The weekend in Greetham was wonderful.
Original Team Best Man (above - in costume), Unit A, Unit One, Unit Alpha or just me, Rich, Jon and Jason - whichever way you look at it we had a great time.
The last time I went camping I was able to walk out of the tent but his time I shared with Jon in what was billed as a four man tent. That would be four men who all knew each other very well and were all under five foot tall. Add to this the amazing deflating mattress and it was like spending a night on a bouncy castle. Not only that but putting your pants and socks on in such a situation is not easy and then you emerge backwards from the tent in the morning in a most undignified way.
The first night was cooking, barbecue stuff - this time it was the pig population of Rutland that were taking a caning. A couple of beers and then a night of figuring out how sleeping bags work and thinking 'I'm too old for this.'
Saturday was good weatherwise - we all caught the sun - and we got a lot of filming done, despite being two cast members down. Rich gives the air of a man who knows what he's doing and as none of us knew any better it all worked really well. Some creative methods of using cameras were applied and the whole thing went a lot better than I expected - not sure what I did expect, when I think about it! We managed a couple of beers at lunchtime and witnessed the arrival of a coach party full of wedding guests at the pub. Apparently Belvoir Castle had been booked for the wedding which had then been called off but they were going anyway. That may have been a more interesting subject to film than what we were doing!
Dinner in the evening and a couple of decent pints at the Plough and then on to the Wheatsheaf for a couple more and some of the worst pool playing ability the locals have probably witnessed for some time.
The bouncy castle seemed not to make so much difference on the Saturday night!
May the fourth be with you!
WD - 94
I hope that is the only lens Rich has had his finger over last weekend.
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