Hello all, on the 1st of August I went with J-W by train to Woking to see a friend of ours, Jo.  From her place we went by car to a place called Windsor which has peanut shaped roundabouts.  We got the tents up had lunch and then went looking for Bears and Rails (J-W here, Bears Rails is a scout camp site 15 minutes walk across the Great Park, is in the part of the park where the Bears were kept).

When we signed in I showed my WSJ pass, as you had to show offical  scout or guide ID.

Saw a load of the Gojamboree members and some new friends.  We were meant to have been doing Archery, which means we would have been with three other people who were instructors at Essex08 last year.  We were short of staff so we ended up on the shooting range.  I got to coach Mary from the Gojam lot, and had a go myself, and no it was not me who shot J-W that was an Archery Instructor!  We made friends with people from Denmark, Canada and the USA.  If you went to Bears by minibus, you had to wave your pass at the guards on the camp site gates.  At first I and the ducks hid, but later in the week we got waved not the passes.

On the last day J-W had a nice 2 to three mile jog around the Great Park looking for lost Scouts, whilst eating his lunch.   We scared up about 2 Pheasant, 8 Partridge and were followed by 50 or more Red Deer.  That was a bit scary.

We traded for a lot of badges.   Last two days the weather was helping to clean the tents, so we did the shooting from inside the tents which meant we could only use 13 not 14 shooting points.  The ducks were helping on the outdoor cooking and the archery.  We got back after the jog on the last day to find two of the ducks sitting on the heads of the archery instuctors.  One of the ducks was still on a head in the evening.

We camped for a total of seven nights.  So I am up to 99 nights away. JUST 1 MORE FOR MY NEXT BADGE!!!!!!