To ask if you were a brownie or a guide?

I was a Cub back in the 90s (girl!). Very upset that I couldn’t move on to Scouts as there wasn’t a female leader in the local troop, so they didn’t admit girls.

I loved it, did lots of things I’d never have done as a child otherwise - quad biking, building and sailing rafts, big camps, archery etc etc. Also motivated me to learn practical skills for life to get my badges!

I loved Brownies, you're bringing back memories now!
Think I remember different groups we were in like Leprechauns etc.
Brown Owl.and Tawny Owl as leaders?
Loved going camping and singing songs round the campfire.

",Oh you'll never go to heaven in a baked bean tin.....' 🎤🎶😁

"Ging gang gooly gooly......" 🎶🎤

We used to do badges too (particularly loved the Collectors badge where we had to bring in something we collected.
The housekeeping badge where your mum came in and had to make a cup of tea for her (love you, Mum ♥️💔)
Found Guides boring though as we never did anything. I always wanted to be a Scout instead!)

Ladders is loved by girls and the first aid box....

Yes I was a Brownie wearing a hand me down brown dress and yellow tie. This was weekly in the church hall. Not sure if Rainbows was out then but there was no Guides, or Rangers for that matter.

We never went camping or anything. I do remember hostess badges for making tea, cakes and things like arts and crafts.

DD has been all 3 (except Rangers) and seemed to have a much more exciting time, going camping and to other events. Seems to have changed a lot since my day!

I had the brown dress and Beret then bobble hat. I loved my bobble hat. So comfy. Hated dresses. Another with my hostess badge which I remember doing at brown owls house.. not sure that’s allowed these days!! I think I was a pixie but changed more than once.
Overall I found it all a bit lame at the time hence wanting to be a cub. Guides was worse as don’t recall doing any activities of real interest in the 18mths I did. I was a robin and blue tit there. Blue blouse navy school skirt.. red tie thing then necker.
Im sure it’s better these days!!

@McChubble I’d completely forgotten playing ladders! Still have my sash and I think I had a hostess badge. My sister and I were the first in our pack to have the new uniforms . I was glad the itchy bobble hat was gone, but I really wanted a neckerchief and a woggle. We had the hoodie so we couldn’t have one!

I was a brownie, guide and ranger. I liked brownies, wasn't a fan of guides. It got fun in rangers as we got to camp with venture scouts (service team for guide and scout camps) and I absconded to the ventures in the end and had a great time.
The best thing about it was that my mum and dad thought it was very wholesome and well supervised (it wasn't and we weren't!)

I was a Sixer in the elves in brownies. I hated the woman who was our tawny owl. She was horrible!!

I did brownies! Still have my sash

I was a Rainbow and a Brownie. I didn’t go to Guides.
My DB did Beavers, Cubs and Scouts and I had to go too, as DM&DF helped out, and they had so much more fun than the Brownies!!

By the time DS was old enough, the Scouts were accepting girls so she got to go, which I was very jealous of 🤣

Ladders was the best thing we did there, and they rationed it to once a month (probably because it was too much fun)!

Yes, I loved it! I was sixer of the pixies and another proud owner of a hostess badge! Like others on the thread, I didn’t like guides so much.

Did anyone else play the game ladders where you’d race another person and jump over everyone’s legs?

my daughter goes to brownies. They sing Brownie Bells and finally I remembered where I knew the melody from when the big clocks use when the clock strikes the hour after many years of it bugging me!

Guides was very dull which was why I left and joined a venture scout unit.

I was a rainbow, a brownie and a guide.

I was both but I wasn't a very good one due to the influence of my mischievous friend. I only go one badge at Guides for performing (?) and was made a Sixer(?) but didn't like the responsibility and left at 12 as I felt it was incongruent to my Grunge persona.

They were both dull,and as for Rainbows!

See I thought it was dull because we got made to paint nails and make face masked when little nerdy, tomboy preteen me would much rather have been learning about identifying birds.

I did rainbows and brownies and loved them. I went to guides for two years but it was a bit naff and we never got to go camping so when my best friend at the time stopped going I lost interest too

I loved Brownies but Guides was DULL.

I was interested in boys and make up by then so identifying birds from the footprints they left in mud was not a skill I had any desire to learn

We never jumped over the toadstool but we had to dance round it in a big circle.

Mine was yellow! And the leaders were named after My little Ponies.

My mum lasted one session in the Brownies- she eye rolled at the jumping over a toadstool and the leader suggested she may not be Brownies material and showed her the door.

I rather wanted to join Rainbows and Brownies when I was much younger. Mum actually knew one of the local area leaders - she was a neighbour- and realised our local one did lots of arts and crafts, which she knew I had zero interest in. She bought me a Brownies annual as a Christmas present and pointed out all the making and crafting suggestions, which I refused to do. Then she suggested we read all the twee little stories about fairies and gnomes etc in there- I hated stories about that sort of thing, I liked animals (think I'd been creeped out by a garden gnome). Then pointed out that as I'd hated everything they did, why did I want to join? The book went to a charity shop. I also disliked camping so god knows where I got the idea that I'd enjoy Brownies.

I was a Brownie but didn't fancy guides. My sister did both.

I do remember doing some sort of cooking badge (or maybe Hostess badge) and there was another girl from another Brownie pack doing it too. When the lady doing the badge asked her how to make her cake she said that she had added packet A to packet B. She didn't get her badge!!It's strange how these things stick in your mind.

Went once, didn’t like it.

Tried Rebel Badge Club (sort of an adult version) but found it not for me also.

Who remembers those lovely tabard Rainbows wore?