Service crew again today - supposed to be twelve till four! I popped down early (9:30) to find our cub leader already hacking down trees. So I joined in and we felled all but one of the final fifteen or so which we'd noticed either suffering from dutch elm or were elderberry! The scouts arrived and we cleared the area of the recently felled trees ready for our bonfire - along with all the wood from the other two attempts I've made at clearing the site.
Just as we finished up the logging, three cubs made an appearance (some time after our cub leader disappeared!)
We then painted our scout hall - this took about two hours when I take off the 'lunch time' break and to be honest, it was a fairly good job considering my hired labour for the day though it'll definitely need a second coat!
Around four, we decided to light up the fire. It was at this point I discovered our lack of matches. I had just one. To make it count we gathered as much thin wood as possible. I then cheated somewhat with some meths and cotton balls from our previous hot air balloons and within seconds we had a roaring fire. Ten minutes later the fire was around twenty to thirty feet in the air and I was becoming concerned we'd get yet another drop in from the fire brigade (because we're so close to the train line, we often get concerned commuters who see lots of kids lighting fires in our area and just assume that they're up to no good!)
This being a Saturday, I guess they weren't interested and I sat around until 7pm to make sure the fire died down and no one drove over the embers in the dark. A very successful day!
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