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Discussion of Scouting and Guiding in the UK
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Wide Game for 500
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At Tolmers, our winter activity camp "Fire & Ice" starts with a leaders' meeting and I organise a wide game for the 500+ Scouts while that's going on. One objective of the game is to get the kids to explore the campsite and generally orientate themselves. Last year, I invented a code where a "Windings" symbol equates to a... more »
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Is Scouting getting kids dirty enough ?
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Bearing in mind the recent news that researchers think dirty children are less likely to suffer from allergies and be better placed to deal with infections, I just wondered whether we were letting our scouts get sufficiently dirty. Do you apply any standards on the level of dirtiness your scouts can... more »
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Record Updater Tag
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At the AGM I mentioned that some records that I updated did not have my initials after them. I have just noticed that my 5H- updates included today do not contain my initials. It looks like the initials of the original creator of the record are carried forward. Is this correct? I'm not on an ego trip, but seeing someone else's initials keeps raising... more »
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Meetings
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There was a time I loved going to scouting meetings, Group Execs, District Leaders, ADCs meetings, etc,etc, where we often sat round in unheated halls drinking rubbish coffee and had a good whinge about District or County or HQ. If there was an agenda it wasn't always immediately apparent, or if it... more »
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Stay outside!
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I can't say I've dug too far in to new rules on CRBs etc. However was told last night that NOW adults- eg Beaver parents-may no longer enter the premises to colect their kids unless they've been CRB'd, and that NOW we can be fined if we allow any non CRB'd person into our premises while children are present.... more »
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Pride!
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So tonight, I was there. 11 years ago - on the 10th October 1998 to be exact - I invested our first EVER female Scout. It was at the Group's 90th anniversary party and I still have the video of me taking her through her promise and the thunderous applause from the dozens of ex-Scouts who were there.... more »
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OT Immigration: The Real Story of the Immigrants Who Opened the Floodgates
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Immigration: The Real Story of the Immigrants Who Opened the Floodgates The Culture of Critique reviewed by Stanley Hornbeck In The Culture of Critique, Evolutionary Psychologist Professor Kevin MacDonald advances a carefully researched but extremely controversial thesis: that certain 20th century intellectual movements – largely... more »
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