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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Aneesa Ahmed

Orkney shop owner raises £3,000 for charity after Easter egg error

Chocolate Easter eggs in shop
Dan Dafydd accidentally ordered 80 cases of Easter eggs. Photograph: Andrew Beer/PA

For a small shop owner on a small island as far as mistakes go, Dan Dafydd’s was a pretty big one leaving him with quite a dilemma: how do you get rid of 80 cases of Easter eggs when you meant to order only 80 eggs?

For Dafydd, the owner of Sinclair General Stores on Sanday, one of the Orkney islands (population approximately 500), the 720 eggs were enough to feed everyone almost twice over. A few too many even for those with a sweet tooth.

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