Category: Scouts

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Day 7 of Summer – Scouting on the Beach

Yep, that’s right, we’ve now had a whole week of summer – amazing I know, but true. It wasn’t quite so hot yesterday with temperatures only just topping 20°C at 20.3°C here, but that was just about perfect, especially with a light cooling breeze. Unfortunately for me there wasn’t a huge amount of time to...

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Scouts – Adventure Badge

As I mentioned the other day, the Scouts are beginning to get used to Anna and I  and I think they secretly like the fact that we are their leaders. Things are obviously easier for us over the summer in some respects as the light evenings mean that we can actually get out and do...

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Armed Forces Parade in Borth

As I’ve said before, when we took over as Scout leaders a year or so ago for Borth 2nd Scouts we were told that it would take up a couple of hours of our time on a Friday evening. If you are ever told that then it’s not true and once again yesterday evening we...

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Plant Sale

The plant stall that the Scouts had at the Borth Charities Fete went well at the weekend. After clearing out the greenhouse and sowing lots of seeds we had been diligently watering and tending to the plants ready for the fete. It was all a bit rushed as we only had about a month between...

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Scout Camp near Devil’s Bridge

Phew, we survived – and as far as I know the Scouts enjoyed themselves too. We have all just got back from a Scout camp that Anna and I organised. Since becoming Scout Leaders we have been on a couple of camps but this was the first one that we had organised and run on...

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A Marvellous Mauve May

I managed to squeeze a few hours working in the garden into my hectic weekend schedule on Saturday. I’d already mowed the lawn a day or so ago, so todays chores were tidying up the edges around the various beds and borders, weeding, cutting back and pruning a few plants and potting out some Rosemary cuttings. The...

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Walking the Ceredigion Coast Path

It’s so nice with the light evenings and slightly warmer weather to be outdoors with the Scouts. The winter months become a little diffiuclt trying to organise suitable activities for them but now that the days are longer we can just go outdoors and do something. Last nights activity was a walk from Clarach to Borth along...

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Red Kite Challenge Marshalling

Whilst Borth was basking in sunshine today we were up in the hills around Nant yr Arian marshalling for the Red Kite Challenge. It’s actually a job for the Scouts but with Anna and I as Scout leaders that means we have to be there as well. We had a good turn out from the...

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Garden Plant Stall at Borth Charities Fete

Amongst the variety of stalls that the Borth 2nd Scouts run at the local summer charities fete is a bric-a-brac stall that we always find quite depressing. We’ve helped out with it for a few years now and it’s never that exciting. Don’t get me wrong, we are of course grateful for all donations to...

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Camp Fire Pizza Wraps

What a gorgeous day we had yesterday – Spring was finally here, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the winds had eased a little. It never quite got warm, hitting about 10°C at best, but it was perfect conditions for the beach cooking that we had planned for the Scouts. We prepared some...