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 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
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
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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
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.
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…
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…  why not bookmark our page for next time? Just use it as a portal to shop through.
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.
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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