People have been asking for my next blog and I did have a few ideas lined up, something recently happened that I think would put a positive and funny light on the day.
Thursday night, eleven o'clock, sitting in the living room of my friend Lewis, I asked Natalie Erskine if her and her sister, Julie, would like to come to Lilias day on the Saturday. She instantly said yeah but she would need to ask her sister as she would be babysitting. It was later settled and was decided that we would all go to Lilias day including their cousin who they were babysitting.
On the Saturday Lewis and I head out to pick them up from Erskine, after picking them up we head to Kilbarchan. I'll admit my first thought was "I don't remember it being this small", I was also a little worried in case the day wasn't as fun as hoped because of the limited amount of things to do there. It turned out eventful indeed.
It started with their little cousin Kayleigh (I will assume this is the correct spelling of her name) acting shy around me. The day goes as expected a look about the stalls and such, until Kayleigh buys some silly string, it would be no exaggeration to say that she emptied the entire can all over me, I was covered in pink that said it was extremely fun, childish but fun.
The cherry on the cake for me was when on the football field, which was the centre attraction for all the events on that day, the event we were watching was a farmer and his dog herding ducks around a obstacle course, quite entertaining, he then asked for 3 children to volunteer to stand inside rings, with that announcement a flurry of kids poured into the field, destroying which ever blockade stood in their way, all to stand in these rings, they were positioned and then there was another announcement for 6 women and 6 men to enter the field for a bit of a competition, Lewis being the somewhat out going type jumped at the chance and ran out right into the field, the announcer then asked him "Do you have any friends who could come up?", to which Lewis stretched out his arm and pointed to me and said " Aye!, Tom, over there!", now me being a somewhat introverted and shy character refused Lewis's attempt to get me up, but once the announcer said over the 30 large speakers that were placed about the field, "C’mon Tom, C’mon!", I couldn't refuse knowing that now all the spectators eyes were firmly fixed upon myself.
So deciding, what’s the worst that could happen, I got all hyped up and attempted to jump the fence, I say attempted because in the process of doing my awesome jump the fence post decided to shake at its foundations and throw me off my landing, I landed on my feet only to lose balance and fall face first into the ground, the whole crowd burst out laughing and the announcer went into a long "WHEEEEEYYYY" over the speakers.
Totally unshaken by the fall I get back up and proceed to the other guys, when all the required people are assembled we are then informed that we ourselves are to guide the ducks around the obstacle course without the use of the dog, females versus males, the females incur a time penalty because the ducks deviated from the path, it was then the guys turn, it’s fair to say we looked like utter idiots trying to usher these ducks around. In the end we won the competition.
It was a great wee day out and I wouldn't have spent it with anyone else. The highlight for almost everybody involved would be me face planting it into the ground. For me it was spending it with the people who made it a great day.
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