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Here we are at Dalesdown with lovely campers and very nice leaders!

Kay’s job is easy - everyone is so happy there is very little for her to do in her role as house parent to the leaders, so she’s being Steve’s beautiful assistant and camp photographer!

Steve is leading worship and doing some puppetry. Jim Bailey has been awesome with the kids - winning the children over instantly - even the boys, and getting some good solid truths over to them in a fun (actually hilarious!) way. The Spicy Camels have made just one appearance and were very politically incorrect - as usual!

Today - Steve Legg is doing a “set” for the kids….and has just arrived, so guess where we’re off to now……!

We appear to have adopted a frog! A regular visitor to our rather leaky garage he sits by the bucket that catches the drips. We have named him Phineas!
He seems more than happy for us to be around in the garage and has been known to hop up to Kay when she’s been putting the washing in the washing machine.
On the whole he seems a rather friendly frog.
Off to Dalesdown on Saturday for the children’s camp there. Steve will be leading the worship and Kay will be house parent for the leaders. We’ll be letting our house sitters know they need to look out for Phineas

Two weeks are over…and we survived….just!
Week one was the week for our younger campers….even younger than usual as we invited specific 8 year olds (who were nearly nine) to fill some of the gaps we had- it’s unusual to have gaps on this camp!
Great fun was had by all, the food was excellent as usual (Thankyou Audrey!) We didn’t drown anyone in the pool, the rope swing was well used, the horses were ridden everyday (Thanks Tina and team) and the zip slide encountered no “incidents”! And the fun didn’t end there.
There was then the addition of “The Log” – no ordinary log…it was huge and provided a focal point for the campers to sit on and chill. (Photo below)
The leaders were fantastic – hardworking and fun, and well as a Godly example to the kids
The teaching went down very well – we taught in the morning and an assortment of folk taught in the evening.
The biggest fun memories from week one…so many to chose from, but one would be Kay getting the giggles half way through the story on the final morning (It was Steve’s fault – his acting was just a little too convincing!)
The other photo below was from the camp fire – it looks huge and the kids look close – but photos can be deceptive…..the children were very safe!

Week two was very different – especially for us. We didn’t have a specific role, so spent a lot of time praying, chatting to kids and leaders and generally trying to care and support where needed.
Again – much fun was had by all, and most of the info above is again true! These older campers also have two trips out – one to Rutland water to do team building water activities, and one to Drayton Manor.
As week one, the campers made the most of all the facilities and had a lot of fun (looking at some of their face book comments, they had a LOT of fun!)
The teaching was from Philippians in the morning and looked at some of the subjects kids wrestle with in the evening.
Memorable fun moments were – a strong gust of wind lifting the bouncy castle complete with blower – Audrey saved the day by unplugging it very quickly! (For those worried about health and safety - It was lunchtime and no kids on it – if kids had been on it, it wouldn’t have lifted!)
The other moment was waking up to sheep in the field – opening the caravan door and finding them blocking the way!
Thanks for praying