Hi there..

For those with accounts, you may have noticed that the site has been somewhat dysfunctional recently. I have finally resuscitated the site and it's alive again. You will clearly notice that the site is lacking it's usual theme, as I have to recreate it. booooooo. It'll be back before soon..

Many apologies.

Phil

Hi Guys

Yes its that time of year again when we try and get you all some awards, training packs for chief scout platinum award will be handed out on the quiz night 23-04-07. For those of you who have done bronze Duke of Edinburgh there isn’t much left to do, Stretch will be talking to each of you about what you have already done and what is left to do to achieve this award.

We will also be holding monthly monitoring sessions where we can help you with any problems that you have with the award and pretty soon we shall all be moving onto the chief scout diamond award.

See you later

Hi Guys

We got the dates wrong for the St Georges Day Parade it's not Monday the 23rd June so scouts is back on as normal, and we will be having a St Georges day curry and quiz night where you can test your knowledge of all things English. If you are coming please let Iain, Stretch or Adam know as we need top know how much curry sauce to buy, and please bring with you the princely sum of £2 to cover the cost of the curry ingredients.

See you Monday

Stretch

Well, it's now 3 days since we all got back to England and vowed never to set foot on a trans-Europe coach again.
I think it's fair to say everyone had a fantastic week. (I'm sure even Liam and Vicky would agree, although they could probably have done without the injuries...)
All of the Explorers did fantastically well - Jack and the 3 Matts swore blind they hadn't been skiing before, but were ready for anything the resort could throw at them by the end of the week. Eddie and Tom could already ski, but bonus points for not injuring yourselves during 6 days of skiing, lads.

Oh my god! I'm fairly sure I don't think I've ever seen fog as thick as this! I'm absolutely sure I've never been skiing in said fog!

2nd day of skiing. By now everyone had adjusted to the slopes, compared to the dry equivalents back home. A lot of people were complaining about their legs but we're here to ski, so ski we will!

The groups stayed pretty much the same as yesterday. Groups A and B (beginners and intermediates) had been on the nursery slope for day 1, but group B managed to advance to the mountain by the afternoon. Group C (the advanced group) were still on the mountain and were trying to perfect their traversing.

The day was good, if a little hot, but everyone was happy that they had progressed further.

Well, after just over 24 hours in a coach with 30 well behaved and quiet scouts we arrived safely in sunny Austria. After initial concerns regarding the apparent comphrensive lack of snow of any sort, we learnt to our relief that the slopes we'd be using were safely above the snowline. Just the hotel with sun loungers and parasols then...

Do you think I should?

Hey Scouty people, this is my first blog. Mountain-biking was great at the weekend despite having an old Raleigh Mohawk with no suspension, 10 gears and dodgy brakes. On Saturday we took the bikes up past Towers onto the Marin trail straight onto a fast rocky off-road down hill. Lots of technical sections till just before lunch when I came off. After that we had to endure at least two miles of uphill riding. At lunch it started chucking it down making the route back to the Swallow Falls even more dangerous. Eddy did a pretty impressive cartwheel off his bike doing 20 mph hardly damaging his bike.

That would be Wombourne Explorer Scout Unit.

Notice the emphasis... When we wrote the programme for the first half of this year we decided to change things a bit. For a start, we had shakey, matt and barney there to tell us if the things we were suggesting sounded brilliant, alright, or just sucked.
We wanted to write the busiest and best programme we've ever had. We wanted to make sure that once we'd written it, we stuck to it instead of making last minute changes (apart from when needs must, like the hut being covered in wet paint...)
We also wanted a slight change of direction.