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...
It’s the last day today and the weather is glorious. The Scouts are heading into town fully briefed on the best shops to buy souvenirs. We took our usual troop picture of everyone who is at camp this year and Dom was taught his Scout promise and law on the way...
Superb day today the sun is shining and the ground is really starting to dry out 🙂 Sorry for the delay in sending updates it took a while to charge the iPad. Good news is Robin who runs Beavers now has the blogging app too and is writing yesterday’s entry so you...
Our first properly dry day gave us the chance to repitch our tent to a drier spot. The morning started with building a shelter by the lake. The aim is to sleep in it over it and cook breakfast on a fire. This will be pat of the outdoors award for the Scouts who are at...
