September 2005. Our group camp. Below are some photos from the camp. The camp was a great success and I am sure the Scouts, Cubs and Beavers will tell you all about it. This is the sign for the washing up area. We thought it was suggesting that the ladies should do the washing up. This isn’t as bad as you think - see further on for the reason why. Oh, just looked at this again, Ladies washing up, do they sink? Saturday morning.All the group gathered together to break the flag and start the days activities. Just some of the group on a log Just some of the group on a log Some more of the group on a log Sunday just before lunch, the Cubs and Scouts I cant remember when this was. OK it is Sunday night now and I was camping all weekend and my brain is asleep. Its the whole group together We take the kids. We blindfold them. We give them a rope to hold and they walk along it. Look Scouts climbing trees. This is a sight you don’t often see. Its dinner time and serving food from the cooks point of view. On the other side of the hatch its chaos, but here a place of peace and calm. Apparently. You should have seen them 5 minutes before I took the photo - then I wasn’t even going to try to get in the kitchen This is the other side of the hatch. Photos freeze the action and make this a scene of peace and calm. They don’t capture the noise either. Reality is that there are 40 young people eating, chatting, scraping chairs on the floor and banging the aluminium tables. And there is 1 leader to control them all - the rest have run away to the calm of the kitchen This is the campfire. The audience were good and kept me entertained all night (I led the fire) Ladies! Here are my dancing ladies. See I told you that the sign for the washing area isn’t as bad as you thought. These dancing ladies are performing at the campfire we had. Useful to get dancing ladies so I could get a break. Football in progress. With 4 teams and a complicated scoring system of who concedes what goal. Thoughts from the weekend: The camp was a very good camp, lots of things to do all weekend and everyone had a good time. All the leaders were busy (except one or 2 who had a period of quiet time after meals - it was quiet for them but sounded like an earth quake to the rest of us) The program had a few craft things, trails to follow, fires, chariot races, camp skills, campfires and cooking fires and loads more Jokes from the leaders (Leaders are like children, just taller) Torch with a dynamo and handle: "Look at this torch - its a wind up" "Are you having me on" "No its a wind up" and so it began and this joke continued until Sunday. Or at least the joke was carried on by the leaders, the beavers didn’t quite understand it Neil - Mentioned at the end of the camp - "We are waiting for Neil", so all the leaders knelt down. In case you wondered what we were doing So what do leaders do after the kids are in bed? Oh dear me, I have run out of space on the page.... Any comments or to remove images from this page, please e-mail: