Dear Rainer and Andrea,
...and everybody else who'll endure my ramblings below (please forward to Nick, Robbie, and anybody else I havn't got an email address for)
Good to hear from you and Andrea. Really nice pictures! Fantastic backdrop! Beautiful weather too by the look of it. You didn't take many photos of/in the wind then, did you? We missed you at Trefriw.
BTW, next time you see Martin Wikstrom, remind him that he still owes me 160 Euros from Kiel.
Trefriw was as usual... wet. This time more than usual, though. And a bit windy, to say the least.
Saturday started out with lots of wind for Accuracy, Fast Catch and Aussie Round, which is duly reflected in the scores. Even with a 2 minute cut off for Fast Catch only half of us made a time. Disregarding the weather, we managed to start off with a round of Team Accuracy, and later preceded the Fast Catch with two rounds of Team Fast Catch for fun. The red team had the better war dance and I seem to remember vaguely that the red team got more wins than the green team. Then the wind dropped for Trick Catch, where Adam after a shaky round of singles, made a perfect round of doubling. MTA then resulted in two national records! Mark Lisney got 57 seconds, bettering his own 54, I believe, and I got well over 40 seconds with the old Snake (I bought it from Ola Wahlberg ten years ago).
Sunday started out wet and windy and only got worse as the day progressed, or should I say deteriorated. Fortunately, we only had Endurance to complete, but it wasn't much fun. Just hard, unrewarding work.
Then we tried to have a game of Boomerang Cricket. We even reduced the distance requirement to 20 meters and discarded the running around two chairs. But the wind just kept increasing and at the end of the first inning the rain came back with a vengeance to stop the play for good.
In the end, Jack and Adam tied for first place over all - one really determined, the other visibly surprised.
On Monday we took one look out the double doors of Garmon View in the morning and canceled LD. Instead some of us went for a beautiful walk up the mountains to the lake.
But boomerang competition is not at all what Trefriw is about. I fly across the North Sea and spend twelve grueling hours on the British motorways with Sean, Karen and Duncan primarily for the warm company of diverse British personalities seeking a good time together. Then there's the beer, home brewed cider, great food (yes, Sean was out in the rain cooking burgers), home made bread from Jay's stone oven, the auction, bar billiards, stunning views and the World's greatest collection of natural elbows. Incidentally, someone also happened to think up a wicked excuse for all this involving throwing boomerangs in a wet field lightly sprinkled with sheep shit (the farmer didn't even move the sheep off the field this year just to provide fresh droppings in the circles every morning).
Once again I had a great time amongst the warmest bunch of people I know.
Love Jens
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Jens Krabbe
jenskrabbe@...
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:47:20 +0200
From: graebenteich@...
To: jenskrabbe@...
Subject: Trefriw!
Lausanne was not, like expected - we built boomerangs for low winds especially... guess what happened...?
but a good experience, anyway! (we really don`t mention the youth hostel food..., really) Andrea had to struggle with the wind conditions more than me - and the french youth is becoming stronger!
But we had lots of fun and twirling tongues from the language mixture! :-)
Here you can see some of my photos:
http://picasaweb.google.de/Ryanairboom/EM2009?feat=directlink
And: how was Trefriw? Are lamb burgers still served by Sean? ( Yes , I´d preferred them instead of swiss youth hostel nutrition)!
Have a good time,
Rainer!
...and everybody else who'll endure my ramblings below (please forward to Nick, Robbie, and anybody else I havn't got an email address for)
Good to hear from you and Andrea. Really nice pictures! Fantastic backdrop! Beautiful weather too by the look of it. You didn't take many photos of/in the wind then, did you? We missed you at Trefriw.
BTW, next time you see Martin Wikstrom, remind him that he still owes me 160 Euros from Kiel.
Trefriw was as usual... wet. This time more than usual, though. And a bit windy, to say the least.
Saturday started out with lots of wind for Accuracy, Fast Catch and Aussie Round, which is duly reflected in the scores. Even with a 2 minute cut off for Fast Catch only half of us made a time. Disregarding the weather, we managed to start off with a round of Team Accuracy, and later preceded the Fast Catch with two rounds of Team Fast Catch for fun. The red team had the better war dance and I seem to remember vaguely that the red team got more wins than the green team. Then the wind dropped for Trick Catch, where Adam after a shaky round of singles, made a perfect round of doubling. MTA then resulted in two national records! Mark Lisney got 57 seconds, bettering his own 54, I believe, and I got well over 40 seconds with the old Snake (I bought it from Ola Wahlberg ten years ago).
Sunday started out wet and windy and only got worse as the day progressed, or should I say deteriorated. Fortunately, we only had Endurance to complete, but it wasn't much fun. Just hard, unrewarding work.
Then we tried to have a game of Boomerang Cricket. We even reduced the distance requirement to 20 meters and discarded the running around two chairs. But the wind just kept increasing and at the end of the first inning the rain came back with a vengeance to stop the play for good.
In the end, Jack and Adam tied for first place over all - one really determined, the other visibly surprised.
On Monday we took one look out the double doors of Garmon View in the morning and canceled LD. Instead some of us went for a beautiful walk up the mountains to the lake.
But boomerang competition is not at all what Trefriw is about. I fly across the North Sea and spend twelve grueling hours on the British motorways with Sean, Karen and Duncan primarily for the warm company of diverse British personalities seeking a good time together. Then there's the beer, home brewed cider, great food (yes, Sean was out in the rain cooking burgers), home made bread from Jay's stone oven, the auction, bar billiards, stunning views and the World's greatest collection of natural elbows. Incidentally, someone also happened to think up a wicked excuse for all this involving throwing boomerangs in a wet field lightly sprinkled with sheep shit (the farmer didn't even move the sheep off the field this year just to provide fresh droppings in the circles every morning).
Once again I had a great time amongst the warmest bunch of people I know.
Love Jens
--
Jens Krabbe
jenskrabbe@...
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:47:20 +0200
From: graebenteich@...
To: jenskrabbe@...
Subject: Trefriw!
Lausanne was not, like expected - we built boomerangs for low winds especially... guess what happened...?
but a good experience, anyway! (we really don`t mention the youth hostel food..., really) Andrea had to struggle with the wind conditions more than me - and the french youth is becoming stronger!
But we had lots of fun and twirling tongues from the language mixture! :-)
Here you can see some of my photos:
http://picasaweb.google.de/Ryanairboom/EM2009?feat=directlink
And: how was Trefriw? Are lamb burgers still served by Sean? ( Yes , I´d preferred them instead of swiss youth hostel nutrition)!
Have a good time,
Rainer!
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