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Facebook is a touch addictive

Well there it is, it’s bloody frustrating when your seemingly addicted to a technology that you hate in principle. The kids seem to love it and understand it a whole lot better than me, maybe I should ask my sister for some instructions! It’s just in my poking people is just rude, maybe i’m just […]

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Gilwell Bound

This weekend i’m heading down to Gilwell Park for the yearly reunion, which is the leaders bash put on by the Scout association.  As it’s the centenery year I’m fully expecting it to be packed to the rafters with leaders from all over the UK and the rest of the world.  I usually go to […]

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I’m Back!

Things have been a little hectic since the Jamboree, for a start there was the whole returning to work thing.  If that wasn’t a shock enough I then had agreed to help out at the working party at the scout hut.  The upside is of course that the Scout Hut is now nice and shiny […]

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Jamboree 2007 Journeys

21st World Scout Jamboree 2007

On the 1st of August 1907 at 8am when Robert Baden-Powell blew his Kudu horn 3 times to open his experimental camp on Brownsea Island, I wonder if he had any idea of what his ideas would turn into. I certainly don’t think as a 6 year old Beaver I had any idea of what […]

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It’s All Over

Well it’s officially over, I took my Jamboree neckerchief off for the last time last night and it’s now sitting next to me on my desk. I read the section in the IST handbook whilst there on the Post Jamboree Blues and thought that I would probably be OK, but I am starting to feel […]