62ndScouting

Just watched an excellent TV programme, well the last 2 thirds of it anyway, all about building a very long Scalextric track at the very old Brooklands race track.

It did inspire many thoughts of the great Cardboard Cave build of 2009. Minus Cardboard of course, well vast quantities – which was replaced by vast quantities of Scalextric track. Throw in a few dramatic names, Spiral of Doom, some pipe lacking, a great deal of inginuity (how do you get a Scalextric track over a pond!?) and some very nutty but entirely enthusiastic people and it’s like I was back there…

…in the hut pondering how to get a cardboard cave around that very awkward space.

Excellent telly – my new favourite programme!

Want to learn about fractions!? A quirky and addictive little tune.

Amusing as it is, it’s all very wrong and not safe at all…

However, this one - I’ve been there!!!! Didn’t see baby sharks though – don’t rememebr many sharks at all actually, just a moving walkway round a very large aquarium and a very over engineered penguin enclosure where you could only see the penguins for a rather short time…

…the ride outside was good though! Very scary!

We’re into the final day of construction, tomorrow the Cubs provide the first onslaught into the depths of the 62nd hut caving system.

But what lies beneath!? I hear you cry. Alas, it’s more than my jobsworth to tell you, but upon entering beware of…

…the ‘Web of Deceit’, ‘There and Back Again Lane’, ‘Bridge of Terror’, ‘Slide to Infinity’…

Another taster:

Not a great deal of floor space left.

To wet your appetite here are a few pictures from Tuesday’s Cardboard Cave build session. Bristol rovers vs. Leeds obstructed a couple of offers of help but we persisted anyway!

Tune in later in the week to see more photos – you should see the hall after Wednesday’s session!