The Furred Emergency Service!!!

The Greenbelt fire crew volunteers are another rather special group of volunteers. They are on duty 24/7 keeping watch on the camping areas and events venues, checking barbecues and gas cookers are safely handled and no tents (or worse) catch fire. They also patrol the site doing safety demos and we felt very sorry for the tent which was sacrificed for their demo.

This year CCTV cameras were in operation to allow them to view the camping areas from a distance. In the past they have had to keep watch from the top of scaffolding towers in the camping area and they must have got very cold in the middle of the night.

Although the scaffolding towers had gone this year, the round the clock Land Rover patrols had not. This is another reason to take ear plugs to Greenbelt. Land Rovers can be quite noisy driving past your tent at 4.00 a.m. - we're not complaining though, it's a vital job.


When we spotted one of the fire Land Rovers (appropriately red!) outside the fire crew's base we popped over to have a look and also to express our thanks and appreciation for the vital work these volunteers do.

Some of you may remember our post early last year with us doing some topless modelling on the bonnet of a Land Rover in the Peak District, thinking how much we'd like to do a Top Gear challenge in a Landie. We were able to recreate this pose on the bonnet of an even bigger and finer Land Rover. This one had his name, Oscar, in the window.

On this occasion the emergency lights weren't on. We were quite pleased as it allowed us to linger and the fire crews to get a well-earned break.

Lots of love George, Chelmer and the Grrenbelt crew xxx