Nice wealthy village has open day to raise funds for various village enterprises.
Fair enough, lovely little day out for us all, I thought.(2 kids)
£3.50 each for dh and I to look round some village gardens - ok.
There were various rip-off stalls run by outsiders - bouncy slide - £2 a go, for 2 minutes!
We were urged to visit the school where there were events promised for children.
1 - hook a duck £1. Prize? a drumstick lolly.
2 - lucky dip 50p. Prize? a 10p lolly.
3 - Coconut shy type thing with cans - £1 fr 3 throws. Prize? Nothing unless you knoacked them ALL off (very difficult for children, and these were aimed at children)
And the prize for that was a small bag of sweets or a bouncy ball.
4 - cafe. 'homemade' cakes were mostly shop bought and £1 each. 50p for a toffee crisp with the '15p' label cleary visible on the wrapper £1 for a cup of watery squash. £1.50 for a tiny cup of crap tea.
5 - tombola - filled full of very obviously 2nd hand tat - £1 for 3 tickets.
6 - dh ordered a suasage sandiwch from the bbq. It was 1 pale chipolata in a stale bun. No onion. No mustard. no ketchup. £2!
So this is quite a long whinge and i'm sorry, I just wanted to rant. OK, we didn't have to take part in the activities but it is very hard when you have driven for quite a while to visit an event and it's lunchtime and the children were spending their own pocket money on these crap, greedy stalls.
And this is not the first time I have felt like this at a fund-raising event recently. Just feel like people are taking the piss.