Confession time: were you a cub/scout/beaver/brownie etc?

[Clothes Peg]

Look like im not going to be able to steam in and impress YOU then

Drawing on all the knowledge I have. RAF regiment is all Male. You're the tough guys and your stripes are blue and pinky red verticle with a white/silver line in the middle

Am I vaguely close?

I judge people in uniform by the shine on their shoes.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

I was a Brownie and a Guide - was one of the last people to get a Baden-Powell Award before the system changed (Got the award the night before!!)

 

[Rowdey]

was cub in 54th brighton (lower bevendean), .

*SHOCK*.. so was i..!!
Did also move up to the Scouts too, which coincidently led to my dad running away with the wife of another Scout..

Certainly learnt Canoing, Tent pitching..(snigger..)
how to use a compass (Orienteering isn't it?) and how to steal all the nice stuff from the jumble collection before anyone else got to see it..

Anyone else get to do the yearly parade down to the Dome ?

 

[Yorkie]

I was a Brownie when we lived in Brighton but we moved to Portslade so couldn't get in the Brownie pack there because there was a waiting list. I then joined the Girls Life Brigade (as it was called in those days)

I must have like uniforms as I joined the WRNS at 18.

 

[dougdeep]

Not me.

 

[Nobby's Betamax Video]

I was a cub & rose to the heady heights of a "Sixer" before I bailed out when I hit puberty & realised that the scouting movement did not satisfy my "be in the presence of girls but not know what to do with them" quota.

Dib, dib, dob dob.

My son is already in the Beavers at age 6. I'm OK with that, just as long as he's using protection.

 

[Frutos]

Not me.

Any truth to the rumour that the reason for your non-participation in such events was because Baden-Powell wasn't even born when you were young enough to be eligible?

 

[dougdeep]

Any truth to the rumour that the reason for your non-participation in such events was because Baden-Powell wasn't even born when you were young enough to be eligible?

Untrue, I was too busy playing football and cricket and tennis and golf and rugby and hockey and stuff.

 

[Willow]

I passed up though the cub and scout ranks of the 42nd Brighton. I gave it away when David Ketley was promoted to Patrol Leader ahead of me, despite being a year my junior . I stayed at home and watched Blake's 7 instead.

 

[Pigsy]

I was in the Woodcraft folk

 

[junior]

I was in the Woodcraft folk

The WHAT?!

 

[Shegull]

Cub, Scout, Cub leader at various times. Fairly hefty amount of badges at the two lower levels and a lovely scar from a tent collapse incident at the latter

8th Kildare, for those that give a f***. Sixer at both cubs and scouts. The I discovered alcohol

And got a real life.

Brownie then a guide

My kids were all beavers but there again over here the beavers are the equivilent of cubs over there ........... if you get what I mean

 

[Horsham Gull]

Beaver,cub and scout at 1st Cowfold

 

[Jesus Gul]

was a cub at the 2nd Brighton which was crap and enforced by the folks. Then joined the scouts at 4th Brighton which was ace as the guys who ran it never bothered with the religious crap but were well into their jollies - Holland on an exchange with the Bilthoven scouts and a trip into the 'Dam bowling around the red light district in our uniforms drinking grolsh aged 13 was a memory that particularly stands out

 

[Curious Orange]

I enjoyed the Scouts, and was in the 18th Dorking (North Holmwood) Scout Troop. I rose to the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader for the Wolves Patrol!!

 

[Lawro's Lip]

1st Hassocks for me

Me too but long long ago....

 

[Beach Hut]

Cubs then scouts

 

[Col P]

NTC

 

[Mrs Coach]

God no! I was thrown out of Sunday School after just one week for eating the crayons. No way I'd submit any of the Lil' Coaches to it either - there's football to be played and homework to be done! lol!

 

[cheshunt seagull]

A cub: 1st Darling Point Sydney, 1968.

Possibly the most inept recruit they ever had, failed all my badge tests; even correctly using a payphone.