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Stories span friendships beginning after the Brooks’ move to Streatham Hill in 1959, shared outdoor adventures, and camp life from snow-filled Easter camps to stormy retreats. 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People first connected through the Brooks’ move to Streatham Hill and later through Quaker scouting and camp activities.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What kinds of camp experiences does the document describe?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It recounts canoeing, potholing, climbing trips, storm retreats, Easter and summer camps, and outdoor teaching moments including work with Woodlings and disabled campers.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"How is Roddy’s personality portrayed by the writers?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"He is described as humble despite his many achievements, highly intelligent, generous, and often funny, with a distinctive sense of humour and even his Black Country accent.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},500204,1791038715,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":8,"category_name":10,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":52,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},2336478945519,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_085a072bc5b1113ac321206ff7593b45","REMEMBERING RODDY BROOKS  \nMy family got to know the Brooks when they moved to Streatham Hill in 1959, as we were all Quakers. One day, Roddy's dad Victor charged over to our house to tell us about FSC, but my dad stopped him by saying the girls have gone for years and we were about to tell you! So, Victor applied for Roddy to go when he was eight and I went over to their garden to teach him how to put up a tent.  \nMany years of friendship within and outside FSC later, Mark and I were on holiday climbing Cader Idris in 1979. We got up to the big shoulder and looking out west we could see appalling weather, so we decided to retreat hastily. Approaching Radnor, we spotted Roddy's blue van and followed it so we could warn him of the coming storm. We tailed him back to site to find the whole camp packing on their last night. We offered to stay to help them clear camp. The next morning, I found Roddy’s tent being ripped by the gale. It being beyond saving, I tried to keep his stuff as dry as possible, whilst Roddy steered through the clear up.  \nIn 1987, I took over a summer camp at Shining Cliff, which included activities like canoeing and potholing. Roddy offered to lead the potholing, which I gratefully accepted on the basis that I had no wish to do it. Unfortunately for me, as I drove the campers over, he realised we were a staff member short for the session and I had to go down a hole in what I was wearing. It turned out to be fun but very muddy!  \nAnd I was on his last summer camp in 1997, when he came to tell me he was leaving camp temporarily to head off to Speedway as \"they can’trace till I get there\" . (He was the official doctor for the speedway team) . He returned the following morning, having enjoyed a good session watching, without any accidents!  \nI have so many memories of a very dear friend, who was so good at so many things and who was so humble about all his achievements, professional and private. He was one of the most generous people I have known, he always had time for you. He was very special, and I miss him a great deal. He was definitely one in a million and I’m so glad I could call him a friend.  \nRoddy, your memory will live on with the great number of people whose lives you have touched.  \nMaggie Hudson  \nI was fortunate to camp with Roddy on numerous occasions in the 70s, 80s and 90s. He gave me some experiences I would not want to be without. As a Woodling I remember it snowing at an Easter camp in North Wales he was running, and staff giving us milk bottles filled with hot water to keep our hands warm. I also remember him driving an out of service London black Cab at another camp. I later staffed for Roddy many  \ntimes and enjoyed his sometimes dark sense of humour. He saw the funny side when the lodge went on a trip to a funfair, and while helping a camper use the controls on a dodgem he collided with a fibreglass figurine whilst sat on the bonnet. He was highly intelligent but never made you feel inferior. All his family were like that. Gone but not forgotten.  \nLouis Basi  \nMany happy times to remember:  \n\"Arise, arise, the sun is in the skies, the dew is on the grass and you are sleeping still!\" Roddy's tuneful arise songs coming closer then fading into another part of the field. Somehow his were always more musical than other arise songs-not forgetting the Archers theme tune!  \n70s Kennet and Avon Canal Work camp-was it Roddy who negotiated much appreciated showers at Devizes Barracks for the mud covered campers? -was there really an armed guard?  \nFor me , in the 70s, 80s and 90s I can see Roddy at Horton Kirby, Haddenham, in the snow at an Easter Montgomery, in the sun at numerous summer camps and of course, teaching us at Blackdown about camping with a whole range of disabled campers new to FSC. I catered for quite a few of Roddy's camps and only have happy memories of that.  \nSerious and thoughtful, and funny, sage and clown at the same time. We will all miss him so much! 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