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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 27, 2017 19:22:44 GMT
Does it really say "Camp Scout" on the front of your van? Wow, and I thought you were from Yorkshire or somewhere equally unreconstructed? 😉 ....I blame type-casting...... |
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 28, 2017 9:48:13 GMT
Does it really say "Camp Scout" on the front of your van? Wow, and I thought you were from Yorkshire or somewhere equally unreconstructed? 😉 ....I blame type-casting...... ....anyway, it could be worse. If the photo had been taken from the other side you would be able to see that it continues round onto the NSF wing with the word "Master".  |
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Post by WDB on Aug 28, 2017 10:12:10 GMT
Does it really say "Camp Scout" on the front of your van? Pink woggle? |
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 28, 2017 10:33:41 GMT
Does it really say "Camp Scout" on the front of your van? Pink woggle? ....you should see my badges....... |
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Post by Humph on Aug 28, 2017 12:18:50 GMT
I had, possibly still have, in my drawer of things which might one day come in handy, a woggle fashioned from a section of deer antler. I'm sure you're not aware, but you are in fact in the virtual company of the once, but now long since retired, patrol leader of the Woodpigeons, erstwhile county flag champions.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 28, 2017 13:26:55 GMT
I had, possibly still have, in my drawer of things which might one day come in handy, a woggle fashioned from a section of deer antler. I'm sure you're not aware, but you are in fact in the virtual company of the once, but now long since retired, patrol leader of the Woodpigeons, erstwhile county flag champions. 🤓 ...I am in awe.... . . . . . . . . . . (I'm not really, but your ego is obviously in urgent need of stroking) |
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Post by Humph on Aug 28, 2017 14:09:29 GMT
No one has ever been that nice to me about my antler woggle. Quite touched in truth.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 28, 2017 14:32:13 GMT
No one has ever been that nice to me about my antler woggle. Quite touched in truth. 😉 ...I'm quite happy to stroke your ego from time to time (mood permitting), but never, ever your woggle (pink or not).  |
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Post by Humph on Aug 28, 2017 15:02:40 GMT
That is, it must be said, something of a blessed relief.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 28, 2017 15:47:20 GMT
That is, it must be said, something of a blessed relief. ...look, I've told you, I'm not going to........ ....oh, I see what you mean.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 0:27:28 GMT
Not only Humph.....
I was pack leader of Tawny...a group with a plastic woggle of a decidedly odd colour brown. By odd I mean shit.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 29, 2017 7:51:16 GMT
Not only Humph..... I was pack leader of Tawny...a group with a plastic woggle of a decidedly odd colour brown. By odd I mean shit. ...there not being too many stags around where I grew up, the local practice was to fashion a woggle from a wooden cotton bobbin, the centre removed with a red-hot poker, and then shaped with a craft-knife. It was then varnished in a similar, excreta-coloured brown. |
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Post by WDB on Aug 29, 2017 10:27:40 GMT
Mine was made from brown leather, the strands woven or plaited and the whole thing closed at the back with a snap fastener. I think it was made from a single piece, so what held the plait together I don't know; perhaps if I'd stayed long enough to get my Leather Gear badge I might have found out. It was probably the thing I liked best about the Scouts; I didn't stay long because it wasn't as well run as Cubs had been. (There you had a plastic woggle whose colour indicated your six; white for me, then red. Just writing that is giving me vivid flashbacks to the church hall we met in, and where Red, White, Blue and Brown lined up for inspection. And all that was 40 years ago.)
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 29, 2017 16:49:28 GMT
It was probably the thing I liked best about the Scouts; I didn't stay long because it wasn't as well run as Cubs had been. ...I think that experience is quite common, exacerbated by the increased demands and expectations of "growing up". I fully enjoyed my time in cubs, not least because of a very enthusiastic helper who went out of his way to make things interesting and exciting (and who must have dedicated much spare time to the movement). I lasted but a short time in Scouts, due to the combined effects of demands on my time from higher school and homework, and the fact that the Scoutmaster was an a*sehole. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 23:33:45 GMT
I was in the cubs. Loved it, but it didn't love me.
Some years later I taught Seas Scouts stuff. That was more enjoyable and I was a better at it than the people who had been in charge of my 'cub'ing days. The leaders of that particular Seas Scout bunch seemed like a thoroughly decent bunch and gave up a great deal of time for the scouts.
Interestingly No. 1 daughter tried the scouts here and lasted 5 weeks before stalking out and declaring that they were a bunch of girlie wimps. I have since heard 3rd hand that they found her too aggressive and pushy. Ho hum.
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