Wednesday Usual early start and shopping trip, visit site to collect my afternoon helper. She cuts thumb on my new vegetable slicer and faints. Cook most of dinner by myself. Evening entertainment is quiz at 'Tom O' the Wood'. I arrange for Harri T to do breakfast as I visit own friendly bed for a good night's sleep. There's nothing like ones own bed. Thursday After a good night's sleep I have a spring in my step and decide to cook curry for tomorrow night, as tonight is Fish & Chip night at Stratford. After usual tidying, kitchen clearing, shopping, site visiting and accommodation cleaning I can get on with the Curry. Jude is my afternoon helper and now I’m not sure if I’m helping her or t’other way round, anyway it is prepared and we wander off to Stratford to warn chip shop of impending large order around 20:00. After a bit of window shopping and a pit stop at the local Wetherspoons, site phones at about 19:00 and our happy campers are too tired to go out! Plan 'Z' springs to mind, we’ll have Friday's curry tonight! So off to Tescos to get tomorrow's shopping and a frantic hour is spent getting back and watching the rice fail to boil quickly enough, still dinner is served at 20:30 and all too tired for pub, so we have a 'BCN Cleanup Night In' until about 04:00. Cook's revenge night! Good Friday Breakfast is done (me or Harri, I forget); tidy and shopping thing is done. Follow through on window shopping at Stratford. Jude & I are surprised at being asked by the police not to move the car off double yellow lines, as the Easter march is about to walk past! Cooked fishcakes as extra to last nights curry, well Jude did, as I went and did a Makro shop, via my comfy bed, and didn’t get back until late. Repeated last nights activities, or should that be atrocities?
Dinner is served on the last night. (Martin Ludgate) Saturday Normal cook's day. Kitchen becomes Jude's and I become the helper: me weekdays; Jude weekends. Jude's spag bol and garlic bread must have been 59% garlic based, which really pleased London WRGies. I had fish finger sandwiches, so I really, no REALLY noticed. I was duty driver and the rest of the happy campers got as happy as I did the previous night. Cooked pancakes at midnight and had a tossing competition, made jellies (frog-shaped of course), did camp accounts. Put clocks forward and got to bed at 02:30 BST. Easter Sunday Normal cook and assistant day, as in busy from the word go, or in my case 'Need Coffee!' Sunday roast prep done, loads of puddings. Disposed of camp rubbish and recycled one or two tins and bottles!! Dinner at 19:30, there was so much activity on site that the usual awards ceremony after this last evening meal was simply a hearty thank you from MKP and Bex. But the Cook(s) got them a pair of musical bears that sing 'Teddy Bears Picnic', with vertical and horizontal movements!
Lunch 'al fresco' by Lock 1. (Martin Ludgate)
Evening entertainment was at 'Tom ‘O the Wood' and Adrian volunteered to be duty driver and Bears plus Igor, Frug & Happy Herbert went with us to the pub. A pleasant and not overly long evening at the Tom and we were all back and tucked up and snoring (allegedly) by 02:00.
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