Those most familiar with this blog know a part of it is actually about me and dealing an injustice from my parents that was explained at the beginning of this blog.
It's that which set it aside from any 'vintage' scouting blog apart from the fact I also blog about scouting today for today's young people.
Rewinding the clock to what is the third entry around Awards, the first and guiding principal of my having awards is: Had I of been in membership, would I of qualified for and shown the proficiency of award set at the time?
That's because my having the badges today is just that - compensatory awards - for the failure to invest me but in saying that I have to have shown evidence I could of achieved them by my own merit.
No badge should ever be disrespected by taking the attitude "I have it because I want it" because they are Earned and so in other settings I need to Earn them to own them.
That's because I'm a Wolf Cub in spirit and I obey The Law.
In 1977, the year of the Queens Silver Jubilee I studied the life of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth and took part in events to mark twenty-five years of her reign. I would by that point of moved on to Scouts as indeed my older brother had and I did help him.
In the 1980's computing started to come in, I used computers at school and had an early home computer too which I had learned to write short programs for and bash out long ones from magazines.
There's little doubt had I of been a cub in this era, I too would been awarded it.
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