We stopped here first
And they explored the trenches
The girls had time to pose
And now we've stopped for lunch at hill 62
Author: Chris Elmer Page 8 of 16
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Here’s a video of Matt, Louise and Josh making their promise last thursday at scouts. Welcome and B-R-A-V-O
The explorers have broken out some consoles tonight.
There is Dance Central 3
And a bit of Call of Duty
And some sitting around
While the rest are doing karaoke on the PS2 in the top hut but we have been banned from taking pictures.
We’ll hear this week how much we raised on the litter picking, we’ll let you know as soon as we do.
In the meantine:
If every family does this and spends £250 on the internet between now and Christmas (including tesco, sainsbury’s, waitrose and asda), we would earn about £300 in a month ish. Just by sitting at a computer.
No effort fundraising:
We get a donation from hundreds of internet shops (all the big ones and many small ones) and it is so easy… you don’t need to register, fill in extra forms etc…
Simplest way
Go to our website: 5bs.org and click of the link at the bottom of the page
or look over there on the right… a big advert, just click click click >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
then just search the shop that you are buying from. It then sorts out all the payments etc… Â why not bookmark our page for next time? Just use it as a portal to shop through.
Never miss an opportunity
Download and install the toolbar and it will make sure that you never miss a chance to donate to the 5th and it offers you bargains and deals from the shops you visit.
Please take the time to do this. It’s free money for us. Sometimes the donations are quite significant – i bought a bike rack in June from Evans for £140 and in return, we earned over £5 . Lots of £30 purchases add up to lots of £1 donations.  It costs nothing to you.
Bargains
with the toolbar, i have the opportunity when i visit a page to click ‘yes’ to donate to the 5th. When i do that, it pings me first to a page of voucher codes etc that could save me money. It’s been rather useful on occasion.
Please give this a try. As we say, it’s free money.
Some bamboo and string: who can build the tallest tower to support a brick without touching the ceiling?
4th Place
Joint 2nd Place
Joint 2nd Place
1st Place (bit blurred, oops)
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Brilliant night. Such good fun and something that Phil only runs every couple of years because it is expensive but 14 explorers piled into the minibus for a night of go karting.
Dave was the winner (beating his Dad)
Phil bagged second place
Rob was v chuffed to make it onto the podium in 3rd place
Check the Video of the prizegiving:
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And here’s the whole mob
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The Fifth had a wonderful turnout from all sections, in smart uniforms (for the most part) and brilliant behaviour (from everybody). Following remembrance themed activities for some of the sections, we invited them all to parade at Beckenham War Memorial on Sunday Morning. The hight street was closed off and with a parade that was 50% 5th Beckenham South, we walked to a memorial that is inscribed with the names of over 1,200 Beckenham residents who lost their lives fighting for their country. (more info on Beckenham War Memorial)
Chris and Badger lead the group down the High Street while Nicky carries the flag.
our wreath layers
Their behaviour was perfect and the weather was glorious for a very special day.
Grace, Lizzie, Rhylie and Luke chat to Col. Bob Stewart MP.
They might be a scruffy lot but they did their duty and were a credit to us.
Here is a little video of the event:
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So look… if you ever doubt the ability of your kids to cook… you should check out what they can create when the odds are against them. We really stacked the deck against them with courgettes, cabbage, cucumber, instant mash, tinned beans and pulses and more  but still six patrols made six edible meals.
When they have proper ingredients they really fly.
Congrats to the Kingfishers who (amazingly to those of us who were supervising the cooking) made the tastiest meal for the judges.
a rather blurry pic of Frank and his winning patrol
Jack and John, our Judges.
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We pinched an idea from the scouts but the explorers did it with rather less mess.
Robert gave Molly a cut down her arm
Tom’s arm was pretty messed up
Check out all the photos here and there is a link at the bottom for the full size pics.
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Rob, Alex and Dave organised tonight
And it was currytastic. Chicken tikka masala, chicken Balti, beef balti, lamb tomato and aubergine, chick pea curry and prawn tikka with pineapple.
Marks and spencers curry book