Sunday, July 27, 2008

Anyone for Hockey?

The work of setting up camp hadn't ended with the raising of the Bear flag: this just signified that our tent was up, and therefore, like the Queen with the Royal Standard, we were in residence.

Woolly always gets very excited when he returns to his birthplace and can't keep his hooves still for one minute. He therefore proves to be very useful round camp and anticipates all the jobs which need doing.


Here he is with Patrick filling up the water containers. As you know, we like to do our bit to promote our favourite brewery, Woodforde's (not that they've rewarded us for all the free publicity with a complimentary barrel yet!) but we can assure you it was only water coming out the tap, not beer.

As this is a wonderful, away from it all, campsite we have to provide our own toilet facilities.


Putting up the toilet tent is therefore a very important job, and once it's up and our portable toilet installed we can relax and uncross our legs.

We save our favourite job til last. This is to clear our camp area from from sheep droppings so we don't sit in them or take them into the tent. We get a couple of games going which make this task a really fun one.


In case our ingenuity is greater than your imagination, we'll tell you that we played sheep pooh hockey and sheep pooh snooker using our trekking poles as sticks and cues. As the sheep stay in our camp field, providing good company for Woolly, it is usually necessary to have a return match later in the week.

Hopefully you can tell by now that we just love camping - when it's not raining anyway!

Lots of love from the Bears Unlimited Camp Crew xxx

1 comment:

Fred's mum said...

That looks fun! Do you do sheep pooh flinging too or is that just for cow pats? On the other hand, I think dried out sheep pooh would lend itslf better for shot put?