Teenagers!

We met in a randon car park in the middle of nowhere just after dawn (it felt like it!) - middle of nowhere in the New Forest - where's that ??

(before you ask - yes I took this photo on my bust up little camera)

Silver D of E Exped Assessment - 7 groups from TWGGS.... Okay so to work, I was with groups E, F, and G, and working alongside Emma. Here's an example of what they were eating - it's melted choc with biscuit pieces, and marshmallow
(yes I did have some!). E = Clover, Emily, Sophie and Christina.. F = Alice, Harriet, Islay, Charlotte, Emma, Gemma and Daisy.. G = Imogen, Katya, Megan, Annabelle and Eleanor.

Obviously they had mascots! These belong to group F

So - off they go across the hilly countryside!

Still flat!

Getting bored, so started taking photos...

Found a trig point in a desperately serious location - altitude 110m !

(reminded me of the Ben - no!!)

I guessed there would be trees in the forest! I knew that much.

Lots of trees....

Think this belonged to Emily from group E... She decided it was awesome with it's built in pillow! I didn't see if it had grown by the end of the exped...

I found this sculpture of a pig at the first campsite - there were 15 piglets with their sow - AND THEY DECIDED TO SLEEP 15M FROM MY TENT- AWESOME! - so so so noisy at night...

Snail - luckily no giant snails trailing about...

Setting off onto day 2...

Spot the D of E rucsac... Awesome..

Here's Claire posing alongside her face in the 2008 Trail magazine - she used to be the Staff writer... You know she takes this magazine everywhere with her ;)

Here's group F - at the end - not impressed that they had to do the extra 4km!! But yes, they did get the coach back seats which motivated them to get up at 6am and set off at 6.45am!

Okay - so here it is - the rap video.... Group E was Clover, Emily, Sophie and Christina...

As part of keeping in touch, we told them to perhaps send 1 or 2 texts a day - saying their group name, location (grid ref) and how they are... No, Group E DIDN'T get it! this was their first text... Spot any useful info!...

'Hey it's group e just having lunch and casual banter so thought would drop you a text. Sophie's foot got covered in poo so is now crispy got to go see ya later xx'

Things didn't improve!! Actually got worse... and their last text was ...

'Hi bbe btw fyi tbh atm we cba. Omg u r r bmfl brb jks g2g rofl lmao lol lysm at. Speak l8rs x'

Hmmmmmm, we had words, and some of my words were MOVE MOVE MOVE!!!

This particular job was in the New Forest... The first challenge, FIND THE NEW FOREST - somewhere in England I believe!!

Working on this job with Jo Blackshaw, Steve Ironside, Claire Maxted and Emma Jack - and most of them have vans!!! Where's mine! At the end of the day everybody was successful - so congratulations to everybody.. Well done to Jo for clocking up the miles on her bike, well done to Emma for emailing her boyfriend from her Van, well done to Claire for NOT running about for 10 mins!, well done to Steve and me for keeping chilled amoung all this madness !!