Gwilym's Adventure Blog

 The last 2 days I have been out and about on The Mendips hills conducting a Bronze DofE Assessment for Churchill Academy. 

 I stayed local on The Quantock Hills this weekend working on a Bronze DofE practice expedition for Somerset Adventures . 

The last 4 days I have been out with Churchill Academy assessing some Bronze DofE groups on and around The Mendip Hills.

Yesterday and today I was back in the Mendip Hills and surrounding area assessing a number of teams from Churchill Academy . 8 teams in total (although only 3 for me) all coping well with a variety of weather From North Wooton, through Wells, Wookey and Ebbor Gorge was wet at the start but still gave us a lovely evening for camping.  Off on my holidays tomorrow so stay in touch for some Motorcycle Travel posts

Yesterday and today I was in the Mendip Hills and surrounding area assessing a couple of teams from Churchill Academy . 7 teams in total (although only 2 for me) all coping with some pretty wet weather at times. From North Wooton, through Wells, Wookey and Ebbor Gorge was wet but it finally dried out after that ending in a lovely evening for camping. Today was on and off showers and all the groups were in and finished by 4pm. Must be a popular weekend as there were hundreds of others out and about from various schools around the area.

The last two days have been spent on The Quantocks Hills and surrounding area assessing 4 Bronze DofE teams for Bristol Cathedral Choir School . All teams did extremely well given the heatwave that we were treated to though I hear it will get hotter this week). I found this budgie in a tree near Bicknoller post and he/she definitely looked out of place so I wonder if he escaped or someone just let it go

Back out on The Mendips with Churchill Academy for another 8 teams to complete their Bronze expedition. This time I had 3 teams to assess which kept me busy running around various places to see them. I even found the time to rescue two sheep who had managed to get stuck in a fence. I am always impressed at how stupid sheep can be. All teams completed successfully and most of them even enjoyed it.

On Friday and today I was on The Mendip Hills assessing a couple of Bronze DofE teams from Churchill Academy. As always it is great to work in my local area and have a short commute to work. Both teams did well (as did all the others with different assessors) and I got to find a new campsite on in Rodney Stoke that I didn't know existed.

Supervising a Bronze DofE team this weekend on The Mendips working for Somerset Adventures . A well organised expedition with 10 teams out. My team of 6 boys were pretty awesome and covered the ground quickly (and got very muddy somehow) and had a great time. Good luck on your assessed expedition and sorry I can't be there for that one.

After a fairly mundane week of meetings and general admin stuff (apart from a blast over Exmoor on the motorbike on Thursday) it was good to be back in my outside office for the last 2 days. I was assessing 4 teams from Bristol Cathedral Choir School on their Bronze DofE expedition around The Quantock Hills. A little misty on the hills today just added to their challenge. Well done to all 4 teams who I was assessing plus those being assessed by another.