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The Summer Event by SR
With a grey sky and rain threatening it did
not deter the avid carers north and south to come
together on a field to play games and eat sausages!
The scene was set. The cows had moved on to
the next field or got shoved out (I’m not
sure) on the delightful farm of L and V in downtown
- somewhere near Okehampton.
Balloons were swaying, the bouncy castle blown
up (not literally) and K arrived with the Gazebo
and more importantly food! Swanning around the
field, she set the scene for the games day.
In the left field we had the swing ball, garden
draughts, jenga, bats and balls! In the right
field we had the tug of war rope, cricket, football
and the volleyball.
To the side we had tables and chairs, nicely
decorated with helium balloons (only one got away!!)
and more importantly food! That I mention that
again??
And let’s us not forget the fantastic face
painting operating from somewhere in a shed!
Back to the food! The barbeque began. The aroma
of chicken and sausages, onion and beef burgers
were burning—oops I didn’t mean to
disrespect V’s cooking!
Whilst munching on the creamy salads with bread
rolls and thank you Mrs D for the scrumptious
cakes/puddings. We all enjoyed those!! The scene
was set for the quiz. P has always tried to persuade
us in the support team that he can drum up a quick
quiz, inviting us to consider the size of his
quiz intellect but I sometimes wonder if that’s
just about Pink Floyd? However I was pleasantly
surprised as to the quality of questions although
the SOS question—come on—did anybody
get that right? I protested to the answer he gave,
when we had all completed the paperwork but I
can’t remember what that was now - however
I don’t care as our table came second anyway.
The ones who won obliviously copied our answers
and got one extra right!
The games really got into action as the tug
of war was clearly won by the girls with a little
help from V!
The football was 5 a side and clearly a well
fought, sweat dripping event. The cricket suited
the more relaxed members of our group - I feel.
But all in all fun was had and the food!!!!
Well all I can say is a very big thank you to
Karen—who worked marvels at being the hostess,
constantly cleaning and clearing as the day went
along and to L and V for the use of their farm
and all the helpers who assisted and thank you
to all the carers and kids for sharing a really
great day!
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