Guiders Staff Room Part 2

I need Active Kids help - how do I add vouchers to it? Or do I just do it when going through the checkout? I thought I'd seen something where you can add them as you receive them but can't find it now

I'm off to visit DC's guides later on & get the start up grants for our own guide unit signed. Then just need to get word out somehow - not decided the best way to do this yet but I have visions of me sat twiddling my thumbs on our first night back after summer

Excellent ;)

Great news

Turns out I didn't need to worry too much about the fractured shoulder. She can colour left handedly & just needed help to cut! And surprisingly she was not backwards about letting us know she wanted to run about as usual so everyone was very careful

I've a reasonable sized list of non-running about games now that we can use. And my dd, who is in her class at school, has volunteered to sit and colour with her or play a board game like she did at school play times today so the other girls can still play some sort of running game. She was still her smiley self this morning on the way to school bless her!

Her mam's offered to stay tomorrow evening too to help her cut/stick/colour until we get an idea of what she can do with her other hand & then I can have a re-jig with my AL of the rest of half term.

I spent last night trying to work out how to fit as many of the wonky box logo on an A4 sheet as I can and make them the same size as a few parents have asked about uniforms for Build a Bears & I believe that's the one to use. Went to print it today on normal paper before using the iron on transfer paper and am out of ink . Trying to decide whether to offer them on our fb page to others or not & how to word it now.

oh bless her, not a fractured shoulder but one of my girls has a condition where her shoulder can easily dislocate, we just make sure we dont play any games etc that require swinging arms or running holding hands.

Can you make a similar adjustment?

Anyone ever fractured their shoulder? One of our Rainbows has done hers today somehow & mum's not sure about sending her while it heals.

That does my head in Bombay, quite often I'm one of a handful of us who help tidy up after stuff at school or the library while the majority trot off home .

I've just washed Bluebell and her uniform...the red cotton has run into the white of her uniform a little bit so now I'm going to wash the red a few more times before making any more and pray no-one notices!

Oh Bombay that's horrible. I hate the assumption that the volunteers are dogsbodies. How draining to be knackered after camp then have to do all that work by yourself. Thank goodness there were some parents with decency. Maybe you should be vocal about your disgust at next Guide pick up!

That sounds grim Bombay I'd definitely send an email but also have the guide equivalent of a pow wow to ask the early deserters why they thought it was acceptable to leave early and how that chimed with the laws. I'd also ask them to tell me why any future camps etc shouldn't be off the table.

I may be contemplating sending an email after some of our brownies with allergies didn't bother to turn up even after reminders that we were cooking, leaving us with very expensive wasted food

I've just had a view from the other side. My DD was at Guide camp. Went to collect this morning. At meeting the leader had said that they would need help loading, unloading, pitching and striking.
It was wet overnight and the tents weren't dry enough for an early strike. DH and I turned up at 11 to help.
By 11.15 over the half the parents had taken their girls and kit without the tents being down and without saying goodbye or thank you. The few of us left helped strike, followed LiC back to base and unloaded the van. It was a full off-grid camp so fires, boilers, toilets, everything needed sorting before LiC could leave. I was horrified for her. In her position I'm not sure I'd ever run a camp again. How can people be so thoughtless?

Sounds great :)

Hope it goes well Groovee, it sounded fun!

Enjoying half term week by doing lots of guiding admin.

Sadly very little chance anyone could go in my stead.

I asked about risk assessment, they wont be doing one, just wouldnt recommend any activity with a harness given on a recent trip to Disneyland I wasnt allowed to go on things suitable for newborn babies I think they could be a bit more comprehensive.

Will take a camp chair, if the brownies ask, will just say a bad back. They are generally fairly self absorbed anyway in the way of small children. It is as you say other leaders who are more likely to be a pain about it.

2 weeks time it will be done!

Albus, if you can get someone to cover you then do if you feel it's too much..otherwise:

Food is "festival style" sleeping in big top with no loos, and there is no where to sit and no camp beds allowed.

Festival style food means there will be choices which is a good thing.
There must be loos..it's the law!
Take a shooting stick/camp chair with you that you can carry easily or one of those haversacks that's a chair too. There is definitely a Leaders' lounge for you to have a sit down while the girls are doing instructor led activities.

Presumably the leaders aren't sharing sleeping accommodation with the girls? In which case, please your case with any guiders who will be affected as you inflate your comfy airbed. I have shared accomms with people with bad backs/joint issues before who have needed a higher bed than the tone on the kit list and no-one minded.

Never been to Magic and mayhem but I have found that very often things get brought that aren't allowed to similar events

I did Strategy with Guides last year and were told no shelters for eating etc (central catering), sleeping tents only.... We and many other groups ignored this rule, which was a good thing since the weather was horrendous until Sunday afternoon. This year they are allowing them but charging a small extra fee for the space they take up.

I reckon many leaders will bring a camp chair even if not technically allowed. You might be on your own with the camp bed but you have a good reason. Not sure how you feel about explaining it to any busy bodies tho...

Yes, Becles we are.

20 week scan 2 days before we go and none of the brownies know about bsby

Ask them for the risk assessment for your condition Are you going to Blacklands?