The older scout

A group of older scouts in Germany looking very smart in their more traditional uniform while talking to each other with the wide brimmed bush hat which is straight out of Scouting For Boys steeped in B-P's own adventures that lead to it.

Thee sense each boy is at ease with each other is telling.

Winter Mountain Time

Original source:Winter Shorts Fan

While it's unseasonably warm and breezy here this morning, it isn't unknown for it to snow especially in more mountainous parts or even our steepest hills so while out scouting I too would be in shorts in the snow and they certainly look fine in it.

Sometimes I do feel we project rather more into how we should dress while outdoors than is really called for.

Seasonal renewals

As I have been been able to be outdoors with this damaged ankle one thing I noticed was the annual growths on these trees nearby in an area of subsidence in the middle of the built up patch.

One advantage of having this patch is you often see birds and  grey squirrels moving between the trees just making the way to the local amenities.

Putting your back into it

Scouts digging holes for planting which is something I remember doing around their age usually around spring but all depends on what you're planning to grow and this looks to be a patch of woodland not unlike here adjacent to a housing development.

Learning to do this and monitoring their developments are a good thing to be doing.

Cubs beyond these shores

Source: norlington3 Additional processing by me.

Scouting extends beyond the United Kingdom even when it the basic forms are the same as the British Isles is more than the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but covers politically independent islands such as the Isle of Man.

The Isle of Man has its history, a language of its own Manx based on Gallic even if English is the main spoken language and elements of modern culture hold as much to that of Lancashire in the adjacent English North-west enjoying ties while being very much its own country.

I am not sure if it is that these Cubs Scouts in a picture taken in 1970 on the Island are actually Cubs Scouts from there or if they may of been visitors from a troop in the North West of England as tourism is a big thing  but they look like the post 1967 cub scouts I recall as a child here in Staffordshire.

Wheeled outdoor fun

The second post of the year and what we're looking at is more unstructured enjoyment of boys in the outdoors than things like Scouting, The Boys Brigade or Woodland Folk which really the mainstay of this blog.

Here the boys have rigged together a go kart chassis from wood with smaller diameter wheels and at the rear added a rod for both steering it and for other boys to provide the power by pushing it.

The great thing is apart from the engineering skills they've used is they are undertaking exercise in the outdoors, taking in what is around them but in a way that is enjoyable which given the problems we have with boys and girls being stuck on smartphones and gaming is a very good thing. 

Renewing the Promise and Law

Today is the first day of the New Year so it falls to me to renew  the Wolf Cub Promise.

"I promise to Do My Best.
To do my duty to God, and to the Queen,
To keep the Law of the Wolf Cub Pack,

and to do a good turn to somebody every day."

The Wolf Cub Law is...

"The Cub gives in to the Old Wolf.

The Cub does not give in to himself."

Our Motto is "Do Your Best

I undertake to keep the Promise and uphold the Law Jan 1, 2020 
Signed Christopher Rigby