Bid or Buy - or in my case Guess and Win... and Donate

You might had read my post on Wednesday, talking about the Bid or Buy auction competition, and if you did, you would have seen both my guess of the closing highest bid, and my pledge to donate any prize I might win to the Worldwide Blogger Bakeoff.

Well, in this modern age, apparently small miracles do happen, and this morning I learned that my guess of R67,467 was the closest of all the guesses, and that the prize of R300 was mine!

And so true to my word, I have donated my R300 to the Worldwide Blogger Bakeoff campaign, over and above a previous donation I made.

Thanks to Bid or Buy for inviting me to participate.
Their next competition is next week, and once more I will be participating (and donating if I win)

Bid or Buy for Breadline Africa

Here’s something different – I have been invited to take part in a competition! Well, who am I to scoff at an invitation!

The competition is open to South African bloggers and is being run by Bid or Buy – an online auction website based here in South Africa.
It revolves around the auction of a VW TenaCity Golf that starts on Thursday, 23rd October. The winner is the blogger who best guesses the final winning bid – in other words guesses closest to the closing bid. There is a monetary prize for the winner.

Well let’s see… I think that the closing bid will be R67,467.

But here’s something else…

Right now there is a “Worldwide Blogger Bakeoff” happening. This is an initiative of Breadline Africa, and aims to convert shipping containers into locations for food production and distribution. These sustainable community kitchens will not only provide foods such as bread and soup to those in need, but also opportunities for skills development within these poor communities. Under the banner, “Bake Bread – Give Dough”, Breadline Africa has a number of ways that you can get involved:

* Join the campaign.
* Submit your bread baking recipe.
* Make a donation to Breadline Africa.
* Vote for your favourite recipe.
* Bake a loaf of bread and blog about it.
* Bake many loaves of bread and host a bake sale.

For my part I have added the fund raising widget, displayed to in the right hand column of my blog.

So back to the Bid or Buy competition... As I am not in the habit of advertising or promotions, should my guess at the closing bid in the auction be the closest and by some strange tear in the stitching of our universe, I win the monetary prize, I will donate it to the Blogger Bakeoff.