Early mornings and weekends= hard work

Aha, that will be £1 for the ironing board cover thankyou!
Here I am keeping a watchful eye on the customers walking past.. or was I wondering why I was up at 6:30 a.m on a Sunday morning!!!
This Saturday, 15th May, I managed a table top sale at 4th Worth Scout Hut. I was up and ready by 9:10 a.m... in traing for Sunday's Car Boot Sale!
I sold many books. The most popular ones were Horrible Histories.

South of England Spring Show

Here we are smiling in the rain! Blisters on hands back aching and still waiting to find out how much we raised over the two days.

I am the one in the wheelbarrow!!!! A minute later Robyn tipped me out!

This was the real work. I lost count how many times I wheeled one of these full of plants to the car parks from the plant stalls.

I met many interesting people who were generous with their donations.















Here is Ben with the bucket full of lucky tombola tickets. Any ticket ending with a 0 wins a plant

Over two rainy cold days scouts worked together to raise funds for 2011 Jamboree.

Here some of us are promoting the plant tombola in the Abergavenny Barn. Business was great especially when it rained and the customers were sheltering indoors.

We had a chance to talk about our fundraising efforts and promote the Scout Association.

Raffle

Today, Jack and I went of to Crawley town centre, to gain items for a raffle. We were both surprised at the generosity from some of the stores, especially boots! A few of the random objects included a casserole dish, a fish tank and a radio!

Fundraising so far....

This weekend I have been very busy, on Friday and Saturday I went to my local scout hut and spent the two days washing and cleaning it. The hut had not been washed for about five years they told me, and i was absolutely caked in mud! Luckily I had the help of six other scouts and their parents. We were exhausted after the first day, I had glossed the doors, washed and painted the hut. The adults were working in the kitchen and about half way through the first day, they found a squirrel burrow behind the sink, the whole kitchen was covered in grease and mold, disgusting! We'd worked so hard, that we got to go home early on the second day after painting the outside toilets. It was a lot of hard work, but well worth the £50 in the end! This weekend i am car washing, i have just had practice from washing mum's car. I am also collecting for a raffle in the near future, I am going to drop of my letters to the local shops tomorrow.

Watch this space for updates!

Young leader

The cubs and i created a shelter.

I think we were creating spinners in this photo.

On our half term camp in 2010, i had a quick go at archery.

errr..... Well mixing explorers and a muddy campsite is NOT a good idea.

Just various scouting photos

At district camp last year, we made a bridge. I got to test run it first.

This was taken at the annual 4th worth group camp, in summer 2009. At this point on the camp, some ducks from the pond were after my bread!

This is the freezing camp i went to in early January 2010. The camp involved archery, rock climbing and of course sledging.
The highlight of the camp was going down a steep slope, with five other explorer scouts on a kayak. We stupidly decided to guide the kayak over the snow jump, resulting in all of us off the kayak and on the floor.

Duke of Edinburgh

Here i am on my bronze duke of Edinburgh. My bag was so heavy, as we had to carry our tent, food, trangia, first aid kit and spare clothes. We walked 15 miles, with our back packs. The route we took was through the south downs, we planned and prepared this ourselves.