The Philanderer
Thursday, September 4, 2008
...because we aaarh!
Loads of things to report, but so little time, so lets start with 'Camp Pete'. Pete was unable to attend the very successful 'Camp Dick' in Yorkshire last year, so he decided to host his own. Luckily my mate Sham has a cottage near to Petes farm so we were again snuggled in the warm while the rest of the crew pitched tents and did the nature thing......
It was an action packed weekend though. after a Friday evening meal at Petes farmhouse, and a mega breakfast there the following day, we headed for Ullswater for a short, flat walk, designed to be acceptable to my dear wife, who struggles with hills a bit......well, if this was flat, I would hate to do a hilly one!!
So suitably knackered we returned to prepared for another excellent slap up meal at 'Camp Pete' cooked by the host and his family, which made us all read for bed and dreams of the daunting task ahead on the Sunday....
Yes, its village raft race day, and we have put an entry in.......Sham and Stu are dab hands at knots so it takes them and Katie no time at all to lash four oil drums and some wood together, add a flag and away you
.......only problem was it needed five people to drive it for optimum performance, and the lads had decided to enter their own raft, and 'off the record' Dick was late arriving......anyway, we gave it our best shot, and came a creditable fifth, beaten only by rubber tyres, which aren't really rafts are they?
The village then had a b-b-q and a duck race which finished the weekend off in style, a defo good camp......
Labels: camp pete, duck race, Howtown, raft race, Ullswater
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