Brownsea Island: Day 14
Day 14 (6th of August):
For the night I slept outside the wooden building everybody else was sleeping in. Due to no circulation it felt more like a sauna then a place to sleep; well that and Adam Sankey snored so loud, it sounded as if someone had stuffed a jumbo jet up his “arse”. After I went outside, first a couple of mosquitos came around, but I soon killed all of them, or somehow chased them away. Now you would think that was all that is necessary to have good nights sleep, but oh no… It started raining.. Yep and since I was outside, it started raining on me. So I had to get up and move all my things under a bit of roof sticking out over the adjacent building, to shelter me from the rain. But anyway when we woke up and went to breakfast, something very nice was waiting for us… Yup, we had scramble egg for breakfast; I was oh so pleased. Never the less I developed a nasty headache, and unfortunately I had run out of headache pills (which George or Karen had given me anyway). So Helge and I walked back and after some guerilla warfare tactics, I managed to extract his rucksack from the truck and he found his headache pills, which I heartily swallowed… It was actually quite a lot of fun (not swallowing, but getting them). When we came back up to the white marquee it had been taken down where we did a final litter sweep and went for lunch.
Now for lunch there were lots of lunch packs left, as this was the last day on the island and a lot hadn’t been eaten. So after having eaten our first the catering crew comes out and asks if people want any; after which I quickly run up and grab one, triumphing with my extra Freddo, and very quickly it catches on… So the crew start throwing the lunchbags around to us, on a shouting loudest, first served basis. But as I am getting as many as I can, a bag hits my head and Georgia snatches the Freddo in it which is rightfully mine. As I thrust my hand around her to get to the Freddo on the other side, Sameer snatches my Freddo bar out of my hand, after which I get up and start charing towards him (there is where it all goes wrong), but as I am wearing my big boots and standing on slippery bricks, my feet are not really stuck well, so I slip and fall down with my leg first, resulting in: THIS; thank you Sameer…
After hanging around for some time, trying to get the pain to get away I limped down to the ferry where we were taken across to the mainland and to the scouthut where we would spend the night. Once we got there, JP (Jean Paul, not John Papworth), Helge and a Welsh guy whose name currently eludes me. We went to a Wetherspoon pub and I had fish and chips while the 3 others enjoyed some beer.
In the evening the major dinner started, the most delicious meal in my entire stay in England (not much of a compliment really, but it was actually good). It was a three course meal with potatoes, meat and all the regular stuff. However once we had finished eating and all the speeches etc. had been given I went back to get some sleep since I wasn’t feeling to well. But once I got back I had some water and felt better, which resulted in me walking back and talking with some different people and saying goodbye to those who weren’t coming to the WSJ closing ceremony, some of those people being Jane, Katty, Graham and Dave . However eventually I did go back to sleep, but maybe I should also mention that throughout this entire day my leg had been hurting so much it was hard to believe, but such is life. At a later point I am also going to upload a picture of Adam doing… What Adam does best.
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