1st Blackwater Valley B-P Scout Group
This week our beavers were learning how to have a safe and enjoyable bonfire night, including the basics of using sparklers. And toasting marshmallows of course!
This week our seniors starting stacking our new wood store ready for the winter.
We will hold another quiz night at our Scout hut with food and refreshments. Please save the date as more details are to follow!
Our Christmas Fair returns with lots of prizes to be won and Santa to visit!
Please drop in on Saturday 23rd November 10am-12!
This week our scouts cooked up a treat, homemade sausage rolls! However, we don’t have an oven in our scout hut so they had to find an ingenious way to achieve their baking. Who knew you can turn a coalman’s stove into an oven? They were, of course, absolutely delicious!
This week our beavers and cubs were exploring their artistic side by experimenting with Hama beads. These beads you can iron after arranging to permanently connect them into any sort of shape or design.
It is with a heavy heart that the group has sold our beloved Bedford coach, Mildred. After several turbulent years, the group has to continually adapt in order to keep providing excellent scouting opportunities for our children. Mildred has been a massive part of that mission over the years, allowing our sections to travel whenever and wherever they desire. She has taken us to many wonderful places within the UK and travelling multiple times through the country roads of France. We will never forget the people we have met along the way and the positive contribution Mildred has played to so many in our group.
However, a consolation is that we have been able to sell Mildred rather than scrap her. Relatives of an old Scout Master with our Group own a farm in Devon and the family have taken on Mildred to do up and present at local vehicle fairs and events alongside other their Green Goddess Fire Engine and AEC Green Line bus (which family does not have one of those?!). The farmer and his family have hosted our Scout Summer Camp many times, and we look forward to seeing Mildred the next time we camp there. In the past, they have allowed the Scouts to drive the Green Goddess Fire Engine around a field!
For now, it is farewell Mildred, but we will see you again!
Second week back and our seniors are already pressing on with this term’s activities! For many years, we have wanted our own wood store so we can keep the firewood for the group nice and dry. Tonight, we have laid the foundations for something great. Check back for more updates as the project progresses!
The beavers have been very busy making a new board we can track birthdays on (as we are good at forgetting!). Each month of the year is on a different British native leaf and we all make a cut-out of ourselves to go around too!
Last term, our beavers planted a mix of fruit and veg plants. The ‘fruits’ of their labour are now paying off with some wonderful tomatoes, gorgeous strawberries and some very shy carrots. For a year where the garden hasn’t done particularly well with the weird weather patterns, I think our beavers have excelled!
