Day 83
Day 83
First day of camp today. I picked up Phil from his house and headed up to Elanda Point, a journey of about two hours. We got there well before most people. I had lunch with one of the tutors, Jo Hamilton (in the photo).
We had a bit of a problem later on in the day when the technical staff arrived. One of them had been complaining about coming, in a joking kind of way, in the preceding weeks. I had suggested he not attend if he didn't want to but he came anyway… with, it would seem, a very bad attititude.
He was very rude to a few people and quite threatening to me, which was very unprofessional and quite unacceptable. I told him to leave but then cooled down and gave him a second chance. He was as quiet as a lamb (for someone who could talk under wet cement) for the rest of the week. After this the next seven days should be plain sailing…
…Except I managed to hurt my back lifting things out of the car. Stupid but there you go. I don't think I was lifting incorrectly but who knows. Very uncomfortable for the rest of the day and getting to sleep was difficult on the ground even though I have a foam mattress. My stretching exercises helped though.
Day 83
Day 83
First day of camp today. I picked up Phil from his house and headed up to Elanda Point, a journey of about two hours. We got there well before most people. I had lunch with one of the tutors, Jo Hamilton (in the photo).
We had a bit of a problem later on in the day when the technical staff arrived. One of them had been complaining about coming, in a joking kind of way, in the preceding weeks. I had suggested he not attend if he didn't want to but he came anyway… with, it would seem, a very bad attititude.
He was very rude to a few people and quite threatening to me, which was very unprofessional and quite unacceptable. I told him to leave but then cooled down and gave him a second chance. He was as quiet as a lamb (for someone who could talk under wet cement) for the rest of the week. After this the next seven days should be plain sailing…
…Except I managed to hurt my back lifting things out of the car. Stupid but there you go. I don't think I was lifting incorrectly but who knows. Very uncomfortable for the rest of the day and getting to sleep was difficult on the ground even though I have a foam mattress. My stretching exercises helped though.