Anniversaries

 

A couple of weeks ago we marked five years of Squirrels, born during Covid, forty years of Beavers  for six to eight year olds and a massive One Hundred and Ten years of Cubs with a special badge being issued.

Each program dovetails into each other as you learn new skills and have exciting experiences as you get older in the Scouts family.

Recovering walk

 While there are possibilities of temperature drops and even snow in the next few days I did get out for a walk although I needed my walking stick having some issues with my left leg yesterday which made getting about difficult.

Sometimes you just have to make the effort and get yourself slowly moving again.

Remembrance Day

 

Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday and tomorrow is Armistice Day, the actual day when thank goodness W.W.1. ended, not that sadly all that loss of life prevented us having yet another.

We mark it for reason that are as much about our contribution in the wider Scouting community for what scouts and former scouts contributed, our losses as paying our respects for those who died fighting for our freedoms and liberties in our country and beyond.

We will remember those who give their lives and those while surviving carried the cost.

A riot of colour

 

Autumn leaves in all their magnificance taken in South Staffordshire a few days ago.

Spooky crafts

 

I was away across the weekend where we celebrated halloween in style playing games, having fun and here are two Jack o' Lanterns we made together lit by tea lights which is why there's a hole on the top.

I'm quite sure many beavers, cubs and scounts tok part in similar activities this weekend.

1,250th post

As this goes out, I should be just back from a weekend away that has more in common with a cubs Halloween Weekend in lots of ways and it does take a bit out of me as much as I enjoy it.

Conkers were always a part of that time first time around before goggles and health and saftey restricted the games we payed establishing who thad the strongest conker and this was one I found recently and taken practising my manual focussing skills as with high magnifications the area front and back of the subject get less sharp and so you're trying to keep the object in focus and less that backdrop.

Photography was and is a thing when it comes to Gaining an Award and a badge in Scouts even if the sorts of camera we might use have changed beyond recognition in the intervening years

And things around modern scouting is what we talk about here as much as both what I do today inspired by that and we look at scouting as we recall it from our own childhood pasts from those early posts in 2018 to now.

It may vary from week to week but that's the focus so we're celebrating the 1,250th post here today.

All is reflected

 

Framing.

There are ways you may of photographed this scene, front facing, straight on from the side but for me using the foliage to to frame the scene with the reflections caught seemed to me to the be better bet, giving you the emotional feel on a cool autumn morning.