22nd WSJ
Topic: Record

The WSJ is now well over, so I can now add up the nights away!

 So over all the weather was very british, but more so.  The nights were warmer and the sun did not like going to bed, like some of the IST.

J-W eat more fish than he does in most months put together.

I saw one of the Go-jam bugs and quite a few mooses.  I dodged the White tailed eagles which had a nest  on the far side of the bus road.  There were nice flowers in the fields and butterflies which did not sit still enough for J-W to id them or get a photo.

J-W was not impressed with the credit card thing you were forced to use to pay for things.  It was near impossible to find kiosks which took cash, and  the cards are slower to do than cash, as were credit  cards.  Also it took hours to get cash put onto the cards in the bank.  There was no way of securing the cards, so J-W had to try not to loss his.

 I saw Charlie* get given her Queen's Guide Award.   Also Larry in J-W's Patrol got to the Jamboree ok, but his bag never did get there.

I liked the tower in the middle of the site, I just need to talk Graham at Bentley into building one like it.  Went up it twice, and got a photo of me and Charlie*.

I'm going to go through J-W's badges tonight.

Also the pin badge I was testing for J-W , I'm keeping it as mine now.

14 nights away, making  a total of 144 nights.

Hello more sun shine by the truck load and a half today, it is so sunny they are giving the roads water to drink all the time!

We wroted some postcards we bought yesterday.  We just need to find some stamps now, as there were none yesterday.

We went to the beach today and watched the Explorers throw each other in and get planted in the beach!

J-W says no way is he taking an army armoured bull dozer home for Cabbage.  We are off soon to do more IST experience things.  Last night this helicopter kept coming over us and we could not hear anyone else.

Lots of sun all day, J-W's washing dried in under 25 minutes this morning!

J-W was riding around on bicycles delivering water today. I was in his day bag, but some scout decided to pour the water not into his bottle but J-W's bag.  So I have had a bath on camp!  Weather has been hot all day but I'm still wet!  J-W had to replay the crank and pedal on his bicycle as the pedal came loose.

We saw Mary and her contingent today.  We took Charlie* up the tower.

 J-W will be writing tomorrow as he has finally been able to buy post cards, but no stamps!

You should have seen the size of the cricket I was talking to today.  J-W got photos, I was thinking about trying to ride it.

If the weather is ok tomorrow we may go to the coast on our day off.

More Jambo

More rain on top of rain on top of sand and rain.

Today and some of yesterday were sunny and hot.  Today people were finally lining up to go to the beach.

J-W rod a bike today giving out water, and in a van yesterday moving equipment.  We saw Beacky to talk to and hug, also saw Scotland but could not stop.  We have also been up the large tower and swapped some badges.  Two days in a row with full shifts done.

5th day of 22nd WSJ.

Right J-W says no counting nights away until end of camp.

Looks like the weather came with us on the hairy plane. Yesterday rained most of day.

First day we travelled to Heathrow and waited in a hot buildong for 2.5hours.  Saw Bert and rest of one of the Surrey units and the Channel Isles lot who were late and swapped with another unit. Guensey airport had been attacked by fog.

Got a coach at 11:45pm from the airport after getting off the plane thing.  When over a bridge in the dark.  I did not tell J-W that the coach was on the wrong side of the road!

J-W had the tent up at 3:00am, but had to move to another pitch next morning.

We got to go round the site and learn to be a patrol with foreign Scouters.  We then went round the three hubs as J-W needs to know them for his job.  J-W got sun burn.

Next day J-W swapped to job of other half of team and got to play in a wheel chair all day, from 9 to 9!  Had swedish meat balls for tea!  Also J-W lost his woggle whilst doing his only wheelchair push.

Yesterday we went in the rain by coach to the town to clear the warehouse of packing cases.  I directed J-W's pushing of the trollies and then his climbing into the square waste containers to load them.  We finished at lunch time, so came home and got to look at the swedish houses.  J-W then did his sewing.

Today we have been helping on a subcamp building thinks, we now have long break as have to work this evening, helping move people with special needs.

We only have half hour on the PC, so I'm going to let J-W have a go.

 

This key board is fun, it has extra keys, öäå¨, and others where the ones I use are normaly.

 

Jamboree!!!!!!
Mood:  happy

Ok J-W let me know that it is just one week until we go to the 22nd World Scout Jamboree.  Now I have a problem in that J-W has filled the bag, and I still have to pack!  I will try to get J-W to help do up dates from the Jamboree which will be held near Kristianstad in Sweden.  We will be going to Denmark by plane and then going by coach to Sweden over a large bridge.  Now J-W says I get confused easily, but even I think this is strange and a weird way to get to a country.

I'm testing one of J-W's pin badges with the UK contingent log on it, as it is the right size to fit on my camp blanket.

24th to 26th June 2011, Scoutabout 2011.
J-W's mum was meant to be with us at Scoutabout, but J-W's dad was ill and so Maddy stayed to make sure the dog was looked after ok.

We had to travel down with the Shalford Scouts, and then we were camping with the rest of the Guildford East District. J-W was a bit upset as we were on a different zone to normal and the loos were a way a way. This was no problem to me, and it means it should have been quieter overnight.

The scouts did not go to sleep until somewhere after one and were awake at four. Some of the Shalford lot got put on washing up for being noisy.

We saw scouts who we have backpacked with, and been to Switzerland with. Also we found the Jamboree Units, who were camping away from the 4.5 thousand Scouts and Guides. I saw some of the other IST. Jo made me a new woggle. We were working with the Archery team from 3rd Morsley again. We were joined by two other archery leaders, so we were able to get a bit of time off, and had no trouble going for breaks. J-W did the instruction for most of the lefties and the disabled kids. Some how it got foggy overnight, and the activity area disappeared. We still had to do the Sunday morning activities. The instructors on the climbing tower were using water pistols to stay cool and have fun.

2 nights away, making 130 nights away.

20th to 22nd May 2011, AAW at Gilwell.
Topic: Record

AAW is the All Adult Weekend, which is where all the oldy's like J-W who are going to the Jamboree got togoether to be told things and to have a party.  Lots of my Go-jam friends were there, including Rainbow Dave whos legs keep getting really long and then shrink again.  Had fun on the trains with missing stations and then the signals having a holiday.  We were camping with the White Lion and the Unit Leaders who he looks after.  Got J-W to get me more badges and a knecker.  Which he says is his, but I talked to Mary and she will do me a new one.  Got a hug from Becky, who is still cute!  Saw Jo from Woking with her purple camo tent.

There was a massive big top tent, as the humans need something big enough to hold about 700 bodies and be able to see a screen for the video's.  Saw some leaders from the Channel Isle, who know the Explorers we camped with at the Essex Jambo.  They had not heard that they arrived on site in a police car!  J-W had to explain that one to them.  They had flagged the cops down for directions, and got given a lift instead.

We had a go on different bits of the underground on the way home, and had a go on a slow train from a funny staion up on a load of arches.  J-W's been puting the badges in a plastic book thing to stop me drooling all over the badges.

Two more nights away. So 128 in total.

Family Camp 2011. 13-15th May 2011.
Topic: Record

J-W decided to be healthy and cycle to this years Family Camp for 1st Shalford Scout Group.  We got about half a mile across the village, when the rear wheel rim split open.  So J-W had to push the bike home, and get a lift off of his mum.  we were a bit later than planned.

We were at Garner's Field near Tilford Surrey.  We were in the large Jamboree tent.

The Families did not turn up until the Saturday morning.  J-W and Emma were runing the prone shooting, this seems to be perfect for scouts as they get to lay down and shoot.  It also helped when I was instructing as the shooters were now down where I could see them eye to eye.  There was a very long winded Cuckoo around the site.  It started calling about 04:30 and was still calling when it got dark.

 

2 more nights away, 126 in total.  New Badge time.

New Forest Again.
Topic: Record

18th to 20th April.

The yearly backing trip to the New Forest was a bit late this year, I thought J-W had forgotten, but it was just that Easter is running late this year.  We had three changes of train this year on the way down.  It was hot about 20 to 22 degrees and dry.  J-W had shorts on and no gaters.  We saw deer, lizards, tadpoles and lots and lots of wood ants.  We had to give directions to some lost cyclists and also saw the same group of girls from Richmond two days running.   Jeffcame with J-W on the second day and walked J-W's legs off with a 15 km walk to a pond to find there was no Icecream van there.

J-W took his new jamboree water bottle and had dented it by the time we got to Ashurst!

 

2 more nights away, making 124.