A HUGE thank you to the Diss family (especially Matilda, Finty and Arthur) for their efforts in raising money for our Birds of Prey appeal! We were thrilled to hear your story this week, and we hope it will inspire some of the people who visit this blog to get out there and step up for nature!

Good morning 

This is Matilda Mary Diss, aged 9.  Yesterday my sister and I made lots and lots of cookies and fairy cakes to sell on the roadside outside our house, in aid of Birds of Prey.  We made our money boxes by colouring them in and gluing them together.  We then set up a big table and stools outside our house and made a clear sign for people to read. 

The next step was to start baking.  We started at 9.30am making fairy cakes which had six eggs in them and cocoa and pink food colouring, as we wanted to make marbled fairy cakes.  We got them in the oven as quickly as we could so that we could sell early.  In the end the fairy cakes were ready before the cookies which was funny really as the sign said we had cookies and cakes for sale.  Luckily no customers came to start with and we were able to get the cookies made using butter and sugar and flour and an egg and dipping them in melted chocolate so they looked really yummy.

Our first customers were my little brother Arthur and Daddy, they bought cakes and one biscuit and said they were delicious.  The next customer was a couple who were enjoying a bank holiday walk and our little brother Arthur called them over to buy something from our cake stall.  We forgot to tell them that the money was not for us!

Later our babysitter came and bought 10 biscuits and 10 cakes, we were delighted and shocked and worried our stocks would run out too early.  We must explain that we live in the middle of nowhere!  However Arthur and Finty did a good job of flagging cars and people down to purchase the cakes.  We even had two cyclists who came back with money but sadly we had sold out and we were very embarrassed but they still gave us some money for Birds of Prey.

We enjoyed the day very much and we are delighted to let you know that we raised £27.24 we think this is fantastic.  Mummy said she will donate the ingredients so we had a pure profit of £27.24.  We will be sending you a cheque for this amount soon.

We hope this helps.

Love from Matilda Diss who made the cookies (aged 9), and her sister Finty Diss who made the cakes (aged 7).