It's hardly surprising then as Britons we make castles as either models or indeed on the beach during our childhood holidays often adding a moat for good measure.
I think it'll be another two to three weeks before the autumn colours bring forth here looking around the local park and play area but you can see the impact of the hot dry spell on things quite clearly and why climate change is very much a hot issue presently.
The autumn may be coming earlier even if "officially" we're in the autumn months as these berries are out ready for our feathered friends to consume and His Nutkin was seen leaping across the burial grounds of one local church one day last week trying to find a spot to bury his hidden treasure for Spring.
Scouts contribution was formally recognized at the end of WW2 apart from individual contributions where awards were issued and rightly so as it all helped this Country survive and from that free Europe from the scourge of Nazism.
Things are different today, thank goodness but we're helping to make things better, saving lives, training the next generation to ensure we can look after each other.
Scouts do things in extra ordinary times and non so than during both World Wars and here durng WW2 where food was in short supply and men were generally called for Military Service, scouts assisted in growing food, preparing plots of any usable size such this outside a teaching hospital.
Something that stands out, that you wear with pride and are encouraged to keep in good shape on you as well as off.
Just branding leisure wear with Scout Logo's just doesn't give the right impression.
Nobody wants children and young people to be apprehensive but given we do have a uniform I really don't see what's wrong with the odd inspection, handled sensitively, so everybody is looking smart and looking smart still matters in much of society.
In time of course much reorganization happened although parts were over time reversed but looking at pictures of troops between the decades you can see the slide in standards.
