Escaping to the Hill at the weekend to drink alcohol, sing songs and dance a bit (aka Soton Rally).
But to prepare myself for this we did our bit for GGUK PR by going to JDW (Fratton) after Brownies on Tuesday .. the darlings have been so manic that we’ve not actually had a chance to sort out some leadership team bits (ie getting our now pre-warrant Guider and still just YL sort for mentors (the DC not having completed the forms when she should, I have them now as a mentor so we’re doing them direct!).

As well as what we’re going to do following District Meeting fallout (a large mushroom cloud appeared over the subject of the County PH), only Kestrel was there so she knew at a 10:1 ratio she was on a loosing battle with the rest of them. The crux of it was that as the kids are staying in chalets they were getting all in a tiss about safety so weren’t going to participate (despite it being run by the County PH, who I know from experience of doing things with her wouldn’t have even got this far if she had concerns about safety). Admittedly our unit has some insider info on this sort of set up courtesy of my mum as she took her Brownies to Funtasia (when LASER took over Bognor Butlins), as the Unit Guider (aka my old Brown Owl) was organising the whole thing. In the words of the district meeting mushroom cloud "the only people who will take their girls are ones that don’t care about them". Oh dear looks like we’re be annoying them as we’re still going as we’re happy with the set up as we trust our Brownies (and of course tell them the ground rules before and when they arrive for their own safety).

Mind you the platters X2 were rather yummy to eat while discussing all the stuff we wanted to get sorted is, our pre-warrant Guider is happier after the initial shock of seeing my mentor copy of the Leadership programme, and we came to the conclusion that the last place you’d see the moany Guiders would be the pub after Brownies in full uniform drinking alcohol! (My alcoholic drink of choice was a pitcher of Monster reef Coctail (sic) …v. yummy). Oh what a jolly, friendly and social lot our leadership team is (and the only other lot like this are the Guide Guiders our Brownies feed into).