History: Brecon Camp: July 2016
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Event Summary
29th July
Jazzy and Saj arrive at Dohees place around 9:30pm. No one has turned up. So it begins.
The rest arrive over the next hour. After the bickering, complaining (apart from Jazzy) and
general disorganisation (as is customary) we head off around 11pm.
Nothing can go wrong now.
12am Shafs exploded the tyre on his car driving along the M4. Claims it is an accident.
Shaz calls AA, they arrive promptly.
Saj declares that if we have to go back to HW, he won't come back. He has important matters
that he needs to attend to (yeah right).
AA man takes the limp mobile to the nearest emergency tyre replacement guy (who knew they
existed eh). Along the way Shafs gleans information about some amazing caves and waterfalls
from the AA guy who used to do mountain rescue in a former career.
30th July
Finally arrive at Brecon car park around 4:30am.
Decide to read Fajir, everything is fine now. Shafs leads. "Allau Akbar". Midgets attack. Felt like
the longest 2 rakahs in the world. Finish salah, midges have also finished their meals.
Leg it from the carpark, midges pursue but due to having stuffed their faces they can't keep up haha
Get to camp site around 6am.
It is empty. Hoooray.
Start setting up camp.
Shafs gives orders, people ignore him.
Eventually some semblance of order exists.
Tents go up, wood is gathered.
Shafs puts up his hamock. Decides it is better than sleeping in a tent (feels superior).
Tixy is in charge of the fire (here we go again). He declares it must be done the "right" way. So we wait for the candle flame
to get bigger as the twigs feed the fire.
Eventually it gets going. The main thing is that it is a "natural" fire I suppose.
Ruck sacks are put in a pile. A Tarp sheet is hung over the top.
Food is separated. Jazzy finds Ginger Beer in his rucksack. He is not amused.
Some muppets (definitely not Jazzy and Shaz) decide the meat bags needs to be soaked in the water to keep is cool.
Saj wonder where his meat is. Someone (not Jazzy) mentions in might be in the water. Saj flips.
Shaz gets the meat from the water. The bag is full of water. Oops. This point is quickly glossed over.
Rifty gets out his sausage.............bag
Everyone loves those sausages (especially Shaz). This is some gormet sheeeee.
Need more wood for the fire Tixy proclaims *sigh*.
Onto the river water logged beef patties.
They taste better infused with light brown river water (Jazzy and Shaz breath a sigh of relief quietly). Shaz has one reluctantly after a lot of persuading. He really wants chicken.
Shaz takes off his jacket. Not sure what happened to him, he just vanishes at this point, weird.
Food is over, no need for Asif to stay awake anymore. He goes to sleep around 9am.
We sit around the fire and make it bigger for no reason really. After a while we also go to sleep around 11am.
Ruck sacks are put in a pile. A Tarp sheet is hung over the top. Food is separated.
Some muppets (definitely not Jazzy and Shaz) decide the meat bags needs to be soaked in the water to keep is cool.
Saj wonder where his meat is. Someone (not Jazzy) mentions in might be in the water. Saj flips.
Shaz gets the meat from the water. The bag is full of water. Oops. This point is quickly glossed over.
Rifty gets out his sausage.............bag :|
Everyone loves those sausages (especially Shaz). This is some gourmet sheeeee.
Need more wood for the fire Tixy proclaims *sigh*
Onto the river water logged beef patties.
They taste better infused with light brown river water (Jazzy and Shaz breath a sigh of relief quietly not that they had anything to do with it)
Shaz takes off his jacket. Not sure what happened to him, he just vanishes at this point, weird.
Food is over, no need for Asif to stay awake anymore. He goes to sleep around 9am.
We sit around the fire and make it bigger for no reason really. After a while we also go to sleep around 11am.
Wake up a couple of hours later around 1:30pm.
Shaz materialises again.
Tixy says the fire needs more wood (anyone notice a theme here?). Wood is gathered
Chicken is grilled (Shaz can't contain his excitement).
It goes down nicely with fizzy drinks.
Pepsi is nearly finished. Shafs mentions he has another bottle. Hooray
Time for the traditional walk up the large hill. Departure around 4pm.
Everyone goes except Jazzy.
Back at camp just after 7pm.
Jazzy is asleep in the hammock and is rudely awaken. Fire is out. You had one job Jazzy!
Group wants tea. Kettle is boiled. Someone notices the plastic is melting on it. Who decided to bring a kettle with plastic on it? Milk is added. Who bought skimmed milk?!? Everyone looks at Shafs. Shafs looks behind him wondering why they are looking at him.
Lamb chops cooked and eaten.
Asif does a 20 min talk about brotherhood. It was very nice Masha'Allah.
Group gets ready to sleep around 11:30pm.
Shafs decides he doesn't want to get murdered sleeping in the hammock at night, so opts to share a tent (no longer feels superior)
People chatting away in the adjacent tent (definitely not Rifty/Tixy/Shafs. Asif wonders if they will be talking all night. Might make it harder for him to sleep I suppose. 30 seconds later Asif is asleep.
31st July
Get awaken around 4am to bass coming over the hills. We discover later that this is coming from some sort of party over 3 miles away.
Pray Fajir.
Asif promptly goes back to sleep (sleeping on the car journey on top of the other multiple hours obviously wasn't enough)
Tixy says the fire needs more wood. The great wood gathering begins again.
Time for some meat and corn on theeee cob.
Grill placed on top of the fire.
Shafs is busy adding wood. Decides he should take charge and check temperature of the grill. The human thermometer grabs the grill with both hands with a manly Grrrrr.
Everyone is informed that the grill is hot as shafs runs to the river for an unrelated reason while shouting.
Food is ready.
Asif is snoring away in his beloved tent.
An unnamed individual (Shaz) takes this personally. Kicks over all the tension poles. Asif definitely
carries on sleeping. "Asif, food is ready" is shouted by someone. Asif clambers out of the tent.
After the corn, Shaz reluctantly mentions that there are some beef patties and is forced to cook and eat one.
We pack up and head off the the caves that the AA guy mentioned.
The car has 2 flat tyres now. Can everyone just stop nazaring the car pls?)
Tixy gets a pump from some kind gentleman and we set off for the caves.
We park the car in the wrong car park and walk around a mile uphill to the caves.
Shafs falls in love with the caves, even suggests we all wade through a deep pool in pitch black darkness to get to the other side. Everyone just walks away and he is forced to abandon his plan.
Drive back home while checking tyre pressure at a couple of service stations along the way.
Pics or it didn't happen
Brecon 2016 Photos
Cars
Audi A6 Shafiq
BMW 5 series Jazzy
Tents
3-man Wifty
3-man Shafters
3-man Feisty
Individual:
Big rucksack (at least 65 litres)Boots
Torch
Sleeping bag/Ground mat
Towel
Cutlery/Plate/bowl/Mug
1 small bottle of water for trekking
Cuddly teddy
Around 30 Squids to sort out the costs on the weekend!
Food
BBQ:Grills atiq
6 bags of coal
Skewers/thongs(:-))/matches/BBQ fluid atiq
Meat:
All marinated and kept in freezer overnight
3 kg Kebab mince saggy
1 kg Chicken chunks (for kebab skewers) atiq
1 kg Lamb Chops atiq
? kg Chicken wings
? kg Boneless chicken fillet leg/breast
24 chops + 1 chickens wifty
Veg for skewers:
Baby tomatoes (4 packs) - Jazzy
Mushrooms (4 packs) - Jazzy
Onions (1 small bag) - Jazzy
Peppers (3 packs) - Jazzy
Other:
Pitta bread (6x6 pack) - Jazzy
Burger buns (6x6 pack) Jazzy
Burger cheese (real cheddar) Jazzy
Corn on the cob/butter (10 pieces) - Jazzy
Humous (2 tubs) - Jazzy
Olive Oil (small bottle) - Jazzy
Breakfast:
Cereal (1 Large box of crunchy nut) shafiq
Cereal (1 large box of Fruit & Fibre) shafiq
Milk (10x1L) shafiq
Drinks:
Coke/fizzy (10x2L) shafiq
Water (10x2L) shafiq
Teabags/milk/sugar shafiq
Kettle for the tea shafiq
Miscellaneous
Bin liners shafiq
Matches shafiq
Parrafin cubes shafiq
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