Author: Chris Elmer Page 3 of 16

Base Marshalling for St Christopher’s Fun Walk

On May 23, 2013

The scouts and explorers donned their onesies and spent the day at Keston Marshalling Bases 24&25 of the St Christopher’s Fun Walk.

Tom and George on the base

We were signing cards and giving out water as well as encouraging the walkers on their way. For some of them, we were at the 10-mile marker with only a mile to go.

Rob’s mum passed through our base and for some of us, her t-shirt reminded us why we were there.

Massive well done to everybody involved

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwuRjJoBpYg[/youtube]

[smugmug url=”http://www.scoutsphotos.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=29504525_F523TS&format=rss200″ description=”click%20the%20link%20at%20the%20bottom%20to%20see%20the%20whole%20gallery%20with%20fullsize%20pics” imagecount=”200″ start=”1″ num=”200″ thumbsize=”Th” link=”lightbox” captions=”false” sort=”false” window=”false” smugmug=”true” size=”M”]

Happy Explorer Leader

By Chris Elmer

On May 23, 2013

In Explorers

happy Phil, a photo by cmbe1 on Flickr.

Phil Make Fire. Phil Happy.

Thunder Troop Videos

By Chris Elmer

On May 10, 2013

In Scouts

The scouts were asked to imagine that they had been commissioned to make a short film by Coca Cola. Each had to work to a different genre

Eagles (Rom Com -ish)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3uszIfNI7Uk?feature=oembed

Kingfishers (Zombie Film)

Hawks (Hard Hitting Documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dATS8pBvvnw?feature=oembed

Swifts (Sitcom)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Vtoc56HPGM?feature=oembed

Falcons (Soap Opera)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dholqiR7jB0?feature=oembed

The Kestrels video employed accents that many might consider inappropriate so i’ve chosen not to publish it.

New Thunder Patrol Leaders

By Chris Elmer

On May 3, 2013

In Scouts

Here’s our latest bunch of PLs. Ready to lead their patrols and have some fun on the way…

Lizzie, Samuel, Louise, Luke, Will, Mike and another Luke

Nick gave them their badges and asked them to help us keeping the patrols on track and paying attention.

B R A V O!

Naturalist Badge at Creekside Discovery Centre

By Chris Elmer

On May 1, 2013

In Scouts

We popped down to Creekside Discovery Centre in Deptford on Saturday to earn the Naturalist Activity Badge.

After an introduction to the centre and its work from Natalie, our guide…

the scouts set off for some mapping of the creek.

Then we pulled on our waders to explore the creek.

We walked up the creek and back down again while Natalie taught us all about the wildlife that lived there.

We finished off with some fishing and caught a Chinese Mitten Crab and a stickleback

Now it’s just fingers crossed that the badges arrive in time to give out this week!

Thanks to Sam and Don for coming on the trip and making it happen.

http://www.scoutsphotos.com/2013/Scouts/Thunder-and-Lightning-2013/Naturalist-badge-at-Creekside

Easy peasy scout night

By Chris Elmer

On April 25, 2013

In Scouts

Some nights take weeks of planning while others happen just because it’s a sunny evening.

Playground trumped Rounders

Big Night at Beavers

By Chris Elmer

On April 24, 2013

In Beavers

Popped in and found fourÂ enrolmentsÂ at beavers, a Chief Scouts Bronze award and another batch of awards had been sewn on from last week!

Bleddyn makes his promise

Welcome Bleddyn

Efan makes his promise

Josh makes his promise

Welcome Josh

Here they all are plus Frankie (I hadn’t powered the camera up in time, apols)

here are last week’s Chief Scout’s Bronze Award winners. Â Well done all of them.

Lauren, Niamh, Grace, Fraser, Thomas and Matthew (plus Evelyn at home with chicken pox… Get Well Soon)

and finally… James received his Chief Scouts Bronze Award tonight

James earned the top award tonight

Goodbye PLs and Well Done Jake

By Chris Elmer

On April 19, 2013

In Scouts

It was the last night for our PLs before making the move up to explorers. They were given a very loud BRAVO and now we’re left looking for six new Patrol Leaders. I’m sure we’ll find some shining examples of scouting brilliance, willing, able, always listening and happy to help… that can’t be too tough, can it?!

George, Frank, Sam, Soph, Josh and Loic (plus Tom and Cormac)

And only a little bit late, here’s Jake being given his Chief Scout’s Silver Award. B-R-A-V-O

Earned in cubs but it’s been sitting in Chris’s drawer for a few weeks. Oops.

Outdoor Adventure Manual Published Today

By Chris Elmer

On April 4, 2013

In Group

The Scouts have teamed up with Haynes to create this hands-on manual for enjoying the great outdoors.

The book is chock full of step-by-step guides to an array of scoutcraft skills like trekking, navigating, camping, firelighting and cooking and and there are hundreds of colour photographs in there too. Â You’ll find:

A brief history of the great outdoors and an introduction to scouting.
The world around you: geography, environment, weather and wildlife.
Camping: tents, wild camping, shelters, planning and packing.
Navigation: using the sun and stars, maps, compasses and GPS.
Fires and firelighting: quite simply all you need to know.
Food: wild plants, foraging, fishing, backwoods cooking, outdoor ovens.
Knots untangled: knots, lashings and pioneering projects.
Safety and first aid: dealing with emergency situations.

So it looks like a must-have for less than Â£15 and you can get it from Amazon hereÂ or Beckenham Bookshop will get it in for you (normally overnight) if you are buying local (ISBN 0857332821).

Jambowlree – World Scout Ten Pin Bowling Competiton

By Chris Elmer

On March 30, 2013

In Scouts

We’re all members of the worldwide family of scouting – over 28 million of us in over 200 countries – and this week we took part in Jambowlree, against scouts across the globe.

By the way, Orpington Palace Superbowl were fantastic. Really helpful staff, Easter eggs for best bowler in each lane and generally brilliant at customer service. Highly recommended by us.

The results have been plugged into the website and now we’re looking forward to seeing how we’ve done. Fingers crossed….

For now, here’s how they did on the night, all with the bumper barriers up apart from our explorer/network team.

There’s a video at the bottom of the page