October 2014

Friday 24 October

Present: Iain, Daniel, Christopher, John
Absent: Matthew, Berno, PW

Tonight I ran the programme, it was about mapping. We started with a game in the hall: North, South, East, West. The scouts than had to find different bearings from different places in line of sight from the scout hall. They than they did a big wide game where each patrol was given a street to find and the had to take bearings to the street, all while trying to avoid Felix, Puma, Viper and myself who wanted to 'kill' them.
The seals did very well and were first back to report to me. The penguins were next who did an excellent job of avoiding us and getting many bearings, so the seals and penguins both shared a first prize of lollipops. We than played a final game in which Puma flung a robe around and we had to jump over it as it came around.
It was a great end to another great evening!

October 2014

Friday 17 October

Present: Iain, Berno, Daniel, Christopher, PW, John
Absent: Matthew

Today we had very special guests from Australia, that come every year Tristan, Freye and their troop scouter/ father Trout.

We had a lovely evening planned by Josie, it was to create awareness for disabled people. we had different bases. 

At Puma's base we had to wash a cup with one hand, fastened buttons without fingers, we had to write our name with anything but our hands and we had to tie our shoes without looking at them.
At Trout's base we had to build a tripod without talking to each other and with everyone blindfolded but the Patrol Leader.
At Josie's base the patrol members had to lip read a message from the patrol leader and we had to read a message in a mirror.
At Felix's base everyone was blindfolded except the patrol leader and everyone had to do an obstacle course and we had to hold a line and identify objects on the line. We also had to fall-in blind.

At the end of the evening I invited some senior scouts and the Australian scouts to a sleep over in the hall as a friendship activity. We had hotdogs and coffee and tea, we played mafia and cards. The next morning we had cornflakes and left.

It was a great evening, that we enjoyed until the next morning.