Kat's blog

November 2008

Wow! November was a busy month for me! Plenty to talk about as so much has been happening.

Started off the month with a BRILLIANT trip to York with the Guides for the Changing The World event. Everyone (all 4 Guides and 3 Leaders) really enjoyed themselves and there was a heated discussion on the train back home about which project we should do as a Unit. In the end the girls decided to do a presentation about their favourite 2 for the rest of the Guides and the Railway Children won.

After that I didn't see the Guides again until the last weekend of the month where we held a sleepover in the hut. For some of the girls it was their first time away from parents for the night and I think it's safe to say everyone enjoyed themselves. We made lots of biscuits and despite warnings of "don't eat them all now! Save some for tomorrow!!!" all the biscuits were eaten so there were a load of hyper Guides running around all night. The "sleep pillows" we made as part of the Railway Children activities didn't help send them to sleep sadly. The pillows were gorgeous and filled with lavender fragrance. I went a little (OK, a lot!) over the top with how much lavender I put in mine when our fab Young Leader, "Bob", made me one. You see, I may be an adult but I'm just as likely to go over the top as a Guide is!

On the Ranger side of things we've been very busy as well. The day after the York event the Rangers were out Geocaching. We didn't get as many caches done as we'd like as well... I'll admit I got the info a bit wrong. We were trying to do our first multi cache (you get the co-ordinates for a place and have to solve a clue there to move onto the next place which is where the final cache is) and it went the opposite direction from where I thought it did and left us a mile the wrong way. Oops!!! We all got a bit of a mental work out with the maths though.
3 of us older ones ("Elle", "Daphne" and I) all went to the local firework display (one of our Leaders, "Zeta" couldn't make it as she was in the middle of moving house) and had a great time there. We found a purse on the way back and due to the lack of policemen around, 2 of us ended up driving around to a very grateful lady's house to return it. It's nice to do things like that for people. I know when I lost my purse 1 time how horrible it was knowing your ID and all your bank details are lost somewhere so at least we were able to return them safe and sound.

What else... well, we've had a few other meeting where we talked about what was available at the moment and I told my willing bunch of "volunteers" about my final year Uni project which they WILL help with (they're looking forward to it, honest!). You might also have noticed I've started calling people names. That's because they all decided if I'm writing a blog none of them want mentioning by real name if I need to say something about someone.
So let me introduce my unit: Leaders "PP" and "Zeta", and Rangers "Harold", "Dougie", "Bob", "Fred", "Heather", "Nicki", "Elle", "Claire", and "Daphne". You'd never guess half of us are mega Heroes fans, right?! I'm shocked 1 of them didn't opt for Kilgore but that's a whole other story entirely.

We've also been making some Christmas cards (the Guides and the Rangers) as we're taking part in a Christmas card exchange with other units around the country. Rangers of course work best with food so we sat with a tub of chocolate rolls while we made ours and decided the best thing about being a Ranger was that we could just chill out, say the most stupid things and behave like a kid for a while whilst having a right laugh (usually at the stupid things each other say).