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Andy_R

Andy_R

Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
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County Durham
brings back memories of a bunch of teenagers on an expedition in Arran.... most of them trudging along a single track road in the rain.... and a few of us deciding to use our initiative and sneak into a pub, then catch a bus to the rendezvous... watching out the bus windows to see if we could see any walkers, and sitting on the bus floor until we got past....
If any of the patrols did this, then they would get points for initiative, but then would also get twice as many points removed for cheating (if they were stupid enough to gett caught, that is)
 
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Andy_R

Andy_R

Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
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County Durham
Have you seen the paperwork you've to fill in if they fall and hurt themselves!
Yes...that's why we always tell our Scouts, don't get hurt. If they get hurt, we have shedloads of paperwork to fill in. If they die, Gillwell takes over and we have sooo much less paperwork to do........
 
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Andy_R

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Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
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County Durham
My general risk assessment is "don't do something stupid..it'll hurt if you do" My Scouts are pretty good at adhering to that..
 
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Andy_R

Andy_R

Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
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County Durham
What did you say your Group was again?
Haha...it's probably the biggest in our County, nevermind District...3 beaver colonies, 2 cub packs, 2 scout troops, an attached explorer unit, and network. We get on like a typical family (ie no one wants to talk to each other, we all think we could do a better job than other section leaders, and we all want the group funding to be used in our section cos we know what we're doing.) GSL likes to use group funds for things like buying a minbus that the local mountain resue team (who he's also a member of) uses more than we do because our sections are just too large to use it......getting slightly ranty, but hey ho, it's only 2 hours a week......
 

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lost somewhere
I read an account of a solo round-the world sailor from the early 1960's. I forget who he was. He had stashed all his food in tins in the bilges of his yacht before setting out. After a few days of rough seas, a certain amount of water found its way down there....and washed the labels off. He had to spend the rest of his circumnavigation not knowing what was for supper, lunch or breakfast.
 
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