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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]

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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

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.

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

Lane 10

Billy, Jamie, Theo, Rory, Alfie and Luke

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Lane 11

Grace, Oliver, Marci and Olivia

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Lane 12

Luke, Will, Cailtlin, Louise and MikeÂ

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Lane 13

Matt, Luke, Andrew, Sam and Ed

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Lane 14

Emily, Sam, Grace, Frank and Sophie,Â

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Lane 15

Alex, Josh, Isaac, Eoin, Rhylie and Luke

Click to enlarge (they only played one game… veeeeryyyy slowly)

Lane 16

Network and explorers were too busy playing pool for a photo!

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Â Jambowlree Video

https://www.youtube.com/embed/T8BzSwMeFd0?feature=oembed

Staff Drill at Thunder Troop

By Chris Elmer

On March 15, 2013

In Scouts

A really fun blast from the past for Thunder Troop – Scout staff drill – here was what the PLs worked from:

and you can check out how successful they were here:

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://youtu.be/VAJiZVjfRgk[/youtube]

Scouts at Geek 2013

By Chris Elmer

On March 1, 2013

In Explorers, Scouts

13 scouts and explorers jumped in the minibus down to Margate for Games Expo East Kent – GEEK 2013.

Hundreds of computer grames from the 70s to right up to the Â latest releases. Pinball machines, arcade cabinets handhelds, educational machines, consoles, mobile, handheld and more. Â It was all there and we had a brilliant day

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Pancakes!

By Leaders

On February 15, 2013

In Scouts

Pancake night at Lightning troop!
Yummy!