Prepping for Brexit thread

DigForVictory

Currently I am prepping for Brexit via the General Election & the almost inevitable cold.

So I brewed up a sack of ginger into cordial (really must plant the nubbins with green points, though in the current subzero I need to bring a growbag in to defrost!) and have swept a couple of paracetamol stashes (with a glance).

Quite how you add a chunk of honeycomb to a restorative brew, I don't know, but I've been given a bit of honeycomb & no instructions. I shall end up lopping chunks off, adding it to hot drinks & peering dubiously at the washing up...

unrecordings

ah - i'm assuming you mean proper honeycomb including the wax ?

to get the runny stuff, it has to go through a centrifuge (very messy apparently).

Maybe a sieve or something ?

DigForVictory

I don’t think it includes a bee but within the plastic there is definitely comb holding wax. A centrifuge? Messy? Eyes teenager & bag for life, pondering...

No, better - Scouts! One (divided down) sticky lump each & “go for it!”, then possibly wipe the bag with bread rolls... off to ponder risk assessment.

Despite the Be Prepared motto, I got this unhappy little email
“We have frozen badge prices for several years and subsidised the rising costs of production to avoid passing these on to you, our members and customers.

However due to unavoidable external factors like the weakening exchange rate of sterling, the cost pressures have increased to a point where we need to make a small increase in the price of badges.
From 2 January 2020, badge prices will increase by an average of 5p. We have kept this increase as low as we possibly can. We understand that price rises will never be popular and we can assure you we have not taken this decision lightly.”

Just think of all the badges you accumulate from age 6 (Beaver scouts) on up to explorers (14+) - that’s going to put a dent in all Scout finances...

ivyleaf

Sorry to read about the price rise for badges DfV, but am very amused at the mental picture of a teenager whizzing round and round while clutching a bag for life with honeycomb in it

DigForVictory

I am So Tempted to suggest it as a new Christmas Party Game... Just how you then get the honey into the Scouts is the sticky bit. (Sorry.)

We play "swing the sock" - where someone spins a beanbag on a rope & if you get tagged below the knee you're out. If you get bumped above the knee, then whomever's swinging usually needs a break & (if we're all really unlucky) an accident form.

Says she with some feeling having nearly decapitated a young Scout & then proceeded to swirl into a wall. The District Commissioner, stood watching, said after she had nearly wet herself laughing, so no formal paperwork was called for. The victim scout was amongst the first to check *I* was OK, bless him!

unrecordings

Okay I'll admit it. I was once a scout. First troop was far too martial for my liking, and the bean bag game involved an effing sandbag. So the next troop was the one (tenuously) attached to my school. Once one of the larger troops in the city, now more akin to the Roman 9th Legion. The school had nicked our canoes long ago, but we still had our stone built stores packed with WWII surplus equipment, tools & Niger tents. At our peak there were three of us, and rather than bashing each other with sticks and practising marching we did more worldly pursuits like hiking (or more meandering around the Peak District, setting fire to things and learning how to fly (without the aid of a sandbag on the end of a rope).

DigForVictory

Far too martial? You had to practice marching? (Every parade, I think perhaps we should.)

Our lot have a reputation for being a bit of a handful [with inevitable injuries to body & spirit] but they keep coming back to see what we're doing next whereas other night's scouts just fade away.

Really seems to bug the higher ups that while we do not do exactly as perhaps we should, we routinely loose the delicate blossoms to other nights as they can't handle the rambunctiousness, and we have a gruesomely pragmatic approach to things, we're packed to the seams.

unrecordings

DigForVictory wrote: »

Far too martial? You had to practice marching? (Every parade, I think perhaps we should.)

Our lot have a reputation for being a bit of a handful [with inevitable injuries to body & spirit] but they keep coming back to see what we're doing next whereas other night's scouts just fade away.

Really seems to bug the higher ups that while we do not do exactly as perhaps we should, we routinely loose the delicate blossoms to other nights as they can't handle the rambunctiousness, and we have a gruesomely pragmatic approach to things, we're packed to the seams.

The first troop was pretty much stuck in the church hall every week, second troop, worse case scenario stuck in the school gym so we could at least use the ropes etc. I think the less regimented the better, but that was just my preference. Learned next to nothing at the first troop

DigForVictory

Not sensing you had a Balanced Program to follow at the first troop - these days we plan like heck, and have Risk Assessments for (almost) everything. Hence the demise of our beloved Bob a Job - we couldn’t meet safeguarding & risk assessment challenges. Doesn’t stop us trying to do community stuff but it’s much harder & it seems really only teachers understand Why. Parents etc - nope.

My lot still get flak from things not going to plan but we work with the scouts we have & a couple are on the spectrum (love scouting, not so keen on people) as well as several ferocious bright difficult to keep focused sparks.

Means we have to multistrand plans, so some can have extra time, or support - not exactly easy as some scouts get ideas faster than others & you just can’t predict right all of the time!

unrecordings

DigForVictory wrote: »

Not sensing you had a Balanced Program to follow at the first troop

Was anything balanced in the 1970's ?