Cubbery of my generation

This blog shares a general trait with That Uniformed Schoolboy which is that it looks back at past boyhoods in scouting and similar boys youth organizations and also forward the needs of boys today as they met by those organizations in our time and in inspiring me today.
Thus it's neither a nostalgia trip of the past nor is it just about the here and now but that said I do talk about that past as it was important to me and my generation.

Much of my school-age boyhood went though the nineteen-seventies and early nineteen-eighties and running alongside that was Cubs at Junior School as a few years before Wolf Cubs had been removed and Scouts at High School that my mates were very much a part of

While it is right to be focused on the Cub Scout program rather than uniforms nontheless it was that uniform you wanted because it was a sign of belonging, of being a cub so putting it on remains a strong memory with you.
The green jersey increasingly got festooned with your award badges and as was the convention at the time you wore school shorts and long socks with green garters to hold them up
lt was no surprise this was the catalyst when I first started age regression toward being and presenting as the eternal boy I am

You often went away although this place isn't so far from me being in the Peak District and if I am not mistaken that farm is in  North-East Staffordshire having hiked up there.
Such experiences are core childhood memories for me .

The sense of belonging to your pack is so telling in this period as they all rest on the bench and those bonds still remain important to this day, the cornerstone of life-long friendships.

This cub leader is no doubt very proud of how her Cubs have turned out looking extremely smart

On parade with the bigger boys in Scouts who you looked up to.