Mint SpiesRan an evening meeting about Money Matters for my husband's Scouts, and now I'm exhausted. Did cover the important points though: take it in turn to buy rounds in the pub, and think about the tradeoff between money and happiness.
CheekyMcBYou know when wording unintentionally makes you have a little chuckle?
“Last night we welcomed Joe to our Tuesday night colony”*
Kinda ominous. 😆
*details changed but general sentence construction not
Tonight was my Cub Pack’s final weekly Meeting of Term.
Our Cubs played UniHoc (basically a variation of indoor hockey) one on one then two on two, then Elephant Ball (a circle game with a large foam ball), before ending with badge presentations and the gifting of cards and items made by the Cub Pack in Gloucestershire we made Christmas Cards for a few weeks back.
A blog post from Scouts Scotland that features the Rights Challenge Badge.
“Human Rights Day 2025: Understanding Our Everyday Essentials”
https://scouts.scot/uncategorized/human-rights-day-2025/
#HumanRightsDay #ScoutsScotland #ScoutingUK #Scouting #UKscouting
This week at Cubs they played Human Battleships.
The boardgame Battleships at person-sized scale.
And they learnt 4-figure grid references in the process.
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Tonight the Cubs did the entirety of the Emergency Aid Stage 2 badge.
We had a (hospital) doctor visit & go through all the various elements of the badge.
The other adults in attendance role-played those in need of medical attention. I did a bit too convincing job of portraying asthma, because I started believing it myself. Though my efforts for the others were much less so, as I felt I was grinning & laughing rather than looking in pain.
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Slash909ukHey #ScoutingUK #UKscouting friends, my group have just bought a new Beaver flag and pole, etc. from the Scout Store. Does anyone know how to fix the flag to the pole? There are zero instructions anywhere I can find... 🤷♂️
There is a hole through the top of the pole but no holes in the flag; do I just shove a cable tie through the flag? Is there something I am missing here? What did you do? 🙂
Last night was a Trustees/Leaders Meeting, mostly to go over the Safer Scouting Premise Audit & Fire Risk Assessment some of us had been working on for a while.
We asked for all Leaders, and we got them. Was the busiest Group Meeting I’ve been at for a while.
Felt productive (they always are, but this particularly so).
“Cecil, what have you been doing?”
https://eclectech.co.uk/discoCaterpillar
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Made by @eclectech.
#CampfireSongs #Scouting #ScoutingUK #UKscouting #Cecil #CecilTheCaterpillar
Over my few years Scouting I have gotten the impression that a significant percentage of Scouting Volunteers seem to believe that everyone operates the way it does where they are.
To be clear, I don’t mean those that think everyone SHOULD operate the same way, I mean those that actually ALREADY THINK everyone does.
And yet it’s just not like that. You could have 2 of the same tier Sections in the same Group with different Ceremonies, or have none.
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