Over 60 of us from the 5th helped Beckenham Round Table 104 run their fireworks this weekend.
eight adults helped Marshall on satuday night
nearly 60 kids and parents turned up on a very wet Sunday morning
these bins were empty when we started!
We left the park spotless!
Thank you so much to all involved. That’s our biggest ever turnout and easily the worst weather. It’s very reassuring that we get so much support from our families and members.
Wow but this was messy but so effective.
We mixed water and cornflour to make fake skin and we added toilet paper to the mix (papier mache style) to give the wounds body.
After that it was a matter of getting the colours right with food colouring.
Google will throw up lots of recipes and they seem to suggest at least adding glycerin and ideally using liquid latex.
Oh… and have fun with the non-newtonian fluid that is cornflour and water!
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Thanks to our volunteer network techs, we managed to set up cat’s cradle of Ethernet cable (there is a joke in there about cat5 cable/ cat’s cradle but I’ve not had enough coffee to nail it)
We have 20 or so PCs set up for JOTI
As well as a raspberry pi or two to do an introduction to coding.
And we’ve got a brand new map to record all our contacts
this is the closest we had to a glamorous assistant.
I hope that we see all our beavers, cubs, scouts and explorers at the hut over the weekend to take part. All info is on our website about times etc
jamboree on the internet at the fifth – clicky
There is a webcam on there and a live map will be up.there to.record our contacts.
We have invited local troops to.take part too and all local leaders are v welcome. Please introduce yourself when you.arrive and we will alway have coffee brewing and the urn boiling.
Special thanks to Trinity School for their donation of 10 PCs last month.Â
With some basic ingredients
Chicken, peppers, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, bacon and some other cupboard staples
Plus the options of pasta, rice, potato or noodles the patrols had to conjure up some imaginative tasty food. Where i still have it, i have transcribed their menus.
Nick and Rob were the judges tonight.
The Kestrels were the winners and will be invited to represent us at the district cooking competition:
Loic the winning PL with his Patrol.
The winning dish… Chicken wrapped in bacon with sauteed mushrooms and sweet peppers with mashed potatoes and vine-ripened tomatoes.
MENU:3
IMAGINATION:8
TASTE:8
DISPLAY:9
PRICE I WOULD PAY:7
TOTAL: 35/50
2nd place: The Hawks PL Josh with his spiced chicken and rice.
MENU:4
IMAGINATION:7
TASTE:8
DISPLAY:7
PRICE I WOULD PAY:5
TOTAL: 31/50
Joint 3rd place: Sophie the Eagles PL with her Pacman pasta (you can’t see but the potato is pacman and ghosts with carrot dots around the side)
This was:
*All food cannot be refunded and no harsh comments can be made about this food under the laws of congress and domino’s pizz.
MENU:8
IMAGINATION:7
TASTE:4
DISPLAY:7
PRICE I WOULD PAY:2
TOTAL: 28/50
Joint 3rd, Tom the Falcons PL with his pan served peppered chicken and rice.
MENU:5
IMAGINATION:7
TASTE:6
DISPLAY:8
PRICE I WOULD PAY:2
TOTAL: 28/50
Not their PL but here’s James from the kingfisherswith their rescued spiced chicken pasta with potato salad.
Lesson learned: you cannot keep a plastic bowl of noodles warm by putting it on a gas hob!
MENU:2
IMAGINATION:6
TASTE:7
DISPLAY:7
PRICE I WOULD PAY:2
TOTAL: 24/50
In 5th Place, George, the swift’s PL with chicken noodles. He only had 3 people in his patrol and one of them was fresh up from cubs so he did very well to produce a perfectly edible meal.
MENU:3
IMAGINATION:4
TASTE:7
DISPLAY:1
PRICE I WOULD PAY:2
TOTAL: 17/50
Here’s the photos from the night, see the full size pics for download in our main gallery.
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Our explorers joined 150 others from across the new Bromley Scout District for MESH VIII (Mixing Explorer Scouts Holiday).
They took part in Medieval themed activities throughout the weekend and we even used our Tipi Stove for the first time. (Thank you Awards for All)
Check out our pics from the weekend (and see the full size images on the smugmug gallery @scoutsphotos.com
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Here are our medieval explorers ready for the disco.
10 explorers from our Vultures ESU have joined 150 other explorers from across Bromley for the annual Mesh Camp.
Camp was set up painlessly
they tucked into noodles for dinner
perfect explorer food, polystyrene pot with its own fork!
the welcome ceremony was by the csmpfire
And now they are all in the marquee watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Tonight we spent an hour working with knives and with lots of care and concentration, we didn’t have any cuts! We’re halfway to making spike trolls… inspired by the Wonderful Whittlin’ Blog
Next week we paint them (and remember to bring a decent camera)
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Last Wednesday, the explorers made their own pizza dough and toppings and they all made something edible! Check out the photos below for a really successful evening, they even got their dough to rise.
Maybe they just need a few more washing up lessons but this was a great night for the leaders and explorers.
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Today was an important day for The Fifth as three of our leaders were awarded their Wood Badge by Gary the Deputy District Commissioner. The beads are the symbol of completed leader training.
The first Wood Badges were made from beads taken from a necklace that had belonged to a Zulu chief named Dinizulu, which Baden-Powell had found during his time in the Zululand in 1888. When B-P was looking for some token to award to people who went through the Gilwell training course he remembered the Dinizulu necklace and the leather thong given to him by an elderly African at Mafeking. Â He took two of the smaller beads, drilled them through the centre, threaded them onto the thong and called it the Wood Badge.
(apologies for the dreadful photo quality)
Adam, Keeley and Andy renewed their promise
Traditionally, the beads are transferred from one leader to another so Gary took them from around his own neck before awarding them to our leaders.
Andy receives his wood badge.
Andy’s late father was a leader at the 5th for many years, he was Assistant Group Scout Leader, Assistant Scout Leader and an Assistant Deputy Commissioner, today would have been a proud day for Dave.
Keeley (Akela) receives her wood badge.
Adam (bagheera) Receives his wood badge
Big thanks to Gary for coming over to do this. You can find out all about the history of the wood badge here (opens as pdf, right click, save as)
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