Fires

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 younger scouts tonight – all of whom have only been scouts for around six months – for several it was the first time cooking on an open fire. (We have cooked several times with this group before, but always on gas). We learnt several things about how to get fires going (and how wet leaves really don’t work) and how it is better to cook on the embers rather than the flames etc.