One thing you should know about Gordon’s, if you’ve never been on it, is that it always rains. So this year when not a drop of rain was shed, it felt like the best Gordon’s yet.
I enjoyed this year’s competition mainly because of its Lord of the Rings theme. Although none of the people in our patrol had even read the books we managed to make up a dance and language related to it at one of the night bases. I think the judges were rather scared when we left the stage after our performance to their most aggressive Lord of the Rings sound track.
Another highlight was when we had to get a cup of water out of a circle of ‘lava’ and pour it into a bowl (without touching the lava of course). The normal method would be to tie two pairs of staves together with a round lashing and use them to hold either side of the cup, but luckily for us we had tirelessly carried two really long staves around with us which served us well because they were the perfect length to do the task without lashings!
All in all I think this was one of my favourite Gordon Shield competitions and I’m sure it was for the rest of the patrol too.
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