Introducing Rangers

Rangers in Girlguiding are children aged 14 to 18 who meet to hang out, learn new skills, and take part in adventures as they move towards womanhood.

What Rangers Do.

Activities and Badges: Members work on interest badges, skills builders, and top awards like the Ranger Gold Award or the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. 

Leadership and Volunteering: Many Rangers act as Young Leaders, helping run units for younger sections like Rainbows, Brownies, or Guides. 

Travel and Adventure: The section offers local meetups, UK trips, international travel, and outdoor camps. 

Community Action: Girls make a difference by supporting local causes, speaking out on issues they care about, or joining advocacy panels. 

Apart from all of that you hang out together and have fun!

Girlguides core principles

 

As a Guide, members strive to follow these core values:

Respect yourself and others.

Be considerate, honest, and trustworthy.

Be friendly to others.

Make choices for a better world.

Use your time and abilities wisely.

Be thoughtful, optimistic, and live with courage and strength

Alternative uses

 

In former industrial areas, there are often legacies that can be spotted even if the buildings such as many of the former Salt Mines themselves were either demolished or sank beneath the ground.

Here we have the trackbead of the railway that served the salt mines along the Wheelock Rail Trail that would link up to the old North Staffordshire Railway line bringing the salt to the potteries, very much as it was with just the track taken up.

Today people walk it in relative peace and tranquility going around farmland.

The whole route to Ettiley Heath is link to salt.

Out!

 

Roses are a strong memory with me, Grandad was a keen amateur gardener and frequently grow them from cuttings and in this recent extreme weather these two have done well just around a modern housing development locally.

Resting

 

Not the best of starts to the week with a really bad migraine that hasn't completely shifted in three days which isn't new with me as I has this as a child affecting school attendence unless it started in school in which instance I'd be responsibility of the School Nurse and put in the Sick Bay.

It tended to cut into those organized activities too so no guess my mind has been more focused on those times and how I looked as that helps keeping the spirits up.

It came out!

 

It has to be said the recent heatwave weather conditions haven't been kind to any living thing human or natural this survived fairly well.

Taken on the Sony DCS RX 100, it shows the advantage in being able to set the aperture by hand and through that throw the background out of focus so only what we want in focus is.

Eclipse and adventures

On Wednesday we had a Solar Eclipse of the Sun, the sort of thing that no doubt would appeal to many Cub, Scout, Brownie and Girl Guide. 

Certainly at that age space and astronomy were things that interested me at that time and Scouting has for a good while had badges connected with Space.

Recently Mr Socks at the UR Forum made this little cartoon based around the adventures of group of Cubs out exploring where upon they encounter the eclipse.

Their reactions are so realistic.