Well it almost is! We will be sending out the address list this weekend - sorry for the delay. In the meantime you might want to review the lost property:
Do let us know if you own any of this so that we can post it back to you!
The boys are now having a highly intellectual conversation about the Lord of the Rings with impressions of Arogon, Gimik and of course the Orcs. They bear quite a resemblance! Anyway we are having a great time and the cake is really good. We love Porthpean!
Whilst waiting for the seminar to start an impromptu noise happened. Ian's Ipod and speakers were blasting a song or two and everyone was joining in whilst Rachel and Hannah performed a spectacular Penguin Dance followed by a cat walk. It was all very funny. (Some artistic license from the editor because he couldn't read what was actually written!).
Later on after lunch we completed the high ropes course which included a zip wire run and a leap of faith - both were great.
Becca and El won the crate challenge with 12 crates stacked on top of each other before they toppled over! whilst the boys discovered how painful full body harnesses can be!
The Revolution has begun!
Armed only with a sharp wit and quick mind, our favourite hero has once again begun that ever constant quest. The odds are high, the omens are stark, yet fearlessly, our man of hope, of truth and of honour has begun that long and treacherous road to victory. It has begun.
The boards were out to witness in full the first of his most powerful victories. One versus many, our strong hero gave as good as he received, despite the horrifically unfair advantage that lay before him. Joined by several comrades strong of heart and full of belief in their hero's abilities, the stroke was struck and the noble gathering departed from the field of battle victorious.
(Editor - what this has to do with Climbing and mountain biking I have no idea but I believe that Rugby might come into it and also that the Gold(en) boys talked a lot about The Lord of the Rings suggesting they had a fantastic imagination!)
Wed blew up a huge football and played with it on the beach. We then played Amethyst at rounders. Suffice to say that we beat them! Spike got taken out by Aaron and a giant football!
Whilst we were in the Worship Workshop, the tent and village leaders had a really nice cream tea and as a result they could not finish their dinner back at camp!
Worship Workshop rocked. We made an awesome power point presentation and we helped with the worship too.
Today we had the finniest dinner ever, we managed to knock over 4 cups of water and laughed enough to last a whole day!
Ben (the leader) told stories about the great white shark - that wasn't spotted off of the Cornish coast!)
Paddling in the sea was hard and Gilly was cold! Bryony paddled like a trooper but peaked too soon and enjoyed a scenic journey back being towed by Lydia and Amy!
We clambered up rocks and cliffs and then snorkelled and jumped off the odd rock or two - had glorious fun.
It must have been a fairly easy day because Ben still had energy for a run after a day frolicking in the water although he did collapse afterwards!
Paul was a champion traverser and has a medal to prove it! Ruth and Rose had an amusing time trying to get onto a siton! Lindsey beat the others at the siton standing wrestling competition! (not actual wrestling - ed).
Dan's group swam all afternoon in bouyancy aids and helmets - what a feat! There were also some impressive jumps from heights taller than ourselves!
Hang low my fellow brothers for this is a sad day. Where the banners of men came crashing down and the trumpet's call lasts long into the night. A restless day of shadows and fear.
For today, an infamous day, shall be remembered as the day of lost glory, of anguished bereavement and soulless crime. A hero's day, not raised high by the building blocks of skill and daring, but a day for hero's sorrow.
It is a thus I turn to you; You fine people; you band of brothers. Let the call ring out "unite!"; Unite against the evil of the night. And one day, one blissful day, we gentle few may live a life of winning, without fear from the girls!
( Response from the boys who apparently lost the crate building contest!)
No News! other than to say that we spent the day clambering up an artificial rock face, had fun on a rather large jacobbs ladder and had some great food!
It would appear that Jasper didn't get a chance to write anything about the great day that they had on the Fowey. Fortunately the editor joined them for the day and I can personally say that it was glorious day with sun and fun all the way! We managed to get around the coastline to the point where we could see the camp site! It was a first for us all!
Today Amethyst (Ta dadadaDaaa I'm Amethyst) both climbed rocks (thought they were not made of rock) and mountain biked - without mountains! This brought some interesting challenges with the Jacob's ladder and Pentewan hill!
Sarah managed to destroy and expensive bike and Lindsey tried to remove her skin spectacularly on a straight flat path!
A good day was had by all and it ended with a big water fight with everyone getting drenched (cough says the editor - thought water fights were banned!).
We are brilliantly fantastic and this is because of our amazingly magnificent leaders who are fabulous and marvellous!
The food is always delicious and very many thanks to the cooks hard work, they are awesome.
Sitons was fab and tiring and so was Coasteering but it hurt my hands. We are on high ropes tomorrow - can't wait.
Gradually upping the sandwich munching abilities. Today I think we got through 50 plus but we did have Glenn (overall leader) with us!
My arms are mega tired and by bottom is a little numb!
Canoeing was immense. I got really wet to start with but then I swapped with Johnny - big mistake because I discovered he was really lazy and so I ended up doing all of the work!
We discovered the delights of Cheese and Chocolate spread sandwiches. It actually tastes better than it sounds!
Canoeing was great fun. We also had fun doing the clapping and 12345 song - it rocked everyone's socks!
Fowey was an awesome day. We went so far that we now have numb bottoms and aching biceps and shoulders! We really got our days worth of exercise and thoroughly deserved all the sandwiches!
Between us we ate 40+ sandwiches and 14 chocolate mouses! What a feat!
Dom (one of our tent leaders) got a little cold and went blue.
We played human dominos - although a little painful it was good fun!
One of the groups appeared to do more swimming than coasteering (where the aim is to stay out of the water!).
By the end of the day I had rediscovered doggy paddle but it wasn't getting me very far!
This morning we had breakfast on the beach. It started with a lively game of Giants, Wizards and Dwarves and then we played a game of bum wrestling! It was extreme!
We buried Phil for the second year running!
Frisbee and shopping followed the food!
We spent most of today screaming like the girls while falling! It was good fun doing the angel fall backwards - immense
"I, Greg Jones, did not scream at all while angel diving 20ish times! I also did it backwards and got swung into the stacked crates with people on them!"
David was just pure brilliant at it and swung on the zip wire upside down!
We also made clocks in the seminar while telling bad jokes!
Our village sign has been taken :- 0 So have everyone's actually!
I'd also like to confess that Stefan purposefully swung Greg into Gill and Bryony's crate stack - Sabotage!
Today we did high ropes - it was awesome. We did a leap of faith - all the way and in many different ways - forwards, backwards, sideways - Headbutt, Superman, iMatrix (whatever any of those mean!)
Others were "dangled" for significant periods of time after the leap of faith - just for fun!
In the seminar we made a clock that actually ticks to show that God is with us all of the time. We also played a game of human Jenga!
Well today we went to the Fowey and rowed (cough says editor - you canoed and the instructors would be offended by the suggestion that you rowed!) down the Fowey. Greg and Dave weren't so hot at "rowing" and invented a way of rowing backwards giving rowing a really bad name!
Dave and Greg seemed to suggest that there appears to be some jealousy in the village as they thought they gave a sterling effort to the rowing!
Beth did the leap of faith 7 times (backwards and forwards!). Beth and Lindsey stacked crates and Sarah managed to fall off one!
We played human conkers with Matt and Tom and in the Seminar we made bracelets, clocks and Max made a car necklace!
In Quiet times the girls humbled themselves by washing each others feet. Ann-Marie's were the smelliest!
Buffets are always dangerous because you can put practically anything on your plate. I set myself the challenge (encouraged by everyone else on the table) to make and eat a MAMA sandwich. This sandwich included: 4 slices of beetroot, 1 spoon of egg mayo, a lot of nachos, some ham, a little cucumber and a cherry tomato on top! I managed to eat everything!
Group 1 - Coasteering in the morning, we managed to get all the way back to the beach and along the way we saw some fish while snorkelling and in the afternoon we sat on sitons which was great fun!Q
Group 2 - Sitons first, before the coasteering. Johnny and Phil decided to get everyone capsized who hadn't been in the water yet! This was OK after your body had gone numb from the cold! However the weather was awesome! After lunch we did coasteering which was amazing and really fun but everyone suffered from many cuts because we climbed over rocks without any gloves on :-(
Dom and Phil managed to waltz in the sea - not sure how!
Cycling went well to say the least. Me and Rob were rubbish at it. Rob was clever enough to stop but I carried on and ripped off half my trousers and bruised my body entirely – Owen!
We went climbing. The Jasper team won the smiley face game. We ate our carrot mascot for lunch (oops). We then went on the high ropes! – Jasper Girls!
Rob fell off the climbing wall lots and we discovered that Becca likes postman pat
Saw the rare lesser spotted Cornish cave sheep, were captured by pirates and were forced to walk the plank in the glacial waters, we swam with man eating sharks and jelly fish and finished the day off with the heroic defeat and capture of St Catherine’s castle.
The Skoda Car-Stle masterpiece (see photo) produced by the leaders! The boys made a hole which became a small paddling pool as the tide came in. The girls created a multilateral creation named Peter. Quiet time was interrupted by a heavy shower but we soldiered on, making unleavened bread, tasting similar to a dodgy pancake.
In the afternoon the members planned worship whilst the leaders nipped out for a sneaky cream tea or two!
Today we: Rescued a bench, stacked on cycling, attempted no footed climbing - ouch - but fun, completed no footed climbing.
Also, Angus cycled through a ditch full of water only to end up doing a superman headlong dive into the unexpectant Kim who was taken down into the mud as a result!
News Flash.... Spike put himself in mortal peril to save a young girl's life when he slammed on his brakes after seeing the girl fall over in front of him. He catapulted over the handle bars, completed a full 180 flip landing on his head, hands and left elbow. Both escaped relatively unharmed as for the bikes...!
Later on in the day, Kim and Sarah got attacked by auto harnesses as they were pulled up and did a spider man like jump!
One piece of advice: do not wear a white tee shirt whilst mountain biking!
Loving the food :) Canoeing was really good, especially when combined with swimming because the crazy cousins (Emma and Rachel) jumped over board!
Our village is the best and definitely has the best leaders!
With effortless (well relatively speaking) they have all arrived. The trains were only marginally late (i.e. the train companies won't recognise it as being late but those waiting for 17 minutes had chance to have a cup of tea!).
And we have kicked off with a demonstration of priestliness - or was it? Was Carolyn right or were Pete's challenges more appropriate. Well we are going to learn - have no doubt!
Well the team is slowly forming as they arrive from long journeys and short walks!
We have heard that the members are on the trains they should be and we're just off to collect them!
Wow, what a journey, yes it was hot but we passed through so much fantastic countryside and the traffic was good to us.
We're almost here now and we are hoping that you are almost packed! Don't forget the your sun screen - it is really hot in Exeter and we are confident that it is going to be scorching next week!
Have a safe journey and we'll see you on Monday!
Indeed there is a rather large white minibus parked outside our house. At the moment it looks rather empty but by about 11am tomorrow it will not only be very full but also heading towards the Cornish coast line.
Well actually we are going to turn right at Exeter and pop in to see David and Sheila (village leaders) before continuing to site on Sunday.
We hope that you aren't taking as much as we are - the trains have a weight limit you know!
