6th February 2009, 08:10 PM
We (three of us in my rickety old banger) made it to site an hour and a half late, after some rather interesting sideways maneuvers in the car and some very hairy moments.
Spent an hour doing what we could, before we gave it up as a bad job. Then we had a rather gentle snowball fight where we took on the site director.
Two local kids came over and threw a few snowballs, so we threw a few back. They ran off up the street and came back with a mob of 20 of their friends!!!
They cornered us in the site hut, pelting us with snowballs like ice-comets. Noone knows how to throw snowballs like 13 year old lads!
The chap came to empty the portaloos right at that moment, and the poor bloke got well and truly caught in the crossfire. He took it all in good humour tho, fortunately.
Eventually they got bored and started to wander off, so we made a dash for the cars. They caught sight of our movement and came tearing back, pulling snowballs from nowhere! Cornered in my car we all prayed that the road wasn't as icy as it looked. I tried to pull away, and the wheels turned, and we went nowhere. We were stuck and we were surrounded!
Fortunately, tho they were boisterous they were also eager to help, and proceeded to round up all their friends to push my car up the hill and off the ice.
This weather is making for a rather memorable community dig.
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Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
Spent an hour doing what we could, before we gave it up as a bad job. Then we had a rather gentle snowball fight where we took on the site director.
Two local kids came over and threw a few snowballs, so we threw a few back. They ran off up the street and came back with a mob of 20 of their friends!!!
They cornered us in the site hut, pelting us with snowballs like ice-comets. Noone knows how to throw snowballs like 13 year old lads!
The chap came to empty the portaloos right at that moment, and the poor bloke got well and truly caught in the crossfire. He took it all in good humour tho, fortunately.
Eventually they got bored and started to wander off, so we made a dash for the cars. They caught sight of our movement and came tearing back, pulling snowballs from nowhere! Cornered in my car we all prayed that the road wasn't as icy as it looked. I tried to pull away, and the wheels turned, and we went nowhere. We were stuck and we were surrounded!
Fortunately, tho they were boisterous they were also eager to help, and proceeded to round up all their friends to push my car up the hill and off the ice.
This weather is making for a rather memorable community dig.
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Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.