Day one is over!It started a little bit damp and muddy! Martyn and I arrived at Skreens Park Scout Camp Site (where the JBT are bases until they move to Hylands Park this Friday), and booked in. It wasn't the 'hub of activity' I was expecting. A handful of people were being booked in so while we waited I took the opportunity to have the full English breakfast that was on offer!
After registration we made our way to Hylands Park to be greeted by the familiar sight of the warehouse tents. The track way to the warehouse was in the process of being laid although this had been held-up a little by the weather of late and the condition of the ground (mud) under foot.
We made ourselves known to the willing volunteers that where there and had a quick chat with Nigel Hayley. But we were soon assigned a job which involved going to the 'storage facility' at a nearby farm where the site services equipment has been in storage since the end of EuroJam in 2005.
There we spent the rest of the day merrily sorting festia tent components into various stacks ready to move to site for erection. We sorted a fare few, but we didn't make a visible dent in the task as a whole!
Oh too soon it was time to go home (as we have a District meeting tonight.) On the way we stopped off at the adult campsite to witness the first tent (the chillout tent) being erected. It was raining and quite windy on the field and as we stood there talking about the layout of the Hub it was hard to imaging the transformation that this empty field will undergo over the next 3 weeks and the fantastic time we are all going to have in the process of getting it ready for the arrival of the International Service Team!
Role on tomorrow...!
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