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!

Upon typing 62nd Bristol Scouts into Google i happened to spot the incredible number of results it suggested their was…

41 800 in case yu cannot read it. The 6th or 7th entry down the list of Google entries then prodceeded to bring up this little joy:

So there you go girls, you’re not welcome here anymore!

…even if it was in an oversize sumo-style rugby strip!

Well done Jonty! There we were relaxing, enjoying the sunshine and merrily ignoring the half time entertainment on the Memorial Ground pitch, for Bristol Vs Rotherham, when all of a sudden we wents nuts. Running down the pitch in humerous costume in front of 4500 spectators was our very own Jonty. The crowd around us did seem to look at us…

Shoving electrodes into tree trunks to harvest electricity may sound like the stuff of dreams, but the idea is increasingly attracting interest.

According to New Scientist Magazine plugging your hair straightners into the local forest when on you next Scout Camp is not entirely impossible. Whilst still someway off to be developed enough to be able to take the kitchen fridge to our next green field campsite, when you lot of current Scouts become leaders – who knows! It really could be everything except the kitchen sink.