What was the world thinking? Warm dry weather, with a garden event planned? Surely some mistake? No matter. The new barbecue was bought and towed back from H***base on a skateboard with a bit of string and twenty kilos of charcoal. Quite a tricky journey, with several amusing opportunities to create traffic chaos on the way. A child-labour gang was quickly conscripted and force-marched to the excellent "Shambles Butchers". Here, delicious lamb and beef-burgers were piled up onto the trays of the helpless students, along with several yards of magnificent Boerworst - a South African delicacy made in the shop by the owner (who is South African). This proved to be amazingly good and was very well received by everyone later on.
Once back at Fox, a team of experts got onto matters, and quickly turned assorted metal components into a sturdy cooking device. Note the studied concentration, the calm confidence. These boys waste no time in DT... Nearly finished - a masterpiece of cooperation!
Meanwhile, those who know when to take a back seat wisely tackled the challenge of Gilbert's slack-band torture device. I wonder if you can guess what happened 0.001 seconds after this picture was taken?
Clue: two of the large organisms in this picture remained standing - i.e. Gilbert and the tree.
It took only three members of staff, four members of College two and a handful of junior boys to get the thing lit, and all in much less than one and a half hours! Then we were off - cheery flames sizzling into the summer sky as the first gasps of England vs USA came echoing from the common-room.
If you look carefully at the next picture, you can clearly make out Gilbert realising that his Mum will probably see that he's been drinking Dr Pepper's. Only if she looks at the blog Gilbert...
Great fun was had by all - and nothing makes the Fox garden seem more complete than the happy sounds of boys from all the year groups playing football together after the big match.
Skye Stockings and Res Grad, Lynn Finnegan sharing a set of ear phones to listen to music.
Holly Campbell painting a canvas in acrylic paint.
