Mood:  bright
Topic: Record
7th to 9th April 2006. 2 nights, Ferny Crofts with Cub Scouts from Childon and Shalford.
10th to 12th April 2006. 2 nights, New Forest Backing with 46 Scouts.

Total 20 nights away.
J-W has had to change the badges on my camp blanket.
Well you try sewing when you have no fingers.

Backpacking
Mood:  lazy
Ok who's idea was it to go back packing the day after the camping with the Cubs. I was half asleep and J-W's legs were not working quite right. Also he had to reload his bag with different bits and pieces. Why do humans have to take all of this food stuff? My total equipment list, was my camp blanket, and a pocket to ride in.
We had to take 46 Scouts and 8 other leaders with us.
We went by train down to the New Forest and spent the first night at the same camp site, and the second at the Guide National Training Centre. Had rain for half of the second day. Some of the scouts seemed to like lying down in the boggy bits, I'm not sure why.

Easter Holidays
Mood:  not sure
7th Friday to the 9th Sunday, April 2006.
Camping with 18 Cub Scouts from two packs, at Ferny Crofts in the New Forest, Hampshire, England.
Well I got to sleep in with J-W in his tent, I did not have to go in with the Cubs, like some of the unlucky Teady Bears. Had a good egg and beacon sandwich for breakfast on the fist morning.
There was a strong frost the second morning. A bit of problem with rain when putting the tents up and down.

Nights Away & Activity Record
Topic: Record
27th July to 11th August 2005. Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Essex. 15 nights total, (1 night in bunks at Gilwell Park.

21st to 22nd January 2006. Bentley Copse, Surrey County Camp Site. Staffing a Frost Camp. 1 night in a hut. (16 nights total)

About me and this blog
Mood:  happy
Well I'm Zippy and I'm a 6" plush doll, based on the character Zippy from Rainbow. Rainbow was an old UK childrens show. It is still shown in Europe, but has been dubed. About three years ago I came to live with this bloke called J-W. Now up to last year I did not get out much, but last year J-W went to an International Scout Jamboree and I went along for the fun, and to do some sun-bathing. This was good fun, and I found out that a lot of the kids from Europe know about me. There were about ten thousand persons from sixty-eight countries at Eurojam2005. We camped in a small tent on a hill for fifteen nights, which brought J-W's nights away with the scouts up to fifty.

Over the 21st and 22nd January 2006 a Frost Camp was held at Bentley Copse the Surrey Scout County Camp Site. We both sleeped over in the staff hut. Single ply wooden walls with large windows and no curtains!

It was after this than I got J-W to make me my own camp blanket. He also added a scout world membership badge, a group name tape and a 10 nights away badge. It turns out I need to do a total of 20 nights before I can get the next one.

Not too sure if I like this camping in the winter, as it is so easy to get wet and muddy.