Post 1000

Today we are marking a very special day in the life of this blog, one that I have to admit did rather creep up upon me.

In 2018 I started a Tumbr blog after a few issues we've little reason to return to that had a fairly distinct focus around Scouting and related activities after finding I was posting more around that and that much to do with it played a big part in being the kind of boy I am.

These things were interwoven into my life and as time moved on I began to find refocussing on what I valued the most from that time and even revisiting chunks was to prove very valuable in moving past some issues I was facing in my pesonal life because the values and what you learned were in may ways the medicine I needed to get better.

Around 2020 that Tumblr blog that was the start of all this disappeared in mysterious circumstances but by good fortune I had started the expanded version here on Blogger that survived all of that as much as I had survived Covid recovering from being seriously ill aided by scouting apart from the many issues many in society included children and young people had from that whole era.

I got more involved in funding scouts as we'd been affected very much both operationally and especially financially by covid and our national leaders understood as I discovered myself we needed more scouting to help those children and young people affected apart from transmitting those time honoured lessons and skills that would benefit them as they moved on in life.

I faced some of my biggest fears and physical disabilities managing to climb up the walls with support  exploring this castle, go on hikes and get up steep hills.

Going through this was transformative.

On this blog we looked at some of those things in modern day scouting because it's no retro blog, nor is it focused on uniforms as much as you might be interested in and at the time desired it for what you were about to become.

The "and me" side looked at what I was doing being in spirit at least that Wolf Cub, being challenged, learning new things, overcoming fears and restrictions (and fear can be restrictive).

It is a good day to renew that Promise.