Seafront Sunday

Hi!

So last post was about the cage fighting on Saturday. This post should be about Seafront Sunday.
Four Sundays every summer the island has a Seafront Sunday. It's supposed to be the first Sunday of each month but neither one has been so far. In my experience they always coincide with at least one cruise liner being present off the coast of St Peter Port.
So anyway, people have stalls along the seafront where they sell things like antiques, jewellery, food etc.
The catering company I work for basically does a promotion of Guernsey produce. One stall had a sausage making competition for visitors. Another was teaching people how to cook mussels. The stall I was at (with 9 other people for some reason, we had 5 last time) was giving away freebies of cold leek and potato soup (can't spell the French name), Guernsey cheese, Guernsey peppers and basil (for some reason). Ten people were doing this.
The soup wasn't well received at all last time. People heard the word soup and ran for the woods. That's a joke, we don't have any woods on Guernsey. Yesterday the weather wasn't great so people were more willing to try the soup. Towards the end we put cups of soup on trays and walked around trying to get people to have some soup.
We also had cheese of four types.... We were only giving away free samples but people kept asking how much it was and trying to buy packets. We kept directing them to the only little supermarket in town open on a Sunday. We did actually check that they had the cheese after directing what felt like a million tourists to the shop. Luckily they did sell it. If they didn't, that would have been bad. Someone asked if they sell Guernsey cheese in the US. I replied that I haven't been there (that I remember) so I don't know. I then added that they probably export it to the UK but probably not to Jersey.
We also had peppers. Red, green, orange and yellow Guernsey grown peppers. They are absolutely delicious. We also had a herby mayonnaise to go with the peppers. Apparently it was delicious. We had loads of peppers.
We used up all of the soup yesterday. We also used up all of the cheese. However we were nowhere near using up all of the peppers or Basil.
Yes, Basil. We had bowls of Basil which we trying to get people to take samples of Basil from. We didn't understand why we were giving out basil. My friend ended up going round all the stalls and asking people to buy packets of basil for charity. She did get rid of about half the box.
I like working on seafront Sundays because last time we got to take cheese and peppers home and this time we were allowed a pack of basil each. Free food!
In other news I now have blisters on my feet from walking around in uncomfortable shoes on Saturday night at the cage fighting and yesterday. Add that to the blister on my thumb from Friday and the lack of blister plasters in this house, I am not a happy funny (a phrase my old physics teacher used to use).

Bye banan!