And breathe....
T.T. finished on Saturday afternoon, and we began our tidy-up at church, finished it after yesterday's service, and I spent yesterday afternoon and evening doing nothing more exciting than sitting in the garden, and doing quiche and salad for tea.
Today I have been in the bookshop all day - and now I am sitting with my feet-up!
Over T.T. 2023 we served around 3,250 cups of tea and coffee, around 1,550 filled baps (bread buns), and around 1,500 portions of cakes and cookies. Also lots of cans of pop, bottles of water, packets of crisps and chocolate bars. It was very busy! And we were all dashing home and baking on the rest days and in the evenings of race days.
I will put a few pictures under this cut
Here are pictures of a few of the crowd. Over the fortnight we spoke to visitors from close-by (the UK and Eire), mainland Europe (French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Dutch that I knew of - probably others too), and even further afield, from the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Which gave us an almost constant flow of customers.
Here is the 4 person 'bap' team; 1. cut and butter the baps, 2. fill them, 3. wrap them, 4. label and place into baskets to go out to the front. Various others were also part of this ongoing production line at times - including a six year old who took position 4 regularly to stick the labels on - and a 4 year old, whose Mum was serving, who decided he also wanted to help and carried the baskets for us!
The children actually have the Sunday School room for themselves, with 'to do' things out, and games brought from home, as well as somewhere to play on their iPads - but all love to help in some way at least for a few minutes!
And here is one day's supply of assorted cakes, taken at 9.15 am, when most of the cakes coming in have arrived, but I hadn't started cutting them. (That is my main job - keep the flow of assorted cakes out to the 'counter' so there are always at least 5 different things to choose from!)
Oh - and my personal baking tally came to 312 portions - including chocolate brownies, banana cake, flapjack, carrot cake, strawberry sheet cake, fruit-loaf, gingerbread, scones - and possibly other things I have forgotten!
The weather was glorious all the way through (the last rain we had was on May 8th until about 15 minutes of it overnight on Friday!), there were very few accidents, either racing or amongst the 30,000 or so extra motorbikes on our roads during the fortnight - and very few arrest for anything; all in all it was a lovely fortnight.
I have some garden pics - I will post them tomorrow.
Today I have been in the bookshop all day - and now I am sitting with my feet-up!
Over T.T. 2023 we served around 3,250 cups of tea and coffee, around 1,550 filled baps (bread buns), and around 1,500 portions of cakes and cookies. Also lots of cans of pop, bottles of water, packets of crisps and chocolate bars. It was very busy! And we were all dashing home and baking on the rest days and in the evenings of race days.
I will put a few pictures under this cut
Here are pictures of a few of the crowd. Over the fortnight we spoke to visitors from close-by (the UK and Eire), mainland Europe (French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Dutch that I knew of - probably others too), and even further afield, from the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Which gave us an almost constant flow of customers.
Here is the 4 person 'bap' team; 1. cut and butter the baps, 2. fill them, 3. wrap them, 4. label and place into baskets to go out to the front. Various others were also part of this ongoing production line at times - including a six year old who took position 4 regularly to stick the labels on - and a 4 year old, whose Mum was serving, who decided he also wanted to help and carried the baskets for us!
The children actually have the Sunday School room for themselves, with 'to do' things out, and games brought from home, as well as somewhere to play on their iPads - but all love to help in some way at least for a few minutes!
And here is one day's supply of assorted cakes, taken at 9.15 am, when most of the cakes coming in have arrived, but I hadn't started cutting them. (That is my main job - keep the flow of assorted cakes out to the 'counter' so there are always at least 5 different things to choose from!)
Oh - and my personal baking tally came to 312 portions - including chocolate brownies, banana cake, flapjack, carrot cake, strawberry sheet cake, fruit-loaf, gingerbread, scones - and possibly other things I have forgotten!
The weather was glorious all the way through (the last rain we had was on May 8th until about 15 minutes of it overnight on Friday!), there were very few accidents, either racing or amongst the 30,000 or so extra motorbikes on our roads during the fortnight - and very few arrest for anything; all in all it was a lovely fortnight.
I have some garden pics - I will post them tomorrow.