Igloo

In concert with another ‘volunteer’ I spent much of the daylight hours in the outside classroom of the primary school constructing an igloo out of used (and variably rinsed-out) plastic milk containers, held together by my pre-prepared cardboard rings and adhesive from a hot glue gun – although with the day cool the hot liquid glue rapidly became cold set glue, requiring a quick-fire technique in squeezing the trigger and placing the container – that turned out pretty well, good enough to form the centre-piece of the temporary Arctic play area; after gluing about 200 cartons together my trigger finger had gone numb from the continuous pressure exerted – either that or some psychosomatic frostbite had set in.