Day 13 - Thursday

Day 13 - Thursday

A lie-in for all the crew today – only had to get to the meeting for 8.00am lol! Early morning with Josephine leading, followed by the leaders initiation – was proper messy – beans, porridge, etc. all poured into socks, then worn by the new leaders who had to dance to the YMCA lol! After people had got cleaned up it was swimming time – yaaay a shower lol! On the way back, Smellit bought all the last minibus back to camp some ice cream & we sat & ate it, overlooking The Needles - sweet!

The evening’s activity was a Gala Dinner [a posh way of calling it a fancy dress dinner lol!]. I decided to dress up as that lovable rogue Sean Dillon! For those who have no idea [i.e. everyone apart from TC, PC, oh & Vicky M]; the author Jack Higgins wrote a series of novels with the hero as Dillon, once the most feared enforcer the IRA ever had, now he works for most secret part of the British military service. Anyways, was loads of fun, with a 3 course dinner – win! The PJ’s included; 6 constipated people in the Bible, Pie Sketch, some Bill Bailey musical number! When all the campers went to sleep, we tried to do a prank – failed, so went to sleep! However, overnight some people took the initiative – in the morning, there were upside-down tables fully laid out – wrapped round with cling film, the final part was to dress up the Ressuci-Annie up in a baby suit – proper winner!!

Monkeyworld!!

Day 12 - Wednesday

Another very early morning, meeting at 7.15 lol! Young Sarah was leading it & gave us a rendition of her favorite song, was really cool. My crew [Alpha Squad] were all going to Monkeyworld today which looked to be good fun. We were to board a big yellow coach thing – yaaay on a coach with many screaming young campers – eeeek!! Also, as it was my cousin’s birthday [Andy – The Giant] so I gave him a call to wish him Happy Birthday [he’s old now – 27…oh wait, he’s only 6 months older than me d’oh!].

Monkeyworld was pretty rad – there were monkey’s everywhere lol! However, there were a few problems [well 7 of them lol], no really it was good fun, but there were what appeared to be a million young people milling around – eeeek! We also visited the gift shop & I got some monkeys – a big chimp, a really cute…grey…monkey…thing & the best thing ever – a snoring monkey – it’s a monkey…that snores heavily lol!!! After we had finished looking at all the monkeys, with our monkeys [lol], we got on the coach & headed back home.

On the way back, I got all my monkeys stolen by the Tizzy & fallen asleep on by the Mad-Eye! Although the funniest thing I’d seen all day, had to have been when we de-coached & Mad-Eye [having just woken up] picked up a box, got off the coach & staggered & fell over – so harsh, but so very funny lol!! She did look like a drunkener, it was proper funny, then me, Tizzy & Rosie helped her back up & escorted her back to the camp [where she stayed till 2nd Helpings lol!].

The evening’s activities were a campfire, then cocoa & sleep for the campers! The campfire was cool, testimonies [including one from Nate which nearly made me cry with happiness – go on my brother!] & some acoustic worship – that always rocks my socks [as the great Oli would say] – especially: blessed by your name [plus one other – I’ll remember which one…eventually lol].

For the last bit of the night, hung out in the kitchen, with crazy conversations going on, including; me & Nate whispering expletives to each other, Smellit talking about taking a dump & it being a penguin, etc. lol! Then me & Nate went back to our tent & had a torch fight - why?! I just don’t know, but it seemed funny at the time, but we might possibly have woken up Hobbit lol!!