Splash!

It's going to be wet! Here's the consent form for scouts and the consent form for the National Whitewater Centre.
Please get them to me asap (tonight?) with the £20 contribution (bargain!)
PS The form says pick up about 2:30 but we probably have to collect at closer to 2pm for those in the west of our area, having checked out the AAroutefinder.
PPS I missed off the centre number on the form - it is 01678 521083 for use in case of emergency - for keeping in touch - use leader numbers

Filthy - lucre

Last week was about planning and I was pleased to see you plan to give me £35! (gorgeous!) Please bring it asap as we have spent it all already!

It went on....

• White water rafting on Sunday 2 October (which will cost an extra £20 - it seems easier when it's only £35 subs and £20 for rafting instead of a lump of £55!)

and

• DofE registration

Oh well - the rest of the prog will have to be cheap!

D of E intro

We have Iain Adams, the scout county DofE coordinator coming this week to get you all signed up. I thought we'd break up the burocracy part by checking out lightweight cooking options... As we discussed, bring along some lightweight food that you think will be sustaining (medium term sustaining like for the next day's hiking- not chocolate - thats just a short rush energy boost!) (OK bring chocolate then - and rush around a bit....)
If you have a lightweight cooker, bring that too and we'll try lots of different sorts and see which is best.
When we sign up, you need to complete the registration form, which includes the general parental consent so please download and complete it, or make sure your parent signs one of the ones I have when they drop you off.

And finally, we meet at normal time - normal place - 8:30 to 10:00 at PGL

Oh no! Noro Vomo!

It's a plague in all their houses at PGL and they're into a deep clean! We need to STAY AWAY!!! (don't go there!)

We need somewhere else to meet - and it's our first meeting! - so I've arranged to use Baschurch Primary School after the Drum Corps finish, just for this week I hope!

We will meet at 8:00pm to 9:30pm (early!) at Baschurch Primary on Thursday 15 Sept

Back to basics

Hey - thats a scouty thing... but we are back and basically up and running from this Thursday at the hut at PGL from 8:30-10:00.
We need to do some planning and agree the prog and subs etc and generally get to know each other. We have Caving camp with SSGMG, the National Rifles Champs (well shot at the practice session today!), and the 'Shadow' incident hike exercise camp coming up and a meeting with the Asia-Pacific Region (it's just another English county but sunnier! :) ) and DofE to sort out, so lots to do! Try and make sure you come to our first meeting!
See you then!

Climbing wall at the Corbet

This is a joint thing with scouts 'cos I know you can't wait to get back there either! And now you can - sooner! The LJC (the local council committee that gave us the money for our hut) are running a community event at the Corbet tomorrow, 3 September, at 12:00. We're helping support it by running the climbing wall we've borrowed from the SSGMG. Come along and join us - better yet, come along and help put it up! We hope to be there from about 10:00 struggling to get it put together in time!!!

(I know the blog post is same as the scouts one, but it's easier to plan 2 progs if scouts and explorers do the same! ;-) )

Gill scrambling

New term - new unit!

It's time for the SSGMG caving weekend and I thought we could take it over to start off our prog with a weekend away and with some white water, caves and hills. It's a new area of the country so I haven't been down the caves here, but hey - its explorers! If it is the usual programme, we'll do a cave and some gill scrambling on day one and then there will be overground/underground options for day two.

I have an outline prog to discuss at our first scheduled meeting at 8:30 on Thursday 15 September but this looks fun ! ...and what better way to get to know everyone again?