour we sold out stock of cans - the burger van were selling theirs for £1 but ours were only 80p so 2 scouts with a cooler stood near the top of the burger van queue and emptied the cooler twice.


Dave just emailed to say we made almost £160 profit ! Well done us.