As british as afternoon tea and cricket. . . .

For the past 24 hours, we have had little rain. The world has been much nicer, however, as usual, the British are now complaining about the heat and the amount of sun and how nice it would be for a splash of rain to bring the temp down!!!

This afternoon, there was also a visit from a minor British Royal. I say minor, he's 186th in line to the British throne.

To be fair, he's HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

He had a tour of the Jamboree HQ and we made sure we didnät have the 'PooMonitor' open at the time, luckly as you can see, everything is 'flowing' correctly:

I didn't manage to see either unit directly today, however, I stumbled across Barry and Graham from WebJam wandering around lost, well, looking lost anyway. My phone battery was dead at the time tho, so no picture . . . .

It's almost time for bed, still working until 00:00 tonight, then a 30 minute walk back to site for sleep.

Learnt some swedish.....

Har du testat att ta au det och ta på det igen?

See if you can guess what it says without cheating.....

Comment with an answer

Found Clare and Ben

well, to be fair they found me!!! ;)

Exercise!?!?

on the way to work I noticed this sign on the adult sub camp. Given that moSt of the Ist are walking miles each day, do they really need an exercise area? 

I can see a relaxation area, but to top it all off, from what I understand in this weather the hammocks are pretty "ville" ;)

LOOK BLUE SKY!!!

"The sun is shining in the sky, there ain't a clouds in site, its stopped raining, everybody's in the hay, its a beautiful new day, hay ya ya" 

If you look closely, like really closely, is that blue sky???

Up in time for breakfast, then spent some time hiding from yet more rain between small patches of blue, before heading off  to spend the afternoon at work in the dry.

There's wet....and there's soaked!!!

It's probably best to say that the weather hasn't been great over the past 48 hours. My phone, which I'm using to blog from, has spent the time wrapped up in numerous layers of plastic to try and keep it dry. So sorry for no updates yesterday I didn't want to risk the phone. selfish I know!!! ;)

Yesterday evening I managed to make it across to the full unit, but no further. Luckily, I did manage to spot these two on their travels. According to them, despite the rain they are having a great time.

The water is sooo bad, my 9 month old walking boots see beginning to fail. Don't worry parents, the young-uns wont be out in the rain as much as me.

Anyway, friday was basically work food rain and visiting the full unit.

Catch you soon

Working Hard

As I've had various messages that people have yet to see me working, I've added a pic of me working.

You should be able to recognise the "Sheep Trousers" - Those who know me!!!  :-)

The opening ceremony

arriving at the opening in heavy rain, but everyones spirits are very high. Hopefully itwill dry out for the evening

Birmingham and BSWE's impressive erection.

As I arrived, the unit were just putting up their flag pole. It is one of the largest poles in the subcamp and the biggest by far in the local area. 

The only problem was they had to take it down again to attach the rope for the flag.

On way to visit the 2 birmingham and bswe units. This is on the way to see then.

Bear at Jamboree

wow! Bear grilles just abseilled from the top of the stage. Quality is poor from a distance in the dark!

Pee-po!!

I couldn't resist the title of this, given my last post . . . . sorry

Anyway, this is a picture from our webcam. The gentleman playing hide and seak is Mikael who is one of the Swedish 2nd line support team. They had decided to move the web cam as I took the picture.

Anyway, hopefully tomorrow, I will try and get some information of how the 2 units are getting along.

Night all . . .

The P-Monitor . . .

As you know, Im working in IT support. One of our monitoring jobs pics this up, it is known as the P-Monitor:

As you can see, there was an issue this afternoon.

The red line is flow rate and the brown area is the level of the tanks.

oh, did I forget to mention this is the Poo Flow Rate and the Poo Tank Level?   :-D

UK004 Arrives - Birmingjam has arrived onsite!!

Hot and tired, but in good spirits Birmingjam unit arrived on site.

Lunch - FISH!!

Those who know me, know I'm never too keen on Fish, however, that was lunch, so eat it or starve!!! :-)

UK005 Arrives on Site - WEBJAM IS HERE!!

Here they are starting to organise their camp.

All safe and sound.

Yummy, yummy, yummy

Breakfast was interesting this morning. It was the cheese and meat product as with previous mornings, however, there was also Natural Yoghurt with a sprinkle of cereal over the top. Strange, but nice ish.

Ha ha ha!!!

Sean (? spelling may be wrong) "The Hard Man of Blackwell" or "Mr Tough Guy" was out of his tent this morning grumbling. It seems he's been allocated to "Craft". He did say how he was looking forward to doing sticking and glueing, paint by numbers and the Hama Bead necklesses.

Good morning Jamboree

I woke up this morning and it seems that the world has been covered by a  fog.

The picture doesnt do it justice, however, it looked like a medieval battle field from films with various flags seen through the haze.

Hopefully, it'll clear up during the day

Me on Webcam - I am famous!!

Hi All,

Sorry for the delay in posts today, but I shall be completing the posts for today.

In case you are interested, we have got a webcam. It doesnät auto refresh, so you will need to press F5 or "Refresh" the page to get an updated pic. Keep your eyes out for me!!!

http://webcam.worldscoutjamboree.se/servicedeskcam.jpg

Iäm not working tomorrow, however, I am on today from 6pm until midnight

F.

The Swedes have arrived

This is another picture of winter from a different direction, but some tents have gone up as the swedish contingent have arrived. Tkmorrow tje rest of the world.

 Currently, the Temperature is in the early 20's, really nice summers evening.

Tonight there is a prejamboree party. Hope to get some pictures of that for you. The main stage is probably 30mins from the adult camp.

Winter subcamp centre

This is the winter sub camp centre. The boxes are the cooking tents for each of the units, I think..

Yummy

Breakfast: porridge with apple sauce, 2 slices of bread, cucumber, cheese and some kinda meat. No coffee. Nice tho.

Mmmm food!!

This is the IST (International Service Team) and other support adult's canteen, serving 3 meals a day to 10,000 adults.

Apparently, it is currently the biggest canteen in the country!!

Grubs up....

Oh so tired!!!

Over the past few months, ive told the explorers who are coming to the jamboree, that they have to eat well and sleep lots. Ive managed to eat well, but sleep, 2 hours in 36.

Dont worry mum (she does tho!!) early to bed tonight!!

After setting up my tent, ive spent the day helping to design processes for the it support team.

Off to tea now....

Home Sweet Home

Not managed to get any sleep yet, but the is the Jamboree HQ, where the IT Support is run from. If you dont know already, I've been allocated to IT support for the duration.

Ive met, Pontus, who is showing,me aroubd the syztens. Very inpressive!!!

And the suns come up at 4am

On site. . .

and lost already

Big tent no 1.....

theyve even got a rockery through the middle with bridges over it! 

Got neckers, plus other things!

ID cards and letter

lots of updates today! Got my id card and a nice introductory letter, however, it does state:

"You might be able to attend job training between 8:00 and 11:30" -does that mean its optional?? ;-)

Tired, but at booking in.

it seems to be a a tent oi n the middle of nowhere?! Check in, then to the site, pitch and SLEEP!!!

The eagle has landed....

welcome to sunny (well very rainy) copenhagen.

Next stop, jamboree check in, then to the site.

He jumped from 40,000ft.....

This news update is from the plane somewhere over the north sea. 

Actually when I send this we should have landed in copenhagen, but we will have to see.

I'm sat near the group from Albania and Leicester. 

Campfire songs seem to be being sung, however, I query the appropriateness of "John Brown's body". Incase you don't recognise the name, the song goes:

He jumped from 40,000 ft without a parachute (x3)

And he ain't gonna jump no more!

Glory glory what a hell of a way to die, when you're hanging by your braces and you don't know how to fly,

glory glory what a hell if a way to die

And he ain't gonna jump no more....

They scraped him off the runway like a lump of strawberry jam..... Etc etc

My phone is currently in "fly mode" and is hovering around the cabin, quite an interesting feature!! ;)

Done my first badge swap, bit sad, but shey ho!!

Due to land in copenhagen in about 40 minutes, then I need to work out how I'm getting from there to Rinkaby (and the jamboree site).

Time to either join in the songs or pretend to be asleep.

Fitz

Great! We're flying in a microlight!!! ;)

First international scouts!

Just met my first foreign scores of the trip. These are from Armenia and have been staying with british scouts for the past few days in Ho-Ho (Home Hospitality) in leicester.

I've also met scouts from leicester, wales, lincon.

Boarding now .... Up up and away!!!!

And they're off.....

right, time to leave parents for the trip to the airport and we're on our way!

The end of a busy week!!

Well, the day has finally arrived where I'm off to Sweden. The updates so far have been a little sparse, but it's been a manic week!!

Yesterday, for those who weren't involved, was my brother Drew's wedding and the Bride looked wonderful!!

Here's a pic or 2 for you . . . . .

Speak later, got to pack now!!!! ;-)

Fitz

Problems :(

I sent the below image on sunday, however, it looks like the high resolution on my phone camera doesn't work with posts to the blog.

Hope I remember to reduce pictures otherwise the post fails :(

1 week to go....

With one week to go until lift off, Simon (Spitfire's district commissioner) and his lovely  lady wife (Amanda) hosted a party for those from Spitfire who were going to sweden. Today marks the count down to when I fly, will try to keep you posted on how I'm doing, but with a dancing show and my brothers wedding this week before I go, theres lots of things to do before then.