After the joy of our Book Celebration at Bear Bookshop, and the success of giving WSG away as an e.book to raise funds for Parkinson’s UK, I wanted to finish off with a challenge that has the potential to keep small donations coming in . . . all charities have been struggling through the pandemic as fundraising has been decimated.
So here is The Tunnock’s Tea Cake Challenge: replicating a joyous morning that Moosh and I shared in the nursing home.
Chapter 44, The Malayan’s In The House, end’s with the sentence, ‘Moosh and I were high on teacake and the anticipation of Sandra’s visit.’
We were both ‘high’ after playing the tea cake game, which the dyskinesia of her Parkinson’s made a real challenge for Moosh. When I showed her how to play, I made her cry with laughter by splatting myself just like in this video!
But that’s not how you are supposed to play. There are rules!
- You unwrap the teacake from its red and silver foil wrapper
- Place it on the palm of your hand
- Smack it on your forehead BUT . . .
- You have to use just the right amount of smack to crack the chocolate shell and reveal the gooey white centre, but, without getting even the tiniest smidgen of luscious marshmallow on your skin
There is no real winner only laughter! And mess!
So now (with your help) the invitation is being spread to anywhere that people are daft enough to take part and generous enough to make a donation: get some friend’s together, grab your camera, post the results, make a donation at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/wsg4puk . . . then invite others to do better than you.
I can just about do Facebook and Instagram, so friends like Ali (above) have already been joining in and posting and donating, but TikTok is many, many technological leaps beyond my technophobe-dinosaur abilities, so Ameesha (The Book Shelf) stepped up . . . https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8PLpfLh/
When you take part, please find a way of letting me know 💜
Mark Lanyon Storyteller 