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Kite flying at its best - the kids’ like this one.
So with the best planning possible, Paula set off in her car for her Tatty Bumpkin shenanigans, leaving Nige in charge of kicking off events. Despite military-style planning, she forgot to leave him the key to the Quaker Meeting House but left all the kit-and-caboodle in the hall. Despite a million missed (by me) calls and messages, the gang headed off for the park on the most windy day of the year and flew kites and made merry.
We did manage to get a papier mache volcano erupting in the park (thanks Scott, Ezra and Maya for the model, bicarb, vinegar etc) and mess about with ‘telephone tubes’, garden hoses of approx 3m lengths with cardboard cones on them, used as primitive telephones (hey it is Science Week after all!).
Hats off (literally in that wind) to them all (and sorry also) for so gracefully embracing the great outdoors instead of the nice, warm, snug hall with hot tea and a roof and everything… But then that’s the woodcraft folk.
Not our volcano but gives you the gist (instructions in the Boys Annual 2008 and also the Dangerous Book for Boys too)…
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