Introduction

 All blogs start somewhere and this one does go back a long way although it is only in recent years I've began to explore more that past and what it means to me.

This blogger had a boyhood that in respects was fairly conventional of the period, mixing more with other children specifically boys at Playgroup before moving to Infant School which in this part of the district was combined in at the time was an inadequate Victorian school building with Juniors.

That was where we played at playtimes, acted up in class and learned things about each other as we got to grips with school life and learned of what sorts of groups outside of school each other belong to.

That was where I first learned of Scouts but as I will talk about later on there was a brick wall in the least expected of places with that at the time.

Time moves on, school to school to college eventually but while some aspects of life did change not uncommonly, a good many others given my disabilities did not so I remained this hybrid mixture and the interest I had in revisiting those areas that had helped in managing that, learning more life skills lead me to looking more at Scouting as an inspiration beyond the normal age structures as a way of making more of a life in a way that was a good fit for me.