Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. Today is Roman day on camp and we were greeted by Storm Floris on waking up this morning. The strong wind and horizontal rain battered the legions first thing. Only a couple of tents were lost, and they were the leaders tents so the campers weren’t too bothered. […]

Once more unto the breach, dear friends! Once more. Verily, this morn it doth be Shakespeare day on Compass Camps. Let us don a ruff (made out of newspaper) and play silly games. We will eat Spanish chicken – Boo! And 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. You will have to see the […]

It is 8.15pm on the first day of camp and the site has descended into relative peacefulness for an hour as the campers are hunting the leaders around Coniston. They have 1 hour to find as many of the 6 hidden leaders as they can and extract a signature from them. The first day of camp […]