Another lovely day – a perfect day in fact for kayaking on the lake. In the morning the beginning paddlers took to the lake while the more experienced scouts did. Archery and air rifle shooting. After a lunch of crepes we swapped over with the more experienced...
After a breakfast of cereal, bacon, beans and egg we fell in for our fist inspection. At camp we have a competition during the week to see who is the best patrol. The patrols are marked on tidiness of their tents and how well they have cooked and washed up. The...
Everyone arrived safely at our annual Summer Camp at Bassenthwaite. All the tents are up and the Scouts are fully briefed on what to expect for the week ahead. Every year we buy a new toy to play with. This year’s toy is an inflatable floating trampoline. We had...
We launched our new programme tonight a good chunk of which consists of ideas suggested by the Scouts themselves. The first of those suggestions was “cake night”. For cake night we made cup cakes and decorated them with angry birds made out of fondant...
The unit were set the challenge of convincing us they were a band. Skills required included miming to a backing track, pretending to play instruments and coming up with answers to interview questions. Both “bands” did an amazing job. They even looked like...
