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Nov/Dec 2021
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Scouts experience “biblical” weather on camp By Nick Nelson, chair, 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group t’s been a long time since we have been able to camp but the three Scout troops and their leaders jumped at the chance on offer at Woodhouse Park, near Almondsbury. We usually camp in September but this year it drifted to the first weekend of October. You might remember it; the weather was biblical! At camp, you are expected to put up your own tents and the Scouts spent Thursday evening raising tents and marquees as well as moving in the kit we need. It rained, it started to get a little muddy and we spotted that a number of tents were no longer fit for purpose, so Friday morning we had to ring around to see who had enough eight-person tents in stock (not as many as you think!) Everyone arrived on Friday evening and quickly settled in, some of whom were in the very new tents (Air Beams!) which proved popular. The rain held off and we managed games in the fields and trees before night fell and everyone hurried to bed. Overnight it rained, and that become the theme until we left on Sunday. Occasionally we would dart out for a brief period in the sunshine (lulling us into a false sense of security) before it started raining again. Very quickly, the ground turned to mud, and the mud then just got deeper. Some learnt the hard way that boots need to be tied on firmly with many stuck on one
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