Congratulations to brother and sister Frank and Grace who both reached big milestones in the Nights Away Scheme last week.
Grace receives her 20 Nights Away Badge
Frank receives his 35 Nights Away
B-R-A-V-O to both of them
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While we’ve been enjoying our time off, John has been hard at work sanding and painting the hut. He’s done half of it.and it looks awesome.
Woe betide any child trying to scrape this paint away!
We hope that you have a very merry Christmas and here’s a little video from all the scouts and explorers from our 2012 Christmas Card:
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We would not be aboe to run without the support of many people and we hope you’ll keep being as wonderful in 2013.
Postponed karaoke but still plenty of silliness and ps2 singstar is still a brilliant game.
Best fancy dress. Ever.
Pizzas before presents
Secret Santa, all from the pound shop.
Cookery lessons next
USB vacuum cleaner!
Chocolate
Baby bunny Ali G
Anti spam
Here comes sanny Claus
Twilight themed present. Which team is frosty?
Paperclip...
Christmas music for Sammy
Can you see the chelsea fan?
Time to butch up
How else would one store cheese?
Toilet seat cover! #awesome
Not a iPhone in the iPhone box shocker
Dinosaur ruler and Swedish home made card.
Bubbletastic
I'm a Barbie girl. In a Barbie world...
Oh Howard... Or Jason.. or Robbie.. or the other one... Or the other ? What a choice
Dared to wear but refused. Wisely.
Molly. Know your place. Those dishes don't wash themselves.
Only 12 scouts last night thanks to.clashes with local carol concerts so we jumped into.the minibus for an impromptu chip survey.
Waiting for chips
Results to follow… We came back, made paper chains ans forgot to collate the reviews! D’oh!. It was more just a chip crawl than a chip survey, oops.
We plucked a game from the internet (clicky for the market traders page) and ran an excellent team building and bonding session for the unit. 5 girls have joined us from guides this month and it was good to break them all down into teams to work together.
The teams had to cut paper shapes and sell them to the quality controllers.
The prices of the goods changed every 2 minutes
And the teams had to judge the right moment to sell
The B team won by a mile. They won bags of chocolates from Phil.
We made it safely home with only a couple of hiccoughs. Everybody safe and healthy but rather sleepy. Facebook posts suggest that some of the scouts stayed home today but hey! I was in work at 8.30 today so no sympathy here 🙂
Obviously we discussed leaving him behind...
Watching an artist while we ate our chips
The world's most expensive bag of chocolates!
Posh choc shopping
Window shopping
Scouts + chocolate = smiles
5kg of Nutella
Waiting for the choc demo so here are some pics while we wait.
We started at a v interactive museum.
We found a warhorse
Ypres just after the war
Ypres rebuilt
Not another museum! Groan.
Watching the choc be prepared for the demo.
A white chocolate BVM, more tasty than tasteful.
So we come downstairs and breakfast is laid out for us…
Muesli, cocopops or gold nugget thingimies
Nuttella, jam. Butter, honey or two types of cheese
Milk (fresh, not uht) choco milk, orange juice and bottled water
Fresh crusty bread
Espresso, normal coffee, tea and hot chocolate
Perfect for a chilly day in Bruges but first we will pop up to the In Flanders Field museum
We’ve had a brilliant first day, here’s the update from after lunch:
We explored Tune Cot
And we laid a wreath.
We laid a wreath at Langemark German Cemetry
John talked to the scouts about the Menin Gate
Chips for dinner
With a waffle pudding
Time to buy some chocolate
Ypres looks beautiful
The Christmas Market was ... Christmassy
And we've finished the evening.with a beer in the hotel
And we’re in Bruges tomorrow