If your kid’s not in these or the earlier pics, they refused to have their pic taken!
Tag: camp
After a hard morning on the assault
course
It’s time for lunch
While we have 3g signal, how about some pics from the 1st day. They are reduced size again and we’ll upload full size ones when we get home.
I thought you might like a few pic from the hike, so here you go!
We’ll upload proper sets to smugmug when we get home.
The leaders arrived on the Friday to get camp set up
everything, including...
And we even watched the opening ceremony
Dreadful signal on campsite so not much blogging!
All arrived safely. Chicken and rice cooked and eaten. Washing up done!
Now we are watching the Olympic round up on telly.
Not many PLs but we still had fun
choosing recipes for the dutch ovens
chicken ready to roast
roasting
grace loves her mammock
we sorted out the tarps
roasted bird
baked pudding
yummy
followed by some whittling
and we even had time for a game of Kubb
We also put up a tent, played stoolball and more.
Sick of the rain. Sick sick sick of it! But we dug out the newly refurbished tilleys and had a,play with them.
Everybody now smells of paraffin. Highlights for some of the scouts seemed to be the leadercs use of the words ‘knob’ and ‘prick’. Both are perfect words in context… But they seemed to prompt giggles. Sigh.
The hut is a hive of activity with John and Oliver building 8 new benches for camp. They are only bickering a little but over measurements and there’s been no metric v imperial confusion yet!
measure twice, cut once
these are a third the price of go pak benches
bzzzzzzzzzz