Last session of the term so it was cookout time. While Helen made the fire up the rest of us went through the safety points of using a fixed bladed knife before using them to strip bark for our cooking. It was interesting to observe the different styles of removing bark; from a child who took his time peeling the bark off inch-by-inch and ending up with a neat bare-ended stick to others who ended up removing more than half of the bark. Once we had prepare the sticks we added Christmas bread dough around the top of the sticks and the group sat down around the fire and began to cook the bread. This is always a time of ‘is it done yet’ with the answer of it’s cooked when it sounds hollow when you tap it. While the group cooked their bread, I prepared special Christmas Hot chocolate with whipped cream and mini marshmallows, which went down very well with the group. With the kettle out from under the tripod we hung a pot with popping corn on to cook.
With our Christmas Feast finished the group sat back on the logs and checked their blood bubbles and then donned leather gloves as I went around handing out sparklers. With everyone ready I went around and lit the sparkles with the fast fading light this looked great and the kids really enjoyed it but of course they never last long enough.
With the session at an end the group trooped off carrying their lit jam jar lanterns they made a couple of weeks ago looking very festive.
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