Fully twenty four hours before the event Caitlin and Glenda open their nail bar
Tonight is our Gala Dinner at which seventeen young people, showered (we hope) and dressed up to the nines will be waited on hand and foot by their similarly clad leaders. Of course before that we have another full day including an afternoon

On Palm Sunday, our first full day at Barcaple, we awoke to glorious sunshine, a clear blue sky, bacon and scrambled eggs.  After breakfast and our morning study session we split into three groups: blue, yellow and orange and headed out. One group went canoeing, or rather jumping from canoes into in what I understand was a bitterly cold Scottish

With just days to go preparations for this year’s youth residential to Barcaple are almost complete. Monday night was parent’s evening, a time that allows Glenda to run through more or less every detail of the six day trip – from the importance of taking lots of clothes that you don’t mind getting muddy to