Life & Memories

A busy weekend, but back to the slog…

Saturday was spent at a very long SAGGA committee meeting. Whilst its rather a social thing, it is an awfully long drive up from the south coast to them. Hence this time I utilised a floor at the host’s abode on the Friday night so I didn’t 6 hours of driving in one day on my own. So some catch up time occurred with CMT & Master A (ooh that’ll annoy Auntie Anna tonight ;)). Braved the cold and hit Lufbra market (and a Fair Trade Fayre). Card for Brownie xmas craft & part of a xmas pressie obtained, as well as some mittens for Master A purchased we headed back for the meeting. There’s times when I wonder is it really worth a minimum of 6 hours driving for a meeting? Particularly like on Friday night when I had no enthusiasm for a meeting the following day.

At least Sunday had some quality time with Dr T (including the purchase of some local beer at the Farmer’s Market); and carressing of a new sarnie maker in Robert Dyas (Dr T said no …. it’s bigger than the one it’d replace). I’m still being tempted to have a slight diversion on the bus to Southsea.

Tonight we’re being social over in Southampton, with a quiz night for GOLD trips to Bangladesh & Honduras which SAGS members are going on soon. It’s the last Bangladesh trip as the project is completed. It brings a tinge of sadness to me as I gained so much love for Bangladesh as a Country (along with its mighty fine curry house chefs in the UK, Balti Express I love you!) when I went there as a member of the first trip for the project. Also the knowledge that the members of BGGA have gained much over the years. It’ll be good to hear how the members we met have changed and flourished (particularly one of the admin members of HQ who found out she was expecting a baby when we were there, she got her wished for girl … who’s now about 4.5years!). Bangladesh is a wonderful country and BGGA gave us a wonderful insight into life in a country that is so colourful and vibrant. The Guiders and Rangers we trained were so enthusiastic and friendly it made it a pleasure to get them excited about Guiding and where they wanted their country’s Guiding to go in the future (we were doing Guiding Development). I still have memories of a group of younger Guiders playing a Brownie game with the same determination as my own Brownies do (and that they were allowed to be silly and childish for once). I’d love to return to the country, but I don’t think it would be the same without the BGGA members. We have the 2000 group meet up at curry house in a couple of weeks (as the 2005 group head out), and you know I’m sure we’ll have a toast to GOLD and BGGA! (Hmm time to reminisce as I scan some photos for the scrapbook of all the trips that the 2005 group are planning to take out).