Wednesday 17 June 2009

Combatting cabin fever




Hello and welcome to today’s blog contributed by Grace Brookes and Ellie Pickard
We woke up to a stormy sea day. The wind was howling and the heavens of the rain opened which DRENCHED the dock .The night before we left the hatch open thinking it would be a good idea and it clearly wasn’t as we found out when we were woken up by a heavy down fall of rain. For breakfast Mary kindly prepared eggy bread for us followed by a round of cereal. We then cleaned the boat whilst listening to radio one. Through the kindness of the lovely crew we were granted an extra shower so we shouldn’t smell next week. Due to a slight faze of boredom we made a wall of fame from the cut outs of the many magazines we seem 2 have accumulated through the stay.

Lunch time came rapidly as are stomachs were ravenous, so we had soup and hotdogs they were very nice. Pictionary was then played on a mammoth scale with brown paper and marker pen, this was quite amusing. Mary then had a brain wave to make bread this was a very good idea as we liked it very much. (Grace and Elisha put chocolate inside theirs and Lottie used MOST of the nutella on hers).Monopoly was then played but soon abandoned due to lack of interest in the game.

James and Trevor then took us on a huge walk through the clay planes of the side of the channel. There were old wooden ship wrecks which we explored which got us very muddy. James then suggested that we all cooked tea by ourselves. This sounded like a mammoth task but ended up very successful excluding the few things that went wrong:

· The rice stuck on the bottom of the pan
· Water all over the floor
· Burnt curry
· Lack of curry to rice
· No knifes only forks

But the best thing was the instructors did the washing up. Mary then cooked the apple crumble she prepared earlier. It was really nice especially with the custard.

Good bye xx

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