The scouts have their annual two-day spring camp this weekend. It’s taking place at Sandviks gård, like last year, and I’m managing the kitchen crew, like last year.

Doing it the 2nd time around is much easier: I have all my recipes and calculations and spreadsheets from last year, and just have to adjust for the new number of attendees (even higher than last year) and all the allergies.

One thing I learned from last year is that we need a bigger crew than I first thought. This year we have 12 people in the kitchen instead of last year’s 6, and it makes a world of difference. We all have time to take breaks and walk around the camp and see what the kids are doing. Last year I barely had time to eat.

The weather is very changeable – just a few days ago the forecast was for 2 centimetres of rain today, which would have been pretty horrible. We’ve had some showers but nothing as dramatic as that forecast. And in between it’s been sunny enough that some kids even went swimming in the Mälaren.