It all started at Hawequas Scout Ranch. We were having our troop camp and one of the activities on the programme was the Ice-cream Summit. On the first day we were given ice-cream, which we had to keep frozen until Saturday, when we had to climb to the top of the mountain and make a snow-man using the "frozen" ice-cream.

The Programme ran smoothly until the obstacle course. The last part of the course was a arial runway into the dam. It was Springbok patrol's turn to do the course. David went down the arial runway and fell off and broke his arm.
More graphic details can be found at the "David's Arm" page.

So the leaders rushed David to hospital, which was very far over gravel roads. This happened to be the same time as when we were supposed to go up to the Ice-cream Summit, so it was cancelled.

They got back several hours later and the Summit was definately cancelled. This was a real bummer because we were looking forward to the activity.

We had to write a song to sing when we had made our snow-men, but we had written them for nothing, well some of us had. They agreed to let us sing them at the campfire that evening instead.

So now we had to write a song because we didn't have one. So...
After supper we all sat down to write our song. We found the purfect tune and words, except we found an irritating tune to sing as a chorus and we all mysteriously forgot how it went. We sat for a lomg time thinking and I couldn't think of it because Nigel was singing all the tunes in the world, other than our one, and I couldn't hear myself. Eventually Gareth came back from a P.L's briefing and he suddenly remembered it.
We were saved!!!

That night at the campfire I sang the verses and the rest of my patrol sang the chorus and "the tune", as it bacame known as. Everybody loved the snow-man song and it became a famous song in our troop. They even made me sing it at our A.G.M.

For the words to this historic song with it's anoying tune can be found by clicking on the Snow-man button.