Life as it happens
This weekend I attended the first unit leaders weekend with my unit leader Stephen and Keith & Graham from the Birmingham / BSWE unit. The venue was the very plushly appointed Barcello Hinckley Island Hotel, where after checking in I discovered that my accomodation was in an executive room although I suspect that all the […]
Via Twitter The Swedish government will give 15 MSEK to the 22nd World Scout Jamboree in Sweden 2011 – announced in the state budget today. So 15M Swedish Krona is something like £13.5 Million.  That’s the sort of government support of Scouting we’d all like to see more often.
Last night was the first meeting of the Birmingham Jamboree unit leadership teams. We have one and a half units so a team of four leaders and a team of two. To add to the mix we have the county team supporting us as well so a mix of people at the meeting. I’m in […]
I’m in Edinburgh for the last weekend of the fringe festival and I was kinda hoping I might come across a steel touring frame for a bargain price while I was up here.  I’ve had a bit of a mooch about and visited a car boot sale on the bottom floor of an underground multi-story car park, […]
My Moo MiniCards arrived in the post this morning. MiniCard Box All 10 Designs MiniCards in Supernana holder I used the option on the Moo site to create cards with text instead of pictures on the color side. I created 10 different cards with a selection of Engineering, Cycling, and a Scouting quote. In no […]