What I was going to do for one of my scout meetings this week didn’t quite work out how I had hoped, so in a quick change of plan we opted for an old favourite of mine – building a tower. We are lucky that in our scout HQ we have got open beams across [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Tower
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Snowboarding
Posted in Activities on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another day, another trip up the M1… Back to Milton Keynes we went to have our next snowboarding lesson. A novel feature of this one was that the scouts actually learnt to come downhill forwards instead of backwards and some of them are beginning to link their turns together. One more session next month will [...]
Pinewood Derby
Posted in Meetings on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We held the first of our Pinewood Derby races today. It was great to see the time that some of the young people had put into building their cars and painting them etc – there were lots of different designs and ideas. There were prizes for the fastest cars and the best designs. Our thanks [...]
Fires
Posted in Meetings, Skills on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nice simple scout meeting tonight. Light fires, cook sausages on sticks. I am sure this scene is replicated weekly up and down the country – and has been for the last 100 years or so. And the young people are still as fascinated by it as they were last century as well!I had just my [...]
Snowboarding
Posted in Activities on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were planning on going snowboarding today. With the weather outside a balmy 9C and not a snowflake in site, this could have proved difficult – thankfully about 45 minutes away from us is Xscape. So 14 scouts headed up there for a beginners snowboarding lesson. Once the nightmare of sorting boards, waterproofs, boots, helmets [...]
Caving
Posted in Activities on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We spent a long day today travelling from Hertfordshire to Matlock Bath to try caving. A stupidly early start saw us arriving at Matlock Bath Train station where after a short walk we met with Mark, our instructor. After kitting up, Mark lead us most of the way up the Heights of Abraham (by foot [...]
